Where to Bike Chicago Bicycle Photo Contest

announces a
Bicycle Photo Contest and Exhibit
for Chicago and suburbs.

The juried competition offers $1,000 in cash prizes.
In addition, winners will have their photo(s) published
–with a photo credit–in the forthcoming guidebook, Where to Bike Chicago,
as well as on the book’s accompanying website.

Grand Prize (one winner): $300 and publication
First Place (two winners): $200 and publication
Second Place (three winners): $100 and publication
Honorable mention: publication

There is no fee to enter.
Deadline: July 15, 2010

Subject matter: Photographs should exemplify the joy of bicycling in and around Chicago. They must depict at least one person with a bicycle. Subjects riding a bike must be wearing a helmet. Subjects sitting on a bike, walking a bike, or standing or sitting next to a bike should not be wearing a helmet so their faces are more visible. The photos must be taken on one of the following bike paths or trails, and the entry must identify approximately where on the path or trail each photo was taken.

Adult Category: Arie Crown Trails, Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve, Chicago Lakefront Path (South Side only), Elston Ave. (south of Wilson Ave.), Erie Lackawanna Trail, Great Western Trail, Greene Valley Forest Preserve, Illinois & Michigan Canal Trail, Illinois Prairie Path, Joliet Iron Works Heritage Trail, Joliet Junction Trail, Major Taylor Trail, Hawk Hollow Forest Preserve, Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, Palos Forest Preserve Trails, Thorn Creek Trail (South) & Sauk Trail Woods, and West Branch DuPage River Trail.

Kids Category (must be your own child): Columbus Park, Dan Ryan Woods, Greenbelt Forest Preserve (North Chicago), Independence Grove (Libertyville), Lake Arlington Park (Arlington Heights), North Shore Channel, Old School Forest Preserve (Libertyville), Oz Park, Promontory Point, Thorn Creek Trail North (Lansing), and Washington Square.

Format: Each entry must be a sharp, crisp, high-quality digital jpg image - 300 dpi at 4x6 inches, or larger. Email images to Greg Borzo, the author of Where to Bike Chicago, at gborzo@comcast.net. Each individual may enter up to four images. Photographers must provide their name, address and phone number.

Judging: A panel of judges will evaluate each photo for composition, clarity, technical merit, artistic expression, how well it reflects the joy of bicycling and how well it depicts the character of the particular path or trail photographed. The judges’ decisions shall be final.

Entries: Photographs remain the property of the photographer. By submitting an image, the entrant warrants that the photo is an original work and that he or she took the photo and has the right to enter the photo in this contest. He or she also grants Where to Bike Chicago and its publisher, Bicycling Australia, unlimited, nonexclusive usage rights, including the right to publish, display, reproduce and/or sell the photo in print or electronic form. The publisher plans, for example, to create a traveling photo exhibit of the winners for display in galleries, bike shops, libraries, bike shows and other venues and events.

Prizes: The Prizes will be awarded at a Where to Bike Chicago book launch soon after the book is published at the end of 2010.

Advocacy: A significant portion of the profit from the sales of each copy of Where to Bike Chicago will be donated to World Bicycle Relief, a not-for-profit founded by Chicago-based SRAM that provides independence and livelihood through “The Power of Bicycles”.

For more information: see www.WhereToBikeChicago.com (going live soon) or email Greg Borzo at gborzo@comcast.net. Good luck!

Bicycling Australia: Where to Bike Chicago, which will be available in November 2010, is being published by Bicycling Australia, one of the world’s leading publishers of cycling magazines and books, including Bicycling Australia magazine, Mountain Biking Australia magazine, Bicycling Buyers Guide and Bicycling Yearbook. Popular in Australia and New Zealand, Bicycling Australia’s “Where to Ride” series of cycling guidebooks is expanding into the United Kingdom and United States as “Where to Bike” guidebooks.
Founded in 1989, Bicycling Australia sells a wide range of cycling books, DVDs, posters, clothing and gifts at www.BicyclingAustralia.com. It is heavily involved in cycling advocacy and is a founding member of the Cycling Promotion Fund.