Picture a Kid's Photo Contest!!

Guess what time it is? It's time to announce a new photo contest for summer!!

I will be hosting the contest here at Picture This along with Sheri at The Little Zygote That Could and Susan of The Snapshot Chronicles. YAY! Now, this is not your ordinary contest. What's the twist? The clue is in the title, A Little Perspective. The photographs that will be entered into this contest will be taken by your kids. Yep, you heard me right. It's time to hand over the camera to the little guys and let them teach us a thing or two about capturing a window to their world. You all know how much I love sharing my camera(s) with my girls and how delighted I am to discover the way they see things, so now it's time for you to show off the photographic genius of your little ones. I know some of you already encourage your little shutterbuggies and I hope this will only get you more motivated.

Here's the scoop:

The contest will begin on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 and will end Friday, August 10, 2007. Winners will be announced Friday August 24, 2007.

Photo entries must be those taken by children under 13 years of age. We will be breaking it down into 3 different categories according to age group. The under 6 set, 6-8 year olds and 9-12. To avoid confusion, please try to submit recent shots as we are asking that you make a note of how old the child is when you submit their photo. Hopefully they will be the same age when you submit the photo as when they shot the photo (hence the word recent).

Although you will be submitting your children's photos, we are encouraging you to get them in on the action (if they are old enough to do so, that is). Let them help you choose which photos to submit for the contest. You can submit up to 3 photos per child so you don't have to pick just one. And try not to have them shoot for the contest. Not unlike grown-ups when they are trying to please someone or win a contest, let's say, the photographs often become notably more contrived and less creative.

What are we looking for in these photos? When I say we I mean the judges (myself, Sheri and Susan). Well...interesting images. Pictures that speak of what it's like to be a kid in 2007; whatever they find compelling enough to take a picture of.  Kid's have a way of snapping stuff we'd never dream photo worthy. And they tend do it in very creative ways. So, give us your best shots...your kid's best shots that is and see what happens...you/they might even win a prize.

OH YES, we've got prizes. How does a brand new groovy-cool pocket camera case sound? These babies are all the rage and thanks to the good people at PhotoJojo, we have 3 to give away for the 1st Place categories in each age bracket. Nice huh? And there are more prizes too. We'll reveal them soon but I can tell you one thing; some lucky kid is going to get a box a Fruity Cheerios (Oh yes they will!).

Back to the details. On Tuesday (one week from today) you can pop over to our Flickr Group -A Little Perspective and add your photos of choice to the group. It will become a public group once the contest starts. Be sure to add your age category to the memo of the photo (here's an example) so we know how old your child is. And, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the questions thread at the Flickr group so we can clarify for everyone.

This is going to be fun,isn't it? I just love contests! Don't you?

Comments

[Alissa]

We are SO there!

So, each of my boys can enter up to 3 photos? They will be thrilled to hear this!

[Dawn]

This sounds great! What a wonderful idea!

[Chase]

Love the idea

[Classy Mom]

Great Idea

[Colleen]

I'll pass this contest onto my sister-in-law. She has a 5 and 3 year old. I don't think I'm ready to hand the camera over to Zoe yet... she just turned 2.

[melody is slurping life]

Wonderful contest idea. It goes on long enough to allow me time after my giveaway-love offering project is complete. ;)

Did you get my emails? Don't mean to hassle, just wondering.

[Her Bad Mother]

Sounds awesome fantastic!

[Christine - From Dates to Diapers]

I posted a link to this contest...

[Wendy Harris]

This will be so fun for everyone to look at, I'm sure all of us will be laughing quite a bit!

[courtney]

im am so happy that i found this web sit!!! my name is courtney and i am 12 years old and i love to do photography!!! i am so going to do this contest!!!! i got a camera when i was 8 and i have been snapin pictures sence

[Kirros]

I actually never thought of handing over the camera to my kids for contest purpose. They often click photos of nature with intelligent touch. We got some nicer ones from their excursions too! They will just start dancing if get this much exposure.