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Library photo contest designed for ‘tweens’

Do you love taking pictures? Are you just bursting with creativity? Well, if you are going into grades 6 and up then you can enter the “Night Images of Hollis Photo Contest.”

This contest is designed for tweens and teens to express their creative side, and coincides with the “Dream Big … Read” 2012 summer reading theme.

All photos must be taken some place in Hollis at nighttime, and be original works of art. Photos can be traditional photography or digitally altered on the computer. Digital cameras or film cameras can be used for taking the photos, and they can be color, black and white, or sepia. If you can dream it then you can do it. There is no limit to the amount of creativity you can use in this contest.

All entrants will also be able to display their photos at the Hollis Social Library during the summer. The first- and second-place winners will get fabulous prizes awarded to them at the artist reception on Wednesday, July 11 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. This is the time for each teen photographer to shine. Refreshments and beverages will be served.

All entrants are encouraged to come, and family members and friends also are welcomed to join in the fun. For more information, contact Miss Amanda at 465-7721 or childrenlib@hollislibrary.org.

Rules:

Submission must be your own work.

The photo must have a night theme, and be taken someplace in Hollis.

Submit hard copies of photos, sized 8-inches by 10 inches, and matted to 11 inches by 14 inches. If matting is too expensive, please contact Miss Amanda.

Photographs may be black and white, sepia, or full color. They can be traditional photography or digitally manipulated images.

One person can enter up to three photographs.

Supply your name, email address, phone number, age and mailing address on the back of the matted photograph. Please name your artwork.

Entries must be the newly created, original work of entrant, must not infringe upon third-party rights and cannot violate any copyright laws or existing trademarks.

The design cannot have unintelligible wording, obscene or offensive language or imagery.

Please submit each photograph to Miss Amanda or Library Director Lucinda Mazza no later than June 29.

All artwork will be displayed in the library meeting room from July 1-Aug. 10. Artwork will be returned. All entrants must pick up entries in the children’s room from Aug. 10-17.

Amanda Hogue-Lavallee is Youth Librarian at the Hollis Social Library. She can be reached at 465-7721.