About Submitting Your Photo Walk Images

I try hard not to put you into information overload ... but, please read this email in its entirety, it's chock-full-o good stuff... and, it's important, too!

The organizers of the Worldwide Photo Walk have issued an important deadline for you to note regarding your photography entries.

I know what you're thinking: "What photography entries? Sandro never told me anything about photography entries!"

When you go out to shoot photos at the Riverfront on Saturday, you will have an opportunity to put all your photographic juices to work and produce some spectacular images. Once you get back to the comfort of your digital darkroom, you will pick TWO of your best images from the Photo Walk, and you will submit them to our own local Wilmington Photo Walk competition. You will do this by uploading your TWO images to our city page. You are give two methods for uploading your images: either via a special Adobe Lightroom plug-in, or by direct upload via browser to our site.

The exact instructions are available via this link. (http://worldwidephotowalk.com/uploading-your-photos/). Be sure to scroll down all the way to make sure you see everything on that page. Everything you need to know - including a couple of video-based tutorials - is on this page. Please be sure to review the procedures as YOUR DEADLINE to submit your two picks is JULY 26, 11:59PM EST. I am told by the organizers that each of you should be receiving an email from them informing you of this important deadline.

Of course, I will send you reminders after our Walk, but don't wait until the last minute to go through your photos, choose your TWO winning entries, and submit them to the site. No entries will be accepted after the above deadline!

In case you are wondering... I, your fearless leader, am NOT eligible to submit entries to the contest! My reward will be to know that all of you (and your photography) have derived considerable benefit from our event, and that you have had fun and met new friends!

My final duty will be to pick ONE winning entry from our own Wilmington contestants. That winning entry will earn one or more small-scale prizes. More importantly, I will submit that one winning entry to the world-wide photo contest, where it will compete against the winners from each of the other 913 Photo Walks. For this contest, there will be one huge grand-prize winner worth over $11,700 and a ten honorable mentions valued at over $1600. These will be announced on August 17.

Remember, you CANNOT win a prize if you don't enter!! For those of you new to photographic competition, you should never feel that your photography is "not worthy" or "not good enough" to be considered. I hope I don't hear that from any one of my Walkers!!

Before closing today, I urge you to log into your Photo Walk account, using the username you chose when you signed up, to make sure everything is working. You log in by going to the main site (www.worldwidephotowalk.com). Scroll down a bit to where you see the login link. Remember, the name of our Photo Walk is wilmington-de-usa. After logging in, you will go into your "Dashboard" where you may find updated information from the organizers for you. Check each day this week.

TO SUMMARIZE:
1. You will submit your TWO best photos from the Wilmington Photo Walk using one of two methods: via a special Adobe Lightroom plug-in or via a direct upload via your browser.
2. Full uploading instructions (and the Lightroom plug-in) are available here.
3. Your TWO photo entries must be submitted by 11:59PM EST July 26. No Exceptions!
4. I will choose one winning entry out of our 50 potential contestants. There will be one prize for our Wilmington winner.
5. I will submit that winning entry to the world-wide competition
6. The Grand Prize and ten Honorable Mention winners will be announced on August 17.
7. Verify that your log-in works, and check daily for any updates from the organizers.
8. You may receive additional email notifications from the organizers.

Let me know if you have any questions!

More tomorrow...