The Arlie Laxton Alumni Photo Contest is named in honour of the late Arlie Laxton, BScN’37, a nursing grad who made it possible through an endowed gift to Western.

 Categories:

• People – portraits, candid and activity photos of family, friends, other alumni, etc.
• Other – landscape, still life, nature, architecture, animals, etc.
• Digitally Enhanced – Photos altered, enhanced, touched-up after the fact by Photoshop or any other computer photography software. This category is open to photos of people, portraits, landscape, nature, etc.

Rules:

• Limit one entry per person.
• Entries must include photographer’s full name, degree and year, address, telephone number and a brief explanation of the photograph, how it was taken and in which category it is being entered.
• Photos of people must be accompanied by a statement that those depicted have given permission for the photograph to be published. People in the photos must be identified.
• If there is any digital enhancement of the photos, it must be declared and entered in the Digitally Enhanced category.
• Entries not meeting these requirements or formatted improperly will not be judged. Entries mailed will not be returned. Contest open only to alumni of Western University who are not employees and/or officers of the University.
• Deadline for entries: May 1, 2012
• Winners will be announced on this website and in the Fall 2012 issue of the Western Alumni Gazette.

Submissions:

Preference is for photos to be submitted via email to wag.editor@uwo.ca (maximum file size 5MB). Photos can also be submitted to Arlie Laxton Alumni Photo Contest, Communications & Public Affairs, Western University, Suite 360, Westminster Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7

Prizes:

First prize in each category – $250 each One runner-up prize in each category – $100 each

Judges:

• Dallas Curow, BA’06 (MIT), freelance marketing associate, McGill University; photographer
• Paul Mayne, Western News reporter/photographer
• Jim Rankin, BSc’88 (Biology), Toronto Star photographer
• Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00, Director, Marketing & Creative Services, Western

For more information, please email wag.editor@uwo.ca
To see previous winning entries, visit http://bit.ly/alumni-photocontest