The month of July marks a special time of celebration in the United States, so we thought it would be fun to add to the festivities by launching a special series of digital photo contests.  Starting in July, we will launch the first weekly contest using a theme of scenic photos.  The competition is open for all digital photo enthusiasts, with details available with each week’s prize posting.

As the weeks progress, the top three winners from each weekly contest will automatically be entered into the monthly competition, to receive more prizes.  Since the monthly prize winners are selected from the weekly competitors, this means that you have a chance to win another prize without any extra effort!  If nobody enters one or more of the weekly contests, chances improve for anyone who participates to win a monthly prize as well.  The July monthly prize offering will be awarded to winners chosen from first, second, and third place weekly picks.  Prizes offered at the monthly level include the following:

First Place – 3 free digital photo treatments of your choice, made from your own photos, or you can use your prize credits toward one of our own creations posted on our site.  You can choose from a digital plaque, award, matted photo, or calendar page creation from your pictures.

Second Place – 2 free digital photo treatments of your choice, made from your photos, selected from the product categories mentioned above.

Third Place – 1 free digital photo treatment of your choice from one of our digital creation categories.

If there are no participants in the weekly contests, no weekly or monthly prizes will be awarded.  Winners can choose to have prizes made from winning weekly entries, or provide new pictures for us to work with.  Winners will be notified by email, and given prize credits for monthly winnings to be redeemed within 30 days of prize notification. 

Unredeemed prize credits will be void after 30 days.  Your finished creations may be showcased by being posted on our site.  Give your photos the highlighting they deserve by entering them in our contests. 

When we receive regular monthly participation in our contests, the top 3 winners of monthly prizes will be automatically entered in our yearly prize competition levels.  Details of potential yearly contest prizes will be posted in an article describing our yearly contest rewards.  If we do not have regular monthly winners, there will be no annual prizes awarded.  You have nothing to lose, so cash in on the fun, and make your digital photos look like a million.

Beginning in July 2009, we will start the first set of weekly photo contests which have the potential of rolling forward into monthly and even yearly winnings for those who wish to participate.  When people submit their photos into the contest on a weekly basis, the top three winners will receive a weekly award for best submissions.  From this group of top three winners each week, we will automatically enter them for monthly prize eligibility. 

When we have a year’s worth of monthly winners, we will take the top three monthly winners and automatically qualify them for prizes established for the top three best photos of the year.  In the beginning stages of our contest plans, we will need to get the word out and wait for participation to build.  During the weeks and months when we get no entries, the prize levels will not be awarded for those periods.  This makes winning much easier for people who discover us first, and get busy participating before the crowds find out about our offers.

Once the real challenge begins, it will still be possible for contestants to win multiple times during any given month, and to continue to receive weekly and monthly prizes throughout the year.  The more weekly wins a person has, the more chances they have to win the monthly prizes and prizes slated for the yearly level.  While there is a lot for people to get acquainted with about our lower level contests, we are not going to fill in the details of our yearly prizes, but they will be greater than what we offer at the monthly levels when they start to kick in.

To help keep things fair among all our participants, we may need to look at making some adjustments to the way our contests are structured from time to time.  For example, we may adjust our criteria or create different submission categories to level the playing field for more people to have chances to win.  We reserve the right to change criteria, or disqualify certain entries due to things like inappropriate material, improper submissions, or other circumstances we have yet to experience.  Our contests are being created to showcase the talents of our loyal visitors, and give people a chance to see what we can do to raise the bar for their digital photos.

Beginning in July, we will be introducing a new approach to our photo contests.  The idea is to offer you a chance to win prizes at weekly, monthly, and even yearly levels.  This competition is too big for one posting, so be sure to check out the details of our upcoming monthly and yearly contests as well.

During our first week, beginning July 5, we will sponsor a scenery photo contest for digital photo enthusiasts.  Anyone can participate by entering one photo of their favorite local sightseeing hangout.  Photos need to be in .JPG format, no larger than 4mb and named using a unique value to avoid being overwritten by other participants. Upload your entry to:

http://digitalphotoframetemplates.biz/Jamal/uploadmain.php

After your photo has been uploaded to the above location, send an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com to provide details about the file name of your photo, your photo location and composition, and your desire to enter it in our contest.  PLEASE DO NOT attempt to enter by attaching photos to your email messages.  From the entries we receive, we will select a first, second, and third place winner. For the week ending 7/11/09.  Winning contestants will be notified by email, and their prizes posted on the site for download. 

Weekly prizes will be digital awards acknowledging the winners, including their name, winning week, and a copy of their winning photograph incorporated into the award.  See below for a sample award, which will vary depending on the weekly contest theme.

A sample of the many different weekly prize awards possible.

In addition to the digital awards for weekly winners, we will automatically enter the top 3 winners into our monthly contest.  See the upcoming monthly contest post for details about monthly prizes.  On Saturdays we will post awards for the week, and announce the theme for the coming week’s contest. 

We reserve the right to deny entries for inappropriate material or other disqualifying criteria.  Improve your chances to win by entering each week. Do you have what it takes to be one of our winning participants? Get started today and find out!

A Fathers Day tribute to the importance of dads.

Fathers Day is just around the corner, and for those who procrastinate to the last minute, you may already be out of luck to get your hands on one of our unique and classy presents for your dad; but there is always next year. For a generic treat, you can download one of the sample digital plaques we have worked up, and not go away empty handed.

If you want to use one of these lovely images, just donate your three bucks and download one of these pictures as a screen wallpaper or a digital photo frame image to sneak onto your dad’s picture frame. He will appreciate receiving something other than a man-bashing tirade or another tie for his Fathers Day surprise. It is good to be appreciated, even if it is only for one day out of the year.

Should the urge strike you to have us work up a creation for you, just send us an email to jdir@bhotechnologists.com with a specific idea of what you want, and we will try to squeeze it in for you. Isn’t that nice? We take this opportunity to wish all dads a wonderful Fathers Day this year.

Is your dad an award winner?