CAPTURING BALD MOUNTAIN BEAUTY!

A four-season photography celebration of our state park

located in Oakland, Orion and Addison Townships.

FOBMRA and OAC joint project

LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST AND EXHIBIT

September 2004 – September 2005

 The Friends of Bald Mountain Recreation Area (FOBMRA) and Orion Art Center (OAC)  jointly offer a community opportunity to honor our great natural resource.

 Bald Mountain Recreation Area State Park 

a treasure in our local area of Oakland County.

Objective:

to jointly promote,  record and exhibit the natural beauty and enjoyment of Bald Mountain Recreation Area in all seasons with photography.

Open to anyone age 5 or over.   Professional photographers, meaning people who earn more than half of their annual income as photographers, are ineligible to enter this contest.   Employees of the MDNR and their families, and board members of FOBMRA and OAC and their families are not eligible to enter this contest.

Entries must have been shot and owned by the entrants. 

Images previously published or pending publication are not eligible. 

By entering the contest you agree that OAC and FOBMRA may publish your photograph(s) and name and may use both in future promotions of the MDNR, Bald Mountain Recreation Area, FOBMRA and OAC.

Entries; Send a color or black and white photograph matted and suitable for hanging, framed preferred, minimum size is 8” by 10” photographs. 

Mark the back with the following information; your name, address, daytime phone number, email address and location in Bald Mountain Recreation Area State Park of your photograph by noting the closest cross roads, trail marker number and/or nearby lake name.  You can include a park map noting the location.

Add this signed statement; I certify that I have read the rules and agree to abide by them.

Entrants must submit an entry fee of $25.00.  FOBMRA and/or OAC member in good standing fee is $15.00.

Entry fees are payable to OAC, note Bald Mountain on your payment.

Deliver to Orion Art Center, 115 Anderson St, Lake Orion, Michigan 48362 during business hours.  

Deadline is set to offer opportunity to photograph the state park in fall, winter, spring and summer.  

Entries due on Friday July 22, 2005 by 4:00 p.m. 

More rules; Please submit no more than 3 photographs per entrant. 

All photographs must be taken of and inside the boundaries of Bald Mountain State Recreation Area located in Addison, Orion and Oakland Townships, Oakland County, Michigan .

Contest and exhibit information including park maps are available at Orion Art Center.  Be sure to get an entry packet. 

We are not responsible for lost, delayed, damaged, misdirected or illegible submissions.

Categories:

Just two…..1. nature and 2. recreation in our state park with people enjoying it.  

Entrant Photographer age group;

Age 5 – 11

Age 12 – up

Prizes:

Three final entries will be selected in each age group for each category.  First Place award is $100, second place award is $75 and third place award is $50.  Grand prize award is $200.00.

We will exhibit the winning photographs and other entries as we select, in an exhibit at the Orion Art Center in August 2005.  The exhibit will travel to other venues in 2005. 

For more information contact OAC at 248-693-4986 during office hours.

This contest and exhibit are a joint effort of Friends of Bald Mountain Recreation Area and Orion Art Center, serving our local communities.