Deadline:
All entries must be delivered to Ann Bosted on Saturday, August 9, 2008, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the NSS Convention Print Salon exhibition area or mailed to Candice Leek, Assistant Director, IPTM University Center, University of North Florida, 12000 Alumni Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224 and marked “Attn. Ann Bosted”.  Packages must be postmarked no later than August 1, 2008.

Enclosures:
Kindly include a CD with digital files of all your entries, and a digital file of a head-and-shoulders self-portrait for use at the awards ceremony.  The files should be in JPG or TIFF format, uncompressed and in the maximum size available.  No entrant may enter more than 10 prints, of which no more than 8 may be in the Color Print category.  The entry fee is $1 per print.  There is no fee if the entry is donated to the NSS.  If you wish your entry returned by mail, please provide return postage cost.  Please print out this entry form, complete it, and enclose it with your entries.  If you are unable to print the form, you may create your own by listing your name, address, e-mail, phone number, entries by title, category.  Please include the following signed statement - "I grant to the NSS the right to reproduce these entries in NSS exhibits, web sites, catalogues, publications, recordings, and audio/visual programs”.

You may offer prints for sale:
If you wish to offer your entries for sale, please contact Ann Bosted before July 26.  She will need to know the prices you set for your work, and explain the conditions of sale.  You may offer up to four more prints, in addition to the prints submitted for judging, on the understanding that they will only be offered for sale if space permits.  Obviously prints entered for judging will have priority.  Prints submitted for sale but not judging need to be mounted, but not necessarily titled or matted.  They may also be prints that have been exhibited before.  They may not be larger or smaller than those accepted for judging.  A percentage of each sale made at the 2008 convention will be contributed towards cash prizes for the winning prints at the International Congress in Texas in 2009.

How to enter your print:
There are two entry categories - Color Print and Black & White Print.  The prints may be digital or traditional.
Prints must measure at least 8 x 10 inches, but be no larger than 20 x 24 inches.  Creative cropping is encouraged, so in the case of panorama prints, the print must have a minimum surface area of 100 square inches, a maximum surface area of 400 square inches, and no dimension may be less than 6 inches, or greater than 30 inches.  All entries must be mounted, but not framed.  They may be matted at the discretion of the entrant.  The print's title and photographer's name should appear either on the matte or on the mount directly below the print with the title on the left and the photographer's name on the right, or on a separate card measuring at least 2"X3"but no larger than 3"X4".  In cases where two or more photographers collaborate and use a fictitious name, that name may appear in lieu of their real names, but not in conjunction with those names.  The name of the cave where the photo was taken may appear with the title, at the discretion of the entrant.  Do not include any other information on the print or card.  Lettering should not exceed 0.25 inch in height.  There should be no lettering on the print.  In cases where more information than the title, name of cave and name of the photographer appear, or where the lettering exceeds 0.25 inch in height, the salon chairman may refuse to exhibit the print.  The following information must appear on the back of each entry - name and address of the entrant, title, entry category, and entry number assigned by the entrant.

Info and contacts:
Judging will occur at convention on Sunday.  The salon is scheduled to open by noon on Monday.  If you have questions concerning your entries or sales of prints, please email Ann at ann@cavepics.com or call 757-249-2819.   If you have trouble meeting the deadline, please contact Ann before July 26.  After that she will be traveling.
Candice Leek has kindly agreed to receive packages of prints and then notify entrants by e-mail that their packages have arrived.  If you wish her to notify you, please add your name and e-mail address to your return address in the upper left hand corner on the outside of your package.  She will not open your package.  Her e-mail addresses are cleek@unf.edu or c1leek@aol.com.

CHAIR
Ann Bosted
630 Valley Forge Drive
Newport News, VA 23602-7021
757-249-2819
ann@cavepics.com