PHOTO CONTEST SUBMISSION INFORMATION
To be eligible for the contest, all submitted photos
- Must be taken in a Summit Metro Parks Park and/or Summit Metro Parks-managed property, of nature, wildlife, and/or park structures. Photos with any identifiable people are not eligible.
- must not include written language added or as part of the photo, including signage (except park signage),
- must be your copyright-retained photo,
- may be from any time of the year, from any year,
- and may not be generated with the use of AI and/or image generation software, taken from a stock image site, and must not be plagiarized.
Entries that will not be considered include:
- entries with explicit themes and concepts, including but not limited to violence, drug use, sexual content and explicit profanity,
- plagiarized work or work generated using artificial intelligence and/or image generation software,
- and submissions that do not follow the contest theme.
Staff retains the authority to disqualify any submission.
Please be aware that:
- you must be 18 years of age to enter,
- previously published work is allowed only if copyrights are retained. Please disclose if and where the work was published,
- by submitting a photograph, you grant Summit Metro Parks the exclusive right to house your work digitally and/or on the Summit Metro Parks and/or Summit Metro Parks Foundation website and be used for purposes designated by Summit Metro Parks and/or Summit Metro Parks Foundation, with credited use, without further authorization,
- Photos with any identifiable people are not eligible,
- Submitted work is not guaranteed to be used by Summit Metro Parks and Summit Metro Parks Foundation.
Please read the following statements carefully. By submitting, you are entering a legally binding agreement.
By accepting the terms and conditions, you, as a participant, agree that
- You are 18 years of age.
- You are the sole copyright owner of your submission,
- Your submitted photo is in no part created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or image generation software, was not bought from any stock image sites, and is not plagiarized,
- You grant Summit Metro Parks and Summit Metro Parks Foundation exclusive right for your work to be housed digitally and/or on the Summit Metro Parks website and be used for the purposes designated by Summit Metro Parks and Summit Metro Parks Foundation, with credited use, without further authorization.
- Your submissions are taken in a Summit Metro Parks park or Summit Metro Parks-managed property, of wildlife, nature, and/or park structures.
- The winning photo will become the property of Summit Metro Parks and Summit Metro Parks Foundation to use in any capacity, in perpetuity.
- Summit Metro Parks and Summit Metro Parks Foundation are not liable for publishing any work that is later found to be a result of plagiarism or artificial intelligence.
- You understand that there is no compensation to you if your work is voted as the winner in the photo contest.
- You understand that by submitting a photo, you agree to the terms above.
Entrants who fail to meet these requirements will have their submission removed from the website and contest.