Bellevue College
Earth Week 2011, April 18-22
12th Annual - Environmental and Social Justice

In honor of Earth Week, SSA would like to promote the arts and the environment by hosting our second biannual Earth Week Environmental Photo Contest. We will be accepting photos that highlight environmental themes, such as the natural world. biodiversity, water, consumption, pollution, and human interactions with nature. We invite everyone to enter your favorite "environmental" photo, or to go out and take a new one before the April 22nd deadline. There might even be some good photo ops during Earth Week itself!

The Rules:
Photos should highlight environmental themes, such as the natural world. biodiversity, water, consumption, pollution, and human interactions with nature. We would like to keep the "theme" as open as possible to encourage creativity!

Photos should be original, taken by the contest entrant. Entrants must be BC students or employees (or at least have been a BC student or employee in the past 1 year). Limit of three photos per entrant.

Deadline: 11:59 PM, Friday, April 22 (11:59 PM for digital submissions, 5:00 PM for prints)

Where to Send your Entry:
Digital entries can be sent to Rob Viens at rob.viens@bellevuecollege.edu (be sure to write "Earth Week Photo Contest Entry" in the subject line so that it is not lost in the email spam filter). Low resolution images (noticeably fuzzy) may not be considered by the judges.

Print entries should by 5x7 and can be dropped of at the BC Science Division (L200) in an envelope marked "Earth Week Photo Contest Entry - Attn: Rob Viens".

For both digital and print entries you must include contact information (name, email, phone number) and a title and brief description of the photo.

Prize:
A grand prize will be awarded to the winning photo (a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com) as well as a second and third prize (to be announced soon). Winners will be chosen by our panel of "judges" and announced the week of April 25th.

Ownership:
All entries remain the property of the photographer, however, SSA is given permission to display digital photos on the Earth Week web site and prints during Earth Week/SSA Events.

First Earth Week Photo Contest - April, 2009:

• Grand Prize ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate)
  Sandra Zavala-Vincent - "Up Close and Person Windmill" (View Photo)
• Second Place Winners ($25 Amazon Gift Certificate each)
  Jerry Bunce - "Filling Water in Nepal" (View Photo)
  Jean Pauley - "Taking Flight" (View Photo)
• Third Place (Endangered Species Organic Chocolate Bar)
  Scott Burbidge - "Coal Creek" (View Photo)
  Stella Orechia - "Rattlesnake Ledge" (View Photo)
• See all 40 entries submitted to the First Earth Week Environmental Photo Contest from 2009

Have fun!

Photo: Mike Hanson winning the 2007 Consumption Awareness Pie Eating Contest.

BCC Earth Week is organized by the BCC Student Science Association. For more information contact Rob Viens in the BCC Science Division at rviens@bellevuecollege.edu or (425) 564-3158.