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2009 Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest

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M80, a Social Media Marketing & Online Publicity company contacted me on behalf of Energizer to tell you about the 2009 Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest. If I had heard of it on my own I certainly would have been telling you all about it anyway. From what I’ve read so far this sounds like an amazing contest.

How would you like to have your photography judged by world class photographer Jim Richardson of National Geographic magazine? Sounds like a chance to get your work in front of some very discerning eyes. Not only that, but your photograph could win you a National Geographic Expeditions trip for two to the Galapagos Islands and your photo published in National Geographic magazine. Talk about exposure for your art.

The categories are Animals / Wildlife, Nature, People / Cultures, Travel, Weather, and Inspiration / Keep Going®. The contest runs from April 15 – June 30, 2009. Then Judging occurs from on or about July 1, 2009 to on or about July 31, 2009. After that voting takes place from on or about August 14, 2009 to on or about September 15, 2009. I am going to enter one of my photos into this contest but I can’t decide which ones are good enough for submission. So I need a little help and as incentive I’m offering some prizes from National Geographic and Energizer Lithium Batteries.

Giveaway Details

The Prize – A 1-year subscription to National Geographic Magazine and a sampling of some Energizer Lithium Batteries.

* MAIN RULE -Go to the 2009 Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest website and take a look at the photos then go to my Flickr Photostream and one of my photos that would be worthy of submission to the competition. Leave the URL of the photo in you initial comment. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
* 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment
* 1 Extra Entry – Stumble My Main Page and leave your Stumble name (I will be checking) in a separate comment
* 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment
* 1 Extra Entry for Tweeting about this giveaway.
“RT Win 1-Yr subscription to National Geographic and some Energizer Ultimate Lithium Batteries from @Benspark . http://tinyurl.com/q4qssg”
* 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog and to the 2009 Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest website.
* 5 Extra Entries – Enter the 2009 Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest yourself. Leave a link to the photo that you choose to upload. Enter all 6 categories get 30 entries.

This giveaway will run through midnight on May 31,2009 with winner being announced the morning of June 1, 2009. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

Photo-A-Day

Oh that look

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Oh that look
Photo-A-Day #1392

Eva and I hung out tonight. It was still a bit warm after work so I took her for a walk up the street and back to get her out of the house. That is one of the tough things about being in the Northeast (don’t get me wrong I love it here) and that is the weather. For the past few weeks the weather has been cold and crappy. This is the kind of weather that makes you want to come home, crawl into bed and hibernate. But today there was some sun and it melted much of the slush on the driveway. This however meant that the runoff from the melting snow needed someplace to go and the drains were pretty covered. That meant that the DPW had to come by with plows to scrape the snow off the street and fling it onto the sidewalks. They did this late int he day so now the sidewalks are treacherous.

So, back to our walk. I bundled Eva up and put her in the jogging stroller and headed up the street. It was colder than I thought and the snow that had melted all day was now freezing up. The sidewalks were full of snow and once we got to the end of our street there was no where for us to walk, safely. So I turned the stroller around and went back home. Once we got there we played int he backyard and I took today’s photos. If this kids smile can’t melt the frosty snow, I don’t know what can.

Eva on the bench

Eva testing the snow

Eva standing

What do you link of my latest posts.

Not the photo-a-day stuff but the posts about Ed Gerety’s book Combinations? Do you like that I am blogging more on things that can help bloggers? Do you not like it? Have you gone and checked out the people I’ve been talking about? Are you one of the people I’ve been talking about? Let me know, I’d love to hear from you.