Art and Photo Contests

Butterfly Art of the Year Contest

Artists interested in entering the 2009 NABA Art Contest should submit high quality digital images (submitted on a CDR, CDW or DVD—attempted submission via email will result in disqualification) plus a color print out of original two-dimensional color "paintings," in any medium. If realistic, the painting should depict species found in Mexico, the U.S. or Canada. In your cover letter, you should indicate the dimensions of the original work, give a description of the medium of the work, and a release granting to NABA the one-time right to copy and publish the image. Please include a telephone number where you can be reached. Entries need to be received no later than May 1, 2009. Winning artist will receive a prize of $150, 2nd place winner will receive $50 and winners will have their works published in color in the Fall 2009 issue of American Butterflies. All decisions of the judges are final. Entries should be sent to: NABA, Butterfly Art Contest, 4 Delaware Road, Morristown, NJ 07960.

Butterfly Photo of the Year Contest

The 7th NABA Photography Contest will be held in 2008. The winners of each of two categories, adults and immatures, will receive $150 and the 1st runners-up will receive $50. Winning entries will be published in the Fall 2008 issue of American Butterflies. Photographs of adults must be of free-flying, unrestrained butterflies taken in the field, in Canada, the United States, or Mexico.

Photographs of immatures must be of eggs, caterpillars or chysalids taken in the field, or at a location (e.g., one's house or laboratory) within 20 miles of where the eggs or caterpillars were obtained. In addition the photographer warrants that the eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalids were reared through to adulthood and that the resulting adult was released essentially where the immature stage was found. Submissions, which must be received by May 1, 2008, should be in the form of digital images or slide duplicates as entries will not be returned. Digital images should be sent as high resolution jpeg files on a CD formatted for a PC. Files sent via email will not be considered. Please limit your submissions to three images (only the first three images received, per entrant, will be considered).

Please include detailed information about when and where the photographs were taken, as well as camera, lens, flash, film, and setting information — to the extent known.

Photographers Release Statement (signature required):

I, ___________________________, hereby give my one-time right to copy and publish the following photographs:
1) _________________________________________,
2) _________________________________________,
3) _________________________________________.

I verify that the photographs, if taken of adults, were taken in the field, of free-flying, unmanipulated butterflies. If of immatures, the photographer's statement must vouch that the immatures were either photographed in the wild; or within 20 miles of where found and if removed from the wild that they were reared through to adults (or attempted to rear through to adults) and released where they were found.

Signature: __________________________________
Date: _____________________
Email address (preferred) and/or telephone number: ________________________________

Send your entries and a signed copy of this release form statement to:

NABA Photo Contest, 4 Delaware Rd., Morristown, NJ 07960.