Miller’s 2008 Baby & Child Contest Guidelines
New and improved, the 2008 contest will be online, allowing all of
you to help determine the winners by voting for your favorite portraits.
Due to the nature of the online contest, we will not require an order to
be placed to enter the contest this year. Also, unlike previous years,
we will not be providing a 5x7 print to you.
Categories for this year’s contest include: Color, Black &
White/Sepia, Special Needs, and Humorous. There will be no Marketing
Category for this year’s contest.
The online contest will consist of four different qualifying rounds
and one final round. Each round will last for one month. Miller’s
customers will be able to post entries during the first three weeks of
every qualifying month and vote during the last week of the month.
Posting and voting deadlines are listed:
- Round 1 (March): Post Entries – March 1 – 21. Vote on Entries – March 22 – 31.
- Round 2 (April): Post Entries – April 1 – 21. Vote on Entries – April 22 – 30.
- Round 3 (May): Post Entries – May 1 – 21. Vote on Entries – May 22 – 31.
- Round 4 (June): Post Entries – June 1 – 21. Vote on Entries – June 22 – 30.
For each qualifying round, the top five winners will be selected from
the four categories and will receive a studio sample of their winning image.
These winning portraits will be entered into the Final Round, which
takes place during the month of July. The Final Round will be judged
online by a panel of esteemed photographers. First, Second, and Third
places, as well as two Honorable Mentions, will be announced for each category!
Cash prizes for these winners include $2,000 for First, $1,000 for Second,
$750 for Third, and $500 for each Honorable Mention. One portrait
from the Final Round will also receive the highest of accolades -- Grand Prize Winner.
The cash prize will be $5,000 for this lucky winner!
All cash prizes will be given to the families of the winning portraits.
Miller’s 2008 Baby & Child Contest Rules
- All portraits taken January 1- June 21, 2008 are eligible for entry into the 2008 Baby & Child Contest.
- After the posting period has closed and prior to the voting period for each round, Miller’s will verify all images meet contest requirements. If any image does not meet the contest standards, Miller’s reserves the right to delete the image from the contest round.
- Participants may post one image per child from each photography session. Miller’s reserves the right to delete multiple submissions from one session.
- Participants are not limited on the amount of images they can post.
- It is the responsibility of the participant to format pictures correctly and according to the category prior to posting the image. Miller’s will not reformat images once submitted and reserves the right to delete any submission that fails to meet these requirements.
- Miller’s reserves the right to delete any submission that is inappropriate in nature.
- Miller’s will not use any participants’ images without prior consent.
- We ask that all images remain anonymous. Please refrain from placing studio logos or text on any images.
- Children age 12 and under can be entered into the contest.
- Voting is set up so that you can vote yes or no on every single image entered into the contest once. After voting yes or no for the image, you will not have access to it again to change your vote.