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Tourism professionals invite entries into a photo contest with $1,000 cash prizes

The association of tourism professionals is hosting a photography contest open to the public.  The organization is attempting to gather social, architectural, tourism, landscape and folklore images under the broad heading of “tourism and sustainable development.”

Submissions are divided into amateur and professional photographers, with the latter required to submit a brief resume, citing past experience.  Each submitted image is required to be printed at 5 by 7 inches.  Participants must also provide a CD holding the images in JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 300 dots per inch, a general information sheet stating artists’ name, telephone, e-mail, title of work and category the work is submitted under.

Participants can submit up to three photographs, with each one accompanied by a description of the image and location where it was taken.  The images must be original, unpublished, digitally unaltered and taken in Costa Rica.  Photo montages and photos taken outside of Costa Rica will not be accepted and all images of people must be accompanied with a consent form, said the organization, the Asociación Costarricense de Profesionales en Turismo.

Submission opened last month and is running through Feb. 1.

The best photographs in three different subject groups for the two separate categories will be awarded $1,000.  Photographs can be submitted at the association offices in Los Yoses, San Pedro, end of Avenida 10, Calle 47.  The office is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone: 280-5375.

Documents must be labeled: Primer Concurso de Fotografía ACOPROT, said the contest rules.