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Calling all Amateur Photographers! Peaceful Valley invites you to enter Peaceful Valley’s 2007 Green Up America Photography Contest.

The Peaceful Valley Green Up America Photography Contest is open to all amateur photographers at least 18 years of age, except employees of Peaceful Valley and their immediate families.

Peaceful Valley is looking for striking images falling into these three categories:

America The Beautiful

Compelling images of nature including wildlife of any sort in natural habitat, plant life, natural landscapes or weather. Please do not include pets or domestic animals. Images of captive animals photographed in game farms will be disqualified. Captive animals photographed in zoos, wildlife research facilities or rehabilitation centers are acceptable but must be clearly identified as such. Photos need not have been taken in the U.S.

Urban Revival

Compelling images of conservation, renewal or rejuvenation efforts taking place in urban settings.
Family Affair

Compelling images of families working together on conservation efforts or enjoying nature.

Each participant may submit up to 6 photographs total. Entrants must designate the appropriate category for which they are submitting each image. Photos may be entered into a single category or into different categories. Entries may be digital files, digital prints, color prints or black & white prints. Digital entries must be sent as low-resolution jpegs. Entry Deadline is September 15, 2007.

PRIZES

Grand Prize Package

(One, 1 award): Total Value: $465.00

$300.00 Peaceful Valley Gift Certificate

$100.00 25 Custom Greeting Cards using winner’s image

$35.00 Art Wolfe’s HDTV DVD 2 Disc Set: Edge of the Earth/Corner of the Sky

$30.00 The Art of Photographing Nature by Martha Hill & Art Wolfe

1st Place Category Prize Packages

(Three, 3 awards, one for each category): Total Value: $140.00

$100.00 Peaceful Valley Gift Certificate

$40.00 10 Custom Greeting Cards using winner’s image
2nd Place Category Prize Packages

(Three, 3 awards, one for each category): Total Value: $70.00

$50.00 Peaceful Valley Gift Certificate

$20.00 5 Custom Greeting Cards using winner’s image

Green Up America Photo Contest Entry Rules and Legal Conditions

The Peaceful Valley Green Up America Photo Contest is open to all amateur photographers at least 18 years of age, except employees of Peaceful Valley and their immediate families. By entering this photo contest, you agree to these entry rules and legal conditions. Your entry to the contest constitutes your agreement to allow your photographs, you name, occupation, city and state of residence to be published as selected winners on the Peaceful Valley website, the Peaceful Valley newsletter, Peaceful Valley promotions, Peaceful Valley press releases and other materials occasionally distributed by Peaceful Valley. Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of their photographs.

Entrants must not infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person or submit images that involve the willful harassment of wildlife or damage to the environment by the photographer. All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, adjustments to color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified. Peaceful Valley shall have the right to verify, in their sole judgment, winner eligibility.

By entering, participants warrant that his or her entry materials are original, do not infringe on any third party’s rights, and that participant has obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party’s property appears in the photograph. Peaceful Valley reserves the right to disqualify any entry if it finds in its sole discretion that any of the foregoing warranties are not true. Decisions of Peaceful Valley will be final and binding.

By entering, participants release and hold harmless Peaceful Valley, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind rising from or in connection with the Green Up America Photo Contest, or any prize won, any use of the entry materials by Peaceful Valley, the warranties participants make, any misuse or malfunction of any prize awarded, participation in any Peaceful Valley related activity or participation in the Green Up America Photo Contest.

Participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved with Peaceful Valley, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Green Up America Photo Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, before a court of competent jurisdiction located in Carver County, Minnesota which court shall apply the laws of the state of Minnesota without regard for rules of conflicts of law. In any such dispute, participant shall, under no circumstances, be entitled to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (if any) associated with participating in the Green Up America Photo Contest. Participant hereby waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

Any attempt by an entrant or other individual to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of Peaceful Valley is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Peaceful Valley reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law. Peaceful Valley is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Green Up America Contest, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to the Green Up America Contest, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. Peaceful Valley assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries.

All federal, state and local taxes, fees and surcharges on prize packages are the sole responsibility of the winners. All decisions by the Green Up America Photo Contest judges will be final and binding.

How to Enter:

Camera-made digital images or scans of prints should be sent as low-resolution jpegs. Files should be e-mailed to: photos@peacefulvalleygifts.com along with your name, phone number, address, the category you are entering and the story behind your photo. Mailed entries should be sent to: Peaceful Valley, Green Up America Photo Contest, PO Box 14135, Portland, OR 97293 along with a sheet of paper with your name, phone number, address, e-mail address, the category you are entering and the story behind your photo. If you would like to have your photo(s) returned, you must include a self addressed, stamped envelope with your entry. Questions & inquiries can be e-mailed to photos@peacefulvalleygifts.com. Entry Deadline is September 15, 2007.

www.PeacefulValleyGifts.com’s mission is to bring environmentally sensitive products into the mainstream market in an effort to raise a collective environmental consciousness and to provide triple bottom line funding for conservation nonprofits.

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