Smart Phone Challenge Rules
See Pictures Submitted to date 

Who:     GOE members only
 
What:    Photograph nature using smartphone cameras
 
Where:  Outdoors
 
When:   Start now (January 9, 2017)

• GOE contest ends May 1, 2017
• FFGC contest entries due in November 2017; prizes awarded in April 2018

 
Share photos on www.gardenersouteast.com

• Email photos (Actual Size, please) taken on or after January 9, 2017 to eckertkg@gmail.com cc:  ehamesbury@yahoo.com
• Include informative descriptions of each photograph:  names of birds or butterflies, names of plants, location where each photograph was taken, date, etc.
• Include type of smartphone
• Please add a note if you do NOT want your name to appear with your photo.

 
GOE Contest 

• 12 best smartphone camera photos selected by Education Committee and Board will be printed and raffled off at GOE’s May 8th season finale – a social gathering at Carolyn’s house 
• Each raffle ticket counts as a “vote”; photo with the most “votes” wins a prize for the GOE member who shot the picture. 
• One raffle ticket will be drawn for each of the 12 photos to determine the 12 lucky attendees who take a photo home.

 
FFGC Digital Photography Awards
Category:  Conservation.  Award #69 – Digital Photography (Note:  NOT limited to smartphone cameras)
Five photographs per class; enter as many classes as you like, one entry per class

• Class A – Bird and/or Butterflies
• Class B – Landscaped Florida Garden
• Class C -  Florida Wildflower, preferably in its native habitat
• Class D - A Flowering Tree Growing in Florida
• Class E -  Plants on the Florida Conservation List
• Class F -  Plants in one of the following subjects: Plants in a specific garden, or Lifecycle of a specific plant, or Florida scenery

 
Complete entry rules at FFGC at http://www.ffgc.org/page-18062 then click link “FFGC Awards”.  Get help to complete FFGC forms from Karen Eckert, Carolyn Lowry, Eileen Amesbury, Norma Kisida.