Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, let the camera capture our happy moments, for an everlasting memory !

 

The San Diego Chinese American Association (SD-CAA) is holding a Mid-Autumn Festival photo and video contest. We sincerely invite everyone to join! Gather your family together, enjoy the happy moments and the beautiful scenery of good times, capture them with pictures and short videos, and share them with us.

Reward:

The competition will have two groups: a student group and an adult group. For the picture competition, the following awards are available:

• One Gold Award: $100
• One Silver Award: $50
• Three Bronze Awards: $25 each

 All prizes will be distributed in the form of an Amazon Gift Card.

 For the short video competition, the same awards as the picture competition will be distributed:

• One Gold Award: $100
• One Silver Award: $50
• Three Bronze Awards: $25 each

All winners will also receive electronic certificates, and those certificates are going to be displayed on the official website of SD-CAA along with his/her excellent works.

To Participate:

All residents of San Diego County are welcome to submit works. The works must be original pictures or videos that have not been published. Pictures must be in jpg/jpeg format, either black-and-white or color, with resolution between 2-5Mb (about 2000 x 1500 px). Videos must be in mp4 format, less than 100MB in size, and be no more than 1 minute long. All works can only be adjusted and trimmed for brightness, contrast, and color saturation, without adding borders, watermarks, signatures, etc., and no technical processing such as merging or adding image elements is allowed. Each participant can submit no more than two pictures and one video.

When submitting your works, please provide your contact information (name, contact phone number, WeChat id or email address) and a brief introduction to the submitted work (time, location, and background of the shooting, within 100 words).

1) Through the Wechat group of the SD-CAA Image and Video Competition (Please scan the following QR code to join the group);

            

or 2) Upload through the SD-CAA's competition website.

 

Screening Criteria:

The theme and shooting skills will be used as the criteria for the preliminary screening. All the works passed the preliminary will be displayed on SD-CAA website for public voting.

Selection procedure:

1. In the preliminary screening, a five-member review committee organized by the SD-CAA (members include the board directors of SD-CAA and photography specialists from local community) is responsible for classifying, sorting eligible works and placing them in SD-CAA Official website at http://www.sd4chinese.com.
2. All San Diego residents are welcome to cast the vote online (voters are eligible to draw a lottery, and the winner will get a $20 Amazon gift card);
3. Online awards;
4. The compilation of works and award certificates will be displayed on the SD-CAA official website (www.sd4chinese.org).