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IPD Photo Contest - Winners Given $50-300 of Free Parts!
By By Bryan Cottrell for IPD
Sep 14, 2009, 13:19

Soon the rains will come and, although not enough of a force to make you stop driving your Swede, the opportunities to capture a silhouette in front of those summer sunsets will soon be coming to an end. So before the days of waking up and driving to work in the dark are upon us, dust off the digital camera and find the perfect place to take some spectacular pictures of your beloved Volvo.

By sending in your Volvo photo, you’ll get a crack at a $300 gift certificate you can use toward any ipd parts or accessories.

As you may have noticed, this year we used the three photo contest winners on the front covers of our annual ipd catalogs. It's proof that all your hard work can be immortalized and part of ipd history. Be creative and have fun and show us what you've got.

This year, the voting will be done by you, the Volvo community. We will bear the burden of sifting through and narrowing down the best of the submissions and leaving the rest up to you. We will spare you the pain of looking at low res/blurry camera phone submissions, links to Photobucket files, pics of Volvos in driveways and next to Toyota Camry's. All of which happened last year so please, please, I beg you, don't send me photos like these again. It's painful. Seriously, my stomach is churning just thinking about it. I've included a few tips to give you the upper hand.

Tips
- Be creative.
- Make the focal point of the photo be the Volvo and not the mountains or scenery behind it.
- Do not take pictures of your car in your driveway after you just finished washing it.
- Although there are exceptions, avoid having people in the photo. Most of us aren't as attractive as we think we are.
- Avoid other car makes being in the photo. It's a bit tacky to have a photo of your 850 with a Ford Explorer sitting right next to it.
- Resolution! Make your photos large enough for us to use on the cover of our catalog if we wanted to. See my tech tip below.
- Other than that, have fun and again, be creative. Take a cover worthy photo. Good luck!

Watch out because here come the details.

Details
By submitting a photo, you release the rights and allow us to use your name and photo in any way that ipd chooses. There will be one winner in each of 3 categories (Vintage, Rear Wheel Drive, Front/All Wheel Drive) and a single “best of show” winner that will take the grand prize!

Only 2 photos per person will be accepted. If you send me links to photobucket sites or forums etc. it will be impossible to enter your car in the contest so choose the 2 photos that you think have the best shot and send those in.

Entries must be received by November 6, 2009. There will be no extensions or exceptions.

Send to: ipd Photo Contest, P.O. Box 20339, Portland, OR 97294-9906*
or
Send your .jpg images to photocontest@ipdusa.com.**

*If you are mailing in a photo, please include “Photo Contest Entry“ on the envelope and your name, the year and model number of the car on the back of the photo.
**If you're e-mailing your photo, please name the file(s) following this example: bryancottrell1970140.jpg (name,year,model,.jpg)

The Prizes
Grand Prize Winner - $300.00 ipd Gift Certificate
Best shot in each category - $50.00 ipd Gift Certificate

The Rules
1. Physical photos need to be at least 5”x7” or the largest possible .jpg files.
2. If there are people in the photo, a signed release must accompany the photo.
3. Limit two entries per person, please.


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