Give It A Shot Photo Contest Official rules

How to enter
Enter at www.placeropolis.com and select share pix from the right side of the screen. Make sure to select the checkbox for "please enter me in the contest", upload your photos and you are entered!
Who can enter?
Amateur photographers who don't earn more than 5 percent of their income from photography. Any placeropolis.com member is eligible except employees of Gold Country Media, affiliated companies, sponsors or the immediate families of the aforementioned groups, or anyone engaged in the manufacture, sales, commercial finishing or commercial use of photographic goods. No purchase is necessary.
What photos are eligible?
Any digital photo taken within the past 36 months is eligible. Both black-and-white and color pictures are eligible. Photos may be enhanced using Photoshop or other digital-imaging software only for color correction or lightening or darkening the photo. No other manipulation of photos will be allowed -- entries in violation of this policy will be disqualified.
Five entries per person per week. That means you can enter just 5 photos a week for four weeks -- please submit a different photo each time. There is no theme or category. Simply submit your best entries.
You may enter during any of the four weeks of the contest, starting May 1, 2008. Deadlines to enter are at 12 noon on the following Friday of each week. Weekly winners will be chosen and a grand prize winner will be chosen at the end of the 4th week.
What about getting consent?
Photos will be disqualified from the contest if the consent of any recognizable people can't be obtained.
Are there certain agreements?
Contestants give all rights to their photograph to Gold Country Media and agree that by entering they are the owner of the work and are not submitting the work of others. Contestants, you agree that Gold Country Media may publish your photo(s) for local promotion of the contest and its winners, and to identify you as the image's creator in Gold Country Media Publications.
How is judging done?
Gold Country Media's Photo Editor, Ben Furtado assisted by the Gold Country Media managers will be judging the photos. They will judge on quality and visual content. Winners will be selected each week on the Friday. The results will be published in the newspapers the following week and be displayed on the internet.
Will winners be announced?
Yes, the winners' names will be published in each of the six weeks in All Gold Country Media's 9 Local newspapers and at placeropolis.com/photo_contest.html. Winners will be notified by the email provided during the placeropolis.com registration.
What are the prizes?
The Grand Prize winner will receive a $750 gift certificate from Bicycle Emporium in Auburn.
Weekly 1st place winners will receive: A $100 restaurant gift certificate.
Weekly 2nd place winners will receive: A $50 restaurant gift certificate.
Weekly 3rd place winners will receive: Two Movie passes and a $10 Gas Gift Card
Legal
All decisions of the contest sponsors and judge are final. Sponsors reserve the final judgment on all matters pertaining to this contest including the right to change or modify the rules or prizes, and discontinue or extend the promotion without prior notice.