Get Your Cameras Ready for the Picture Illinois Photo Contest
August 17, 2011By Blair Thomas
Can you capture the beauty and diversity of Illinois’ agricultural landscape in just one picture? Express your inner artist and your love for agriculture in the farm bureau’s photo contest.
The Illinois Farm Bureau is looking to its members and their families to bring rural life into focus with Picture Illinois, their 2011 photo contest.
The contest is open to all Illinois Farm Bureau members and their families. Entries must be from amateur photographers who submit shots taken in Illinois anytime after Jan. 1, 2009. Employees and immediate family members of Illinois Farm Bureau and its affiliated companies are not eligible.
You can submit photos until Nov. 1, 2011, in one of three categories:
- From the Front Porch
- If Barns Could Talk
- Generations: From One to Another
The grand prize winner will receive $150. Three first place winners will be awarded $75 each, three second place winners will recieve $25, and the photo selected as “Members’ Choice” at the farm bureau’s 2011 annual meeting in December will receive $50. The winners will be announced in Partners and FarmWeek.
Complete contest rules and past winners can be found here. If you have additional questions, contact Dawn Heggie at (309) 557-2294 or by email at dheggie@ilfb.org.
