Rules & Rewards

Buncombe County will focus on recycling, reusing and reducing in 2010 with the theme of "Growing Greener Together." To help promote this theme, the County is looking for high quality photos of citizens enjoying the outdoors, participating in recycling, litter clean up, or just walking the dog.

The photos must be high quality (at least 300 dpi) and will become the property of Buncombe County.

The best photos could be featured on the County's website, in promotions and in the 2010 editions of Buncombe Life magazine. The grand prize winner could be featured on the cover. Prizes will be awarded for all photos chosen for use by the County.

Quality Standards

Buncombe County welcomes all experience levels of photographers and non-photographers, but reserves the right to decline files in its discretion, including reasons based on the following criteria:

• Poor Focus
• Poor Lighting
• Excessive Noise, Grain & Color Distortion
• Compression Artifacts
• Over Filtering
• Poor Isolation & Cropping
• Dust & Debris in Scans
• Upsampling or Rezzing up Images
• Poor Composition
• Inappropriate Title or Description
• Copyright / Trademark Infringement or Risk
• Adult Content unsuitable for Buncombe County
• Profane or Violent Images

Image Requirements

Image Size: Buncombe County accepts files 1600 x 1200 pixels or larger. Any file smaller than 1600 x 1200 pixels will be declined. As a rule for image sizes, the bigger the better. Buncombe County will not accept files that have been up-sampled / rezzed up, (increasing the size / dpi to be larger than that of the original file size).

File Formats:

Image: Buncombe County accepts RGB, JPG files only. TIF's, PNG's, PSD's will be declined. CMYK images will also be declined.