CNI News Service
Flowers are blooming and temperatures are rising. It’s time to take your boat out of storage and make plans to visit one of Northeast Georgia’s beautiful lakes.
Lake Living magazine is looking for photos that represent this scenic time of year at the lake. The selected photo will be featured on the cover of the magazine’s spring 2024 edition.
Lake Living is a full-color regional guide to Northeast Georgia’s lakes, and Community Newspapers Inc. Chairman Alan NeSmith invites local photographers to submit their photographic representations these lakes.
Subjects could include points of interest, natural features, scenic views or people enjoying the lakes.
The magazine publishes the week of April 22 and will be distributed at visitor centers, chambers of commerce and retail outlets throughout the region during summer.
The winner of the cover contest will receive $100.
Criteria for entering:
• Photograph must be taken at a lake in Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union or White counties.
• Photographer can submit up to five images.
• Photographer should submit a vertical image.
• Image should be of spring or summer scenery.
• Photographer should send high-quality, high-resolution image files. Photos must not be downsized, and should be no smaller than 1.5MB. Photos should be clear and in focus.
• Photos should have room at the top for the magazine logo.
• Photography must not include a commercial entity.
• Submission of a photo gives Community Newspapers Inc. the right to publish the photo in Lake Living magazine.
• Each entry should include the photographer’s name, where and when the photo was taken, and the names of any people in the photo, if possible.
The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Friday, April 5.
Qualifying images should be submitted via email to specialpublications@cninewspapers.com. Please include photographer’s contact information and where and when the photo was taken in your email.
For more information, call NeSmith at 706-778-4215.