Photo/Lin Goen. Lin Goen of Clayton captured this snowy view of a split rail fence overlooking Lake Burton. The photo was featured on Lake Living magazine’s winter 2024 edition.
Temperatures are rising and spring is in the air. 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 2025 edition.
Lake Living is a full-color regional guide to Northeast Georgia’s lakes. Local photographers are asked to submit their photographic representations of these lakes.
Subjects could include points of interest, natural features, scenic views or people enjoying the lakes.
The magazine publishes the week of April 21 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 4.
For more information or to submit qualifying images, email Kimberly Brown, specialpublications@cninewspapers.com.
Please include the photographer’s contact information and where and when the photo was taken in your email.