CNI Staff Reports
Photo/Morgan Harvill. Morgan Harvill of Rabun County captured this photo of a boat on Lake Rabun at the Narrows, and the photo was featured on the spring 2025 edition of Lake Living magazine. The magazine is looking for photos to possibly be featured on the cover of the 2026 edition.
Right now, it’s cold and icy in Northeast Georgia, but spring will be here soon. With warmer weather will come plans for boating, fishing, hiking and more at one of our area lakes.
Lake Living magazine is looking for photos that represent springtime at the lake. The selected photo will be featured on the cover of the magazine’s spring 2026 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 6 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, March 20.
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.