The Bothell-Kenmore Reporter is starting up a photo of the week contest called “Northshore Snapshots” and is currently accepting admissions for the first week’s presentation.

The Photo of the Week will be unveiled each Friday, meaning that submissions placed between now and Mar. 5, will be considered for the First Photo of the Week contest, unveiled Mar. 6.

The Northshore Snapshots photo of the week competition is open to all residents and citizens of, and visitors to, Kenmore and Bothell. However, there are rules to submit photographs for the Kenmore/Bothell Photo of the Week.

All contest rules are highlighted below.

The reporter and editor of the Bothell/Kenmore Reporter papers will be the judges in the competition, utilizing our skills as photographers and storytellers on originality, visual appearance, and self-explanatory content.

While there are no prizes for winners of the weekly contest, credits will be given with the photograph and it will appear online at the Bothell and Kenmore Reporter websites.

Here’s the rules:

1. Submission to the ‘Northshore Snapshots’ photo of the week contest is taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
2. Entrants may only submit one (1) photograph per week
3. Entries should be submitted via email to POTW@bothell-reporter.com with “Entry” in the subject line. Images must be labelled (titled) with the entrants name and the files should be in 72 dpi, between 1 and 3 MBs in size. No postal entries will be accepted.
4. Entries MUST be accompanied by the entrants name, address, phone number and the date and location of the image. No anonymous entries or those lacking date or location will not be accepted for the contest.
5. All entries must be received by the closing time and date. Closing time will be 5 p.m. every Thursday.
6. No late, illegible, incomplete, or corrupt entries will be accepted. Proof of transmission is not accepted as entry.
7. Images entered in the Photo of the Week competition may not be altered or photoshopped in any way. The BKR has its own photo-editing requirements for web and print.
8. All images submitted must be original works created by the entrants and must NOT be published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. This ensures the BKR does not infringe upon any copyright proprieties.
9. Copyright in all images submitted for the Northshore Snapshots contest remains with the entrants, however by submitting works to the Photo of the Week competition, entrants are granting Sound Publishing and the Bothell/Kenmore Reporter to use the photographs solely for the purpose of the Northshore Snapshots photo of the week competition.
10. Photographs must not contain any explicit or offensive content.
11. Photographs must be of Bothell and Kenmore or taken within the cities and associated unincorporated areas.
12. The winning entry will be the photographed judged to be the most visually appealing, original and self-explanatory entry of the week. The winner will be notified on the Friday of publication.

Please email questions about the contest to to POTW@Bothell-reporter.com with ‘Questions’ in the subject line.