Contests

September 2009

No purchase necessary to enter or win. You may only enter once a week. See below for details.

FAST ACCESS
Get to your photo gear quickly using the Tamrac Aero Speed Pack, which features a convenient side-door entry for grabbing your camera when wearing the bag over your shoulder. Just swing it around to the front of your body or go through the front panel when wearing the bag like a traditional backpack. Two models are available—Aero Speed Pack 75 and 85. The 75 holds a D-SLR with up to a 7 1⁄2-inch lens attached, one to two extra lenses and a flash, while the 85 fits a D-SLR with an 81⁄2-inch lens attached, a couple of extra zooms and up to a 17-inch laptop. Estimated Street Price: $89 (75); $119 (85). Contact: Tamrac, (800) 662-0717, www.tamrac.com.

MOBILE TRIP PLANNER
Become your own tour guide the next time you hike through Zion National Park, Utah, using ZionQuest, an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch. This is the first in a series of trip-planning applications the company is rolling out for various parks and tourist destinations. It includes a custom, interactive map of the park showing tour locations and popular hiking trails, dozens of videos describing the trails and hundreds of photos organized by location. Estimated Street Price: $5. Contact: GeoQuest Tech, www.geoquesttech.com.

TWO-IN-ONE
Be prepared on your next camping trip with the Pelican 3390 Knife/Lite Combo, which features the PM6 3320 Flashlight and a KB-1250 folding knife. Constructed of an engineering-grade polymer touted as nearly indestructible, the flashlight weighs just 3.4 ounces and uses a Xenon bulb with a run time of up to an hour. The knife has a 4.5-inch stainless-steel blade that’s 40 percent serrated for easily cutting webbing or rope and for overall outdoor use. List Price: $49. Contact: Pelican, (800) 473-5422, www.pelican.com.

CLASSIC STYLE
Stay warm in the Grand Peak Vest from Woolrich. The vest is made from TechnoWool X, a light, natural fabric that provides wind protection and excellent core insulation for outdoor activities. Other features include brushed polyester mesh lining, a two-way front zipper and pockets for storage. It comes in light olive, merlot and tidal. List Price: $100. Contact: Woolrich, (800) 995-1299, www.woolrich.com.

B&W LIGHTROOM
Adobe Lightroom 2 users can instantly convert a color photograph to black-and-white with Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro, which is now available for versions 2.3 and higher. Once installed, the app is accessible by clicking the Photo menu and rolling over Edit In. Edits are nondestructive, as each one is applied automatically to a newly generated TIFF file and not the original. The program features 18 emulated film types and a grain engine that replicates the traditional silver-halide process for top-notch black-and-white imagery. The update is available as a free download to current Silver Efex Pro users. List Price: $199 (new users). Contact: Nik Software, (619) 725-3150, www.niksoftware.com.

WIRELESS MEMORY CARD
Eye-Fi makes SD cards that have WiFi radios built in. Images are stored just as they would be on any other SD card, but once the camera is done writing, it wirelessly transmits the images to your computer’s hard drive. Eye-Fi Explore allows you to use more than 10,000 WiFi hot spots across the U.S. to connect for uploading to your computer or the web. If you’re into geotagging, the card automatically adds location information to photos. List Price: Varies. Contact: Eye-Fi, (877) 873-9334, www.eye.fi.

HONL PHOTO SPEED SYSTEM
Create just the kind of light you need when out in the field using the affordable Honl Photo Speed System. This collection of lightweight and durable light modifiers for shoe-mount flashes includes a mix of grids, snoots, reflectors, gobos and gels. The tools are designed to universally fit all shoe-mount flashes and attach easily with the Speed Strap, a nonslip velcro strap that simply wraps around the flash head. List Price: $9 to $29. Contact: ExpoImaging, (800) 446-5086 www.expoimaging.net.

EDGY EFFECTS
Add a different dimension to your scenics with Auto FX Software’s Photo/Graphic Edges 7.0 Platinum Edition. The app features 32 new edge, border and frame effects. They include film and natural-media frames, darkroom edges and storyboards that contain layouts for photo books, canvas and other prints. A new collection of textures allows you to give your composition a natural-looking backdrop. You also can choose from hundreds of preset effects. This version contains nearly three times as many effects as the previous edition. List Price: $249. Contact: Auto FX Software, (205) 980-0056, www.autofx.com.

STUFF IT
Automate repetitive tasks like backing up and uploading files to FTP servers with StuffIt Deluxe 2009. To save time, Windows users can create multiple unique Droplet tools for doing these tasks and access them quickly without launching the app. The Context Menu gives instant access to the most recent and frequently used actions. In the Mac version, there’s support for the Leopard operating system and Time Machine. StuffIt Deluxe automatically transfers and backs up archives for MobileMe users with the DropStuff and StuffIt Scheduler. List Price: $79 (Mac); $49 (Windows). Contact: Smith Micro Software, (800) 964-7674, www.smithmicro.com.

ELIGIBILITY

• Only one entry per person allowed.
• Open Only to Legal Residents OF THE fifty (50) UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 18 years of age or older.
• Void Where Prohibited.
• Officers, directors, employees and agents of Werner Publishing Corporation ("Sponsor"), and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and website providers/web masters (collectively, the "Released Parties"), and their immediate families (parent, child, spouse or sibling) and those living in their same households are not eligible to enter or win.
• By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges and/or Sponsor, which are binding and final on matters relating to this sweepstakes.
• Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.
  
  TO ENTER
  
• Between 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") on 9/1/09 and 11:59 p.m. ET on 10/31/09 (the "Entry Period"), visit www.outdoorphotographer.com and complete and submit the official entry form.
• When you submit your entry form, please be sure to indicate which prize drawing you are entering. If you like to be entered into all prize drawings, select "Enter me for all of the prize items" and you will be automatically entered into the each prize drawing.
• All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on 10/31/09 to be eligible. Sponsor's computer is the Official clock for the promotion.
• Entries generated by script, macro or other automated or mechanical means are void.
• All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
  
  PRIZE DRAWINGS
  
• One (1) potential winner will be selected for each prize described below in a random drawing on or about 11/06/09 from all eligible entries received for the applicable drawing.
• Entries from one prize drawing will not be included in other prize drawings.
• Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received for the applicable drawing.
• Potential winners will be notified by e-mail within 14 days of drawing.
• Potential winners are subject to verification of eligibility and the terms of these rules.
• Potential winners may be required to complete, sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and where lawful a publicity release within ten (10) days of issuance.
• If such documents are not returned within the specified time period, any prize/prize notification is returned as undeliverable, or a winner is not in compliance with these rules, prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected.
  
  PRIZES
  
• See prize details above.
• Total ARV of all prizes: $849
• All prize details not specified herein are at the sole discretion of Sponsor.
• Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prizes or redeem prizes for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value.
• Winners are responsible for all federal, state and local taxes, if any, and all other costs and expenses not specified herein as being awarded that are associated with the acceptance and use of prizes.
• Prizes are awarded "as is" with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied.
  
  If a winner cannot accept prize as stated, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected.
• Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, in their sole discretion.
  
  GENERAL CONDITIONS
  
• The Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, stolen, misdirected, undelivered, garbled, illegible or postage-due mail, entries or email; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, website, or other connections, or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software or other technical malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network; or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information or the failure to capture any such information.
• The Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes.
• The Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to participants' or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of the website. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the sweepstakes or website, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified.
• Should any portion of the sweepstakes be, in Sponsor's sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the sweepstakes and select the winners from all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to action taken or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor.
• In the event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same email account, the authorized subscriber of the email account at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the email address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses.
• Entrants, by participating, agree that the Released Parties will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by entrants against, any claims, actions or/or liability, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including death, to persons, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prize.
• Each winner, by acceptance of prize, except where legally prohibited, grants permission for Sponsor and its designees to use his/her name, address (city and state), photograph, voice and/or other likeness and prize information for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without further compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on the Internet and world wide web, in perpetuity, without notice or review or approval.
  
  WINNERS LIST
  
• For the names of the winners (available after 11/20/09), send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Outdoor Photographer's WIN THIS! Sweepstakes, 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90025, for receipt no later than 11/10/09.
  
  SPONSOR
  
• Werner Publishing Corporation, 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90025.

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