Celebrate and showcase the jewel that is the Upper Mississippi

River region through sunrise & sunset photographs.

If you capture beautiful midwestern sunrises and sunsets

in digital photos, you should enter for a chance to win an

original commissioned painting of your photo.

Contest Theme Enter your sunrise or sunset photographs depicting midwestern

scenes particularly related to the Upper Mississippi River region.

Grand Prize Commissioned Original Painting of Your

Sunrise/Sunset Photograph (two to be awarded, one for our

Muscatine gallery and one for our Davenport gallery)

Grand prize, Best of Show Winners will receive an original commission painting of their winning

photograph created by either Jane Doty or Jim Elias, artists and gallerists at Sunrise Galleries. Winning

photographers will choose the painting style to be used for their custom commission painting.

Grand Prize commission paintings will be completed on a 12” x 20” gallery-wrapped canvas.

Each painting is valued over $300.

Entry Fees – $5 each photograph entered

Entry Deadline – February 15

And I remember Muscatine--still more pleasantly--for its summer sunsets. I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean, that equaled them. They used the broad smooth river as a canvas, and painted on it every imaginable dream of color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, all the way up, through cumulative intensities, to blinding purple and crimson conflagrations which were enchanting to the eye, but sharply tried it at the same time. All the Upper Mississippi region has these extraordinary sunsets as a familiar spectacle. It is the true Sunset Land: I am sure no other country can show so good a right to the name.The sunrises are also said to be exceedingly fine. I do not know.

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To enter, click:www.sunrisegalleries.com/photoentry

Dawn-to-Dusk: Dreams of Color Sunrise-Sunset Photography Contest

Contest Rules1. Entries will be accepted online at www.sunrisegalleries.com/photocontest between January 1 –

February 15, 2019.

2. The contest is open to both amateur and experienced photographers of any age.

3. Eligible format is high quality digital images only.

4. Submitted photos should not have a visible name, date, border or any type of watermark.

5. File size is limited to 10 MB.

6. An entry fee of $5 per photograph is required. Any photographer may enter up to 5 photos.

7. Each photograph entered must be described by title, photographer’s name, location of photo, and date

taken.

8. Minor adjustments of color/contrast, sharpening, spotting, dodging and burning are acceptable.

Photographs manipulated for artistic purposes by applying special effects such as collage, photo

composites or HDR are not acceptable and will be disqualified.

9. Jurors will make selections based on quality, composition, originality, uniqueness, creativity and

general appeal. Juror’s decisions are final.

10. Contest finalists and winners agree to have their work presented in a special exhibit at Sunrise

Galleries. Selected finalists are expected to deliver a framed print of their work to Sunrise Galleries

ready to hang for installation in the contest exhibit.

11. Contest finalists may choose to make their work for sale during the contest exhibit. Each

photographer is responsible for setting the price of the work and agrees to pay Sunrise Galleries a

commission of 20% on the sale of any work.

12. Contest entrants agree to authorization and licensing terms as well as contest schedule deadlines.

Exhibit, Publicity and Promotional ExposureContest finalists will constitute a special exhibit on display at the Sunrise Galleries in Muscatine and Davenport.

Finalists and their guests will be honored at an exhibit closing reception at which the winners’ commissioned

painting will be unveiled. In addition to the contest exhibits, Sunrise Galleries will promote the contest and

exhibit through its social media pages, its website www.sunrisegalleries.com, and through news releases to local

media and the arts community.

Juried Contest Sunrise Gallery staff will serve as jury for the contest. Jurors will make selections based on quality, composition,

originality, uniqueness, creativity and general appeal.

Copyright & Usage AuthorizationBy submitting an entry, photographers grant permission to Sunrise Galleries to use these images for marketing

purposes online and in print; and may distribute them for non-commercial purposes with photo credits –

including, but not limited to, educational and news purposes − to other media, print, digital, online services and

television for their use. Contest finalists and winners grant license to Sunrise Galleries the use of their images for

commercial reproduction with photo credits for the period of one year after the close of contest exhibits. The

copyright of all images will remain with the photographer.

Entry Fees – $5 each photograph entered

Contest DatesEntry Deadline: February 15

Selection complete: February 23

Contest Exhibit: March 6 – March 29

Exhibitors Receptions: March 22 — Davenport;

March 23 — Muscatine

Exhibit finalists retrieve work from galleries: April 3 – April 6

Sunrise Galleries – WEST

in Historic Downtown Muscatine

114 E 2nd Street, Muscainte, IA

Sunrise Galleries – EAST

at Bucktown Center for the Arts

225 E 2nd Street, Suite 101 Davenport, IA

Enter at:

www.sunrisegalleries.com/photoentry

Dawn-to-Dusk: Dreams of Color Sunrise-Sunset Photography Contest

Entry Form and Acknowledgement To be completed and submitted with Initial Submissions

Photographer’s Name (First and Last)

Photographer’s Address

City, State, Zip

Telephone No. Email

All submissions indicate acceptance of the rules of this contest.

____ I acknowledge that I have read and understand all the 2019 Sunrise Galleries Dawn-to-Dusk Photography

Contest Rules, especially and including those checked by me below:

____ I am the original artist of the submitted piece(s)

____ My submitted photograph(s) is/are for sale, by me only, for the price listed in my entry/entries

____ I am at least 18 years old as of February 15, 2019

____ I am not a Sunrise Galleries employee or an immediate family or household member of a Sunrise Gallery

employee.

____ Sunrise Galleries retains the right to use images of my submission(s) for marketing purposes as outlined in

contest rules. I will retain all other rights to the submission(s) during the Exhibition.

By signing below, I acknowledge that I have read and understand 2019 Sunrise Galleries Dawn-to-Dusk Photography

Contest Rules and intend to abide by them as they are presented.

Signature .

Date .

ENTRY DETAILS (complete this for each photograph entered)

Title:

Location of subject:

Date Taken: Sale Price $

Enter at: www.sunrisegalleries.com/photoentry

Or, email entries to jelias@sunrisegalleries.com or drop them off at either gallery location

Dawn-to-Dusk: Dreams of Color Sunrise-Sunset Photography Contest

Meet the Jurors:Jane Doty, painter and galleristWhether it’s on a large canvas, a small gesso board,

or a piece that incorporates scraps of torn paper,

Doty’s art emits a feeling and energy revealing her

passion to create. Doty says, “My style definitely

leans toward realism, but I do enjoy painting an

abstract every now and then.” A retired elementary

educator, Jane Doty is now a prolific artist working

out of her home-based studio in Durant, Iowa while

exhibiting her paintings in Sunrise Galleries and at a

number of area art fairs.

Michelle Servadio, nurse, activist, gardener and photographerThe ‘butterfly whisperer’, Shelly loves time spent in

her garden or along the banks of the Mississippi

River capturing nature’s beauty with her lens. From

her Central California roots to her home in Iowa,

she brings a unique point of view to her nature

photography.

Jim Elias, painter, photographer and gallerist“Where we are right now is really only home for

awhile,” says Jim Elais. He’s been presenting

landscapes in the form of paintings and

photographs for over 40 years. Each image

captures a simple element of God’s masterpiece as

seen through one man’s eye … to capture and share

a perspective on where ever home is. Elias studied

fine art photography as an undergraduate, worked

in the advertising industry for many years and

recently retired as college marketing &

entrepreneurship professor. He now manages

Sunrise Galleries and works out of the Muscatine

Gallery & Studio.

Janet Gillhouse, interior designer and seamstressDesigning costumes, theatrical sets, t-shirts and

commercial properties means Janet brings a special

perspective. Color, shape, texture and composition

are elements she knows are important to great

photography.

Sunrise Galleries – WEST

in Historic Downtown Muscatine

114 E 2nd Street, Muscainte, IA

Sunrise Galleries – EAST

at Bucktown Center for the Arts

225 E 2nd Street, Suite 101 Davenport, IA

Dawn-to-Dusk: Dreams of Color Sunrise-Sunset Photography Contest

Enter at: www.sunrisegalleries.com/photoentry