Appalachian Mtn Photo Competition

It's the moment everyone has been waiting for. Trails will be trampled, new roads will be driven, new treasures will be discovered, and dogs will have a chance to pose on the Blue Ridge Parkway? Yep, even dogs will have their day for this year's competition!

One of the newest features for the 6th Annual AMPC is that the Share the Journey® category will rotate and feature a new theme every year. This year's theme of course is Dogs on the Parkway. Stock up on your flea shampoo and practice your brushing skills!

Another important change is that the competition will only accept digital submissions for the first time ever.  More importantly, the competition now has it's own permanent home in cyberspace at www.appmtnphotocomp.org.

Still here? What are you waiting for? Get registered already!

“Dogs on the Parkway” will be a focus of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s component of the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition this year. Being one of the most popular categories of the competition, the Share the Journey® category will be a rotating category featuring a different theme each year. 

“Dog owners love their dogs,” states Houck Medford, executive director of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. ‘’It is part of the Parkway journey!”  It seemed only fitting that we make this the theme for the Share the Journey® category. Entries will be judged on impact, lighting, composition, and effectively conveying the idea of traveling, hiking, motorcycling or whatever Parkway activity with your dog.  Posed or studio photographs will be disqualified.  Also make sure that your favorite photo shows your “dog on a leash” if out of the vehicle . . . ahem, newly enforced regulations!  Ouch, the fines hurt!

Registration for the 2009 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is scheduled to begin toward the end of September of 2008. Start gathering your camera gear and get those ideas churning!

(Boone, NC) – Organizers of the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition today announced the winners of its 2008 competition.

Dale King and his image Solitary Cloud entered in the Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas Category took top honors receiving Best In Show.  Category Winners acknowledge the top image in each of the seven competition categories and will receive Mast General Store prize packages with a retail value of $275.

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For everyone who has voted for this year's People's Choice Award, you have already seen the incredible images from this year's Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Now the public can enjoy the entire gallery at their leisure by visiting High Country Photos.  We will be added galleries from previous year's winners and finalists so stay tuned! 

The selected images from the 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition are on the walls of the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center of the Visual Arts.  The public will get their first peak of this year's exhibition on Friday, March 7 from 7 to 9pm and public voting for the Footsloggers People's Choice Award kicks off with the public reception.  A voting kiosk is located in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and votes can be cast via the web beginning at 7pm on Friday, March 7.

Final judging for this year's Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition will take place in late March and awards will be publicly announced on April 14.  A winning image will be selected from each of the seven categories, one image will be selected as People's Choice and one image will be chosen as Best In Show.  

Thank you to all the photographers who submitted images to this year's competition.  A portion of your entry fee goes to support Outdoor Programs Student Outdoor Learning Expeditions (SOLE) at Appalachian State University.  SOLE trips are 21 to 55-day, active educational adventures of discovery that immerse ASU students in unique and rugged landscapes.  To learn more about Outdoor Programs and Student Outdoor Learning Expeditions visit www.op.appstate.edu.

Appalachian State University's Outdoor Programs in conjunction with the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts would like to announce this year's public reception and opening for the 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition.

The public is invited to visit the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center on the campus of ASU on Friday, March 7, 2008 from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm.  The gallery will host this year's winning entries from the AMPC through June 7, 2008.

Images selected for exhibition will also be available for viewing via the internet and everyone is invited to vote for their favorite image as part of the People's Choice Award sponsored by Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters.

For more information about this event, please contact Guest and Member Services at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at 828.262.3017, or by emailing turchincenter@appstate.edu.

The 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition was a huge success, with over 860 entries, the judges certainly had their work cut out for them. Forty-six images have been selected for exhibition at the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

This year's category winners are:

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition.  Forty-six images have been selected for exhibition from the more than 860 submitted.  Photographers whose works have been selected for exhibition have been notified.  

Beginning with a public reception on Friday, March 7, 2008 and running through June 7, 2008, this year's selected images will be available for viewing in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.  Images selected for exhibition will also be available for viewing via the Internet and the public is invited to vote for their favorite images as part of the People's Choice Award sponsored by Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters.  We will make an announcement in this blog when the voting procedures are posted.

The 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is a service of Outdoor Programs at Appalachian State University and serves to subsidize students participating in Student Outdoor Learning Expeditions (SOLE trips).  SOLE trips are 21 to 55 day educational journeys of discovery to remote and exciting destinations including New Zealand, Fiji, Wales, and Alaska.  Outdoor Programs has been offering human-powered, adventure-based programs to the students, faculty and staff of ASU for more than thirty-five years.

The deadline for this year's Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is fast approaching! All entries must be submitted by February 9, 2008, 6:00 pm. Please visit our AMPC registration site for more information.

The 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is Appalachian State University's Outdoor Programs and the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation's 5th annual contest. Virtual Blue Ridge will be sponsoring the competition by offering online registration and submission forms for entrants, as well as hosting a gallery for this year's finalists and previous year's winners.

The 2008 Appalachian Photography Competition judges were announced today.  Below is information about each of the three judges selected by the competition directors.

Banister Pope

Describing himself as "an extra-large, middle-aged, bearded-american studio artist and photographer," he brings a lot of experience and creative eye to the table for this year’s contest.  His imagery captures the whimsy of our most ordinary surroundings.
www.banisterpope.com

Heather McClintock

"Acknowledging a growing discontent with her studio pursuits and seeking a deeper connection to documenting the commonalities of our existence, along with a deepening desire to pursue humanitarian work and simply to get a little dirty again . . . ." Heather McClintock has had work exhibited all over the globe and is sure to bring a worldly view to the AMPC.
www.heathermcclintock.com

Pac McLaurin

"I learned a little bit about photography in my career which related to medical imaging, and then by my own self teaching and going to workshops. I have learned the most from the students I teach and I thank each of them."  Pac currently teaches photography at Appalachian State University where he has lead several student workshops overseas for "endless photographic opportunity." Pac is an inspiration to the amateur, and proof positive that practice really can go a long way.
www.pacmclaurin.com