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Panoramio Geotagged photo contest

Every month Panoramio runs the Geotagged Photo Contest. The contest is open to members of the Panoramio community worldwide.

Entry in this contest constitutes your acceptance of these official rules.

Entries to the Geotagged Photo Contest need to be submitted each month according to the defined categories. To participate in the contest:

1. Look up this month's categories
2. Upload a photo into Panoramio based on the category description
3. Use the link 'Submit to the contest' located under the photo and choose one category

During the following month the photos submitted to the contest will be voted by the Panoramio community by selecting the best photo of a sample of 10 randomly displayed photos. To vote photos from the last month visit the voting page, and make sure you are logged in with your Panoramio account as only registered users can vote.

The announcement of the results will be published the month after the voting period (e.g. a photo submitted in January is voted during the month of February and the results are announced in March).

Rules

• Participants can submit up to 5 photos
• One photo can participate in only one category
• A user can only be winner in 1 photo during the same month
• You can't substitute or cancel submitted photos
• Contest winners are ineligible to win the contest during the 3 months following their win
• Using more than one account per person may lead to disqualification and even the deletion of your Panoramio account

Voting for photos

• Only Panoramio registered users can vote for a photo
• A user can vote for an unlimited number of photos
• The photos with the highest number of votes will be the winners

Prizes

The Panoramio contest is a community contest that has as an objective the recognition of the best images submitted to Panoramio every month. Winners of the Geotagged photo contest are sponsored every month in the Panoramio blog and in the Panoramio welcome page. On top of the recognition, we want to reward the winners with some prizes related to photography, so they can take even better photos.

Prizes for current month's contest can be seen in the contest page. The contest has a first and a second prize. The 5 runner ups are sponsored in the contest winners' page and in the Panoramio landing page.

Despite the contest is open to worldwide Panoramio members, residents of Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria are ineligible to participate in this contest.

We use Amazon to ship the new prizes of the Panoramio Geotagged Photo contest. Due to shipment restrictions and customs requirements in some countries we are also unable to ship goods to countries where Amazon cannot deliver. You can check Amazon.com in its US, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and UK branches for more information on shipment possibilities.