Contest Rules

1. Upload your photo with its highest resolution available (20MB). If your photo is selected and/or used for Mission Trails marketing purposes, an MTRP Foundation staffer may contact you for a higher resolution digital file of your photo.
2. Photos must be taken within Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) boundaries from an authorized trail and have MTRP as their subject.
3. Any photo that has been or appears to have been taken off trail, shows dogs off leash, highlights invasive species, or is considered inappropriate will be disqualified. To view park rules, visit www.mtrp.org/trail-maps. To review invasive species in the area, review this guide.
4. Professional photographers may enter one photo to the “Professional” category. The MTRP Foundation defines a professional photographer as someone whose primary income is from their photographic work.
5. Photos previously entered into a Mission Trails photo contest cannot be resubmitted.
6. Do not add a signature or watermark to your photograph. Signatures or watermarks will be disqualified, as they jeopardize the anonymity of the contest.
7. Mission Trails Regional Park has permission to recategorize photos that are submitted incorrectly. For example, if a person is present in the photograph and is categorized under “Landscapes,” it will automatically be recategorized to “People”.
8. One entry may be submitted per person and there is no entry fee. If you submit more than one entry, we will accept your first submission and remove the others.
9. Photos may be taken with either film, digital cameras, or cell phones. Techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove elements within the photo are not permitted, except by cropping.
10. Entrants may upload their image through the online portal at photocontest.mtrp.org.
11. By submitting photos to this contest, you are granting MTRP Foundation and its authorized representatives a license to use your photos (including your name and identifying information as relevant) in connection with the contest and its purposes, including without limitation, a right to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat the photo, and to utilize it at our facilities, on our website, in social media, and promotional materials. You further represent that you have secured permission to submit and publish the photos of any recognizable persons depicted in the photos. Photo credit will be given when possible.