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Submitting YOUR picture to Weather Picture Of The Day:

We welcome submissions from all over the world, from anyone with a camera! We look for unique pictures of weather and weather phenomena, or the results of weather on planet earth. This can be anything from sunrises/sunsets to severe weather, or severe weather damage, or even simple scenes such as snow drifting into a unique pattern, or dew on the grass. Anything goes! We welcome submissions from amateur as well as professional photographers.

Its Fast and Easy to submit your picture to WPOTD Please read on...

How it works: Once we receive your submission, our three staff members will evaluate it, compare it to other submissions, and choose the "weather picture of the day" from those submissions.

Be a winner! - What you get: The picture chosen will be given full credit to the photographer, a description of the photo subject, and if needed embellishment by our staff meteorologist to identify a phenomenon, and other pertinent info. The next day (or Monday if its a weekend) the photo will be placed into our WPOTD photo album for others to enjoy or to locate when searching for photos of a certain type. We will also issue you a HTML printable "Certificate of achievement"  (see a sample here ) for you to place on your personal web page along with your winning photo.

Then in the near future, we plan to offer "Weather Picture of the Month" and "Weather Picture of the Year" contests that may contain valuable prizes from www.weathershop.com such as weather stations, weather instruments, etc.

There are just a few simple rules that you have to follow to make a submission to us. We do want to make it easy, but like anything, we just have to follow some guidelines to keep everything fair.

Most important items:

• Pictures must be submitted electronically via the internet- we cannot accept prints or negatives, or CD ROMS, or floppy disks. If you have pictures in these forms, and wish to submit them to WPOTD, then you'll need to get them converted at a local photo store or try one of those new Kodak PictureMaker Photo Kiosks that are now showing up in major department stores and photo shops.
• Pictures must be submitted in the JPEG photo format only - please no other formats. When submitting, be careful not to "over compress" the JPEG image and thus cause a loss of image quality. Most programs allow control of this value, we recommend no greater than a 25% setting. Always err on the side of quality.
• Pictures should be at least 640x480 resolution, either vertically or horizontally oriented, or scanned at 300 DPI resolution. We can accept slightly smaller or larger resolutions, or different height/width aspect ratios, but please try to keep the images you submit small enough to be transmitted by email.
• Preference is given to pictures that show the highest quality and the most unique subject- so give us your best shot!

Other items:

• Pictures submitted to WPOTD must be an original work, no images scanned from magazines, newspapers etc will be accepted. By submitting a picture, the submitter guarantees that the picture submitted is free of any copyright restrictions.
• Pictures, once submitted, are automatically granted a usage license to WPOTD, for use on the website, daily picturemail, and optionally our screensavers. Credit will always be given to the author in any usage.
• Submission does not guarantee a use on WPOTD, only the best pictures will be used as determined by our staff.
• In the case of duplicate submissions (such as pictures of the same weather event from different locations) preference will be given to the submission of the best quality, not the submission that arrived first
• Successful WPOTD submissions are chosen based on picture quality, composition, color balance, and completeness of submission. For example, if you don't provide basic info about the image, its location, date (even if approximate) etc. we can't use it. No anonymous submissions will be accepted.
• No hidden or subliminal messages may be buried in the imagery, and no images that appear to be misleading in content i.e. designed to portray some message, or religious, political, or pornographic theme will be used.
• Pictures that have obviously been significantly digitally altered (beyond scratch and dust removal) or composited from other images to produce a false or misleading result will be rejected.

Thats it! If you agree to the above items, and would like to submit a picture to us at WPOTD, click on the "Yes I agree" button below and continue to our submission section.