Let's Go Photo Contest

The publishers of the popular Let's Go guidebooks have recently announced a photo contest. They're looking for primarily scenes that capture the essence of the books being updated this summer. The contest deadline is April 15, 2007. Let's Go will put your photograph on the cover of the Let's Go Guide and give you a copy of the book. The guides will come out in November.

Interested? Before you go rushing to your inventory of photographs, read this bone-chilling condition in the contest's release form:

"By participating in the photo contest, you hereby grant Sponsor (ie Let's Go) all rights to the image(s), including the right to edit, adapt, modify, or dispose of any proper names, likenesses, photographs, and/or city/states on any image(s), as well as all rights to publish, and use in any manner, on any Let’s Go, Inc. products and/or publications, print or electronic, and in any other media for advertising and promotional purposes for this and similar promotions in all media (including and without limitation, the Internet) without any consideration or payment to you, except where prohibited by law.

Now if you're still willing to participate, then go to: Let's Go Contest

My position on this issue is that the Let's Go publishers will get no professional photographer's work in this contest, and that they should pay monetary (or at least a substantial prize) compensation for the chosen photograph. As it stands, they're essentially getting something for nothing.