25 Finalists will be chosen and out of the Finalists one Grand Prize winner will be selected. Each finalist will receive two (2) adult admission tickets to the 2010 Georgia Renaissance Festival good for admission on any Festival day. The Grand Prize winner will receive a Royal Combo Package, consisting of four (4) of the following: Adult admission passes, Drink coupons, Food entree coupons, Costume rental vouchers, Games and ride coupons. The Royal Combo Package is subject to the rules and terms of use as specified on the Royal Combo Package. The entries submitted by the Finalists and Grand Prize winner will be featured on the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s website.

Photo Contest Rules:

The Georgia Renaissance Festival’s “Share Your Memories” Photo Contest (the "Contest") is open to ALL photographers at least 18 years of age, except employees of the Georgia Renaissance Festival and the immediate families of such employees. You may submit up to 5 entries per household.

YOUR RIGHTS: You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit -- including ownership if applicable -- other than those rights licensed in the next sentence. By entering the contest, you hereby grant to The Georgia Renaissance Festival (i) a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and publicly perform the photographs you submit to The Georgia Renaissance Festival, and (ii) the right to use your name, city, state and country of residence in promotions and other publications.

All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified. Multiple exposures that have been combined to produce a single "High Dynamic Range" image are acceptable. Images that do not meet these requirements may or may not be judged at the judging panel's sole discretion.

Photo captions must accompany all submissions, and should include the subject of the image, the approximate date and year the image was taken, and the name of the photographer(s). All photographs will be credited with the caption "© Person's Name." The Georgia Renaissance Festival has final approval of any language that appears on its website with any of the photos and will not promote or endorse third-party products or services.

HOW TO ENTER: Each photo must be submitted electronically by the following method:

To submit your image, you may complete our online submission form and upload your photo after you complete the online submission form.

Photos emailed cannot be attributed to the photographer properly, and therefore will not be considered eligible for the contest.

The Georgia Renaissance Festival reserves the right to upload photos submitted to its public social media sites.

ELIGIBILITY AND JUDGING: To ensure eligibility for the contest, entries may originate in any format -- including, but not limited to digital files, digital prints, color transparencies, color prints, or black and white prints -- so long as they are submitted electronically. Previously published material for which non-exclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license (see "Your Rights" above). You must be able to disclose when and where the photo appeared previously to The Georgia Renaissance Festival upon request.

Images will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. The judges are a panel of creative professionals familiar with photography and the environment of the Georgia Renaissance Festival. They are also responsible for selecting images for various Georgia Renaissance Festival printed and online marketing and membership materials.

The Georgia Renaissance Festival shall determine winner eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion. All decisions made by the judges are final.

DEADLINES: Deadline for submitting entries is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on March 1, 2010. Online entries can be uploaded starting 12:01 am Eastern Standard Time on January 15, 2010.

Entrants may be asked to submit a paragraph about the story behind the photo anytime on or after February 1, 2010. Finalists and prize winners will be announced on or before April 1, 2010. The Georgia Renaissance Festival reserves the right to adjust any deadline(s) as the result of causes beyond its immediate control.

WINNING PHOTOS: The judging panel will select up to 25 photos to be the contest’s Finalists. The judges will select one Grand Prize winner, and that image will be posted on the Georgia Renaissance Festival website.

LEGAL CONDITIONS: By entering this contest, you agree to certain legal conditions.

By entering, participants agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless The Georgia Renaissance Festival, its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives, from any and all third party liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the competition (collectively, "Losses"), including without limitation any third party claim for copyright infringement or a violation of an individual’s right to privacy and/or publicity right. The Contest is void where prohibited by law.

Each participant in the Contest (each a "Participant") is responsible for ensuring that he or she has the right to submit them to the Contest per these rules.

You agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved with the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, before a court of competent jurisdiction located in Atlanta, Georgia, which court shall apply the laws of the State of Georgia without regard for rules of conflicts of law. IN ANY SUCH DISPUTE, PARTICIPANT SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEYS' FEES, OR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN PARTICIPANT'S ACTUAL OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES (IF ANY) ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHTS TO HAVE DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR INCREASED. The Contest and the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s website are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

The Georgia Renaissance Festival is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the photo competition, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to the photo competition, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. The Georgia Renaissance Festival assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Georgia Renaissance Festival is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, servers, providers, computer on-line systems, software, or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, including injury or damage to participant's or to any other person's computer related t or resulting from participating or uploading images or information in the photo contest.

If, for any reason, the photo competition is not capable of completion as planned, including but not limited to, any reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of The Georgia Renaissance Festival that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the photo competition, The Georgia Renaissance Festival reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the photo competition.