Photo submission rules:

Only members of Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative may enter. By entering contest, member agrees to the rules and selection process. Photos must be the original work of the member or their dependent. Photos commissioned or provided to member by a professional photographer and/or copyright protected photos are not eligible. Professional photographers that are members may submit their own work. You retain your rights to your photograph; however, by entering contest, you grant NOEC a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivative works of the entrie(s), in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any purpose, including but not limited to, advertising and promotion of NOEC or any of its subsidiary businesses and its website, exhibition, and commercial products, including but not limited to Northeast Connection publications. Any photography reproduced will include a photographer credit when feasible. NOEC will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses. Photos that contain sexually explicit, nude, obscene, violent, or other objectionable or inappropriate content, as determined by NOEC in its sole discretion, are ineligible for this contest. Entries submitted by anyone less than 18 years of age must include a permission and release from their legal guardian in the form at left. For a photo in which a person is recognizable, you must secure a model release from the subject or in the case of a minor, the subject’s legal guardian as provided in the form above. Submit the completed form and a digital or print copy of your photo. There is no limit on number of submissions. Please complete a new form for each additional submission.