Want your photos on display at the New York State Museum? It can happen…

I’m passing this along because  I submitted two of my landscape shots – Star  Trails of Thacher Park and General Electric at Night – for consideration, and I hope you submit your best New York State landscape photographs for the event.

NYS MUSEUM INVITES PHOTO SUBMISSIONS FOR UPCOMING EXHIBIT

ALBANY, NY — The New York State Museum is inviting the public to submit their digital photographs of scenic New York State landscapes, the best of which will be showcased in an upcoming Museum exhibition and displayed on the Museum website and Flickr page.

Scenic landscapes exist in every corner of New York State and are often found on picture perfect postcards that read “wish you were here.” The State Museum’s exhibition, Wish You Were Here! New York State Photographed by You will open in the State Museum’s West Hall Corridor on September 3, featuring a selection of the best landscape photographs submitted by the public. These can be photographs of a beloved vacation spot or even the backyard, neighborhood street or other favorite place. Images chosen for the exhibition, as well as others that are submitted, will also appear on the Museum’s website.

Photographs will still be accepted after September 3, since new ones will continually be added to both the gallery and website.

Wish You Were Here will complement another exhibition in the Museum’s adjacent West

Gallery —   Not Just Another Pretty Place: The Landscape of New York. Also opening on September 3, this will be the first exhibition of landscape art to be culled from the Museum’s vast collections.

Those wishing to submit photos for Wish You Were Here will find further information at

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/wishyouwerehere/

The New York State Museum is a program of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education. Founded in 1836, the museum has the longest continuously operating state natural history research and collection survey in the U.S. Located on Madison Avenue in Albany, the Museum is open daily from 9:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. except on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Further information can be obtained by calling (518) 474-5877 or visiting the museum website at http://www.nysm.nysed.gov.

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Upon visiting the website, you can see what type of photographs the Museum is looking for.

We want YOU to take photographs of the New York State landscape and send it to us at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY.

We will select some of the best photographed landscapes to be part of an exhibition here at the Museum. Your work could be printed and hung on the wall for thousands of visitors to see. These images and many others will also be part of an on-line exhibition on Flickr.

Now just so that you’re aware, they are only looking for landscapes photographed in New York State.  The Adirondacks, a skyline of Manhattan, Niagara Falls, a picture of cows in a pasture, all of that works.  The website has certain requirements for the digital image upload, so make sure you follow their guidelines.  Also, they are going to require that you authorize them to use the pictures for any sort of promotion or publicity on their part, with no remuneration back to you – in other words, this isn’t a money contest, it’s a chance to have your artworks shown in the New York State Museum.

Which, in itself, is kind of cool.