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PASSPORT PHOTO CONTEST BEGINS IN MAY
WITH MISSOURI STATE PARKS AND HISTORIC SITES

JEFFERSON CITY, MO., APRIL 30, 2008 -- Freeze your fun this year in Missouri state parks and historic sites and submit your photos for the 2008 Passport Photo Contest. Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, this new program will run from May through December 2008.

Grab your camera and head to Missouri's state parks and historic sites to capture the fun. A specific monthly theme will need to be interpreted in your photographs. For example, May's theme is "Awakening." Use your imagination to incorporate this theme into your photos.

Photos will be judged based on interpretation of the theme, originality, creativity, use of the state park or state historic site, storytelling and quality of the photograph. One monthly winner and four honorable mentions will be chosen and displayed on the photo contest Web page. Each photographer can submit up to two photos each month. Digital photographs are preferred; however, print photographs will be accepted.

If you submit five or more entries overall, you will receive a Missouri state parks keepsake photo album. If you submit entries for all eight themes, you will also receive a Missouri state parks 2009 calendar.

The Passport Photo Contest is part of the department's "Get Out and Play" initiative, which is a promotion encouraging kids to spend more time outside and connect with nature. Photographs can be taken at any of Missouri's 84 state park or historic site. For a complete list of rules, the monthly themes and entry forms, visit www.mostateparks.com/getoutandplay/passportphoto.htm.

For more information, contact the Department of Natural Resources toll free at 800-334-6946 (voice) or 800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). To learn more about Missouri state parks and historic sites, visit www.mostateparks.com.