"Get Your Smokey On" Flickr Photo Contest

Show your support for Smokey on Flickr! Submit photos showing your support for his message with pictures depicting how you’re acting responsibly and trying to get others involved in wildfire prevention. You can enter the contest through Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ and add your photos to the photo-sharing group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/smokeybear/.

The contest runs through September 30, 2009. Winning entries, determined by the Ad Council, U.S. Forest Service and National Association of State Foresters, will have their photos used in a commemorative video celebrating Smokey’s 65th birthday and promoting his message about wildfire prevention. Winners will be announced via the video release on October 16, 2009.
Rule for submission can be found at: http://www.smokeybear.com/65BdayToolkit/rules.htm

To enter:

• Log on — to submit your photos via Flickr, use your Yahoo! ID to log in. If you do not have an account, you can sign up for free.

• Join the Smokey Bear Flickr Group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/smokeybear/ . If you are not already a member of the group, join by clicking “Join this Group?” on the group’s homepage.

• Upload an image — after logging in, upload your images using the form provided.

• Send the image to Smokey’s Group — browse to the image you wish to submit for the contest, and use the “Send to Group” function above the image to add your photograph to the Smokey Bear group photo pool.

• Tag it! — once added to the group, tag each photo with SmokeyBear65 through the “tag” feature in the right-hand column of the individual photo’s page.

Since 1944, Smokey has been at the center of the Wildfire Prevention campaign educating the American public about the dangers of wildfires.

Good luck!