Photo-Contest Winner! Plus—This Month’s Theme

More than 8,000 votes were cast in September's transportation-themed photo contest. Congratulations to Tim Kelley, whose photograph “Rosslyn Metro” won with 50 percent of the vote! We loved the colors and lighting. Tim’s photograph will appear in our November issue, on sale October 23, so be sure to pick up a copy. Check out all the past winners here in our winners' gallery.

Think your photograph has what it takes to win? Try entering this month’s contest. Our theme is light—interpret it however you’d like!

Here’s how the contest works: You submit photographs, and our panel of judges selects the best to run on our Web site. Then you, the reader, vote for your favorite. The winner be featured in the December issue of The Wshingtonian.

Submit as many photos as you’d like to photocontest@washingtonian.com. Please attach only one photo per e-mail, and include the photographer’s name, e-mail address, phone number, and place of residence along with a sentence or two about where the photograph was taken. Photos should be 300 dpi and at least four by six inches. The deadline for submissions is noon on Tuesday, October 21. Finalists will be contacted when the reader voting goes live.

Oh, and one more reminder: All photos must be taken in the Washington area—including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs—and the photographer must be local.

Good luck!

Our policy on photo rights: The photographer retains the copyright. However, because the photographer has submitted his or her photo to the contest, the magazine has the right to print the winning photograph in the current issue of the magazine and online, as well as in any future issues as long as usage is related to the photo contest. The magazine also has the right to use the finalists online in relation to the photo contest.