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Global Yodel wants to hear about places of the world from experts, from locals, from you. Tell us about where you live.You are an expert. You live and breathe in your city every day. You know your community more authentically than any outside travel writer/photographer. The place you live is a foreign destination to most of the world, so what may seem like the routine sights and sounds of life is likely fresh to the rest of us.
I was part of a travel photography workshop in Corte Madera, California. Most of the group was local, but one woman came from rural Oklahoma. Each person shared photos. Ms Oklahoma showed pictures she had taken in San Francisco that day, mostly of seagulls on the wharf. To her, the gulls were fresh, but not to the locals. Reluctantly, she later shared images of her hometown. We were blown away by the shots of farmland and the great skies of Oklahoma.
Your hometown – where you spend your time – is what we want to see. Share your place and the culture there. Be it beautiful, ugly, happy, sad, tasty, thirst-quenching, funny, inspirational, traditional, innovative, cutting edge or informational. Let us know what you love, hate, thrive on, take pride in, or do for fun in your city. Avoid submitting a photo that could have been taken anywhere. Just make sure it has at least a little trademark of your spot.
Share where you live, and your place in it, through your lens.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
PHOTO/VIDEO SUBMISSION
Photos/videos must be shot in the city or town where you live or in its immediate surroundings (about a one-hour radius of your home by car). Don’t have a fancy camera? It’s OK: consider using your mobile phone as a camera/editing tool. Some nice stuff can be produced on those devices.
Photograph(s) or video: Send photo or video with a separate title and caption for each entry. Photograph(s) should be at least 72-dpi and 1000-pixels wide. A link to photo on your site is OK as long as it meets the resolution requirements.
Video: please send an embedded link from youtube or vimeo.
Interview questions for photo/video submissions. Please include in submission email.
Name:
Place you live:
Place your photo/video was taken: (should be where you live or within an hour car ride)
Can you sum up the place you live in a short paragraph?
Caption: as important as the image itself: (Tell us how your photo/video relates to the place you live. Remember, it’s likely a foreign destination to the rest of us, so tell us about it.)
Occupation:
Preoccupation:
What is a perfect day in your city, town, or village?
If someone was visiting, what must they do?
What and where is a perfect meal in the place you call home?
What is the best thing about your spot?
What is the worst?
A little known fact about where you live?
Where is your favorite place in the world?
Who are your three favorite photographers?
Promote yourself: Send in the URL to your site, blog or link.
Send in as many submissions as you want. One at a time, please.
Please send your entries to submissions@globalyodel.com
Thanks for submitting to Global Yodel!
WRITING/AUDIO SUBMISSION
Short essays must be written about the place you live. Please submit a text copy and an audio copy of you reading your piece aloud. Please keep your essays under about 500 words and under about 3 minutes read aloud. Tell us about the place you live. Remember it may be routine to you but it’s likely an exotic locale to most of us. Whether it’s an account of perfect day or gripe about the misery of your spot, just share your place through your lens. Please email the voice mp3 file to submission@globalyodel.com. (most smartphones have a voice recorder or try a free site like vocaroo.com)
Interview questions for essay submissions. Please include in submission email.
Name:
Place you live:
Occupation:
Preoccupation:
What is a perfect day in your city, town, or village?
If someone was visiting, what must they do?
What and where is a perfect meal in the place you call home?
Tell us a locals only tip:
A little known fact about where you live?
Where is your favorite place in the world?
Who are your three favorite writers?
Promote yourself: Send in the URL to your site, blog or link.
Send in as many submissions as you want. One at a time, please.
Please send your entries to submissions@globalyodel.com
Thanks for submitting to Global Yodel!
DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION/PAINTING/DRAWING/ETC SUBMISSION
Design the front of a 5×7 postcard for the city or place you live. The design can be of anything, just make sure it has some trademark of your city. It can be a doodle or sketch that takes you five minutes; it can be a well crafted, thought-out piece done with software that takes hours; or anything in between. You can email submissions sized to 5×7 inches, or email me to request some blank Global Yodel post cards. I will snail mail you some with self addressed stamped envelopes.
Interview questions for design submissions. Please include in submission email.
Name:
Place you live:
Place your postcard is designed for: (should be the same as where you live)
Can you sum up the place you live in a short paragraph?
Caption: as important as the postcard itself: (Tell us how your postcard relates to the culture/place you live. Remember, it’s likely a foreign destination to the rest of us, so tell us about it.)
Occupation:
Preoccupation:
What is a perfect day in your city, town, or village?
If someone was visiting, what must they do?
What and where is a perfect meal in the place you call home?
What is the best thing about the place you live?
And the worst?
A little known fact about where you live?
Where is your favorite place in the world?
Who are your three favorite designers/illustrators?
Promote yourself: Send in the URL to your site, blog or link.
Send in as many submissions as you want. One at a time, please.
Please send your entries to submissions@globalyodel.com
Thanks for submitting to Global Yodel!
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GLOBAL YODEL SUBMISSION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You retain rights to all media you submit to Global Yodel. By submitting you give Global Yodel the right to publish your media on the web and in print. You will always be credited for your work.
