OFFICIAL RULES

1. ELIGIBILITY: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The contest is open only to registered users of Fodors.com who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. If you have not already registered, you can do so at Fodors.com. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia to be eligible. All federal, state and local regulations and any other applicable laws apply. Void where prohibited. Employees of Random House, Inc. and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers and agencies and their immediate family members and persons living in their household are not eligible to enter this contest.
2. CONTEST PERIOD: The contest begins 12:00:01 a.m. ET on October 6, 2009 and ends 11:59:59 p.m. ET on November 5, 2009.
3. HOW TO ENTER: To be eligible to win, entrants must submit one (1) to five (5) photographs of Australia along with the title, caption and description of each photograph according to the instructions provided on Fodors.com. Any other form of online entry and mail-in entries will not be accepted. Photographs may include landscape, locales, activities, people and/or animals, but must convey the allure of Australia. Photographs must be in color and must have been shot by entrant within the past five (5) years (since October 6, 2004). LIMIT ONE (1) ENTRY AND FIVE (5) PHOTOGRAPHS PER PERSON AND E-MAIL ADDRESS. Incomplete entries or entries that do not comply with the instructions provided in the image uploader will be rejected. Sponsor is not responsible for entries that are late, misdirected, lost, garbled, or unintelligible, including those due to computer or network malfunction or congestion (including at sponsor), and any such entries are not eligible.
4. JUDGING: Eligible entries will be judged by members of the sponsor's art department and publisher. Each photograph and accompanying description will be treated as a single work and will be judged as a whole. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: impact of visual and verbal expression conveying the essence of Australia (50%); overall quality of photograph (30%); creativity/originality (20%). The decision of the judges will be final.
5. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Winners will be selected on or about November 23, 2009 and will be notified by e-mail. Winners will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release within seven (7) days of the date of notification. Failure to execute and return this Affidavit and Release by the deadline will result in disqualification, and sponsor reserves the right to select an alternate winner in such circumstance.
6. PRIZES: One (1) Grand Prize: A customized wildlife and wine tour of Australia offered by Swain Tours for two (2) from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. Trip consists of round-trip coach class air transportation to and from Australia for two (2); deluxe or standard hotel accommodations for two (2) (one room occupancy) for ten (10) nights; transfers to and from all airport(s) and hotel(s); and inclusion in a guided small group tour of Melbourne (Yarra Valley, Western Plains) and Adelaide (Kangaroo Island, the Barossa), including nature parks, museums, wineries and gourmet markets in those areas. A sample itinerary is available at www.fodors.com/contest/australia/prizes.html (this is an example only, and may differ from the Grand Prize). All carriers, hotel and prize providers are selected by sponsor in its sole discretion. (Total ARV of prize package: up to $7,000. Actual value will depend on location of the Grand Prize Winner's residence and time of travel. Any difference between approximate and actual value will not be awarded.) Items not specifically listed in the Grand Prize description above and not included in the group tour, including but not limited to added ground transportation, meals, drinks, snacks, room service, laundry, and all other personal and incidental expenses, will be solely Grand Prize Winner's responsibility. Winner must travel on travel dates provided above. Travel dates are subject to availability, blackout periods and restrictions. Once travel arrangements are made, no changes will be permitted. All travel must be from the major airport nearest to Grand Prize Winner's U.S. residence and Grand Prize Winner will be responsible for any travel to and from that airport. Winner and travel companion must travel on the same itinerary. Winner and traveling companion will be responsible for securing passports, photo I.D. or other travel documents including visas required for travel. No transfer or cash or other substitution of prize permitted, except by sponsor, which reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute a prize or prize component with another of comparable or greater value. In addition to the travel package described above, Grand Prize Winner will have his/her winning photograph prominently featured on Fodors.com and in the next edition of Fodor's Australia, a full-color travel guide. Ten (10) Runner-Up Winners will have their photographs featured in a slideshow on Fodors.com and will each win two (2) Fodor's guides of their choice (ARV = $45). Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prize or redeem prize for cash, but sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize with prize of equal or greater value. Any taxes on the prizes will be the sole responsibility of the Winners.
7. LICENSE AND WARRANTIES: By entering this contest, entrants grant to sponsor and its licensees and assigns, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right to copy, crop, edit, publish, display, distribute, sublicense or otherwise use their photographs for the full term of copyright thereof, in connection with the publication or display of sponsor's travel-related content, in all languages and all media, whether now known or hereinafter devised, including without limitation on the Internet, on mobile platforms and/or devices and on the cover or in the interior of sponsor's travel guides, and in the advertising, publicity and promotion thereof. Entrants warrant that their photographs are their original work and are not owned by any other person or entity; do not violate any law or regulation; and do not infringe the rights of any person or entity, including, but not limited to, any copyright or trademark rights and/or rights of privacy or publicity. Entrants understand and acknowledge that they will not have any right of approval over the use of the photographs and will not receive any compensation as a result of any use of the photographs by sponsor. Entrants also understand and agree that nothing in this agreement obligates sponsor to use their photographs.
8. PHOTOGRAPHY CREDIT: Any photographs used by sponsor pursuant to the license above shall be credited in the screen name used by entrant to register with Fodors.com. If entrants wish to be credited with their real name, entrants should use their real name when registering with Fodors.com.
9. GENERAL CONDITIONS: : By entering, entrants agree to abide by these Official Rules and the decision of the judges, which shall be final. In addition, entrants acknowledge that they have read and agree to the terms of sponsor's Privacy Policy and Subscriber's Agreement. All entries and submissions (excluding any underlying copyright) become the sole property of the sponsor, and will not be returned or acknowledged. Entrants agree to release sponsor, Random House, Inc., its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers and agents from any and all liability for injuries, losses, or damages of any kind caused by participation in this contest or relating to the prizes.
10. WINNER'S LIST: For the name of the winners, available after December 31, 2009, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Fodor's Travel/ATTN: Show Us Your Australia, 15-3, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 by January 31, 2010.
11. SPONSOR: Fodor's Travel, a division of Random House, Inc., 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.