Year after year, one of our best selling calendars is the one with monthly photos of abandoned, discarded, rusting, dilapidated, crusty, forgotten, and otherwise mistreated old cars and trucks. Something about seeing the old cars without gleaming chrome and shiny paint seems to delight and excite us – maybe because we see the potential in them, maybe because they make us feel better about our own unfinished project cars, maybe because they seem all that more approachable than the highly polished show cars with “Do Not Touch!” signs illustrated with firearms and dobermans.
But if we’re gonna keep putting the calendar out, we need your photos. Reader submissions keep the calendar going, and there seems to be no shortage of “aesthetically abandoned automobiles” across the country for intrepid photographers to find and document. We even pay $50 to $100 (depending on how we use the photo) if your image is included in the calendar. We just have a few basic guidelines:
* We accept color images only, no black and whites.
* Digital images are the preferred format, at the minimum size we require for print purposes (300 DPI and 1800 pixels wide, or a minimum of 7 megapixels). Prints (4″ x 6″ and larger), slides and transparencies are also acceptable. Your name, address and phone number should be on each image.
* Vehicles must be abandoned.
* An accurate identification (year, make and model) on the vehicle(s), is always appreciated, but not necessary.
* There is no minimum or maximum number of images to submit.
* There is no deadline for submissions, photos are accepted year round.
* If you’d like your photos returned, a self-addressed stamped envelope with proper postage must be included with your submission.
To submit your photos, email them to mbrott@hemmings.com or mail them to us at
Hemmings Motor News
Attn: Mary Brott
PO Box 256
Bennington, VT 05201
If your image is selected for inclusion in an upcoming calendar, we’ll send you a contract specifying terms and payment. Please keep in mind when submitting images that out of about a thousand submissions, we use only 25 to 30 photographs per calendar.
To answer a few questions that got brought up last year, photo releases and permissions to photograph abandoned cars are the responsibility of the photographer, vehicles awaiting restoration are not considered abandoned, we do not accept partial shots, and we do look for photographs from all four seasons.
And if you haven’t bought your 2015 Abandoned Autos calendar just yet, they’re still in stock on Hemmings.com.
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