Y’all better start snapping some hot shots with your fancy-pants cameras because the deadline to our annual photo contest is hurtling toward you like a flaming Jack-o-Lantern hurtled by a headless specter of the evil night.

Yes, we’ve been talking about Halloween today.

Anyway, you’ve only got about 1.5 weeks to submit entries to the contest. You could win cash prizes and the fame and glory of having your images published in 15,000 copies of Volume One Magazine. We’ll accept three photos per person, and they must have been taken in the Chippewa Valley in 2008 or 2009.

Please no flowers, waterfalls, babies, or American flags. And also, no babies holding flowers while wrapped in an American flag while going over a waterfall. It’s a great shot, but it’s been done before.

Read the full rules and submission details here. And check out last year’s winners.