Hi Becki and thanks!
LH Digest has an annual photo contest, the deadline for submitting entries was Dec 31. They publish the winning photos in five categories, which always seem to include best daylight, best lighted lens, best foreign, and one or two other categories which vary from year to year. The "other" category this year was best storm-swept lighthouses, which given my fondness for photographing during the gales that sweep across Lake Michigan was the perfect category as far as I was concerned!
The link below will take you to the November, 2001 contest announcement to give you an idea of the rules, etc.
http://www.lhdepot.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1174 Photographs submitted are considered for the contest and also for usage on the cover of the LH Depot catalog. As Terry noted, last year was a very good year for me in the LH Depot catalog cover sense.
You should give submitting images for the contest a try! You've got all summer to shoot and if you're going to Rosemont, you should either come east along the shore of Lake Michigan to shoot the lights here in SW Michigan or go north up to Door County, Wisconsin to shoot the 10 lights in DC and the numerous lights as you go north along the Wisconsin coast.
Good luck!
Gary
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