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Our Current Contest: Halloween Haunts

Marty Bicek/The Bee

Is your house haunted? Do you deck your deck with ghosts and goblins? As Halloween approaches, we’re asking readers to help us find the spookiest homes in the Modesto area.

We’re interested in seeing how you decorate your home, indoors or outside, whether it’s spooky pictures your little one has drawn and hang in your front window or an elaborate graveyard you and your teenagers have set up in the front yard. If you’re proud of your skills in carving jack-o-lanterns, submit of a photo of that.


Joan Barnett Lee/The Bee

Cute or scary, your digital images should be submitted by noon Monday, Nov. 2. (We’re leaving entry open after Halloween to allow those of you who decorate that evening to take part.)

To enter, upload your photo using the form below.

We’ll have a random drawing to award a yet-to-be-determined prize to one lucky contestant. And we’ll feature some of the photos in The Bee and on our Web sites.

All photos submitted become property of The Bee and may be used in the paper, on modbee.com or ModMomsClub.com. Sorry, we will only accept digital entries.

Top Shot Photo Contest
Welcome to Top Shot, The Modesto Bee's photo and video contest section.

Several times a year, we invite our readers to take part in photo contests on modbee.com. Our contests are designed to be fun and entertaining. We want you to enjoy both taking pictures and sharing them with others.

Each contest will have a theme to challenge your skills. Some of the themes will be seasonal while others will be more abstract. Unless otherwise specified in the rules for a specific contest, anyone who is a registered user of modbee.com may enter any contest except employees of The Modesto Bee and members of their immediate families.

If you have questions about our contests, or wish to suggest a topic for a future contest, please send an e-mail to webstaff@modbee.com.

Thanks for visiting Top Shot. And good luck with your contest entries!

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