Before you submit photographs for publication in The Navigator, Navigator Express, LIVE, or use in a local publication please review that photograph carefully for the following issues. Make sure that everyone in the photo is wearing proper Coast Guard and USCG Auxiliary uniform according to the Uniform Guidelines. Look carefully at your shot, are all the activities shown in the photo proper (safe) procedures, no one standing right behind an active tow line? or not wearing a life jacket while underway or the life jacket is on but not buckled?
Most importantly, if children are present in the photo do you have a signed model release allowing you and the Auxiliary to use that shot? We cannot and will not knowingly publish a photo that is not representing the Coast Guard and the Auxiliary in a respectful manner.
Please read, know and operate with the following Photograph Policies copied below.
Remember to submit all photos for use in any of our national publications, print and electronic in high resolution with no alterations to color, content or other forms of manipulation.
USCG Auxiliary Photographing Children Policy as of January 2013
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Source [Mary C Gibbons, BC-AWA]