PHOTO CONTEST

We love you folks! It makes us happy to know you love your shoes! We know our shoes are ending up in some fun places! We wanted to create a contest that focus' on your lifestyle. Send us your best photos. we will have one winner every couple of months, which will receive credit for free product from us!

This is one of our past winners, Daniel with nomo tattoo on arm!

please view the guidelines below, agree to them, and send us in your photo's. we are going to have some fun with this. after you read below please send the photo to this address (click on it). ***MAKE SURE YOU WRITE "PHOTO CONTEST" IN THE SUBJECT LINE. Writing contest: capturing the best moment you ever had in your sandals, we've heard stories.... read below for directions or not. send to same address as above and MAKE SURE YOU WRITE "WRITING CONTEST" IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

Directions - Guidelines (some apply to photos, some to writing)

1. Keep it clean!! or not!!

2. Photos should be in .jpg format.

3. Please include name, address, phone number, e-mail, photo location, date, description of photo, who, what, why, where, when, and thoughts about life at that moment.

4. 1 winner will be chosen each month from each category.

5. Two entries per person per month. No more than two prizes per person per year. First one will be the end of April.

6. Any size photo may be submitted. But if we really like the photo and want to use it for a poster you must be able to provide us with a slide, transparency, negative or a very good quality 300 dpi 8.5" X 11" scan. We will contact you via e-mail if your image is selected and we require such materials. Slides, transparencies, negatives and disks will be returned only if they are submitted with a self addressed envelope containing sufficient postage.

7. Copyright of the image remains the property of the photographer. If your submission is selected as a finalist or winner, you agree to grant Nomadic State of Mind permissions and rights to use the image or writing indefinitely on any page at www.nomadicstate.com or any advertising or printed materials promoting Nomadic State of Mind.

8. Must have sufficient permission of any recognizable persons appearing in the photograph to be able to grant to Nomadic State of Mind the right to display their photographic submission online or in printed material.

9. Winners will be notified via e-mail.

10. Have fun! Be Safe! and don't take life to seriously!!

"Homeless"
A bag of clothes and other personal possessions in Duluth, MN. 2007

"Untitled"
Taken of a man walking the beach with a net and not a care in the world in Alabama on the gulf coast. 2006

nomadicstateofmysandal- by joe

tHEY CALL ME jOE but if i were slartibartfast, life would be more fun. works no fun, throwing out the garbage aint all the fun in this world either. but everything changed one day, maybe early september... the day i shot that grizzly bear in the ally just west of downtown. i decided that i'd bring my camera to work along with hotdogs and beer. nonetheless i couldn't forget about my troubles with the watchdog next door(i mean grizzly). the windy city aint no place for an alien, nor a grizzly for that matter. His speech antagonized all of the bums, i mean nomads trying to sleep next door with his rude sentence structure and lack of hitting the high notes. so one day they all gave it up and left the dog behind. let him live on watching the watchers watch as they pass through the alleys remembering the times they threw sandals, some with the souls still attached to the o.g. but one day he never gave the poor old men there sandals back and today i keep his heart next to mine.  gimme your sandals.

Dave Wise Centennial CO

Photo Location: Canyonlands Utah October 19, 2007  

Some friends and I had some time off from school and decided to head off to Moab for a four day stint in the Canyonlands. We got there after a long drive over the Rockies and packed into the heart of the land. There was no wind that night and the silence was incredible. As the sun set behind me I snagged the camera to capture the laid back moment. My comrades soon joined me.

"Hey bro see the rock on the left"

"Yeah man looks like layers of a cake"

"Bet the sunrise would look Rad from the top tomorrow morning"

"Especially with a fresh pot of tea"

"Sounds like a plan"...

"Do you hear that?"

"No… What" "Exactly man. That's the sound of nothing. The sound of a peaceful earth and a horizon waiting for us in the morning"  

The next morning, we didn't just see, but experienced, the sunrise of a lifetime. I watched that brilliant ball of flame rise from the horizon with rope sandals and a bowl of tea.