East Bay Regional Park District wants your best pictures taken in the district’s parks. If you win, you earn the right to have the district decorate its Web site with the fruits of your labor at no compensation whatsoever. Of course you’ll have lifetime supply of glory and accolades. Contest rules say you have to submit a CD or DVD, and the pix have to be at least 300 dpi at 8.5×11 (which rules out most point-and-shoot digicams).

Too bad Santa Clara County isn’t having one of its own: Dan Mitchell’s shots of Almaden Quicksilver and Calero would have it sewn up.