Congratulations to Cassandra Adamson for her winning photo this week! That means we’re three-fourths through the contest, have three entrants but only one winner into the drawing for the Gorillapod SLR-Zoom tripod. Read on to find out more about Cassandra’s shot and how you can win the tripod, or just send your favorite photos from around Austin to photo@rootedaustin.com to enter in next week’s contest.

Here’s what Cassandra had to say about her photo:

Every other time I had driven past the Zilker Botanical Garden gate in previous weeks, it had been closed to the public. I seized my opportunity when I found it open one day during the week. The entire area is beautiful and my eye caught a lone bright purple lily floating in a decorative pond in the parking lot. It wouldn’t have been much of a picture though, except for the reflection of the statue standing above it.

There’s only a few days left (Sunday is the deadline) to get into the drawing for the Gorillapod tripod! Here are the details:

Winning photographers will be placed into a drawing for a prize (more on that later). There are two ways to get entries. The first is by having the winning photo of the week, which gets you two entries into the drawing. You can also get a single entry in the drawing if your photo gets more than 15 votes during the contest week. So, if you get 20 votes for a photo one week and your photo has the most votes overall, you’ll get a total of three entries into the contest.

There are some rules. The photos have to be from around Austin, which means either in Austin or the outlying area. Photos should be submitted to photo@rootedaustin.com in JPEG format and at least 1,000 pixels wide. Photographers can send in multiple pictures, but only one of them can get an entry into the drawing by passing the 15-vote threshold. For example, if you send us three pictures and each one gets 15 or more votes, you get one entry. If you win, you will always get two entries. In the case of a tie, the Rooted team will vote to break it. As for the voting, it can be done either here on the blog, on Facebook or via Twitter. Voters can vote once per method per week. After four week-long contests, we’ll tally up the entries and put them into a hat. Whoever we pick wins the prize!

Speaking of the prize, let’s talk about what you can win in this contest. This time, we’re giving away a Gorillapod SLR-Zoom tripod. What is that, you ask? Let us show you:

As you can see, the Gorillapod is an awesome tripod that can do a lot more than your typical set-up. Put it on a mountain, wrap it around a tree or anywhere else where your normal tripod won’t go. This little guy can hold more than six pounds of weight safely, so you won’t have to worry about anything happening to your camera. It’s a great tool to put in your photography toolbox.

So what are you waiting for? You only have until Sunday! Send us your photos at photo@rootedaustin.com for a chance to win.