STANFORD BIRDING PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 2010

STANFORD BIRDING PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
It is important that I ensure all entrants are aware that bird photos submitted for the competition are subject to the following rules, terms and conditions:

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SELECT THE CATEGORY WHICH SUITS YOU BEST
•Professional Photographer
•Amateur Photographer
•Youth Photographer (U18)
SUPPLY THESE DETAILS
•Caption:
•Name of Bird:
•Location Photograph taken:
•Photographer Name:
•Photograher Email Address:
•Photographer Home Town:
•Attendance Friday, 1st October function: Yes / No
In order to receive the prizes, entrants are requested to preferably be present themselves (or send a representative) at the function on Friday, 1st October 17h00: Free gin tasting and photographic competitions prize-giving. Should this not be a viable option, please mention this clearly.

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Legal Condition
By entering the competition the entrant explicitly agrees to waive any claims against Stanford Birding Photographic Competition, its associates, principals, and media, for any liability for any injuries, damages, loss, claim, action or demand of any kind whatsoever arising from or in connection with Stanford Birding Photographic Competition.

If for any reason Stanford Birding Photographic Competition is not capable of completing the competition, including as a result of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other cause beyond the control of Stanford Birding Photographic Competition that corrupts or affects administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of Stanford Birding Photographic Competition, the organisers reserve the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Stanford Birding Photographic Competition.

General Rules
The competition is open to all photographers except employees and/or judges (including immediate family of the above) of the Stanford Birding Photographic Competition. All images must be original and be made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or a digital camera. By virtue of entering an image the entrant certifies the work as his or her own.

Individual photographs must include images taken in the 24 months prior to the start of the competition on 1 June 2010. Images may be entered in either colour or black and white.

Your entry into this competition constitutes your agreement to allow your photographs to be published (as a selected semi-finalist, finalist or final award winner) in any medium (print, digital or exhibitions, of whatever kind) owned by Stanford Birding Photographic Competition, its sponsors and media partners.

Entrants retain ownership of their images and all other rights to future use of these. Royalties will be paid for any commercial use of images.

Judging Process
Qualified local judges are appointed by Stanford Birding Photographic Competition to judge entries. Photographs will be uploaded onto Google to receive votes. This may or may not have a bearing on the final judging.

Unsuccessful entrants will not receive email notification.

Digital Manipulation
The Stanford Birding Photographic Competition does not allow any digitally manipulated images. In order to eliminate any confusion in this regard, photographic enhancements that are permitted include:

•minor cleaning up
•dust removal/spotting
•levels and curves adjustments
•colour, saturation and contrast enhancements (do not over-saturate images)
•dodging and burning
•enhancements employed while taking the image
•cropping (be mindful of the effect on file sizes)
•sharpening (use sparingly)
All winners may be required to provide proof of authenticity, either via submission of the original RAW files or, in instances where the RAW file is not available, further evidence will be required to substantiate authenticity.

Decisions by the organisers in this regard are final and by entering the competition the photographer implicitly accepts all rulings of Stanford Birding Photographic Competition.

Labeling
Clearly label your photograph with the name of the bird/s and the photographer.

Digital Submission Guidelines
Whether the original source of the image is colour or black and white negative film, slide film or a digital camera, only digital images in JPEG file format are accepted.

Note that:

•Images are to be resized to 1 400 pixels in the longest dimension
•No borders are to be added to images submitted
•Images to be saved as highest possible quality JPEG


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