The Nature Conservancy invites photographers to enter its 7th Annual Photography Competition. You must read the following rules, terms and legal conditions before submitting any photos! Click here to read the legal conditions.
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The Nature Conservancy 7th Annual Digital Photography Competition (the "Contest") is open to ALL photographers at least 18 years of age, except employees of The Nature Conservancy and the immediate families of such employees. The contest is open to all participants regardless of residence or citizenship, so long as the laws of their jurisdiction allow participation.
WHAT TO ENTER:
We are looking for striking digital images of nature, highlighting the diversity of life on Earth. Your images may be taken anywhere in the world. Your images may show animal behavior, portraits of wildlife in natural habitat, plant life, natural landscapes, weather or people interacting with nature.
We are especially interested in images that showcase the wide range of habitats across our planet, including all types of forests, grasslands, lakes and rivers, deserts and arid lands, rainforests, marine habitats and coral reefs.
Please do not include photographs of pets or domestic animals. Images of captive animals photographed in zoos and commercial game farms are also prohibited, however photos from state and national wildlife preserves are allowed. If you choose to include people in your submission, you are responsible for obtaining the necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and must be able to provide copies of those releases to The Nature Conservancy upon request. Entrants must not submit images that involve the willful harassment of wildlife, damage to the environment by the photographer, put any individual or animal in danger, or infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.
All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified. Multiple exposures that have been combined to produce a single "High Dynamic Range" image are acceptable. Images that do not meet these requirements may or may not be judged at the judging panel's sole discretion.
Photo captions must accompany all submissions, and should include the subject of the image, the location the image was taken, and the name of the photographer(s). Please clearly label animals as wild in digital caption information to assist judges in determining eligibility.
HOW TO ENTER:
Each photo must be submitted electronically, by one (and only one) of the following two methods:
ELIGIBILITY AND JUDGING:
To ensure eligibility for the contest, all entries must have a resolution of 6 million pixels or greater (6 megapixels) to be made available upon request. Images that do not meet this standard can still be judged, but may not be honored as a finalist in the competition (at the judges sole discretion) if the photographer is unable or unavailable to provide the proper resolution when asked.
Resolution can be calculated by multiplying the pixel width of the image with the pixel height. For example, a photograph taken with a 6-megapixel camera set for the highest resolution and best quality produces images approximately 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels, which are acceptable under the rules (2832 x 2128 = 6 million).
Entries may originate in any format — including, but not limited to digital files, digital prints, color transparencies, color prints, or black and white prints -- so long as they are submitted electronically. Previously published material for which non-exclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license (see "Your Rights" below). You must be able to disclose when and where the photo appeared previously to The Nature Conservancy upon request.
Submissions may be watermarked if desired, but the watermark should be inconspicuous enough to not interfere with the judging of the photo. A watermarked photo might not be honored by the competition (at the judges sole discretion) if the photographer is unable or unavailable to provide a pristine, watermark-free version of the image when asked.
Images will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. The judges are a panel of Nature Conservancy staff members familiar with photography and responsible for selecting images for various Nature Conservancy printed and online marketing and membership materials.
The Nature Conservancy shall determine winner eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion. All decisions made by the judges are final.
DEADLINES:
Online entries can be uploaded starting 12:01 pm Eastern Standard Time on May 22, 2012. Deadline for submitting entries is 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on September 16, 2012.
Entrants may be asked to supplement their submission (such as a paragraph about their photo, the highest resolution version of their photo, or a watermark-free version of their photo) anytime on or after October 1, 2012. Finalists will be announced on or before November 19, 2012. Public voting for the grand-prize winner will be held for at least a two-week period to begin after the finalists are announced and to end no later than December 16, 2012. Grand Prize Winner and Runners Up will be announced in early January 2013. There is a limit of one vote per person for each photo.
The Nature Conservancy reserves the right to adjust any deadline(s) as the result of causes beyond its immediate control.
WINNING PHOTOS:
The judging panel will select approximately 50 photos to be the contest’s Finalists and Honorable Mentions. The general public will select the Grand Prize Winner by popular vote from a pool of Finalists determined by the judging panel.
The grand-prize winner's image will be printed in the 2014 Nature Conservancy calendar. All entrants featured in the calendar will receive a copy of the calendar.
YOUR RIGHTS:
Your photographs help The Nature Conservancy protect Earth’s amazing diversity of wildlife, plants and habitats. Thank you for helping to further our mission through your photography.
You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit -- including ownership if applicable. You only grant The Nature Conservancy rights (as described below) to your photograph if you are honored by the competition as an honorable mention, finalist, runner up or grand prize winner. Before you are formally honored by the competition, the Nature Conservancy will contact you to confirm that you wish to grant us rights to your image as described below.
If your photograph is formally honored by the competition as an honorable mention, finalist, runner up or grand prize winner, you grant The Nature Conservancy a royalty-free, nonexclusive right, in perpetuity, to:
As conditions of this permission, The Nature Conservancy shall credit all photographs with the caption "© Person's Name" when the full name is available, or by the participants Flickr username when the participant’s full name is unavailable.
QUESTIONS:
Questions and inquiries about contest rules can be emailed to member@tnc.org.
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