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 Following the success of this year’s competition, the Countryside Alliance Photographic Competition is back for a second year and once again focuses on rural life and landscapes.
This year we had more than 300 entries and the winning photographs are featured in our 2008 calendar, which can be bought from our online shop. You can visit the shop by clicking here.
The 13 winning photographs from our 2008 competition will be featured in the 2009 Countryside Alliance calendar. Read on for details and rules. The 2008/09 competition has four categories:
· British and Irish wildlife
· The British and Irish Countryside
· Rural life and country sports
· Seasons
As well as their photograph featuring in the calendar, the winning photographers will each receive a pair of tickets to the CLA Game Fair for Saturday 26th July 2008 and ten complimentary copies of the 2009 calendar.
Send your entries to:
Countryside Alliance Photo Competition 2008/09
PO Box 313
Marlborough
Wiltshire
SN8 2AA
The closing date for entries is Friday 18th April
Entrants must not be professional photographers and can submit up to four photos either as prints or slides, in colour or black and white. Photographs must have been taken in the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man and all entries must be original work and must not have been previously published.
Please print and post digital entries – email entries will be ignored. Prints should be on photo quality paper. Images must be at least 300dpi (or pixels per inch) when saved at the size at which they will be submitted. Minimum size is approx 6”x4” to a maximum of A4.
Each entry must be clearly marked on the back with:
· when and where the photograph was taken
· which of the four categories you wish to submit it to
· the name, address, telephone number and email address (where possible) of the photographer. Countryside Alliance Photographic Competition 2008
RULES
1. Photographs submitted to the Countryside Alliance Photographic Competition 2008 should follow the theme of Rural Britain and Ireland be submitted into one of the following four categories:
· British and Irish wildlife
· The British and Irish Countryside
· Rural life and country sports
· Seasons
2. Photographs must have been taken in the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
3. Entrants can submit up to four photos either as prints or slides, in colour or black and white. Prints should be on photo quality paper. Please print and post digital entries – email entries will be ignored.
4. Photographs may be digitally enhanced to remove spots or scratches, but not manipulated. The Countryside Alliance and the judges reserve the right to exclude any image they believe may have been excessively treated so as to alter its authenticity.
5. Images must be at least 300dpi (or pixels per inch) when saved at the size at which they will be submitted. Minimum size is approx 6”x4” to a maximum of A4. Pictures should be clear and sharp. If you can see the dots (pixels) then these will be exaggerated when reproduced.
6. The competition is open to UK (including residents of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) and Republic of Ireland residents only. Employees of the Countryside Alliance or Countryside Alliance Ireland are not eligible to enter.
7. Entrants must not be professional photographers.
8. Each entry must be clearly marked on the back with:
· when and where the photograph was taken
· which of the four categories you wish to submit it to
· the name, address, telephone number and email address (where possible) of the photographer.
9. Entries should be sent to: Countryside Alliance Photo Competition 2008, PO Box 313, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2AA
10. The closing date for entries is Friday 18th April 2008.
11. No entries can be returned and proof of posting is not proof of receipt. The organisers accept no responsibility for entries lost, damaged or delayed in the post.
12. All entries will be judged by a panel of judges. The judges will select 13 photographs which will then be used to compile the 2009 Countryside Alliance calendar. The 13 winners will each a pair of complimentary tickets for to the 2008 CLA Game Fair at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for Saturday 26th July and ten copies of the calendar.
13. The judges' decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.
14. All entries must be original work and must not have been previously published. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photos entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries.
15. By entering the competition, entrants grant the right for the Countryside Alliance to publish and exhibit the thirteen photographs on television, in print, on their website or in any other media as they think fit, free of charge. Entrants will also be deemed to have consented to their photographs being published in a calendar or for prints to be sold individually, in aid of the Countryside Alliance and Countryside Alliance Ireland. No fee will be payable for this use. Finalists agree to take part in post-competition publicity.
16. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules.
Photo Guidelines
There are a few technical pit-falls that you need to be aware of with the provision of digital photographs.
Your Camera
For quality re-production the camera should ideally be a 3 million+ pixels.
Most cameras have settings that enable you to vary the number of images that you can store on your memory card. When taking pictures that you hope to print out, select the option that stores fewer pictures, but larger in file size.
Prints
If you intend to submit prints, then these should be on photo quality paper. Minimum size is approx. 6” x 4” to a maximum of A4. Pictures should be clear, and sharp. If you can see the dots (pixels) then these will be exaggerated when reproduced.
We need images at 300dpi
Images should be at least 300dpi (or pixels per inch) when saved at the size at which they will be used. Most graphic/photo programs on your computers have an option to check/change this. This is usually in the part of the program where you can re-size images. This will allow for you to check the size of an image at a certain dpi. We require all images at 300 dpi. Images that are not supplied at the correct size/resolution ratio may result in pixelation/fuzziness of image upon reproduction. As a guide, an A6 standard size postcard will normally equate to a file size of up to 8-10 Megabytes.
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