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Quick Index
1) Entrants: Entry is open to anyone except those directly involved in the organisation and judging. Any photographer, amateur and professional, aged 19 years and over from any country can enter the three Portfolio categories and the One Shot category. The New Talent, First Shot and Young travel Photographer of the Year categories all have restrictions on entry as follows:
2) Closing date & entry address: Entries close on 9th October 2010. Print entries will only be accepted if they are postmarked on or before this date, and must arrive no later than 7 days after the closing date. Entries should be sent to: Travel Photographer of the Year, 20 Yew Tree Courtyard, Framlingham Road, Earl Soham, Suffolk, IP13 7SG, England. The online entry page will be disabled at 09.00 hours (UK time) on 10th October 2010. 3) Entry fees: The entry fee for each portfolio category is £15. The entry fee for New Talent is £20. The entry fee for One Shot and First Shot is £10 per category, and Young TPOTY is free to enter. 4) Payment of entry fees: Entry fees must be paid in pounds sterling (£) only. Print entry fees must be paid by cheque (drawn from a UK bank), postal order or international money order (for overseas entries), made payable to Travel Photographer of the Year, or online through our Paypal entry fee payment page. Online image submissions will be paid for during the online entry process. 5) Quantity of entries: Entrants may enter any categories that they are eligible for, and may enter as many times as they wish, except for New Talent which can only be entered once. An additional entry fee is payable for each additional category and entry submitted. Please clearly indicate on your entry form how many times you have entered each category. 6) Awards & categories: There are three Portfolio categories, a One Shot category, a First Shot category, a New Talent award, a Travel Photographer of the Year award and a Young Travel Photographer of the Year award. Entrants who submit two or more portfolios, each in a different Portfolio category, will be eligible for the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) award. Where entrants submit more than two portfolios, the judges will consider each entrant’s best two portfolios when selecting the overall winner. 7) Portfolio categories: A portfolio must comprise four images. Portfolios with more or less than four images will be disqualified. An image cannot be entered in more than one portfolio, but a portfolio image may also be entered in a single image category. 8) New Talent category: This category is for photographic students, amateur or semi-professional photographers only. Professional photographers are not eligible to enter this category and photographic status will be checked before any prizes are awarded. This category can only be entered once and is judged on portfolio comprising four images accompanied by an essay, of not more than 300 words, detailing the story told in the images. Portfolios with more or less than four images and entries with essays of more than 300 words will be disqualified. 9) One Shot category: This category is judged on a single image. However you may enter up to two images for a single entry fee. 10) First Shot category: This category is judged on a single image. However you may enter up to two images for a single entry fee. This award is open to amateur photographers aged 19 and above. It is a category for less experienced photographers only; for single images shot on basic DSLRs, compact digital cameras or mobile phones. Photographers who have sold any of their images, had their images published, or have previously won a photography competition, are not eligible for this award. 11) Young Travel Photographer of the Year category: Entrants aged 18 years or under on the closing date (9th October 2010) to compete for the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award. This award will be decided on the best portfolio or four images. Entrants in this age group must clearly mark the appropriate box on the entry form. The entry form must be signed by a parent/guardian. 12) Equipment: Entries shot on either film or digital cameras are eligible for all categories. First Shot is for images shot on mobile phones, compact cameras and basic SLRs only. Images shot on mobile phones will not be accepted for any other categories. A basic SLR is defined as the entry level model of a manufacturers product range. Image metadata will be checked to ensure compliance with First Shot entry criteria. 13) Image eligibility: Images that have won a single image prize in another national or international photographic competition are not eligible for the One Shot or First Shot categories. However, these images are still eligible as part of a portfolio. Portfolios that have won a prize in any other national or international photographic competition are not eligible. Age of images: Some images are timeless so entry is not restricted to images shot only within the past few years. However the judges will be looking for contemporary images so you should not enter outdated images - if an image depicts part of a city, for example, it should show a contemporary skyline, including any recently built major landmarks in the part you are photographing. Black & white images and panoramic images are accepted. Please refrain from entering the same images in other photographic competitions which are running concurrently. 14) Digital manipulation: You may use digital manipulation to optimise an image, and you may crop an image but you are not permitted to add or remove key elements of the composition. Brightness, contrast, colour balance can all be adjusted. Dust spots and minor elements etc. can be retouched. Images can be sharpened before printing. Composite or montaged images, from more than one original image are not eligible - this includes images shot at different exposures/dynamic ranges and combined, and images stitched to form a panoramic image. However, multiple exposure 'in camera' is permitted. Entrants submitting prize-winning digital entries will be required to produce the original image file before a prize is awarded. 15) Image copyright: The entrant must be the sole author and owner of the copyright of all images entered. It is the legal responsibility of the entrant, and not the organisers, to ensure that they comply with these ownership and copyright requirements, and own the rights to reproduction of their images. Entries that do not fulfill these criteria will be deemed ineligible and disqualified. Where this is discovered after the prize has been awarded, the prize must be returned or refunded by the entrant. Entrants agree to fully indemnify Travel Photographer of the Year and its sponsors and employees in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of the entrant breaching any of the foregoing. 16) TPOTY, reproduction rights & your copyright: TPOTY does not make any claim whatsoever on the copyright of YOUR images. The copyright will, at all times, be respected by TPOTY and retained by the photographer. Where an image or images are reproduced by TPOTY, the photographer will be credited. The organisers and sponsors reserve the right to free reproduction and exhibition of entered images in all media, but only in connection with these awards. A selection of the winning and other best images will be reproduced in TPOTY portfolio books. These books are currently produced every two years and cover two years of competition entries. For compilation books exceeding this period TPOTY will seek the permission and agreement from all selected photographers before inclusion of their image(s). We do not claim unlimited licence for TPOTY or its sponsors to reproduce your images outside of the terms set out above. Where image reproduction is unrelated to the awards then permission and a fee will be agreed with the photographer in advance. 17) CD/DVD: Entrants who wish their entries to be considered for future TPOTY books should include a CD or DVD of high-resolution copies of their images with the entry. No competition entries will be accepted on CD or DVD only. Entrants submitting images via online entry who wish their images to be considered for the next TPOTY book should mail in a CD or DVD of high resolution copies of their images with a covering note. 18) Online entry: Specifications for images for upload appear in the online entry page and must be adhered to. Photographers may submit their images online through the online entry system. For the Portfolio, One Shot and Young TPOTY categories, the original images must be high enough resolution to be printed at 30cm x 25cm (3600 pixels along longest length) at 300dpi. Images taken on a camera phone will not be accepted for these categories. When you submit them online you will need to resize to a smaller size, as shown below.The minimum requirement for First Shot is that you have used a mobile phone camera of at least 1 megapixel, or a basic digital camera (with the phone or camera on its highest image quality setting). Scanned images - if you have shot your images on film or transparency and then scanned them, you can still upload them for any category except First Shot. Please re-size as shown below. Resizing images for upload Please resize your images to 800 pixels along the longest edge, at 72 dpi, then save as jpegs. Uploaded images should be no bigger than 2Mb in size. Important - when resizing your images, do not save over the original image! Naming images After resizing, please name your upload files with your initial and surname, plus the category name and image number. For example: jdoe_life1.jpg. Uploading images For each image you submit, you will need to submit an image title and an image caption. The title should be a brief description - e.g. ‘Children walking to school’ or ‘Beach sunset’. The caption should consist of the location of the shot, including town or village (if appropriate), and country. If the image shows an event such as a festival, please also include the title of that event in the caption. And if the image shows an animal/bird/fish/plant (as the main focus of the shot), please name the species. 19) Print entry & print size: full directions for this appear in the Print Entries page, and must be adhered to. Prints up to a maximium size of A4 (21cm x 30cm or, for US entrants, 8" x 12") in size will be accepted. 20) Transparencies & negatives: These will NOT be accepted, although prints produced from images shot on transparency or negative will be accepted. The original transparency or negative may be required for reproduction of print entries in the event that they win a prize, receive a commendation or are selected for exhibition and/or book reproduction. 21) Liability: All prints are submitted at the photographer’s own risk. The organisers cannot accept liability for any loss of or damage occurring to any entries, whether this occurs in transit or while in the keeping of the organisers, although every care will be taken. 22) Judging: All judges will be appointed by the organisers. The winners will be determined by the judges and the organisers in accordance with the competition rules. Their decision is final on all matters relating to the competition, and organisers will not enter into any correspondence regarding the judging or organisation of the competition. The judging will take place in during November and December 2009. 23) Prizes: The organisers reserve the right to change the prizes to a comparable alternative due to unforeseen circumstances and any changes will be posted on the competition website. Prizes are not transferable and no cash equivalent will be offered. The prizes are the responsibility of the competition sponsors and TPOTY cannot be held liable for the failure of the competition sponsors to provide a prize in the event of their liquidation, bankruptcy, insolvency or change of ownership. 24) Travel prizes: The travel offered as prizes in this competition may have some restriction on dates of travel due to fixed departure dates, availability of flights or accommodation. All travel is to and from the UK, and prize winners are responsible for their own travel costs to and from their country of residence to the UK in order to take their winning trips. The winners will be expected to pay any additional expenses associated with their trip, such as travel insurance, spending money, meals, local taxes, park entry fees and local travel etc., and any changes in the itinerary additional to those made by the organisers or which are not already included in the prize package. Full details can be obtained from the organisers. Travel on all prize trips must commence before the 31st July 2011 unless otherwise specified by the organisers. Failure to do so may result in loss of the prize. The prize trips are not transferrable and no cash alternative will be offered. Prize winners will be required to provide an account of their prize and access to a few photographs so that TPOTY can publicise the trip on this website. Copyright will remain with the prize winning photographer. 25) Quality of entries: If the quality of entries fall below the required standard, the organisers reserve the right not to award a prize/prizes. 26) Winners: A full list of short-listed entries will be published on www.tpoty.com in November 2010. The final results will be announced in December 2010. All prize winners must agree to their success being publicised by the organisers and/or sponsors. 27) Winners’ publicity: All prizewinners will agree to take part in publicity about the awards after the results are announced. 28) Competition rights: All rights to the Travel Photographer of the Year competition and the contents of this website (not to entrants’ images) are copyrighted and owned by the organisers. 29) The rules: The information given in these rules is correct, but Travel Photographer of the Year reserves the right to change any of them without prior notice. The revised rules will be posted in this section of the website, and it is the entrants’ responsibility to review this section. By signing their entry form, or completing online entry, entrants will confirm that they have read and agreed to be bound by the rules of the competition. Any breach of these Rules by an entrant will void their entry. If a breach has occurred, but is discovered after the award of a prize, then the organisers may request the return of that prize. 30) Governing Law: The rules of Travel Photographer of the Year and the relationship between Travel Photographer of the Year. and its entrants shall be governed by English law. Any dispute may be decided by the English courts or those of any other part of the United Kingdom.
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