Photographic competition 2010

Once again we are inviting photographers to enter our photographic competition and celebrate the beauty of birds of prey. Featuring six main categories, this competition gives photographers, both amateur and professional, the chance to show off their talents.

The categories are:

1. Portrait. Best portrait photograph of a Hawk Conservancy Trust bird of prey.
2. Action. Best photograph of a Hawk Conservancy Trust bird of prey in a flying display at the Trust.
3. Working relationship. Best photograph demonstrating the relationship between a member of Trust staff and a bird of prey.
4. Flora and fauna. Best photograph of the wildflowers, shrubs and plants around the grounds of the Trust or the wildlife and other animals that are found there.
5. In the wild. Best photograph of a wild (non-captive) bird of prey taken in its natural setting.
6. Junior. Best photograph in any category, taken by an under 16 year old.

Please note that all photographs must have been taken at the Trust, with the exception of those entered into the 'In the Wild' category.

Also, new for 2010, and running parallel to the main photographic competition, is a caption competition. Each month, a photograph will be posted on the Hawk Conservancy Trust website (here) and captions for it invited. The caption most enjoyed by our ‘judge of the month’ will go forward to the end of the year, when a final judging will select the overall winner. Submission of caption suggestions is free of charge.

In order to enter photographs for the photographic competition or for the caption competition a one off entry fee of £5.00 must be paid to the Trust (one fee covers both competitions). Submission of caption suggestions is free of charge.

Closing date for the photographic competition and caption competition will be 31st December 2010.

Entries received during each month of 2010 can be viewed by clicking on the name of the month in the table below.

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Photographers	0	0	11	17	19	17	20	21	5	0	0	0	38
Images	0	0	101	144	153	139	157	153	33	0	0	0	880

Entries and winners in our previous competitions

Winning entries will be judged by a panel of judges including: TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham, a representative of our competition sponsor Wild Arena, wildlife artist Antony Rhodes, Trust staff and representatives of our corporate sponsors : Arqiva and Festo.

Each photographic competition category will be awarded a winner and a highly commended award. Both will receive a wildlife digital photography book to enhance their skills, and the section winners will win a photographic day at the Trust.

The overall photographic competition winner will be named Trust Photographer of the Year and their prize will include a chance for themselves and a guest to attend one of Wild Arena’s UK photographic workshops, at a collection of their choice.

All the winning and highly commended entries will feature in the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s 2012 calendar, and those that feature a Trust bird will also be entered into the BIAZA 2011 photographic competition (where appropriate sections exist).

There will also be a caption competition prize for the best caption, and for the photograph to which the caption was applied!

Please read the competition rules before entering the competition.

Good luck and happy snapping!!

For further information, please contact:
Gale Gould
The Hawk Conservancy Trust
Visitor Centre
Sarson Lane
Weyhill, Andover
Hants, SP11 8DY

Telephone: 01264 773850 x223 or email gale@hawkconservancy.org

The entry form is available in (PDF) Portable Document Format and you will need Adobe Reader® software to view the document. If you do not already have Adobe Reader®, you can download it free of charge from Adobe®.

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Print the completed form (or complete it by hand after printing) and sign it, then either return it to Gale at the above address or, preferably, scan and email it to Keith. You will need to complete an entry form to cover each batch of photographs you submit. Your entry cannot be displayed on the web site until Keith has received the entry form.

View, complete and download the entry form.

Competition Rules

1. All entries must be taken during 2010, and must feature only birds of prey taken at the Hawk Conservancy Trust or wild birds of prey taken in their natural setting, or animals, insects, plants and/or fungi found at the Trust’s visitor centre.
2. A maximum of two entries per photographer, per main category, may be submitted each calendar month from the commencement of the competition until its closing date. We can only accept one entry per photographer per month in the ‘caption competition’.
3. All entries must be sent electronically by email. Images should be supplied in JPG format at a minimum resolution of 72 dpi or in an alternative high resolution format suitable for printing. Images may be resized to a minimum of 1000 pixels on the longest side. The images must be sent as email attachments and the size of each email with its attachments must not exceed 20MB. Entries may be spread across multiple emails.
4. We are sorry but we are unable to accept entries in print format.
5. All images must be originals and must not have been digitally enhanced or manipulated (other than simple cropping). Monochrome photographs, including colour photographs reduced to monochrome (grey-scale) are acceptable.
6. The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers. Please indicate on the entry form.
7. In order to enter the competition the entrant must pay a one-off entry fee of £5.00. The fee may be paid by cash, cheque (made payable to the Hawk Conservancy Trust), credit card/debit card or PayPal. Please pay either in person at the Trust shop, by telephone to the Trust office on 01264 773850, or on line.
8. An entry form must accompany each entry, and must contain the photographer’s name, address, telephone number and email address. It must also be clear on the entry form, into which category each photograph is entered.
9. There will be no cash alternative to the announced prizes; the judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into by the judges.
10. Copyright.You must be the sole author and owner of the copyright for all images entered. By entering your images into the competition, you give the Hawk Conservancy Trust (HCT) a non-exclusive licence to reproduce the images for any purpose in connection with the competition including, but not limited to, the following purposes: judging the competition, display of winning entries held at the HCT, inclusion into the BIAZA photographic competition, inclusion within HCT marketing and promotional material and for use in HCT merchandise. The HCT reserves the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media any entry, without payment, for the sole purpose of the HCT and its promotion and publicity. Should the Trust use any image for promotional or other purposes every effort will be made to give credit to the photographer.
11. The competition is not open to members of the Hawk Conservancy Trust staff and their immediate family.
12. Junior entries must show entrant's age.
13. Entries will be displayed, organised by month of receipt, on the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s web site at www.hawkconservancy.org.

 

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