| Copyright | Copyright in all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. Each entrant grants a non-exclusive worldwide licence to Silicon Beach Training Limited to feature any or all of the submitted images in any of their publications, their websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition. |
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| Eligibility | Open to anyone who is 18 years old or over. |
| Finish | 26 November 2010 |
| Entry fee | Free |
FinishedTheme: ‘Mood‘
You can interpret that any way you wish it could be a moody landscape or person or moody lighting.
Prizes:
- 1st place winner will receive a ColorMunki Photo (software and hardware color control calibrator), a ColorChecker Passport (colour solution used to produce accurate and consistent colours) and 250 greetings cards with your choice of photo (in any size, up to A5, including envelopes and carriage worth £150).
- 2nd place prize includes Power Retouch Pro (Various Photoshop Plug-ins, packed full of useful tools), a ColorChecker Passport (colour solution used to produce accurate and consistent colours) and 100 greetings cards with your choice of photo (in any size, up to A5, including envelopes and carriage worth £100).
- 3rd place prize is 50 greetings cards with your choice of photo (in any size, up to A5, including envelopes and carriage worth £85).
If you have a Flickr account you can add your photo directly to the competition’s Flickr group.
You can email your entries to [email protected] with “Mood” as the subject of the email. Attachments should be no larger than 3MB.
For email entries: the file name should state the title of the image and the photographer, e.g. Heather Buckley’s image above could be named as “mother-and-baby-heather-buckley“, and the email message should also state the photographer’s full name.
A maximum of two photograph entries per entrant will be accepted.
Official website: www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/photography-competition-mood/
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