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BIRDS AS ART Photography Competition
Except for images entered in the Captive category all photographs must depict free, wild, unrestrained, and undisturbed birds.
Categories:
- Bird Portraits (images that show the whole bird)
- Tight Portraits and Body Parts (head shots, feather detail, and more)
- Flight (dramatic images of birds in flight)
- Small in the frame/Environmental (images of a bird or flocks of birds in their natural habitat)
- Pleasing Blurs (pleasingly blurred images of a bird or a flock of birds; images in this category
- must be created in-camera)
- Action (Photographs of a bird or birds in action)
- Behavior (Images that exhibit interesting avian behavior)
- Hand of Man (the composition may include man-made elements)
- Digital Creations (anything goes including the use of filters and effects as long as there is a bird
- or birds in the image)
- Youth (images submitted by young photographers born on or after March 31, 1994)
- Captive including zoos (photographs of captive, zoo, pet, or rehab birds)
Grand Prizes:
- B&H PHOTO VIDEO $500 Gift Certificate
- Choice of Lens Plate
- Two 32 GB 450 X UDMA Compact Flash Cards
- 24 x 36″ Gallery Wrap Canvas Print
- Airport International Bag V2
- Choice of Canon/Nikon Lens Plate
- Gitzo 3530 LS Carbon Fiber Tripod
You may enter up to ten images on a single registration fee and you may enter more than once. The winning entries will be announced and the prizes
awarded no later than May 31, 2012.
Judging criteria:
- artistic and technical excellence
- originality
- mood
- impact
Image requirements: JPEGs at 96dpi with a maximum width of 1400 pixels and a maximum height of 900 pixels. You will have to submit RAW files.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.birdsasart.com/competition/birds-as-art-contest-prizes/