Photocompete

• Copyright: The copyright in all images submitted to the Competition will remain with the copyright holder who will be credited. Each entrant grants to the Organisers a non-exclusive irrevocable licence to reproduce, publish and exhibit their awarded image(s) in relation to the Competition and the Exhibition.
• Entry fee: £20
• Entry deadline: 23rd February 2012
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers worldwide who are 18+ years of age.

Categories:

• Adult awards
  • Animal Portraits
  • Behaviour: Mammals
  • Behaviour: Birds
  • Behaviour: Cold-Blooded Animals
  • Animals in their Environment
  • Botanical Realms
  • Underwater Worlds
  • Wildscapes
  • Urban Wildlife
  • Nature in Black & White
  • Creative Visions
• Special awards
  • The Eric Hosking Portfolio Award (open to entrants aged between 18 and 26)
  • The Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Species
  • The World in Our Hands
  • The Wildlife Photojournalist Award

  Awards (total value £30,000):

• The overall winner will receive:
  • £10,000 in prize money
  • a unique and iconic trophy
  • a personalised certificate of recognition.
• The winner of each Category will receive:
  1. £1,000 in prize money
  2. the cost of a return economy flight or equivalent from their home address to attend the Gala Awards Ceremony in London.
• The winner of each Special Award will receive:
  1. £1,500 in prize money
  2. the cost of a return economy flight or equivalent from their home address to attend the Gala Awards Ceremony in London.

Winning photographers will be notifiedin May 2012. You may submit up to twenty images. Online submission of digital images.

Image requirements: JPEGs, saved at the quality setting 10 in Photoshop, Adobe RGB (1998), and must be 1920 pixels on the longest dimension.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy-entry/index.jsp