Photocompete

• Copyright: The photographer agrees that their pictures may be used, free of charge, by "Golden Turtle", in exhibitions and publications of the organizers and in any purposes connected with carrying out of the competition.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 31st October 2012
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers worldwide.

Nominations:

• PHOTOGRAPHER OF YEAR
• MAMMALS
• BIRDS
• MICROCOSMOS (insects, spiders, etc.)
• THE UNDERWATER WORLD
• OTHER ANIMALS (amphibians, reptiles, etc.)
• PORTRAIT OF THE ANIMAL
• HARMONY OF LIFEMAGIC of PLANTS (a plant, mosses, mushrooms, etc.)
• LANDSCAPE
• ART OF THE NATURE (ART PHOTO)
• THE HUMAN AND THE NATURE
• THE PHOTOSTORY
• THE SPECIALIZED PROGRAM: THE BEST PHOTO OF THE NATURE OF RUSSIA (4 prizes: mammals, birds, a microcosm, the underwater world).
•  SPECIAL PRIZES:
  • THE MOST BIOLOGICALLY DIFFICULT SHOT
  • THE MOST COMIC SHOT
  • THE MOST UNEXPECTED (UNIQUE) SHOTTHE BEST BLACK-AND-WHITE SHOT

Competition prize fund: 1 500 000 roubles

Announcement of results, the beginning of exhibition tour – March 2013.

Image requirements: JPEG format; 1400 pixels on the longest dimension; no larger than 600 kB in file size; no watermarks, borders or frames.

You can enter up to 20 photographs and no more than 10 pictures to a nomination (in a nomination "Landscape" – no more than 5 photos). No image may be entered in more than one nomination. In case of work hit in a semi-final the author should give a RAW-file, and also specially prepared for the press of the big format the file corresponding to work sent earlier on competition.

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