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• Copyright: Copyright of a photograph shall remain with its respective photographer at all times. All participants agree to grant PhotoShoot Awards and Hors cadre Inc. permission to showcase their work for promotional purposes in any of their publications as well as any other form of promotion without further permission or remuneration from the Winners Presentation for a period of three years.
• Entry fee: From $ 25 CAD for single entry
• Entry deadline: 30th June 2013
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide, 18+ years of age

Theme: Oceans 2013

Submit photos which either portray the scandalous destruction of Earth’s greatest untamed resource: our oceans, or which celebrate their inherent beauty and freedom. Contrasting images of desolation and beauty will convey powerful emotions.

Categories:

• Black tide
  • Pollution
  • Industrialization
  • Vagaries of the Weather
  • Climate Change
  • Resources Harvest
  • The Forgotten People
  • Vanishing Trades
• Deep blue
  • Paradises
  • Fauna and Flora
  • Immensities
  • Beaches and Freedom
  • Beauty and Emotion
  • To Rescue the Sea
  • Trades of the Sea

Awards:

• First Place Winner OCEANS 2013 Award
• Second Place Winner OCEANS 2013 Award
• Third Place Winner OCEANS 2013 Award
• Category Award (One in each category:  the photographer with the highest number of points. The judging committee  may decide not to pick a 1st place winner in a particular category if no image obtains a satisfactory rating based on the artistic requirements as same may be established or determined by the jury from time to time)
• Finalists (in each category) – Special Recognition Awards evidenced by a special mention

The essential criteria of all PhotoShoot Awards competitions are emotion, beauty and freedom.

Image requirements: Jpeg format; 72 dpi – 8 bits – 2 000 pixels on the longest side; RGB colors; no signature, no logos, no annoying copyright, no site name, no frame, nor watermark

You can present a unique image or a series of photographs based on a theme of two pictures (diptych), 3 photos (triptych) and 4 or 5 photos (series). Online submission of digital photographs via the website.

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