Photocompete

• Copyright: YOUR ENTRY TO THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO ALLOW YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS, YOUR NAME, OCCUPATION, CITY AND STATE OF RESIDENCE TO BE PUBLISHED AS SELECTED AWARD WINNERS IN NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINES, PRINT AND DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS, AND OTHER PUBLIC VENUES, PUBLISHED ON WEBSITES OWNED BY OR IN ALLIANCE WITH NBPWSRIA AS AWARD WINNERS; AND USED FOR PROMOTIONS OF THE NBPWSRIA. ENTRANTS RETAIN OWNERSHIP AND ALL OTHER RIGHTS TO USE OF THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS.
• Entry fee: $25 US for up to 20 images
• Entry deadline: 1st May 2014
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Categories:

• AFRICAN WILDLIFE
• ANIMAL ANTICS
• ART IN NATURE
• BIRDS
• LANDSCAPES
• OCEANS
• OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
• (NEW) POLAR PASSION
• POWER OF NATURE
• SMALL WORLD
• WILDLIFE
• YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
• (NEW) NATURE’S BEST VIDEOS AND FILM

Awards:

• The category Winners and a selection of Highly Honored photographs will be displayed in the annual Awards Exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, one of the most widely respected and highly visited museums in the world.
• Finalists will be published in the 2014 Fall/Winter Special Collector’s Edition of NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY magazine.

Image requirements: JPEG format; 72 ppi; no larger than 500K in file size; Nothing should be added to an image, and aside from dust spots, nothing should be taken away. Normal processing of RAW image files and limited adjustments to color and contrast are acceptable, as is minimal cropping. Photographers who have images that pass into the final round for judging will be required to supply high-resolution files

You may submit digital photographs online, by post on a CD or prints by post. You may enter a total of 20 images.

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