Photocompete

• Copyright: The organisation has the right to use images for marketing purposes of the Nature Talks Photo Contest and the Nature Talks Photo Festival (also future editions), in exhibitions, in flyers, on websites and social media, but when doing so will always list the photographer’s name. The photographer maintains copyright of his or her image at all times and can exploit this freely; he or she will, however, not ask any compensation of the organisation of the competition for the usage of the image.
• Entry fee: 29 euro; 17 euro
• Entry deadline: 12th June 2022
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Prizes:

• The winners of a category will receive € 500
• The runner-ups will win prizes worth € 250 (in products).
• The winner of the youth category will receive a prize worth €250 (in products).
• The runner-up in this category will receive a prize worth € 125 (in products).
• The winner of Fred Hazelhoff Award category receives a sum of €1000 (in cash) as well as a trophy.
• All awarded images will be shown in the exhibition at the Nature Talks Photo Festival.

Categories:

• Group-Role “Standard”
• C1 Birds
• C2 Mammals
• C3 Other animals
• C4 Plants and Fungi
• C5 Landscapes
• C6 Underwater
• C7 Natural Art
• C8 Man and Nature
• C9 Black & White
• C10 Animal portraits
• C11 Animals of “De Lage Landen”
• Group-Role “Young”
  • C10    Youth 10-17 years
• Group-Role “Portfolio”
  • C11    Fred Hazelhoff Award (portfolio)

All images must be made in unrestricted nature. Images of pets, captive animals and cultivated plants are not permitted. In total, 20 images may be submitted in for categories 1 – 9 with no maximum per category. Young photographers may send in 5 images maximum. For the Fred Hazelhoff Award 8-12 photos may be entered in.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website.

Image requirements: Preview images – longest side 1920 pixels (moderate sharpening allowed) and the JPG file must weight a minimum of 125kb and maximum of 2000kb (2MB). High resolution and RAW files must be available at the jury’s request. These must be suitable for large format printing (e.g. 80 x 120 cm) and must have Adobe RGB or sRGB colours. Do not interpolate and only use moderate sharpening.

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