Competition rules
Rules of competition:
1. The competition is open to anyone, and the submitted photographic images must be the work of the person entering images unless posthumously for someone they represent.
2. All images are to have been taken between 1st January and 31st December 2010.
3. Judges may not submit work for consideration in the competition but will be afforded space in the final book for a biography and an example(s) of their work.
4. The closing date for competition submissions is 14th February 2011.
5. There is no upper limit to the number of images submitted.
6. There is a minimum £1 donation required for each image you submit. 100% of this donation goes to our nominated charities.
7. The “category” your image falls into will be decided solely by the photographers and not the judges.
8. There is no age restriction on entry, but competitors under the age of 18 may require parental consent to attend any awards ceremony or presentations.
9. Whilst individuals retain the full copyright of submitted images it is agreed that the2010project shall be granted full international usage both on and off-line. The photographer will be acknowledged with any images used by us, and for the purpose of this competition, and will allow the2010project unrestricted use of their images in whatever way we see fit to raise money for the charity. Images will not be used to benefit anyone other than the charity.
10. Images submitted must not have been previously submitted to any other competitions or stock libraries.
11. All images should have a longest side of a maximum of 1200 pixels and a minimum of 650 pixels.
12. Acceptance of submissions is at the moderators’ discretion and any unsuitable images will be excluded.
13. The moderators reserve the right to exclude or remove submitted images at any time.
14. Unsuccessful submissions will not be notified.
15. Each image should be accompanied by a title and some prose of at least one sentence. A suggested maximum number of words for the image story is 50.
16. The moderators reserve the right to exclude or remove submitted images at any time.
17. Submissions that are posted on the project site will occur without confirmation.
18. Competition short list winners will be notified and required to provide a full resolution image for the final judging.
19. Images of people or private properties cannot be submitted without the relevant permissions. This responsibility lies solely with the photographer submitting the image(s). These do not have to be submitted with the images but must be available on request. This includes pictures taken of or at National Trust sites and Network Rail property.
20. There can be no watermarks or web advertising on the submissions themselves (all of the winning images will be published with details of the artists and their website).
21. If we use an online voting system for the final shortlist, any multiple votes for one photographer coming from the same IP address will be automatically disqualified.
22. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright. The 2010 Project does not take any responsibilty for the infringement of these rights.
23. …and last but not least! There should be no expectations of financial gain from the sales of any products connected with the2010project unless stated otherwise…… it’s for charity boys and girls!
