ORGANIZED BY: South Australian Museum

1. Who can enter?

TERRITORY: international

ENTRANT STATUS: amateur, professional

AGE LIMITATIONS: none

2. Competition info

ENTRY CLOSES: 28th March 2010

ENTRY TYPE: online upload

> Entry Fees

• AU$38 (around 24 EUR, US$33) for 1 image (adults)
• AU$22 for each additional image (adults)
• AU$10 for 1 image (Juniors)
• AU$5 for each additional image (Juniors)

3. What should photos be about?

All photographs must be of natural fauna, flora or wilderness.”

There are 10 categories:

1. Animal Behaviour – the subject(s) must be engaged in natural activity.
2. Animal Portrait – the subject must be photographed close up, occupying at least 30% of the frame.
3. Botanical – this may be a portrait or habitat shot.
4. Underwater - this may be a portrait or habitat shot.
5. Wilderness - the landscape or seascape must have minimal evidence of human interference.
6. Threatened Species – the subject(s) may be photographed in any of the following ways: in portrait, engaged in natural activity, or in its natural habitat. All entries in this category (flora or fauna) must be verified by an official reference, valid for any of the previous five years prior to the date of close of entries. This can be obtained from the country’s state or federal government agency concerned with verifying the subject’s threatened, rare, vulnerable or endangered status.
7. Black & White – the subject(s) must be chosen that would qualify for any of the first six categories. This category includes all monochrome photography including sepia-toned and infrared photographs.
8. Interpretive - the subject(s) must be chosen that would qualify for categories 1 to 6. This category is designed for those photographers who wish to experiment graphically with their images.
9. Our Impact - the image must depict human impact on the natural environment, be it terrestrial, marine or atmospheric. This impact may be negative or positive. The choice of subjects is broad, including any subject that would qualify for categories 1 to 6, or may extend beyond these to subjects relating to pollution and climate change.
10. Junior - the entrant must be under 18 years of age at the date of close of entries. Entries must fit the criteria of any of the other nine categories. Junior photographers are welcome to enter in any of the other nine categories instead of the Junior category.

Black and white images may only be entered in the Black & White category or the Junior category.

Maximum 4 images per category.

> Judging Criteria

• photographic technique
• aesthetic quality
• artistic quality
• unique quality

4. Photo Requirements

AREA WHERE IT CAN BE TAKEN: Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the New Guinea region

The region of New Guinea is limited to the west by the Wallace Line (the bio-geographical line extending between Bali and Lombok northward through the Makassar Strait between Borneo and Sulawesi). To the east the New Guinea region includes the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagos and islands of the South West Pacific.”

AGE OF PHOTO: taken within 7 years of the date of close of entries

IMAGE FORMAT: jpeg, RGB, 72dpi. Dimensions: 8 inches x 12 inches (200mm x 300mm) or 8 inches x 8 inches (200mm x 200mm) at 72 dpi; panoramic photographs 12 inches (300mm) in their longest dimension. Some variance in size is acceptable.

PHOTO EDITING: Except in “Interpretive” category: no adjusting beyond a level that would be applied in conventional optical printing techniques: limited to levels, curves, colour, saturation and contrast work and minor cleaning work; cropping, sharpening.. The integrity of the original subject with its form and (if applicable) its behaviour must be maintained. Compositing and multiple exposures are not allowed.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• If a photograph is shortlisted by the judging panel for a prize or high commendation the entrant must send to the competition office within two weeks a CD of the selected images as TIFF files sized to A3 at 300dpi (approx 60mb) in RGB colour space with working space embedded or tagged (ideally AdobeRGB 1998).
• The entrant must declare if an image has been taken with the subject in captivity or in conditions that are unnatural. If animals are photographed in captivity they should be animals, either native or feral, seen in the wild in the ANZANG bioregion.
• Pet or farm animals and commercially cultivated plants are not classified as natural for the purposes of this competition. Plants photographed must be native to the ANZANG bioregion.
• An image that has won an award or commendation in another major competition is not eligible for entry. (A major competition is one defined as receiving 500 entries or more.)

5. Legal Issues

> Your legal responsibilities

The entrant must be the owner of copyright of all images entered.”

> Photo usage rights

The entrant grants the South Australian Museum the right to free reproduction and exhibition of all shortlisted, prize-winning and highly commended images in all media, but only in association with promotion and publicity for this competition and exhibition. This includes the production of a touring exhibition and an exhibition publication in the form of a book or catalogue. Due photographic credit will be given. Any other image application will be undertaken only after consultation with the photographer.”

6. Judges

There is no information who the judges are.

7. Prizes

Overall winner: AU$5000 (around 3180 EUR, + US$4340) certificate

Category winners (9x): AU$1000 + certificate

Category runners-up (9x): AU$450 + certificate

Junior winner: AU$300 + certificate

Junior runner-up: AU$100 + certificate

Best portfolio of 6 or more images: AU$1000

People’s Choice Award (voted during the exhibition at the South Australian Museum): AU$500

A prize will also be awarded to the photographer who enters the best portfolio of six or more entries.

8. Useful Links

Read official rules yourself!

Ready to enter? Register here!

Official website of the competition:
http://www.anzangnature.com/index.php/page/2.html

I cannot take any responsibility for changing of rules or mistypes in this article. This article has only an informative nature. For official rules always refer to the official website!

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