ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Geographic, Parks Canada, VIA Rail Canada

1. Who can enter?

TERRITORY: Canadian residents

ENTRANT STATUS: amateur, professional

AGE LIMITATIONS: you must be 18 years of age or older

2. Competition info

ENTRY CLOSES: 29th October 2010 (at 4 p.m. Eastern Time)

ENTRY TYPE: online upload

ENTRY FEE: free

3. What should photos be about?

All photographs must feature content from one of Parks Canada’s National Parks, National Historic Sites of Canada or National Marine Conservation Areas. Click here for a complete listing.”

CATEGORIES:

• Nature in Parks Canada – Parks Canada’s network of protected natural heritage sites offers some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Show us your favourite places.
• National Historic Sites – National Historic Sites of Canada protect and remind us of our country’s cultural heritage. Capture these stories in images.
• Visitors at Parks Canada – Parks Canada’s network of protected cultural and natural places offers unique experiences to visitors. Share your experiences.

TYPE: single images

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF IMAGES: no limit

A same photo cannot be entered for two different categories.

JUDGING CRITERIA:

• technical and visual qualities
• compliance with the category

4. Photo Requirements

AREA WHERE IT CAN BE TAKEN: taken at a National Park of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada or National Marine Conservation Area of Canada

AGE OF PHOTO: no limit

IMAGE FORMAT: JPEG, at least 1,000 pixels wide for a horizontal image or 1,000 pixels tall for a vertical image, resolution 72 dpi

PHOTO EDITING: Content alteration of digital files is not acceptable. Cropping is permitted. Tonal or colour correction, including conversion to black and white, is acceptable.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Photos entered in the contest must not have been published previously.
• Participants must be able to provide a high-resolution version of each image submitted: uncompressed TIFF or JPEG file, in grey tones or colour (RGB), 300 dpi, minimum 1,600 pixels on the longer side, minimum final print size of 8 inches x 10 inches or 20 cm x 25 cm.

5. Legal Issues

> Your legal responsibilities

Where individuals appear in the photos, permission to reprint, publish or reproduce the images, as described above, shall be obtained in writing from these individuals or from the parent or guardian in the case of a minor child.”

> Photo usage rights

Canadian Geographic and the Parks Canada Agency reserve the non-exclusive right to publish any entry and/or use any entry in promotional material. The participant is responsible for releasing copyright to the photo, and this copyright release must be available if the photo wins. All photos will be credited to the author’s name.

With respect to any photo entered in this contest, you, or the copyright holder for these photos, retain the copyright. By uploading or entering a photo in the contest, you grant (or certify that the photo’s copyright holder expressly grants) Canadian Geographic Enterprises, the Parks Canada Agency and its affiliated groups a world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable and non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, adapt, transmit, communicate, publish, publicly display and distribute, as well as create and distribute compilations and derivative works or merchandise from any such submitted photos to promote the contest or any resulting public display. You further grant the Parks Canada Agency the right to archive the submitted photos and to use them as part of educational or business activities.”

6. Judges

There is no information who the judges are.

7. Prizes

Overall winner:

• VIA Rail gift card valued at $3,000 CAN (includes applicable taxes)
• Discovery National Pass for Family/Group
  

1st place in each category:

• VIA Rail gift card valued at $600 CAN (includes applicable taxes)
• Discovery National Pass for Family/Group

2nd place in each category:

• Parks Canada backpack
• Nikon 10×50 Action EX WP binoculars
• Discovery National Pass for Family/Group

3rd place in each category:

• Parks Canada backpack
• Discovery National Pass for Family/Group

Honourable mentions from Nature in Parks Canada category: Discovery National Pass for Family/Group

Winning images will also be published in the 2011 Spring Travel issue of Canadian Geographic, on the Canadian Geographic Photo Club Web site and on the Parks Canada Web site.

The participant who wins the special mention for the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010 in the “Nature in Parks Canada” category will also have his or her photo and name published on Canada’s official Web site for the International Year of Biodiversity.”

8. Useful Links

Need inspiration? See what images have won in 2008 and 2009; and what images have already entered the competition in Nature in Parks category, National Historic Sites category, and Visitors at Parks category!

Read official rules yourself!

Ready to enter? Register here!

Official website of the competition:
http://photoclub.canadiangeographic.ca/cg/contests/parkscanada/default.aspx

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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