The Nature Conservancy Digital Photo Contest

Everyone sees nature through a different lens. Show us your view!

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The Nature Conservancy is committed to a future for people and nature. For our 2017 Photo Contest, we’d like to know: “what’s your nature?” What does nature mean to you? Everyone sees nature through a different lens, and we want you to show us your view!

Prizes:

The Conservancy will award the following prizes.

One (1) Overall grand prize winner will receive:
Camera Package – (A kit that includes a 360 camera, 12 months of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography Plan and a $100 gift certificate at BH Photo & Video to pick up those 1 or 2 missing essentials).
$500 gift card for outdoor gear and clothing with personalized recommendations from Backcountry’s Gearheads.
A photo mention in The Nature Conservancy’s award winning U.S. magazine.
Placement in The Nature Conservancy’s 2019 calendar.
Lokai Bracelet
Mention on The Conservancy’s digital presences.
Total Value: $1,000 USD

One (1) Overall runner-up winner will receive:
A $250 Patagonia gift card
Lokai Bracelet
Mention on The Conservancy’s digital presences
Total Value: $268 USD

One (1) Overall second runner-up winner will receive:
A $250 Patagonia gift card
Lokai Bracelet
Mention on The Conservancy’s digital presences
Total Value: $268 USD

Eight (8) Category winners (People’s Choice, People & Nature, Mobile, Underwater, Wildlife, Adventure, Nature in Cities and Young Photographer) will receive:
A Nature Conservancy branded Patagonia fleece
Lokai Bracelet
Mention on The Conservancy’s digital presences
Total Value: $78 USD

100 honorable mention winners will receive:
Mention on The Conservancy’s photo contest page

Eligibility:

18+, Worldwide

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

Your photographs help The Nature Conservancy protect Earth’s amazing diversity of wildlife, people, plants and habitats. Thank you for helping to further our mission through your photography.

You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit -- including ownership if applicable.

If you submit a photograph to enter the Photo Contest, you grant The Nature Conservancy a 5 year royalty-free, nonexclusive right to:

Display the photograph on http://nature.org/photos-and-video/photography/photo-contest/digital-photo-contest.xml, https://www.tnc.org.hk, http://www.tnc.org.br/envolva-se/cadastre-se/concurso-de-fotos-tnc.xml, http://www.tnccanada.ca/canada-photo-contest.xml, http://www.nature.or.id/galeri/foto/kontes-foto-digital-the-nature-conservancy.xml,http://www.mundotnc.org/viva-verde/concurso-de-fotografia.xml
Allow third-parties to share the photograph on social media.
Use the photograph on the Internet and in Social Media in support of our mission.
Use the photograph in The Nature Conservancy’s internal and external communications materials including but not limited to web sites and web publications, fact sheets, fund raising publications, advertising, multimedia, presentation and membership services, annual report and Nature Conservancy magazine.
Provide your photograph to other individuals and organizations for Conservancy-related use in news stories, newsletters, reports, slide shows, displays, web pages, videos, membership premiums, and the like
Use, in connection with the Photo Contest, your name, city, state and country of residence in promotions and other publications
Retain a digital copy of your photograph that will be archived in the Conservancy photo library and accessible to Conservancy staff via the Conservancy internal online photo archive
The Nature Conservancy will endeavor to credit all photographs with the caption "Person's Name" when the full name is available.

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Nature