VII. TransNatura International Nature Photo Contest 2020

TransNatura International Nature Photo Contest

  • Deadline: 31 August 2020
  • Entry fee: The entry fee is 10 Euro for a category, 15 Euro for two categories
  • Website: http://vadon.ro/english/51
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The VADON Association (from Saint George of Covasna County, Romania) announces the VII. TransNatura International Nature Photo Contest. The application is open, amateur as well as professional photographers are invited from all over the world, except the members of the jury and the organizers. The basic requirement is that the recordings have to be made of natural habitats without disturbing the wildlife. On the photos only wild animals can be included, pictures taken of captive animals can not compete in the contest. There are two categories.

A category: Open
any type of nature photography, representing animals, plants, landscape and so on;

B category: Macro
macro nature photographs;

JUDGING

The works received will be evaluated and decided upon by an international jury consisting of the following five persons:

- Haarberg Orsolya – Nature Photographer, Norway;
- Magdó István – Hungarian Photographic Artists' Word Association, Transylvanian
- Mircea Bezergheanu – Nature Photographer, Romania;
- Potyó Imre – Nature Photographer, Hungary;
- Dr. Szmolka István – Nature Photographer, Romania;

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

A candidate may enter into competition with at most four pictures per category.

The pictures for the competition are supposed to be submitted in the form of digital images, in .jpg format. Long edge of the photo should be 1920 pixels, 300 dpi resolution and the size must not exceed 10 MB. The images must be in RGB color scene. Changing essential design elements of the recordings is not allowed. By processing of the images only the following digital corrections are permitted: Levels, gradation curves, color balance, hue / saturation and brightness / contrast / shadow / highlight. The organizers have the right to request the original resolution images, if the candidate does not send in the images as requested by the organizers, he or she shall be excluded from the competition. The submitted entries to the contest must not contain any entries or water marks.
The award-winning pictures and those selected for the exhibition will be later on requested in high resolution from the participants that will be printed in 90x70 cm size.

Prizes:

TransNatura Award (Grand Prize): 1.000 Euro;

A - Category:
1st Prize - 600 Euro
2nd Prize - 400 Euro
3rd Prize - 200 Euro

B - Category:
1st Prize - 600 Euro
2nd Prize - 400 Euro
3rd Prize - 200 Euro

Eligibility:

worldwide

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

The applicant must have full copyright and privacy rights over the submitted photos. The organizers are not liable for disputes arising from their lack.

The candidates can upload the records on the https://vadon.ro/english/51 website, after registration. The name given at registration must match the name of the digital images.
Applicants will accept the registration conditions and agree with the fact that the organizers use the images freely and without the use of copyright in order to promote the exhibition. All photographs that do not comply with the above described conditions will be automatically excluded from the competition and the non-acceptance of the conditions also means exclusion.

Theme:

Nature Macro/Micro Open Theme Landscape Wildlife Black and White