Rules for the 2012 Photography Contest
TERM
The Anastasia State Park Photography Contest begins August 15, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. US Eastern Time and ends at 9:00 p.m. November 15, 2012. US Eastern Time. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to the Official Rules and warrants that his or her entry complies with all requirements set out in the Official Rules.
WHO MAY ENTER
Contest is open to all ages. If the contestant is under 18, a parent or legal guardian must complete and sign the Release by the Photographer portion of the Photograph Entry Form. Florida Department of Environmental Protection employees and relatives are not eligible to participate in the 2012 Photo Contest. Each photo submitted by a registered photographer must be accompanied by a photo entry form signed by the photographer. This form includes a Release by the Photographer granting Anastasia State Park, Florida State Parks, and the Friends of Anastasia State Park the royalty-free and nonexclusive right to distribute, publish and use the photograph(s) in publications to promote Florida's state parks and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
HOW TO ENTER
Each entry consists of an entry form per single image, and a receipt or copy of your receipt from your paid entry fee to the park, with the dates of August 15, 2012-November 15, 2012. The entry fee is one paid park admission or season pass entry per submission. Complete an entry form with the required information, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and photo caption; and submit along with your photograph, and proof of receipt in accordance with the instructions that follow. There are two ways to submit photographs. Please do not send prints.
1. Contestants may email their digital photos (up to 5 MB) to [email protected] with a read receipt. Completed Photograph Entry Forms with Release by the Photographer and Model Release forms may be scanned and emailed to the same email address.
2. Contestants may submit photographs digitally by mail on a CD or DVD with required forms. Please do not send prints.
Mailing address: 1340A A1A South St. Augustine, FL 32080 Attn: Cristy Leonard, Photo Contest
RELEASES
Entry materials will not be returned.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Anastasia State Park, and Friends of Anastasia State Park, Inc. has non-exclusive rights to crop registered photographs for display purposes, if necessary, and for other needs as required or as they see fit.
In the event that ownership of any photograph submitted to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is contested in any manner, Florida Department of Environmental Protection reserves the right to discontinue use of said photograph and disqualify the photograph from the contest.
Entries that fail to comply with the Contest Rules will be disqualified.
If the photograph contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, and/or if any persons appear in the photograph, the entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the photograph, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the exhibition and use of the photograph in the manner set forth in these Official Rules without additional compensation. If any person appearing in any photograph is under the age of majority in their state/province/territory of residence the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required on each release.
JUDGING
Judges will base their decisions on the following qualities: focus, lighting composition, impact, creativity, and storytelling. Photographs may be color or black and white. Photographs may be either vertical or horizontal. Minor digital enhancements for cropping, red-eye removal, filters and corrective functions are permitted, but images that have been altered significantly will be disqualified. Contestants are not permitted to place borders, frames or backgrounds around their images or to place watermarks, dates, signatures or copyright images onto photos.
1) Wildlife (2) Landscape (3) Dusk or Dawn 4) People/Activities. There is no limit on the number of entries per person. Each entry must comply with the following requirements (the "Photograph Requirements"):
Photographs must be in digital format. Only digital entries will be eligible. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this Contest. All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or JPG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,600 pixels tall (if a vertical image).
Photographs must have been taken within the dates of requirement August 15, 2012-November 15, 2012. Only minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping. High dynamic range images (HDR) and stitched panoramas are NOT acceptable.
The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph.
The photograph must not contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content.
All entries must be submitted and received by November 15, 2012 at 9: 00 p.m. ET.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By entering this Contest, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Anastasia Stat Park and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
Anastasia State Park assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Anastasia State Park is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest.
CONDITIONS
By entering, entrants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the Judges are final and binding with respect to all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if the entrant wins that Sponsor may use the winning photographs and each winner's name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except where prohibited by law). All federal, state/provincial/territorial, and local taxes, fees and surcharges and taxes (whether foreign or domestic, and including income, sales, and import taxes) on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible, cannot be traced or does/do not respond within ten (10) days to a winner notification as required by the "Contest Prizes" Rules above, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another entrant.
Anastasia State Park reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant's identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Official Rules or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
WINNERS LIST
Entrants are responsible for complying with these Official Rules. Winners' names will be available online at anastasiaphotographycontest.weebly.com on or before December 15, 2012.
The Anastasia State Park Photography Contest begins August 15, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. US Eastern Time and ends at 9:00 p.m. November 15, 2012. US Eastern Time. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to the Official Rules and warrants that his or her entry complies with all requirements set out in the Official Rules.
WHO MAY ENTER
Contest is open to all ages. If the contestant is under 18, a parent or legal guardian must complete and sign the Release by the Photographer portion of the Photograph Entry Form. Florida Department of Environmental Protection employees and relatives are not eligible to participate in the 2012 Photo Contest. Each photo submitted by a registered photographer must be accompanied by a photo entry form signed by the photographer. This form includes a Release by the Photographer granting Anastasia State Park, Florida State Parks, and the Friends of Anastasia State Park the royalty-free and nonexclusive right to distribute, publish and use the photograph(s) in publications to promote Florida's state parks and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
HOW TO ENTER
Each entry consists of an entry form per single image, and a receipt or copy of your receipt from your paid entry fee to the park, with the dates of August 15, 2012-November 15, 2012. The entry fee is one paid park admission or season pass entry per submission. Complete an entry form with the required information, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and photo caption; and submit along with your photograph, and proof of receipt in accordance with the instructions that follow. There are two ways to submit photographs. Please do not send prints.
1. Contestants may email their digital photos (up to 5 MB) to [email protected] with a read receipt. Completed Photograph Entry Forms with Release by the Photographer and Model Release forms may be scanned and emailed to the same email address.
2. Contestants may submit photographs digitally by mail on a CD or DVD with required forms. Please do not send prints.
Mailing address: 1340A A1A South St. Augustine, FL 32080 Attn: Cristy Leonard, Photo Contest
RELEASES
Entry materials will not be returned.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Anastasia State Park, and Friends of Anastasia State Park, Inc. has non-exclusive rights to crop registered photographs for display purposes, if necessary, and for other needs as required or as they see fit.
In the event that ownership of any photograph submitted to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is contested in any manner, Florida Department of Environmental Protection reserves the right to discontinue use of said photograph and disqualify the photograph from the contest.
Entries that fail to comply with the Contest Rules will be disqualified.
If the photograph contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, and/or if any persons appear in the photograph, the entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the photograph, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the exhibition and use of the photograph in the manner set forth in these Official Rules without additional compensation. If any person appearing in any photograph is under the age of majority in their state/province/territory of residence the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required on each release.
JUDGING
Judges will base their decisions on the following qualities: focus, lighting composition, impact, creativity, and storytelling. Photographs may be color or black and white. Photographs may be either vertical or horizontal. Minor digital enhancements for cropping, red-eye removal, filters and corrective functions are permitted, but images that have been altered significantly will be disqualified. Contestants are not permitted to place borders, frames or backgrounds around their images or to place watermarks, dates, signatures or copyright images onto photos.
1) Wildlife (2) Landscape (3) Dusk or Dawn 4) People/Activities. There is no limit on the number of entries per person. Each entry must comply with the following requirements (the "Photograph Requirements"):
Photographs must be in digital format. Only digital entries will be eligible. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this Contest. All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or JPG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,600 pixels tall (if a vertical image).
Photographs must have been taken within the dates of requirement August 15, 2012-November 15, 2012. Only minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping. High dynamic range images (HDR) and stitched panoramas are NOT acceptable.
The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph.
The photograph must not contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content.
All entries must be submitted and received by November 15, 2012 at 9: 00 p.m. ET.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By entering this Contest, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Anastasia Stat Park and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
Anastasia State Park assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Anastasia State Park is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest.
CONDITIONS
By entering, entrants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the Judges are final and binding with respect to all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if the entrant wins that Sponsor may use the winning photographs and each winner's name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except where prohibited by law). All federal, state/provincial/territorial, and local taxes, fees and surcharges and taxes (whether foreign or domestic, and including income, sales, and import taxes) on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible, cannot be traced or does/do not respond within ten (10) days to a winner notification as required by the "Contest Prizes" Rules above, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another entrant.
Anastasia State Park reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant's identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Official Rules or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
WINNERS LIST
Entrants are responsible for complying with these Official Rules. Winners' names will be available online at anastasiaphotographycontest.weebly.com on or before December 15, 2012.