We are pleased to announce the 2007 AditNow Photography Competition, with a first prize of a Silva L1 headlamp, sponsored by ABC Powermarine of north Wales http://www.abcpm.co.uk/ 

The Silva L1 is a 3W Luxeon-powered headlamp, worth £69.95. It delivers a whopping 63-metre beam, massively more powerful than earlier conventional LED torches and 13m further than the Petzl Tikka XP in boost mode. Full details of the L1 can be found on Silva's website at this http://www.silva.se/Default.aspx?epslanguage=EN 

The full list of prizes is:
First prize Silva L1 3W headlamp, donated by ABC Powermarine
Second prize £40 of books, donated by Moore Books
Third prize Silva L2 1W headlamp
3 runners-up Framed print of their photograph

The competition is for photographs of old mine or quarry workings, which may be entered by uploading them to www.aditnow.co.uk and you may enter up to three photographs which will be judged individually. The theme for the 2007 competition is What we've left behind.

Competition Rules

1. General
(a) The closing date for submission of photographs is 23.59 on Sunday 30th September 2007
(b) All entries must be uploaded to www.aditnow.co.uk and showcased in a post in the relevant forum
(c) You may enter up to three photographs
(d) You may change any or all of your three photographs up to the closing date. Posts will be locked after the closing date.

2. Subject Matter
(a) The theme for the 2007 competition is What we've left behind
(b) Photographs should be of man-made remains of mining or quarrying
(c) You may enter up to three photographs, at least two of which must depict surface remains
(d) Only one of the three photographs may depict underground workings, but this is not required, ie all three may be of above-ground remains
(e) Suitable subject matter includes (but not limited to) buildings, spoil heaps, equipment, vehicles, structures, inclines, pits etc.
(f) Photographs should depict abandoned workings and not sites which are currently being worked
(g) Images exhibiting excessive digital enhancement will be disqualified.

3. How to enter
(a) If you are not a registered user, you will need to register before you can upload images - this can be done via the "My Aditnow.co.uk" link on the left hand side of the homepage
(b) Images should be uploaded as a JPEG file to the User Album of the relevant mine or quarry and should be between 1200x800 and 1600x1200 pixels
(c) Mines or quarries may be found by searching under "Find a Mine" on the Aditnow homepage: if the mine or quarry is not listed, please add it to the database
(d) When you upload an image, please add a description
(e) Once you have uploaded your images, please create a new topic in the The 2007 Aditnow Photography Competition forum http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewforum.aspx?f=33  entitled: "Competition Entry - username" and embed your three images in the post - the code to do this can be copied and pasted from the individual photograph's page, under "Link to photograph"
(f) An example entry may be found at this http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?t=247 

4. Copyright
(a) Copyright of the image will rest with the photographer
(b) Photographs may only be uploaded by the copyright holder
(c) AditNow will display the photographs via its usual web delivery service and will make no further use of them without the copyright holder's permission
(d) Photographs displayed at high resolution will be watermarked with the copyright holder's username.

5. Judging
(a) Entries will be judged by administrators of AditNow
(b) Photographs will be judged on photographic merit
(c) The top three photographs will be announced before the end of September 2007
(d) The judges' decision is final
(e) The first prize will be dispatched to the winner within 14 days of the result being announced.

6. Miscellaneous
(a) This competition is not open to anybody directly connected with Aditnow or ABC Powermarine.
(b) Aditnow reserves the right to modify these rules for reasons of clarification without notice and with immediate effect.

Note: we advise all participants to ensure that they have legal access to the sites they are photographing and that they remain in safe areas at all times. AditNow will not be held liable for any loss caused in taking photographs in order to enter this competition.


If you have any queries, please reply in this topic: rules will be modified for clarification if necessary.

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Thanks for setting this up Vanoord, nice idea, and look forward to seeing the entries.

I've created a new forum group for Competitions and moved this announcement and the example entry to a dedicated forum for The 2007 Aditnow Photography Competition http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewforum.aspx?f=33 

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[mod]Thread tidied up to remove chat[/mod]

Clarification of a number of issues:
- the closing date has been revised to 30/09/07
- you can change any of your pictures as many times as you want, up to the closing date
- pictures will be judged individually: you are however able to submit three pics to increase your chances of submitting a winning picture
- the judges can not enter, ie SimonRL and Vanoord: all other AN users can enter
- and finally, if there's any confusion, can I point people towards 5(b), above: Photographs will be judged on photographic merit Read into that what you will, but anyone entering pics of naked backsides in Dinorwig should not expect to win... 😮

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Images exhibiting excessive digital enhancement will be disqualified.

Just a quickie chaps, how is one to interpret what is and what isn't E.D.E. As in, one of the photo's I've submitted has been played with, the one with the colour taken out. Is this an instant disqualification?

Images exhibiting excessive digital enhancement will be disqualified.

Just a quickie chaps, how is one to interpret what is and what isn't E.D.E. As in, one of the photo's I've submitted has been played with, the one with the colour taken out. Is this an instant disqualification?

I think we had decided that manipulation of the contents of an image would not be permitted, for example moving objects about, airbrushing significant things out or adding in things that weren't there, like buzzards. And there are examples on this site already ;)

Anyway, I've got no particular problems with conversion of all or part of image to b&w, or indeed altering colour balances a bit in order to improve the image.

The line will be drawn when the image becomes what it is because you've made it in Photoshop rather than because you've taken a good pic in the first place.

Your thoughts, Mr.RL?

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what dpi should the images be uploaded at.

what dpi should the images be uploaded at.

I think 72dpi is the only resolution for images on the web in JPEG form? I tend to upload at around 1600x1200 or 2400x1800 if that's any help.

Cheers,
Simon

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Once the competition has closed would it be possible to create an albun so that we could see ALL of the entries, instead of having to look at individual entries??

(liking the new size of font on the reply boxex BTW :thumbup: )

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Nice idea Wormster 🙂 Will see to it sometime next week :thumbsup:

Edit - will do it after the judging though, as I wouldn't want judging to be influenced by chat about the entries.

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Nice idea Wormster 🙂 Will see to it sometime next week :thumbsup:

Edit - will do it after the judging though, as I wouldn't want judging to be influenced by chat about the entries.

Glad you liked it:thumbsup:

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