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Nature photography competition

Deadline: 5 January 2020

8 categories:

Magnificent Wilderness (landscape photography)
The Beauty of Plants (plant phtography)
Nature as Art (shape, colour and abstraction of nature)
Artist of Wings (bird photography)
The World of Mammals (images of mammals)
Diversity of all other Animals (animal kingdom except birds and mammals)
Moments in Nature (images of special moments in nature)
Aerial Views of Nature (nature pictures by multicopter)

Artist may submit 5 images in each category.

No more than 25 total images.


Entry fee
The entry fee is € 20 per person

Prizes
The overall winner will receive € 2,500.
Each of the category winners will receive € 500.
The Junior Award winner will receive € 500 and Olympus camera equipment worth € 1,700

Total sum of prizes is more than 30,000 € (12,000 in cash, 18,000 in special prizes)

Details:
https://www.glanzlichter.com/guidelines.cfm

Photo and video competition

Deadline: 1st December 2019

The Maria Luisa Memorial is calling, one more time, photographers and filmmakers, both amateurs and professionals, to the thirtieth edition of their contest, with the purpose of being able to find new and innovative images that allow us to continue with the promotion of the artistic work at the same time as with the diffusion of the natural environment and its necessary protection.

CATEGORIES
A/ Mountain    Landscape:Captions    showing    mountains    and    their environment, in any of their forms.

B/ Alpinism: Captions showing alpinism, climbing on ice, mountain ski and the world of heights from a sports point of view, as well as the rest of the sports typical of high mountain and winter mountain.

C/ Mountain climbing: Captions showing rock climbing, bouldering and the vertical world.

D/ Adventure and extreme sports:the purpose of this thematic category will be the photographs of all types of adventure activities and extreme sports which are practiced in the area mountains and nature, other than those referred to in paragraphs B / and C /, such as kayaking, highline,mountain biking, paragliding, mountain running, canyoning, caving, cave diving, scuba diving, wingsuit, surf, etc.

E/  Man  in  the  Mountain  and/or  Nature:the  photos  showing  a  socio-cultural  content  referred  to  the  native  people  of  the  mountains  and  to natural  environments,  as  well  as  to  their  customs,  traditions  and  ways  of life,  also  those  representative  of  hiking  and  trekking  activities  which  can take place in these natural areas will fall within this category.

F/ Animal World:Any animal photographed in their environment.

G/ The world of birds:any bird photographed in their environment.

H/  Vegetal  world:Any  vegetal  species  photographed  in  its  environment. Fungi are included.

I/  Submerged  World:The  theme  of  this  category  are  the  photographs  of fauna,  flora  and  ecosystems  characteristic  of  the  submerged  areas,  both freshwater and saltwater.

J/ Biodiversity: captions in this category will show animals or plants in their natural habitat. Judges will take into account the link between the different species and their environment and, also, the image composition criteria on the environment.

K/ Nature landscapes:Rest of landscapes not included in the A Category.

L/ Creative   photo:Captions   where   forms,   textures,   colours,  etc  are determining in the composition. Abstract and creative photo.

M/ Macro picture: the world of the smallest ones. Macro photography.

N -Topic of the year:Photography using drones, with aerial and zenithal perspective.The mountain, nature and adventure as well as the life forms that  are  their  own  and  any  of  the  sports  that  are  practiced  in  them, photographed using a drone, with aerial or zenithal perspective.

O/  Videos,  films  or  documentaries:  Its  conductor  axis  should  be the mountain, nature and / or adventure, as well as sports and other activities that are practiced in those environments, referring to its theme  to any of those described for the previous catego


Entry fee
 €22 for adult photographers.
Free for the young photographers (under 20).

Prizes
The overall winner will receive 3,000 €.
The category winner will receive 300 €.
Young Photographers Prize: Samsung Tablet.
Special award for the theme of the year: Citizen Watch.
Award for best video, film, documentary: voucher worth 3,000 € for shopping in Foto Ruano.

Deadline:
28.02.2017

After the success of last year edition (25.000 photos in the contest from 62 nations, 60 screening events in museums and clubs throughout Italy) Oasis PhotoContest is ready to start again.

The competition is divided into 10 categories. In 8 of these categories contestants needs to supply the RAW file in order to qualify for the category prizes.

P) LANDSCAPES Images showing natural habitats. They can be either wild landscapes or landscapes modified by the human presence. (farms, dwellings, roads…)
M) MAMMALS It refers to images that feature mammals in a natural state, it can be wildlife pictures or portraits, with the exception of bats, that should be submitted in Birds and Bats category, and whales underwater, that should be submitted in Underwater Photography category. Pictures of whales taken from a boat belongs to this category. Any photo portraying plant or animal underwater belongs to Underwater Photography category
U) BIRDS AND BATS Images that show birds or bats in their natural state, being wildlife photography or portrait. Photos depicting birds in immersion underwater should be submitted in Underwater Photography category.
T) ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS This category is for all the other species that are not included in the aforementioned sections (P, M, S, A and U.) This section would be for reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, invertebrates, shellfish, annelids, arachnids, insects, myriapods… Images of fishes taken from a boat (flying gurnard) or from the ground (salmons jumping) belong to this category.
F) STORYBOARD It refers to five or more images linked together by a logical sequence. The subject must be developed by a minimum of 5 images and a maximum of 9. The photos can be taken in sequence or in different moments but strictly connected with each other, and they must tell a story about nature, wildlife, ethology or natural environments and territory.
G) PEOPLE includes images that show indigenous peoples or tribes and ethnicity all over the world, in particular people living in the wilderness with primal traditions and costumes.
S) UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs under the water with underwater technical equipment. Photos can be taken in freshwater or marine environment. (Underwater flora, fishes, whales submerging, amphibian or birds submerging).
V) PLANTS It‘s for the images that represent flowers, plants, mushrooms either taken with macro photography techniques or with classic techniques
CATEGORIES IN WHICH ORGINAL FILE IS NOT REQUIRED

Q) OPEN NATURE Includes pictures portraying natural environment, landscapes, flowers, plants and mushrooms
R) OPEN ANIMALS It refers to animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, echinoderms, insects, crustaceans, annelids, mollusks, sponges) being either domestic or in the wild or in captivity (animal rescue centre, wildlife parks, zoos)

Entry fee:
25 €

Prizes:
International OASIS Photographer: € 2,500
Italian OASIS Photographer: € 1,500
OASIS Magazine Award: € 1,000
RAW categories:
First Place: € 800
Runner Up: € 400
Open categories:
First place: € 500

Details:
http://oasisphotocontest.it/regolamento_en/