RULES / GUIDELINES
Who is Eligible?
- Open to all photographers world-wide.
Invitational Rules
- All photographic processes and formats are eligible.
- Images made in any location worldwide are eligible.
- Images must be in keeping with the mission of the ICP Awards.
- You may enter as many categories as you like, but you may submit only up to 4 entries per category.
How to Enter
Images produced in all film formats and types, including digitial media, are eligible. Once your entry fees have been sent and received, you will receive further instructions on submitting your images which will include submission in digital format via e-mail attachments to the ICP Awards.
No entries will be accepted by mail.
Entry Fees
The entry fee is $50(US) for up to 4 entries and $15(US) for each individual entry thereafter, with limit of 4 submissions per category. (Special category Documenting a Conservation Project may provide up to 6 images for the $50 (US) entry fee.
For entrants in the Student category the fee is $25(US) for up to 3 entries and $10(US) for each individual entry thereafter with no limit on the number of total entries allowed.
How to Pay Entry Fees and Submit Images
All submission fees will be paid on-line through this site’s shopping cart using your credit card or PayPal account. Follow instructions under the big green SUBMIT PHOTOS HERE button to the right. Here is where you will pay your fees and be instructed on how to submit your images. For international submissions, appropriate exchange-rates will automatically be accounted for.
Entry Period: November, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Digital Specifications
- Images must be no larger than 2.5 MB in JPEG format at maximum quality, with the longest dimension no larger than 1024 pixels, at a resolution of 72 dpi, in 8-bit RGB mode.
- Color management preferred ICC Profiles are Adobe RGB (1998) or sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
- Images must be named lastname_firstname_category_sequence#.jpg with no spaces in filename.
Examples: wolfe_art_landscape_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_02.jpg
If the category is too long, use the first word in the category. Example: Puget Sound at Risk = puget. - No border, embedded marks or logos.
Digital Manipulation Guidelines
Heavily manipulated images will not be accepted. Color and contrast adjustments, sharpening, burning and dodging, etc. will be accepted within reason so long as it does not alter the subject content of the original image.
Requirements for Selected Photographers and Images
Accurate caption information must be available should your image be chosen for the ICP Awards exhibit. This would include information regarding plant or animal species, where appropriate, and the state/province and country in which the photograph was taken. Wildlife images should include whether animal is wild or captive.
Photographers with the selected photographs must be prepared, prior to exhibit and awards, to submit a brief written paragraph on the artist’s intention and process in capturing the conservation-themed image(s).
Photographers whose images are selected for the exhibit agree to allow ICP Awards to post said images on the ICP Awards website, to publish/feature a selection of said images in both print and online magazines, to incorporate photographs in slideshow for educational and community outreach purposes, and to use said images for promotion of the ICP Awards. Photographers will receive appropriate credit in all cases.
The ICP Awards will discard all images not selected as winners after final jury decision is made.
Submission of Selected Images
Upon notification, selected photographers will be responsible for submitting a high resolution /high quality image file to match our exact specifications. The ICP Awards will print the images and provide high quality frames and mats for the exhibition at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and any potential subsequent showings during the following year.
IMPORTANT DATES
Opening Day - June 19
Exhibit tours with Cynthia Hall
and two talks by Art Wolfe
Web Galleries of Winners
will post here on June 19.
With appreciation to all the photographers who submitted
their outstanding photos for consideration this year.
Juried Exhibit
June 19 - September 6, 2010
at The Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture
at the University of
Washington, in Seattle.
