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Gathering Waters Conservancy encourages photographers statewide to lend your talent to our mission -- help us protect Wisconsin's special places.
We’re looking for images of Wisconsin landscapes and the people who enjoy them. We’re interested in what you find beautiful – sweeping landscapes, close-ups, and people at work and at play in the outdoor places that make us love Wisconsin. We are especially excited about images from lands protected by Wisconsin land trusts.
Winners Will Receive
Cash: $200 for overall winner: $100 for winners in each category
Fame: we’ll post winning photos on our website and print them in our newsletter
Lasting appreciation: the winning photographs will be printed, framed, and given as the awards at the 2010 Land Conservation Leadership Awards Celebration on September 30, 2010 in Madison
A toast: all winners will receive complementary registration to that Awards Celebration
Judging
Images will be judged on overall impact and connection to Gathering Waters Conservancy’s mission, technical excellence, composition and artistic merit. The judges GWC staff under the guidance of Award-Winning designer Kristin Redman and National Geographic Magazine Senior Photo Editor, Sadie Quarrier.
Contest Categories
Gathering Waters Conservancy will award one overall winner and winners in each of the following categories:
People Protecting Wisconsin – images of people at work or play outside in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s Land Trusts – image taken from lands protected through the actions of a non-profit land trust or conservancy.
What's a land trust? See the Protected Places Info Sheet. Stewardships’ Successes – images taken from lands protected with funds from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program. For more information about how to find Stewardship Lands, see the Proteced Places Info Sheet.
Student Submissions – if we receive at least 10 submissions from students entering 9th grade through college, we will judge them in their own category.
Contest Rules
1. All images must be from places in Wisconsin. Photos of places protected by land trusts are strongly encouraged. For information about how to find land-trust and Stewardship Fund-protected places, see the Protected Places Info Sheet.
2. YOUR RIGHTS: You retain all rights to any photograph you submit other than those rights licensed by the next sentence. By entering the contest, you hereby grant to Gathering Waters Conservancy a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display the photographs you submit to this contest and the right to use your name in any print, digital, online or other communications. Gathering Waters Conservancy will credit photographers and will use images in pursuit of our mission. Previously published material for which non-exclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license.
3. All recognizable people in submitted photos must be willing to have their picture used in Gathering Waters Conservancy’s print and online communications. Photographers must be able to document subject consent upon request (any documented confirmation – email, video, voice recording, etc. will be accepted).
4. Student entries are encouraged from students in 9th grade through college.
5. All photos must be submitted no later than September 1, 2010
6. Entries are limited to 5 per photographer
How to Submit Photos
We will accept digital photos as JPEG files. Scanned images are allowed, but must be formatted JPEG, please. Image resolution: To ensure photos will reproduce well in print, entries must have a resolution of 5 million pixels or greater (5 megapixels). Send photos with the following information:
Photographer name, phone, email & mailing address
Location of the picture
Contest Category (for student submissions, please include the name of course and/or school where you are enrolled e.g. Photography 101, UW-MarathonCounty)
Confirmation that subjects agree to GWC use of the image. Please include in your communication this language: “I confirm that all recognizable individuals in the images I have submitted agree to Gathering Waters Conservancy’s use of the images.”
note: some of you have asked for a sample photo release form. Here's the one GWC currently uses.
Any additional description you’d like us to have.
Photos can be emailed to photos@gatheringwaters.org or mailed on a CD to:
Photo Contest
Gathering Waters Conservancy
211 S. Paterson, Ste 270
Madison, WI 53703
photo courtesy of Mario Quintana
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Gathering Waters Conservancy's 2010 Photo Contest 