Mountain Sports Photography Competition and Cash Prizes up to 1,400 euros from CVCEPHOTO

CVCEPHOTO invites professional and amateur photographers around the world to participate in the 2021 competition. The theme of the competition for this year is “MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY”: Any image related to sports activities (non-motorized) that take place on mountains. (For instance: alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding...)

Eligibility Criteria:

• The contest is open to all amateur or professional photographers around the world.
• Participation is free.
• It's understood that underage participants have a parent or tutor authorization to participate.
• If they should win the contest, such authorization will be required.

Rules & Terms:

• Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photographs. There won´t be accepted any photos previously submitted to this contest. Only pictures taken by digital cameras are accepted.
• The RAW digital format of the submitted images must be available. Participants must warrant that the submitted photographs are an original work created solely by the entrant and that he or she owns the copyright of the work that is being presented.
• CVCEPHOTO takes as granted that the participant has the authorization and/or the permission of the persons that appear in the photographs submitted to the contest.
• Digitally modifying or manipulating the images submitted is not allowed. Only moderate changes are allowed to the picture as a whole, provided they affect only: contrast, color correction, luminosity, white balance, tone, shade, or focus.
• Panoramic images and moderately trimmed images are accepted as long as the original composition is respected.
• Works must be submitted in JPEG format and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,200 pixels wide (if a vertical image), converted to color space sRGB with the profile being embedded in the file.
• All digital images must be 2 megabytes or smaller.
• Works must not include frames or footers. Works must be submitted exclusively through the ENTRY FORM.

Prizes:

• 1st Prize: 1,400 Euros + Exclusive and unique trophy created by Iñigo Arístegui, the artist.
• 2nd Prize: 700 Euros.
• 3rd Prize: 300 Euros.
• 17 Honorable mentions: DIPLOMAS.
• “BBK MENDI FILM BILBAO-BIZKAIA Poster” Prize: 700 Euros and BBK MENDI FILM Poster.
• “International Alpine Film Festival Les Diablerets (FIFAD) Poster” Prize: 700 Euros and FIFAD Poster.

SPECIFIC RULES REGAR-DING THE “BBK MENDI FILM BILBAO-BIZKAIA Poster” and “FIFAD Poster” PRIZES:

• BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia and International Alpine Film Festivalin Les Diablerets (FIFAD)associates of CVCEPHOTO are two recognized mountain and adventure cinema festivals, and both of them are members of the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM.
• The first is celebrated in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, and the second in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
• All the photographs presented to CVCEPHOTO will compete for these prizes.
• Photographs can be used both in horizontal or vertical format, that contains space for the incorporation of text or sponsor logos without excessively altering their significance.
• Images with elements or equipment with logos too visible will be rejected.
• The photos must not have been used previously in an advertising campaign.
• The “BBK Mendi Film Poster 2021” and “FIFA Poster 2022” prize-winning photographs cannot be used in any advertising campaign until the next edition of the BBK Mendi Film and FIFAD have been concluded (December 2022 and August 2023 respectively).
• The images will be used as the poster of the BBK MENDI FILM BILBAO-BIZKAIA, and the FIFAD as well as streamers, cards, web, etc... to promote the festivals, always crediting the author.
• The property and the rights of the image will continue to belong to the author of the photograph.

Timeline:

• REGISTRATION: From 1st January to 31st March 2021.
• RAW AND HIGH-RESOLUTION FILES REQUEST: From 13th April 2021.
• NOTIFICATION to SHORT-LISTED: 6th May 2021.
• AWARDS CEREMONY, OPENING of EXPOSITION and RELEASE on WEB of WORKS BEING SELECTED: 29th May 2021.

About CVCEPHOTO:

CVCEPHOTO is the International Mountain Activity Photo Contest organized by Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, a mountaineering club from San Sebastian.

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