Your Yorkshire Dales National Park: a snapshot
General - Your entry - Naming your files - File sizes - Digital adjustments - Copies - Judging - Prizes - Copyright and permissions - Liability
General information about the photo competition
‘Your Yorkshire Dales National Park: a snapsot’ is a photographic display and competition run and owned by ‘Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’. In the following terms and conditions the references to ‘Your Yorkshire Dales National Park: a snapsot’, ‘Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’ and ‘the competition’ are interchangeable.
There are two elements to ‘Your Yorkshire Dales National Park: a snapsot’. Firstly, images and text will be considered as part of a prize-winning competition, and secondly, images and text will be used as part of the consultation process and will inform the creation of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Management Plan and Vision documents.
The competition is open to everyone except employees, volunteers and Members of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. It is not open for the judges or their friends or family to enter either. Submission of images for consideration in the consultation is permitted for everyone.
Photographs must be taken of the Yorkshire Dales National Park but there is no time limit of when they must have been taken.
All entries must be submitted digitally (scans from film are acceptable) and must be emailed to yourthoughts@yorkshiredales.org.uk. No entries will be accepted by mail. No digital files will be returned.
The competition opens on 16 January 2012 and closes at 3PM on the 9 November 2012. No entries or image uploads can be accepted after this time. Please make sure that you allow enough time to complete your entry.
A maximum total of five images per entrant may be submitted across the four categories – wildlife and habitats, people and places, fun and adventure, and farming, tourism and other employment. These may be submitted together or separately at any point while the competition is open. Once your limit of five images has been reached all subsequent entries from you will not be accepted to the competition.
Colour, black and white, panoramic and square images are all accepted.
There are no entry fees payable but entrants should be aware that they may be subject to local call charges depending on their own individual arrangements for Internet access.
Your entry
Image files should be emailed to yourthoughts@yorkshiredales.org.uk along with the accompanying text for each image, please use the downloadable Entry Form to record this text and submit the details of the image. If both text and photos are not received then your photograph will not be entered into the competition. See below about how to name your files.
Some file sizes are too large to email. Please reduce your images so that you do not email more than 3MB at one time. Make sure you do not save over your originals as, if you are a winner, we will ask you to supply us with a copy of your larger image. If you can not supply us with a larger image your image may then be removed from the competition and an alternative winner/runner-up chosen. See file sizes for information about what size we would expect you to be able to supply photographs as if requested to do so.
No responsibility can be taken by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority for images that are submitted incorrectly, that are not received, that are corrupt or not possible to open, or that you are unable to send.
Naming your files
Please name your digital photo files with your surname, initial and then image number and the word ‘photo’. For example, if your name is John Smith and you are submitting five images, your numbers would run from smithj1photo.jpg to smith5photo.jpg.
Download and complete an Entry Form and save it with your surname, initial and then the word ‘form’. For example, smithjform.pdf
Please do not include capital letters, spaces or any other characters in your file names. All images will be cross-referenced by the organisers with a unique identifying number so that the judging is completely anonymous.
File sizes
Images from digital cameras or camera phones can be submitted but must have been taken using a camera with a sufficiently high resolution to allow the image to be reproduced at A4 size (at 300 ppi). We recommend that you use a camera of 4 mega pixels or more. Please ensure that your camera is on its highest-quality setting when taking photographs for this competition.
Images that have been scanned are also eligible, but also must be of a high-resolution and of a high quality. Please ensure that your scanner is on its highest-quality setting.
Some file sizes are too large to email. Please reduce your images so that you do not email more than 3MB at one time. Make sure you do not save over your originals as, if you are a winner, we will ask you to supply us with a copy of your larger image.
Digital adjustments
Digital adjustments, including High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques and the joining together of multiple frames, are allowed. The organisers reserve the right to disqualify any image from the competition that they feel lacks authenticity due to over-manipulation.
Copies
Please ensure that you keep copies of submitted images. The organisers will take all reasonable steps to ensure the safe storage and back-up of entries, but cannot be held responsible for any loss, damage or exceptional circumstances including Acts of God.
Judging
All entries will be assessed by a judging panel. The panel will look at both the photograph and the words to make their decision.
All winners will be informed by email. If required, they will be asked to supply a high quality version of their image within ten days and if one is not supplied they will be removed from the competition. The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority cannot be held responsible for emails that do not arrive. A list of the winners will be published on the Yorkshire Dales National Park website from December 2012.
Prizes
There will be both an adult overall winner and an under-18s overall winner. Each will win:
a prized spot in the Your Yorkshire Dales National Park photo exhibition at Dales Countryside Museum in February 2013;
a framed copy of their image for them to keep;
their picture featured in The Visitor 2013, the official guide to the Yorkshire Dales National Park which is read by over 200,000 people;
their picture featured on a range of postcards sold at National Park Centres
their picture featured on www.yorkshiredales.org.uk
a backpack filled with delicious local produce to help keep them fuelled on their next photo expedition.
The top five photos (including the overall winners) will:
have their image turned into a postcard which will be sold across National Park Centres in the Yorkshire Dales;
their picture featured on www.yorkshiredales.org.uk.
The top 20 photos (including the overall winners) will:
feature in a public exhibition in February 2013 at Dales Countryside Museum
appear in the National Park Management Plan or Yorkshire Dales National Park Vision documents.
The organisers reserve the right to change prizes to ones of comparable value if required by unforeseen circumstances. Any such changes will be posted on the competition website. Prizes are not transferable and no cash equivalent will be available for non-cash prizes.
Copyright and permissions
By submitting images to ‘Your Yorkshire Dales National Park: a snapshot’ each entrant confirms and warrants that:
they are the sole author of each entry and that it is their original work;
they own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights of each image;
they have the permission of those pictured in the image (or, where the image shows any persons under 18, the consent of their parent/guardian) for the usage rights required by Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and will indemnify the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement;
they have not licensed or disposed of any rights in the image that would conflict with uses to be made by Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority; and
they have received any necessary permissions from the owner(s) of buildings included in submitted images for the usage rights required by Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and will indemnify Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement.
By entering the competition, you grant Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and its supporters a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for any purpose connected with the competition, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Management Plan 2013 to 2017 and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Vision.
This may include, but is not limited to:inclusion in the Management Plan and Vision documents as well as The Visitor and Dales newspapers – print and digital versions;
display at any exhibitions;
on the Yorkshire Dales National Park website and on the websites of supporters;
for use in press releases to be distributed to national, regional and specialist press giving information about or promoting the competition;
use in presentations;
for use on postcards that will be sold as part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s retails stock.
Entrants also agree that the organisers can sub-license images to the media for reproduction in connection with the competition.
Copyright of each image is retained by its respective photographer.
All suitable photographs and text submitted for the competition or as part of the consultation will appear on the Yorkshire Dales National Park website and associated social media sites. Your first name and general location (settlement, dale or county) will be published along with it.
Prize winners agree to take part in post-competition publicity.
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority reserves the right to remove any entries from the competition that:
it feels may breach or contravene laws of public decency or may bring the photographer, the competition, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority or any related organisations or communities into disrepute. Such entries will be deemed as void.
appear to have been taken by a member of the public trespassing.
The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Should the entries in any category fall below the standard required by the competition organisers and the judges, then the organisers reserve the right not to award prizes.
Any queries should be directed to yourthoughts@yorkshiredales.org.uk
This competition adheres to the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authorities Data Protection Policy.
By accepting the terms and conditions of the competition and consultation and subsequently submitting your images, you have entered into an agreement with Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Once entered, images and text cannot be withdrawn unless the organisers are notified of a permissions problem, in which case the images will be withdrawn on request of the copyright holder (entrant).
Liability
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury incurred as a result of participation in, or other involvement with, the competition, to the extent allowed by law.
The information given in these Terms and Conditions is correct, but Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority reserves the right to change any of the above without prior notice. By entering the competition, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. Any breach of these Terms by an entrant will void their entry. If a breach has occurred, but is discovered after the award of a prize, then the organisers may request the return of that prize.
