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Wild Rivers: Photo Competition
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Capture your favourite New Zealand wild river this summer
Forest & Bird is looking for winning photographs of wonderful rivers in their wild and natural state. Photos can show human activities on a wild river, or river flora or fauna, or a landscape.
Photo: Craig Potton, Dart River
Two entry categories:
1. New Zealand river landscape without people
2. New Zealand river landscape with people
- One entry per person in each category.
- Entries must be emailed to photocomp@forestandbird.org.nz
- Digital entries only – photographers can scan prints or transparencies and email them.
- Jpeg and tiff files accepted. Initial entries must be 500Kb-2Mb and winners will be asked to provide larger files or the original print/transparency.
- Images must not be digitally manipulated, apart from cropping, resizing, exposure or tonal adjustments.
- Email your entry with your name, postal address, daytime phone number and the name of the river or other waterway.
- Send up to 100 words about the river and your experience of it (this is purely for background information, and is not part of the judging process).
- Top wilderness photographer Craig Potton is the judge.
- Entry is open to photographers of all nationalities.
- Winning photos will be printed and displayed in a wild rivers road show touring New Zealand in 2010.
- Apart from winners of each category, up to 11 runner-up pictures from each category will be chosen for display in the wild rivers road show.
- Photographers will retain copyright but their photos may be used in print, online and display material in the wild rivers campaign.
- The judge’s decision is final and will not be discussed.
- Entry is open to everyone except Forest & Bird staff and executive members.
Key dates
- Entries must be taken from 1 November 2009 - 15 March 2010.
- Entries can be submitted from 1 January - 15 March 2010.
- Winners will be announced on 31 March 2010.
Prizes
Leica D-Lux 4 Camera and case worth $1700 from Camera & Camera – 162 Queen Street, Auckland: www.camera-camera.com
Outdoor Research Mentor GORE-TEX ProShell Jacket worth $700 from Bivouac – www.bivouac.co.nz
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Wilderness cover
New Zealand’s Wilderness Heritage by Craig Potton and Les Molloy worth $100 from Craig Potton Publishing – www.craigpotton.co.nz. Capture your favourite New Zealand wild river this summer
