Archive:Photo Contest 2010-11
You had an awesome last 12 month?
Your camera a permanent travel partner?
Another 20 GB of pics on your hard drive?
Some epic best shots ever?
Then I guess you should submit them to our annual photo contest!
The winner of each category will be published in color in the 53rd edition of the VOC Journal
The 2011 VOC photo competition is officially open!
The photo contest is broken down into six categories:
- A) Landscapes – Waterfalls, mountains, sunsets, etc. People are not the focus of the shot.
- B) Action Shots – Photos of people outdoors and in action, usually climbing, skiing, or mountaineering.
- C) Flora and fauna – Plants and animals only. A good place for macro's.
- D) Club Activities – Parties, longhike, winter longhike, glacier school, and all other club activities.
- E) Portraits – Portrait of a person. Preferably in an outdoor setting, and of someone in the club.
- F) Misc – Anything that doesn't fit in the other categories.
A final photo will be chosen as the best overall photo.
Judging: Photos will be judged by five members of the Executive – judges TBA
Prizes: The photograph chosen as best overall entry will be given a full colour page in the 2010/2011 VOC Journal. Other categories will have prizes for first place, and acknowledgements for runners-up. All winners and runners up, as well as other notable mentions will replace the current pictures on the VOC homepage. The winners and prizes will be announced during the VOC Banquet.
Submission: Photos will be accepted only via the VOC gallery on the website. To submit your photo's click “edit” on the photo you wish to submit, and under “keywords” add “a-contest2011” for category A pictures (landscapes), “b-contest2011” for category B pictures (climbing, skiing, mountaineering), and so on. Due to the large numbers of photos, this will be the only accepted method. If you've never used the VOC photo gallery, you can follow the instructions to get started.
Captions: Please ensure that you include the name of the photographer in the caption, as well as an actual caption. Having some kind of description is important because the judges would like to know what is going on in the photograph, as would the readers of the journal is the photo is a winner! (name is important because the person who took the photo isn't necessarily the person who posted it)
You may submit a maximum of SIX photos, distributed as you like amongst the categories. It is alright to submit several photos to the same category, as long as you don't go beyond the maximum of six photos. Note: If you submit too many photos, we will remove them from the contest. If a photo is not in the correct category, it will be removed from the contest. Due to the large number of submission, the judges will not move incorrectly categorized photos to the correct category.
Deadline for submissions: All submissions must be submitted via the photo gallery by February 15th at 4pm, due to publishing deadlines for the VOC journal.
