The Rules

1. There will be three age categories – child (primary); child (secondary) and adult
2. The winner of each category will receive – Child (primary) £25, Child (secondary) £50, adult £100.
3. Entrants may submit up to three photographs. Each entry should be marked with name, address, and phone number. Entries will be judged by a panel of judges, who will consider a range of factors including composition, technique, originality and interpretation of the brief.
4. We suggest approx. A4 size prints, and we will supply mounts for this size. Other sizes may be submitted, but must be mounted. The print should be no larger than A3 size, 420mm x 297mm, and the mount should not exceed 500mm x 400mm. We also ask that a jpg is supplied that is at least 5 megapixels.
5. Images may be enhanced to remove spots or scratches, make it brighter, clearer and so on, but not to manipulate the content. The judges reserve the right to exclude any image they believe may have been excessively treated so as to alter its authenticity.
6. Entrants must not be professional photographers and, for the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their annual income from the sale of their photographs or their services as a photographer.
7. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photographs entered and must have obtained permission of any people prominently featured in the entries or their parents/guardians if children under 16 are featured. Prior to submission, entries must not have been professionally commissioned; and entrants must not have offered any of their entries for sale, been paid for any publication of any of their entries, or won or been a runner up in any other photographic competition with any of their entries.
8. By submitting your photograph for entry into the competition you will retain your copyright and also hereby grant to the committee of St Monans Community Arts Festival (SMCAF), a royalty free, non assignable, worldwide, non exclusive license to use the photograph for publication for all time.
9. If you enter the competition your photograph may be exhibited, published on stmonans.org.uk and related facebook, twitter, and flickr accounts and may be used in publicity for St Monans and associated projects and by our sponsors in their magazines, publicity and website,.or in any other media. No fees will be payable for any of the above uses. Entrants whose photographs are one of the finalists also agree to take part in post-competition publicity. While we make every effort to credit photographers, including in printed reproductions of their work, we cannot guarantee that every use of the photographs will include photographers’ names.
10. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules and SMCAF reserves the right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time and in its absolute discretion if SMCAF has reason to believe that an entrant has breached these rules. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
11. Any commercial opportunities that arise following the publication of the submitted photograph will be notified to the photographer who will be free to negotiate terms independent of the competition. You will be free to decline any commercial usage licenses,
12. All personal data provided to SMCAF and the competition sponsors in relation to this competition will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and you hereby consent to us processing all personal data for the purposes of this competition.

Name………………………………………………..

Address…………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………….  Post Code…………………

Email………………………………………………………………………..

Signature………………………………………………………………………………

If under 16, a parent or guardian must sign.

By signing, you are confirming that you will abide by the rules above.

To arrange to hand in your photographs, please contact Ann West, 01333 739041