Kunzum.com Travel Photography Competition

India is a photographer’s delight with its natural features, wildlife, flora, people, cultures and festivals providing more fodder for a shutterbug’s creativity than one can chew.

So why not take out your camera, or dig out your stock, and participate in Kunzum.com’s travel photography competition? Bring out the spirit of a place, or its people, its flora and fauna, or things you may have done in India through photographs for a chance to win a professional LCD monitor from ViewSonic, or holidays from Banjara Camps?

Add to that the possibility of your images featuring in travel books to give you a portfolio to show off.

What are you waiting for you? The contest has already started, and you have up to August 31, 2008 to submit your entries. There are no guidelines here about the images to be submitted: We do not want your creativity to be restricted.

Will you be that talent who will show India in a new light?

OFFICIAL RULES, TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. Management, owners, employees and the family members of Kunzum.com and the sponsors are not eligible to participate.

2. THEME: The theme is travel and outdoors images taken in India only. These may taken from stock already owned by photographer.

3. PRIZES: The following are the assured prizes for winners. More may be added should further sponsorships be forthcoming:

• First Prize: ViewSonic VP series VP950b Monitor, a high end professional LCD monitor
• Second Prize: Two nights for couple at the premium Banjara Camps in Sangla in Himachal Pradesh (on a room only basis)
• Third Prize: Two nights for couple at the premium Banjara Camps in Thanedar in Himachal Pradesh (on a room only basis)
• Fourth Prize: Two nights for couple at the premium Banjara Camps in Sojha in Himachal Pradesh (on a room only basis)
• Ten Merit Prizes: A copy of Ajay Jain’s book, “Let’s Connect: Using LinkedIn to get ahead at work“
• 25 Bonus Prizes: 30 Free 4″x6″ prints for 25 participants by iTasveer.

Note: The Banjara Camps offer is valid for all times of the year except in May and June.

4. JUDGING: Shortlisted images will be judged by an eminent panel comprising those who understand and appreciate the art of photography, and will base their opinion on pure merit only. The names will be announced shortly. The final results will be declared in approximately 30-45 days after contest deadline ends. The decision of the judges will be final and binding on all participants.

5. ENTRIES TO BE FEATURED IN A BOOK: All merit entries will have the option to be published in high quality book/s to be published by Kunzum.com. All selected images will be suitably credited to the image owner, adding to one’s portfolio. However, the participant reserves the right NOT TO ALLOW his/her image to be used for this purpose.

6. CONTEST DURATION: The contest starts at 12:01 A.M. on July 1, 2008 and ends at 11:59 P.M. on August 31, 2008, Indian Standard Time. The organizers reserve the right to extend the contest duration by a period of not more than 15 days. Entries received after the submission deadline will not be considered. Kunzum.com will not be responsible for any entries delayed or lost in transit. Kunzum.com reserves the right to cancel the competition at any time, without prior notification or obligation, for any reason.

7. NUMBER OF ENTRIES: Each contestant may submit any number of entries. There is NO ENTRY FEE.

8. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All entries may be emailed to mail@kunzum.com. In this regard please note the following:
(a) Send in only one image per email. You may send any number of entries.
(b) Send as high a quality of the image as possible in any suitable format.
(c) Image file name must be titled “yourname-X-destination” where X stands for serial number. Your first submission must be numbered 1, next 2 and so on.
(d) In a text or Word file, also to be titled “yourname-X-destination” to match the image being submitted, provide the following information:
- Caption to image (Optional)
- Destination / Location
- Any write-up up to 500 words about the image (Optional)
- Shooting data like camera, lens, settings etc. (Optional)
- Date and Time when image was taken (Optional)
- Your Name, Your Complete Contact Information including Address, Telephone and Email
- A line stating “I have read, understood and agree to the terms of participation in the competition as given at http://kunzum.com/photo-contest.”

Images not conforming to the above may be disqualified.

9. ORIGINALITY & COPYRIGHT: All submissions must be genuine photographic images that are recognizable and not a completely created image. Digital retouching is allowed though restricted solely to simple color correction and cropping. Digitally manipulated images will be disqualified. Images need not be originally digital, and sent as scanned images. All work must be original. Contest participants must affirm that submissions are their original work and that they are the holder of the copyright or that they have the right to copyright any and all photographs submitted to this contest. The copyright shall stay with the participant at all times and the images will not be used for any purpose by Kunzum.com or the sponsors of this contest except for purposes outlined here.

10. DISPLAY OF ENTRIES: Kunzum.com reserves the right to display any or all of the entries submitted on Kunzum.com, and on any related accounts or sections set up on Flickr, Facebook, Orkut and other social media and image sharing websites. These may be put up even while the contest is open, and may be suitably reduced in size for web viewing. However, these will not be used for any commercial purposes by the organizers, sponsors or other parties without the explicit written permission of the image owner other than for marketing related material for this contest and any future editions of the same .

Terms and Conditions last updated: July 2, 2008

Contact

For more information and clarifications, contact

Ajay Jain
+91.99100 44476
ajay@ajayjain.com

(Please note that since I am travelling often, the mobile may not always work and there may be a delay in response to the mails due to lack of internet connectivity)