Peel Online – Photos of the Month competition
Peel Online
invites all photographers, locals or visitors, amateur or professional, to
submit photographs taken in and around Peel throughout the coming year for inclusion
in its “Photos of the Month” feature.
Photographs
should feature events, activities, people and happenings around the Town.
Photos can be “newsworthy”, or they may be scenic or include wildlife
reflecting the current season. Photographs included in Photos of the Month over
the last year have included: the January storms, fireworks, the Carnival, Peel Day, Vintage Car Rally, the new year dip, building work around the town, and more…
The best
photographs submitted each month will be displayed on Peel Online and the Peel Online Facebook page where they will be voted on by Facebook followers each month. The best will go
forward at around October/November each year to be judged to receive prizes. The best
photographs will secure a share of a £100 prize for the photographer.
Photographs will
be judged on their merits in capturing life around the town, and in displaying
well on a computer screen, as well as the conventional compositional merits of
photography.
Topical
photographs should be submitted as soon as possible after the event to increase
chances of the photo being used on the site.
A calendar will be produced for sale containing a photograph for each month of the year. In order to allow for printing and sales prior to the year of the calendar, the calendar will be made up of photographs from the the previous two years of the competition. Photographers will be credited on the calendar. Any profits will go to a local charity.
Rules
Contributors
should supply their name, address and either telephone or email address.
Photographs
must be in digital format and supplied by email to photos@peelonline.net .
A
maximum of 5 photographs per photographer per month applies.
There
are no deadlines for submission of photographs during the year; they should be
sent as soon as possible after the event, and within the month they were taken. The competition will be judged on
photographs received up to the end of October or November according to the date of the Peel Commissioners' Peel Achievers event.
Photographs
will be displayed on the site as a “thumbnail” size 200 pixels wide (landscape)
or 200 pixels high (portrait) and linked to a larger-sized image of around 600
pixels wide or high, and on Facebook at 851 pixels wide. A file size of 150k in JPEG format is normally sufficient for clear
display on a computer screen, and should be insufficient to enable site visitors to produce high
quality prints from the image. Peel Online reserves the right to crop the image
to produce the “thumbnail” image unless requested not to by the photographer.
Acknowledgements
will be given to the photographer, and copyright will remain with photographer.
Images should not have a copyright statement included on the image, unless it
is small, unobtrusive and placed in one corner of the image. Peel Town
Commissioners reserve the right to use photographs in publicity and marketing
material, including as our Facebook cover photo; appropriate acknowledgement will be given.
Photographs
containing children who might be identified must be accompanied by a statement
that parental permission was requested and has been given to use the image on
the web site.
Photographers
should supply a caption or description to accompany the photograph, including
names of the subjects. Children will not be named on the web site without personal
authority from their parents. This will be subsequently confirmed by Peel
Online by telephone or email.
Peel
Online has the right not to use any photographs that it deems to be potentially
controversial or unsuitable in any way.
Commissioners,
their relatives, staff of the Town Hall and Peel Online and their relatives are
welcome to submit photographs for use on the site but will not be eligible to
receive a prize.