Nature Year Photo 2010
That day I was on my way to Haanja. Starting off from snowless Tallinn, the trip seemed to go across several latitudes. The further south I came, the more sun and frost and snow seemed to be switched on. My eyes hurt. Near Kanepi I realised that the cloud frontier looming before me would soon cover the sky. I left my car, and the surrounding fields were soon filled with footprints.
Although I usually prefer to be in places, and to photograph places where no roads go, this day with its road-side expanses of snow was different. One of those times when nature makes you stop, to walk away from the road, to be offered, for a moment in time, something special and rare.
The moments were caught with camera Canon 1Ds mkII and objective lens Canon 70-200 f2,8L
Chairman of the jury Rein Maran:
What is nature photo?
The best guide to discovering nature.
The best way to remember one’s joy of discovery in a creative way.
The best way to feed one’s inner balance and strength, maybe even to rediscover oneself.
The best way to remember one’s joy of discovery in a creative way.
The best way to feed one’s inner balance and strength, maybe even to rediscover oneself.
What is the Nature Year Photo Competition?
The best way to share the joy of discovery and the discoveries with likeminded, and with many other wonderful people.
Jaak Johanson sent the song Lumevalguses (In snow light) to all nature photo friends for listening:
This Lumepilt Lumevalguses (Snow image in snow light) by Paul-Eerik Rummo brings to mind the great winters of the 60ies in my boyhood, like the winter of this year "when I was a child no more ...".
The song can be downloaded here.
Start of the photo contest Nature Year Photo 2010
Looduse Omnibuss and Nordea Bank invite all photo friends – grown-up, young people and children – to take part in the photo contest “Nature Year Photo 2010”. The hunt for the Dancing Wolves begins too. This year’s contest is dedicated to the jubileum year "Eesti looduskaitse 100 (Estonian Environmental Protection 100)“.
The deadline for submitting photos is March 1, the winners will be announced on April 18, 2010.
Take part, and encourage your friends to do so too!
Submitting photos to the contest Nature Year Photo 2010 (Looduse Aasta Foto 2010)
Starting this year, photos can only be submitted by way of Internet, using the special upload feature. The reason for this is simple. The number of participants in the contest has grown. Manual handling of the data can cause problems, a photo might not get the correct contact data, categories, and so on.
If you do not have suitable access to Internet on your own, we encourage you to find help from friends and acquaintances.
Proceed to loading of photos: http://www.looduseomnibuss.ee/laf2010/
Detailed terms for the competition follow below. Briefly, all – Estonians as well as non-Estonians – are entitled to participate, but only nature photos made in Estonia are accepted, except in the category "World nature”.
Photos must be submitted on March 1, 2010 at the latest, and each competitor can submit up to 15 photos.
The competition is divided into 3 age groups, and 4 (for groups children;young people) or 7 (no age limits) subject categories.
A photo can compete only in one age group and category.
Please note: In all matters concerning the rules and terms of the competition the Estonian text has precedence - link HERE.
Terms of the competition
1. Participation rights. All can participate in the contest, except those in any way connected with the organising of the contest. Only nature photos made in Estonia can be submitted, except in the category „World Nature”.
2. Time schedule. Deadline for submitting photos to the contest is March 1, 2010. The results will be announced on April 18, 2010.
3. Contest categories. There are threeage groups in the contest: children (up to and including 13 years), young people (up to and including 19 years) and general group (no age limits for participants).
Each photo may only be entered in one category of one age group. The category is chosen by the author of the photo. The jury may, in exceptional cases, change the category of a photo. Children and young people have the right to enter their photos in the general group categories, as well as in the young people categories.
In the children’s and young people’s age groups photos are judged in four categories:
* First category (1) – “Animal photos”. Photos which show representatives of the animal kingdom (mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and similar).
* Second category (2) – “Nature photos”. Photos showing landscapes, plants, fungi and similar.
* Third category (3) – “Man and nature”. Photos showing man’s harmony with nature, but also conflicts.
* Fourth category (4) – „World nature“. Nature photos from outside Estonia.
* Second category (2) – “Nature photos”. Photos showing landscapes, plants, fungi and similar.
* Third category (3) – “Man and nature”. Photos showing man’s harmony with nature, but also conflicts.
* Fourth category (4) – „World nature“. Nature photos from outside Estonia.
In the general group photos are judged in seven categories:
A-category – “Animal portraits”. Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects etc. suures plaanis.
B-category – “Animals in action”. Photos showing animals in action.
C category – “Plants and fungi”. The beauty of flowering and non-flowering plants in close-up as well as as parts of an environment.
D category – “Landscape photos”. Photos of Estonian landscapes.
E category – “Man and nature”. Photos that show the harmony of man and nature but also conflicts.
F category – “Play of shapes in nature”. Shapes and patterns in nature. Nature as abstract shapes can be included.
G category „World nature“. Nature photos made outside Estonia.
B-category – “Animals in action”. Photos showing animals in action.
C category – “Plants and fungi”. The beauty of flowering and non-flowering plants in close-up as well as as parts of an environment.
D category – “Landscape photos”. Photos of Estonian landscapes.
E category – “Man and nature”. Photos that show the harmony of man and nature but also conflicts.
F category – “Play of shapes in nature”. Shapes and patterns in nature. Nature as abstract shapes can be included.
G category „World nature“. Nature photos made outside Estonia.
From the winning photos in all categories of all age groups the jury selects one, which is awarded the title „Nature Year Photo 2010”.
4. Number of submitted photos. Each participant may enter up to 15 photos to the contest.
5. Photos: requirements, sizes, marking. Photos shall be submitted digitally.
The longest side of the image file must be at least 2000 pixels (corresponds roughly to an image from a 3 million pixel camera). The maximum allowed length of the longest side of the image file is 6000 pixels.
The file name must not contain diacritic letters or Cyrillic letters or punctuation signs (except the dot before the filename modifier and underscores to separate parts of a file name).
The longest side of the image file must be at least 2000 pixels (corresponds roughly to an image from a 3 million pixel camera). The maximum allowed length of the longest side of the image file is 6000 pixels.
The file name must not contain diacritic letters or Cyrillic letters or punctuation signs (except the dot before the filename modifier and underscores to separate parts of a file name).
Images on slides or photo negatives must be presented in digital form..
Elementary enhancing, adjustment and sharpening of brightness, contrast and colours is allowable. It is not allowed to add elements to the image or to remove them, with the exception of removing dust spots. Digitally joined panoramas are allowed, as well as digitally enhanced colour range (HDR). On preparing the images accepted good usage and a presentation of the motive that is as true and natural as possible should be kept in mind.
The organisers have the right to demand from the author the original file (RAW or JPG), or slide or negative for comparison purposes, and also information on the current conditions for photography at the occasion.
If an animal photo is made of the animal in captivity there must be, for the animal photo categories (A, B, 1L, 1N), a notation on the photo „vangistuses (in captivity)”, and brief information on where the photo was made.
Photos can be submitted to the contest by the uploading page on Internet (http://www.looduseomnibuss.ee/laf2010/ ), open from January 11, 2010, as .jpg files of maximum 5 MB size.
7. Prizes and awards. The total prize fund is more than 150 000 EEK. First, second and third prizes are awarded in each age group and category. In addition special prizes are awarded. Winners in all categories of all age groups will receive the sculpture “Dancing wolf” created by ceramist Anne Tümi.
From the prizewinning photos the jury will select the “Nature Year Photo 2010”, which will receive the title of Great Wolf.
8. Jury and evaluation criteria. The jury members are acknowledged photographers, artists and nature specialists. The expressiveness and emotional impact, and artistic and technical merits will be judged, as well as the nature value, rarity and originality. The jury presumes that good practice and nature protection rules have been observed when the photographs were made.
9. Use of photos. The organisers have the rightto use images submitted to the contest on publication of the results of the contest in media, at exhibitions and public events, in the photo gallery on the homepage of the contest and in the contest collection.
Prize-winning photos may also be used without remuneration for nature photo promotion measures, for instance compiling shows and slides series, printing posters, calendars and postcards. Other images submitted to the contest may be used on agreement with the author.
10. The responsibilities of the organisers. The organisers are responsible for the correct use of the works submitted to the contest.
11. Author’s responsibilities. The participant answers for the correctness of the information concerning the images and the author. The participant also assures that he is the author of the photos submitted to the contest. It is the author’s responsibility to observe that the loading of the submitted photos succeeds.
More information: tel 648 1740, 56 476 297, 56 483 480
info@looduseomnibuss.ee
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