Pebbles, Boats and the Sea

The Chesil Bank and the Fleet Nature Reserve is pleased to invite you to take part in a photographic competition with the theme of pebbles, boats and the sea. This competition is in support of the Spirit of the Sea maritime festival.

There will be four categories: Open, Underwater, Junior, and Camera-phone. The judges are looking for images that evoke the special qualities of our coastline and sea, be it the physical environment itself or those people or creatures that live, work or play there. Images must have been taken along the Dorset coastline between Abbotsbury and White Nothe. The Junior category is open to those aged 15 or younger on 1st July 2010 and their entry must also include their date of birth and confirmation that they enter with the approval of their parent or guardian.

Entry is free and open to all amateur photographers. Each entrant can only submit three images per category. The submitted images must be the entrants own original work. The images must be submitted by e-mail to photocomp@chesilbeach.org. The e-mail must contain your name, phone number and address, the date and location that the picture was taken and the category entered. The image should be attached to the e-mail and be a jpeg format file with a maximum file size of 400kb and a maximum resolution of 1024X768 pixels at 72dpi.

WInners and those whose images are selected for display will be asked to provide higher resolution images for printing. Basic enhancement of images is accepted but manipulation must not involve any change or addition to the image.

Entries must be received by Friday 23rd July 2010

Please note that the judges decision is final and that no correspondence can be entered into.

Prizes

Open category: First prize: £50 meal voucher at the Crab House Cafe, Ferryman's Way, Wyke Regis.

Underwater Category: First prize: 3mm one-piece wet suit donated by O'Three, Osprey Quay, Portland. This categhory will be judged by the Emmy-winning BBC underwater cameraman Mike Pitts. See www.michaelpitts.co.uk for more information.

Junior Category: Entry for four people to Abbotsbury Swannery

Camera-phone Category: Trip for four people in the Fleet Observer

There will be a runner-up prize in each category of a trip for 2 people on the glass-bottomed boat 'Fleet Observer' on the Fleet.

The presentations to the winners will be held on board the Fleet Observer located near the Crab House Café on the 31st July 2010 and their names published on the Chesil Beach and Spirit of the Sea websites. The winning entries and other selected images will be displayed in the Chesil Beach Centre and the Mulberry Gallery in Weymouth Library.

The photographer retains all publication rights on submitted photographs.
However, by submitting an image to the Chesil Bank and the Fleet Nature
Reserve 'Pebbles, Boats and the Sea' photographic competition they
automatically pass to the Reserve rights to publish, free of all charges,
their image on any website associated with the competition, and in any
exhibition or other media, including broadcast and newspaper media, which
specifically seeks to portray the results of the competition. In addition,
they also give permission for the Reserve to use their image, free of all
charges, in publicity material which seeks to portray the work of the Reserve.