20 x 16 Print Competition

Payment for returning prints must be included with your submissions.

Closing date for submissions will be January 8th 2010.

Each image must have an application form attached to the back.

Click here to download the 20x16 Application Form

20x16 Terms & Conditions

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Categories

Wedding: includes the following sub-categories: Traditional, Contemporary, Reportage/Photojournalism – must be from actual weddings – definitely commissioned ONLY
Portrait: includes the following sub-categories: Traditional, Contemporary, Children & Babies –Commissioned & non-commissioned work
The Natural World: Landscapes/Seascapes, Animals, Pictorial – commissioned and non-commissioned
Open Category: Anything goes – commissioned and non-commissioned work

NB.Entrants must include the sub-categories on their application form.

Venue, Dates & Times

Hammersmith Novotel Exhibition and Convention Centre
Wednesday 13 January 2010: 10:00 – 16:00
Thursday 14 January 2010: 10:00 – 16:00
Sunday 17 January 2010: Awards Dinner

NB Times are subject to change, depending on the number of entries and the speed of the judging process.

Fees:
An application form and the appropriate entry fee must accompany each print.
The fees for members are: each print £10.
For non-members: each print £15.

Payment for returning prints must be included with your submissions.

Return Postage & Handling Overseas and UK
If you require your entries to be returned to you please inform us BEFORE the competition date, entries not returned within one month will be destroyed. Please weigh your entries at your local Post Office and include a cheque/credit card details to cover the cost of returning them to you. Your entries will be returned to you in their original packing.

Entry Rules – 2009/2010

All images must be 20x16" (508x406mm) inclusive of the mount.
Each image must be mounted
Each image must be accompanied by an application form.
Entrants must include sub-categories on the application form.
Entrant must have captured and created the original exposure.
All digital manipulation must have been performed by the entrant.
Any images that violate copyright, trademark or any other applicable law will be disqualified.
The entrant’s name, or any other distinguishing marks, must not appear on the face of the image.
No entry will be eligible that has been made under the supervision of an instructor or as a class assignment.
No image that receives a Merit in the 20x16 annual competition may be entered into the monthly image competition the same year.
No entries of the same subject shall be entered twice.
Any entry which has been reproduced from an existing photograph, portrait, graphic or any other artwork produced by another person is a violation of the competition rules and will be disqualified.
Entrants agree that any photograph entered may be used by The Societies and or Professional Imagemaker in any of the publications, printed materials, or electronic media. Also the image may be used for promotional use by The Societies, unless otherwise agreed.
The judges withhold the right to score any image that they do not think is of a competition standard the award of U – unclassified.Offers from the labs for this 20 x 16 print competition

Special offers from Loxley Colour

20x16 Photographic Print Mounted on card as a Glossy Print £10 + VAT

20x16 Photographic Print Mounted on card as a Lustre Print £10 + VAT

20x16 Photographic Print Mounted on card as a Metallic Print £12 + VAT

Special offers from One Vision Imaging Ltd

20 x 16” Lustre Photographic Print, mounted onto card £10.00
20 x 16” Gloss Photographic Print, mounted onto card £10.00
20 x 16” Metallic Photographic Print, mounted onto card £12.00

For any of the above mounted onto 5mm Foamboard please add £3.00
For any of the above mounted onto 3mm Rigid PVC please add £6.00

To add a protective print seal to any of the above please add £3.00

If you require any further information with regards to the above then please contact our Customer Care team on (0845) 862 0217.

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The SWPP 2010 Convention was an outstanding success,
we have 335 days to get ready for the 2011 convention - which starts on January 11, 2011

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