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Apologies if posted elsewhere. I couldn't find it.

And I don't normally venture to The Guardian/Observer web site - I got conned by a TwitLink.

Four Categories - best in each gets £500

The categories are:

Landscape
Urban
Culture
Stock

The closing date for entries is 23:59 on Thursday 25 February 2010.

Is this of interest to anyone?
 
sent in a couple...good for making one think
 
"grant GNM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish Your Competition entry in electronic format and hard copy for purposes connected with the Competition"

Sounds like a cheap way to get lots of good pics for nothing.
 
petersmart said:
"grant GNM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish Your Competition entry in electronic format and hard copy for purposes connected with the Competition"

Sounds like a cheap way to get lots of good pics for nothing.
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How else will they display the winning entries?

Big papers have big contracts with the big stock libraries (Getty etc..) they don't need to build up their own libraries.
 
petersmart said:
"grant GNM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish Your Competition entry in electronic format and hard copy for purposes connected with the Competition"

Sounds like a cheap way to get lots of good pics for nothing.
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That's much better than the usual conditions. Non-exclusive and only in connection with the compo. Compare that to the BBC t&c's.
 
stuck another in
so thats
landscape
urban
and the vague one
 
petersmart said:
"grant GNM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish Your Competition entry in electronic format and hard copy for purposes connected with the Competition"

Sounds like a cheap way to get lots of good pics for nothing.
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They are standard competition terms and perfectly legal. You wouldn't run a photo comp but not make sure that you could actually publish the winners would you?
 
jerry12953 said:
You might expect the winners to be published, but any of the entries.....?
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Yes. It's common for competition organisers to show entries while the comp is still open to encourage other entries. The licence is only for use in relation to the competition so I really don't see why anyone would have any issue with this.
 
Has anybody got a link to the short list as I might be being dumb, but I can not find it!!!
 
All I could see was "Please note, the deadline for entries into this competition has now passed. The pictures are with the judges and we will be announcing our initial shortlists very soon." No link to the shortlist though.
 
Good luck to those who entered, I'm sure there will probably be a few from this forum.
 
About 90% of the finalist shots are completely crap :bonk:

(didn't enter btw)
 
wow just checked the landscape finalists, apart from the first shot theyre pants. not to blow my own my own trumpet but my entry was alot better than all those shots!
 
Ewan Hitchcoe said:
well the judges clearly shouldnt be judging a photography competition :cuckoo:
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Why? Because they didn't rate your image? Do you expect everyone to rate your images, or just competition judges?

They preferred other photographs to yours - get over it. It's a competition judges by humans who have tastes, prejudices, preferences just like anyone else.

Just because your image didn't fit into the judges vision doesn't make them wrong and just because you don't rate the short listed doesn't mean that they are not valid choices. You can pick fault with any images, even iconic ones, and if the judges prefer say emotion to technical achievement that's their prerogative.
 
Having looked though the shortlist I tend to agree that some of the chosen images a little "suprising".

In one way though it's also a little refreshing to see "normal" photographs chosen instead of the heavily processed shots that appear in many photo competitions.

You can never guess when entering any photo competition what exactly the judges are looking for :shrug:

Simon
 
NorthernNikon said:
Why? Because they didn't rate your image? Do you expect everyone to rate your images, or just competition judges?

They preferred other photographs to yours - get over it. It's a competition judges by humans who have tastes, prejudices, preferences just like anyone else.

Just because your image didn't fit into the judges vision doesn't make them wrong and just because you don't rate the short listed doesn't mean that they are not valid choices. You can pick fault with any images, even iconic ones, and if the judges prefer say emotion to technical achievement that's their prerogative.
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Well lets agree to disagree. IMO very few of the images shortlisted in the landscape category or urban category neither evoke any emotion or display any great technical achievement.

I never had any expectation to win the competition just a little surprised by the mediocrity of the shortlisted photos
 
I thought many of the Stock category were quite good. Most of the Urban category, however, were abysmal and I've no idea how they could have been included. I would have been ashamed to submit most of them - so what pills was the judge on?
 
This was my effort that was entered, but clearly they were looking for something different.

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glad i didnt win....:D
 
How are 2 dogs a landscape photo? And as said, the stock photo's are good, but the urban ones are shocking in my opinion.


And in Culture, the dog one is just cringe worthy.
 
Pieface said:
And in Culture, the dog one is just cringe worthy.
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Yes, that's a really embarassing shot on many levels. All we're missing is a cat in some anthropomoprhic pose, and we're in the depths of MySpace profile photos. In fact, the more I look at the shortlists, the more I think:

1. They were specifically looking for "amateur" shots, to reflect the theme of photography from Britain as a whole rather than the professional photographers of Britain. As such, they may have deliberately avoided shortlisting all "pro-looking" photos.

Except...

2. They made the Stock category look a lot better than the rest in order to promote the "quality" association with stock photography (the competition is run by iStock after all.)
 
1. They were specifically looking for "amateur" shots, to reflect the theme of photography from Britain as a whole rather than the professional photographers of Britain. As such, they may have deliberately avoided shortlisting all "pro-looking" photos.

Except...

2. They made the Stock category look a lot better than the rest in order to promote the "quality" association with stock photography (the competition is run by iStock after all.)[/QUOTE]

This was along the lines of what i was thinking myself, which is pretty annoying for amateurs that do make the effort to create something that is of a higher standard than the average snap.
 
jollyjack said:
This was my effort that was entered, but clearly they were looking for something different.

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I suspected that your shot would be of a very high standard, and in my opinion blows the shortlisted entries out of the water.

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i entered this, just because it was my most recent shot. Never expected to win, but now feeling slightly robbed by the shortlisted selection :lol:
 
martsharm said:
Yes, that's a really embarassing shot on many levels. All we're missing is a cat in some anthropomoprhic pose, and we're in the depths of MySpace profile photos. In fact, the more I look at the shortlists, the more I think:

1. They were specifically looking for "amateur" shots, to reflect the theme of photography from Britain as a whole rather than the professional photographers of Britain. As such, they may have deliberately avoided shortlisting all "pro-looking" photos.

Except...

2. They made the Stock category look a lot better than the rest in order to promote the "quality" association with stock photography (the competition is run by iStock after all.)
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I don't think that they were looking for "amateur" shots at all, I just don't think that they were looking for the same style of photography that some perceive a "pro" shot to be. Just because a landscape isn't shot in the Photography Monthly/Practical Monthly 'how to shoot' landscapes i.e. very wide angle, saturated colours, make sure there's something in the foreground, shot in the 'golden hour', doesn't mean that it's not a decent shot.
 
where the the results, all I see on that page is
"Please note, the deadline for entries into this competition has now passed. The pictures are with the judges and we will be announcing our initial shortlists very soon." and an example gallery?
 
NorthernNikon said:
I don't think that they were looking for "amateur" shots at all, I just don't think that they were looking for the same style of photography that some perceive a "pro" shot to be. Just because a landscape isn't shot in the Photography Monthly/Practical Monthly 'how to shoot' landscapes i.e. very wide angle, saturated colours, make sure there's something in the foreground, shot in the 'golden hour', doesn't mean that it's not a decent shot.
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I agree the other shots are not bad photo's, also i am not a Pro by any means, only picked up a camera 18 months ago. It does put people off when you see what made it. It will make me think again about entering.

manc said:
where the the results, all I see on that page is
"Please note, the deadline for entries into this competition has now passed. The pictures are with the judges and we will be announcing our initial shortlists very soon." and an example gallery?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/istock-britain-is
 
I thought a lot of these were pretty good, and original, apart from the Culture section where I only liked the cashpoint one, (and that had a posed feeling to it).

As others have said it's the criteria the judges apply at the end of the day...
 
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