http://www.globalwindday.org/wind-in-mind/
Wind in Mind – a new international photo competition
In the run-up to Global Wind Day on 15 June – the annual day promoting the power of the wind around the world – photographers are invited to let their imaginations take the lead and show wind energy technology in a new way, in line with the competition title, “Wind in Mind”.
The six winners, who will receive a €1,000 Amazon voucher or one of five €250 vouchers, will be chosen by an expert jury and announced on Global Wind Day 15 June. All the winning pictures will be displayed outdoors in the EU area of Brussels.
The overall winning photo will also become part of an online professional photography collection,
www.hardrainproject.com, and be published in renewable energy newspaper ‘Recharge’ and in the European wind energy industry magazine Wind Directions.
“I can’t think of a better subject for a contemporary photo competition than wind energy,” said Julian Scola, Communication Director of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), organisers of the Global Wind Day alongside the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). “Wind turbines are an icon: symbols of the fight against climate change, of sustainability, of our modern age. While some people noisily oppose wind turbines there are many others who love them and find them a graceful addition to our landscape”.
Lauha Fried, Communications Director at GWEC, highlighted the global nature of the competition: “Wind power is an essential source of clean energy in over 80 countries today – we’d like to see photos taken from all around the world and encourage everyone to participate by sending us your best shots. A new feature for this year’s edition is the continental subcategory where a winner will be chosen for each continent”.
The Judges
The judges for the competition are professional photographers and art directors.
Mark Edwards runs the Hard Rain Project, which supports public exhibitions and other communications that campaign for realistic solutions to the interlinked problems of climate change, poverty, the wasteful use of resources, population expansion, habitat destruction and species loss. The winning photo of Wind in Mind will be have a permanent place in the online photo archive at
www.hardrainproject.com Michal Fattal is a freelance photojournalist, based in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work has been published in media such as New York Times, Time Magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, Profil, Frankfurter Rundschau, Newsweek, La Razon, Herald Tribune, View Magazine, Brigitte, Gurdian and Foreign Policy, among others. Her work can be seen at
www.michalfattal.com Erik Luntang is a photojournalist with Inspririt, based in Belgium. He has more than 20 years of experience working with international news-agencies, newspapers and magazines. Read more about Erik.
Simon Bogle is the Art director of Recharge, the renewable energy newspaper that will print the winning photograph from the competition.
Terms and Conditions
The competition is open until 6 May 20:00 GMT.
Entries will be accepted from now. This competition is open to participants from any country. Participants must be at least 18 years old at time of entry. There is no entry fee, and each participant can submit a maximum of three images to this contest. EWEA/GWEC/Recharge employees are not eligible to takepart in the competition, nor are their relatives or members of their families.
Technical Requirements
Digital editing is acceptable provided the look and style of the photo remain natural. EWEA has the right to reject any image considered excessively digitally altered. HDR images and stitched panoramas are allowed.
Uploaded photos must have a minimum of 2000 pixel width or height.
Files for upload must be larger than 1 MB and less than 10 MB.
GLOBAL WIND DAY PHOTO COMPETITION 2012
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
GWD photo competition – Wind in mind
THEME
The theme of the photo competition is wind energy. It is open to all photographers in any country,
who want to capture images of wind energy from a new perspective. The challenge is to show the
technology as it has never been seen before, for example by showing wind energy with seasonal
colours, people, animals and landscapes in a new and unique way. Let your imagination take the
lead!
ELIGIBILITY
- This competition is open to participants from around the world.
- Participants must be at least 18 years old at the time of entry.
- There is no entry fee.
- Each participant can submit a maximum of three images to this contest.
- EWEA/GWEC/Recharge employees are not eligible to take part in the competition, nor are their
relatives or members of their families.
JURY:
The jury will consist of five experts (Chris only 4 are confirmed so far), one of them being the chair
of the jury.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- The participants will submit their picture/s by uploading through a form provided on the Global
Wind Day website
http://www.globalwindday.org/- Digital editing is acceptable provided the look and style of the photo remain natural. EWEA has
the right to reject any image considered excessively digitally altered. HDR images and stitched
panoramas are allowed.
- Please do not include any borders.
- Uploaded photos must have a minimum of 2000 pixel width or height.
- Submitted images must be saved as JPEG/RGB, no less than 85% compression.
- Files for upload must be larger than 1 MB and less than 10 MB.
COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICITY:
- Entrants must be the photographer and owner of the copyright for any image entered.
- By entering the contest participants grant GWEC and EWEA a worldwide non-exclusive license to
publish, reproduce, distribute and display the photos in their publications, on the website and
through social media channels. Photos will not be used for commercial gain. The photos may be
also used in marketing materials relating to the competition.
- By entering the contest participants grant all Global Wind Day partners (see website
http://www.globalwindday.org/) a non-exclusive license to reproduce, display and distribute the
photos in their publications, on the website and through social media channels in connection only
with Global Wind Day and clearly labeled as an entry to the 2012 Global Wind day Photo
Competition.
- Photographers will always be credited alongside their image.
CLOSING DATES:
- The deadline for the competition is the 6 May 2012 at 20:00 GMT.
- Winners will be notified via email or telephone according to the details provided at the time of
registration.
- EWEA/GWEC reserves the right to disqualify anyone who, in their opinion, has tampered with or
disrupted the entry process or operation of this contest or violated the rules.
- Any content considered by the organisers to be abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar or
pornographic will not be accepted.
- If the contest cannot be run as planned for any reason, including technical problems,
EWEA/GWEC reserve the right to cancel, curtail, modify or suspend the contest.
WINNERS AND PRIZES
- First prize – the global winner of the competition will be awarded a voucher with a value of €1000
from Amazon (or equivalent in their country, to be agreed with GWEC/EWEA).
Furthermore the winning picture will become part of the Hard Rain Picture Library and be
submitted for consideration to display at stillpictures.com. 50% of all sales via these platforms
will go the copyright holder (the photographer)..
- Second prizes – There will be five runners up; one per continent. (Europe, Asia, America, Africa
and Australasia: in case of geographical dispute, EWEA and GWEC’s decision is final). Each
continental winner will get a voucher with a value of €250 from Amazon (or equivalent in their
country, to be agreed with GWEC/EWEA).
Runners up pictures will be considered for display at the Hard Rain Picture Library and on
stillpictures.com. 50% of sales via these platforms will go the copyright holder (the photographer).
The first prize and continental winners will all have their photographs published in renewable
energy newspaper ‘Recharge’ and / or EWEA magazine ‘Wind Directions’ and will be displayed in
large format in the European Union quarter of Brussels. They may also be displayed at other
GWD events in other cities. They will also be published online on the Global Wind day website
(and possibly elsewhere – see ‘Copyright and Publicity’ above).
It is possible that there will be additional national winners chosen from the entries. EWEA/GWEC
will post information on the competition website on national competitions announced by Global
Wind Day national partners.
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