GRUP VI DAURAT and BALMAT sports
Convene
III International mountain digital photograph contest "MEMORIAL Agustí TORRENTS i Barrachina"
Subjects: Mountain Digital Photography and Pedraforca Mount.
Category: A single photograph can apply for award in both subjects. Participants: Submissions can be requested by any amateur photographers belonging to any country, with the only exception of Balmat staff and members of “Grup Vi Daurat”
Date limit: Desember 15, 2009. Works will be accepted till that date. Photographs which have already been published or joined previous contests will be excluded.
Submission of patterns: Each participant may submit 5 photographs maximum per category. One contender will not be awarded more than one prize for the same category.
Photographs must be sent: By internet to:
grupvidaurat@yahoo.es or balmat@balmat.com. Accepted formats: JPG / JPEG. Minimum resolution 72 dpi. Minimum size 640x480 pixels and weighing up to 2 MB. By post: as a CD contents, with similar size and resolution than the ones sent via Internet, but with no weight limit (MB) to: Photo Contest: BALMAT “Memorial Agustí Torrents i Barrachina” -- Comte d'Urgell, 72 Tda. -- 08028 Barcelona - Catalunya (Spain) This CD must be identified with the author's name. The author´s name must also be assigned to any single image included in it. In addition to this, each pic must contain photo mumber, location and title of the work. Photographs sent by other means or sharing different technical conditions than those mentioned above, will be refused. Retouchments regarding to general quality improvements as filters on elements like brightness or contrast, are allowed. Nevertheless, adding or deleting items, mixing multiple photos or modifying original compositions are specially forbidden actions and will be cause of inadmission. All participants must be imperatively registered in www.balmat.es. and then, submit the following information, either via e-mail or by post (in this last case with the CD work)-Name. -Surname. -Username, Alias or nickname (if desired). -DNI or passport mumber, residence card, -telephone etc..
Each photograph must necessarily contain the following details:
Place and country where picture was taken.Date (the year will be enough, if no more data are available). Title of photograph.Category where it´s applied to participate.PrizesA first price and a second prize will be awarded for each category, among the whole of contender pictures.
First Prize:
Montserrat Trophy -esports BALMAT, and a Courtesy Cheque drawed by Balmat, € 150, to the absolute best picture. Second Prize: Pedraforca Trophy - GRUP VI DAURAT, and a Courtesy Cheque drawed by Balmat, € 100, to the best photograph regarding to Pedraforca In addition to this, a Trophy and a Courtesy Cheque drawed by Balmat, 30 € to each one of the eight finalist ones will also be delivered. The Cheques drawed by Balmat, can be redeemed by sports stuff in any of the four outlets of Balmat in Barcelona (Gran Via Corts Catalanes, 527 and 531) until 15/03/2010
. Prize cheques can not be collected as cash
Rights
Participants must be the full owners of photograph copyrights. At the time, they must be able to ensure that not third parties are entitled to claim for any further rights dealing with their works. Balmat declines any responsibility for possible fraud or abuse about pictures holding which have been submitted to contest Photographs will be exposed on Balmat website, indicating author´s name or nickname (if so indicated).Any of the received works may be used for further contest campaigns managed by Balmat. They can also be published through the web as wallpapers or newsletters.Balmat preserves itself the right to refuse photos which do not deal about the two foreseen subjects, as well as those ones that could also be considered offensive in any sense.Winners will exclusively grant Balmat all legal rights to use and exploit the awarded works. As a previous condition to redeem the diferent prizes, winners bind themselves to deliver Balmat the awarded pictures in the highest resolution.
Data Protection
Balmat ensures the faithful observance of your data processing according to the Organic Law 15/1999 on Protection of Personal Data (LOPD). Data provided by participants are recorded in a computerized confidential file. To exercise the right to access, modify or cancel your data at any time according to the Organic Law 15/1999, please send a letter to the following adress: balmat@balmat.es. or by post to: Photo Contest BALMAT “Memorial Agustí Torrents i Barrachina”c / Gran Vía Corts Catalanes, 527 to 08011 Barcelona - Catalunya (Spain) Jury The jury will be appointed by Balmat. It will be joined by five people linked to mountain sport enviroment, and by a member of Mr. Agusti Torrents i Barrachina family. The jury composition, shall be notified by e-mail to all participants before the veredict.Whatever problem or incident that might arise, and not covered by these rules, will be directly solved by Balmat.
Acceptance
Submitting the contest entails full acceptance of each and every one of these bases.