PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

1.      The contest will have two categories: mobile phones and photographic camera.

2.      The participants can submit their pictures in one of said categories.

3.      To participate in the contest, you should submit pictures of alive myriapods or onychophorans, preferable in their natural habitat.

4.      Any technique can be used for the pictures, but not retouching or modification of the pictures is allowed.

5.      Pictures must be sent in JPG, TIF, RAW or BMP format. Pictures must have a minimum of 300 dpi, and maximum size of 15MB.

6.      Participants must send their pictures by AUGUST 8TH to the following form:

7.      Pictures should be identified with the name of the author, picture title and a description text of maximum 200 characters.

8.      Pictures should be original and never received any awards before.

9.      The participant must be the owner of all the rights of the pictures submitted to the contest. The participant is responsible for guarantying there won’t be any legal claims.

10.  Each participant is allowed to submit up to two pictures.

11.  There will be a price for the first place of each category, and second and third places will get honorable mentions. All the winners will get a printed certification of their participation.

12.  To participate in this contest, you must be register and attending the 19th ICM.

13.  The evaluation committee will be formed by: 1. an expert in photography (attending the congress),2. a person from the CIM council and 3. a person from the 19th ICM Organizing committee.

14.   Images will be judged according to their naturalness, degree of complexity, composition and aesthetic achievement. Each judge will be assigning a score from 1 to 10, and the average of the evaluations will give the winner.

15.  The awards will be given out during the closing act of the 19th International congress of Myriapodology.