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Caldecote Photo Completion – The Rules
The Caldecote Photo Competition is for all the Caldecote residents and will give them the chance to enter 2 of their best photo’s every other month of a special chosen subject as published in the Journal..
The winning Photo will be used as the front cover of the Journal for the next issue. The winner will also have their photo displayed in the Village Hall and on the Village Web Site, The winner will also get to choose from a list the next subject that residents will take pictures of.
Rules:
- Photo entries must be taken from when the subject is announced. You are not allowed to use old library photos that you have taken previously.
- Only 2 photo’s of the specific subject are allowed to be entered
- Photos from the Internet are not allowed; you have to take your own entries
- Photos must be submitted before the closing date. Any that are late will not be used for that subject.
- You must live in the village to enter a photo.
- No heavy photo editing is allowed. Only general contrast/brightness and cropping is allowed.
- Any breaches of the rules will result in disqualification from the competition. The editors decision on these matters will be final
Submitting Photos:
- Photos must be entered by email with your name and street clearly added.
- You will have approximately 3 weeks from the subject announcement date to enter your photos. The entry date will be displayed in the journal
- Please try to resize your photo’s to maximum 900 x 720 pixels (about 2 Mbs) this will help you entering photo’s due to large file sizes.
- Photo’s must be emailed to caldecotephoto@btinternet.com
Voting:
- You will receive an email with all the entries for the chosen subject.
- The entries will be labelled from A – Z and you must pick your favourite 3 from the list.
- Once you have chosen your favourite 3 you must email your results to caldecotephoto@btinternet.com with your name and street e.g.,
- 1st = A, 2nd = B, 3rd = C
- James Stigwood, Strympole way.
- 1st gets 10 points, 2nd 8 points and 3rd 5 points.
- The photo that has the highest points is the winner.
- In the event of a tie the Editor will cast a final vote
If at any point you need some help or guidance on the rules or voting, or any photography help in general please don’t hesitate to email James at caldecotephoto@btinternet.com