Orchid Photography Contest, 2019

All Prizes Sponsored by

Hit Camera & Video Ltd

7569 Yonge St., Thornhill, ON

905-597-0366

" International Orchid Photography Contest 2019"

Orchid Photography Contest Guideline

Organizer :          Atlantic Photographers Association

Sponsor:             All prizes sponsored by HIT Camera & Video Ltd.

Co-organizer :     Atlantic Culture And Arts Exchange Association

International Photographers Federation

                Canada Photographic Art Forum

                The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto

                Canada Chinese Photography Club

                Toronto Photography Federation

Orchid Show

Venue :              The Orchid Show 2019 will be held on April 13th – 14th, 2019 at the Center for 

                            Immigrant and Community  Services, 2330 Midland Ave., Toronto, ON.                                                     

                            M1S 5G5  ( North of Hwy 401 )   www.info.toao.ca 

Date:                  April 13, 2019. Saturday 11am.-7pm.  /  April 14, 2019. Sunday  8am.-5pm.

This Orchid Photography Contest is open to all with the purpose to promote the appreciation of orchids

 and the art of photography.  

  1.      Main theme or subject of the Photo Entries:   Orchid(s).

2.   Awards: Given by HIT Camera Ltd.

Winner:                           ( 1 )      CAD  $1,000.00                   

        First Runner-up:              ( 1 )        CAD     $700.00 

Second Runner-up:         ( 1 )          CAD     $300.00 

    Honourable  Mention      ( 8 )         CAD     $100.00

3.      Entries: 

     Open Colour, Pictorial Category.

     Which refers to any Orchid photo taken at any occasion around the world.(indoors or outdoors)

     All entries must be original and the contestant holds all applicable rights.                                            

     RAW files required for all winners.  

  4.      Contest  Receive  Date : 

  Begins:     April 01, at 12:00 am. to

  Ends:        July 31,  at 11:59 pm. EST on July 31, 2019        Eastern Standard Time (“EST”)

Entries submitted before and after the Entry Period will not be eligible.

5.  Images Receive : All photo entries must be submitted online to: https://www.cctr.ca/ 

(Or to the following email address:  tiopcontest@gmail.com  designated  for the purpose, with the Submission Format (refer below).

              For each Contestant:  The maximum number of entries for each contestant are five photographs.

      Any contestant submission with more than 5 entries, all his/her submissions will be disqualified and

7.    Procedures of Photo Entries: 

                a.  Submission  Fee : Cost  for five entry (maximum  5 images) is CAD $20.

                b.  Payment methods:

• Cash or cheque payable to "Atlantic Culture and Arts Exchange Association". Please contact the Photography Contest Management Team (“PCMT”) at tiopcontest@gmail.com for detail information. Returned cheque will be charged for $25
• Interact eTransfer to AtlanticAssociation@yahoo.com with password of orchid2019
• PayPal to AtlanticAssociation@yahoo.com
  

                c   Upon receiving of each submission, PCMT will notify the contestants about the recipient of 

photo entries and forward to them the invoice for the payment.

                d.  After payment has been made, Confirmation of Photo Entry will be issued and a Photo Entry

                     Number will be assigned to each photo entry.  Only those ‘Confirmed Photo Entries’ will be 

                     adjudicated by the Judging Panel.

                e.  In case payment has been made and Confirmation of Photo Entry has not been received within

                     7 days, it is the responsibility of the contestants to contact the PCMT immediately

via email address: tiopcontest@gmail.com.                    

8.   Requirement of the Photo Entries:   Each photo entry must be:

        Maximum Horizontal Size:   1400 pixels                                                        

        Maximum Vertical Size:       1050 pixels

        Size of Photo: Maximum       2MB

        Resolution:            300dpi

        File Format:           JPG

        Color Space:         sRGB

       9,   The Judging Panel:   

                 1, Mr.  Charles  Yu,           2, Mr. Ng  Lik  Fong ,

                 3, Mr.  Shelton   Chen,      4, Mr.  Larry     Deng.,     5,  Mr. Eric Chan

     10,   Appeal:         The decision of the Judging Panel is final and no appeal will be entertained.

     11.   The announcement for winners will be on 1st Sept. 2019 at the website:    www.atlantic-arts.

              All winners will be informed individually by E-mail. All prizes will be sent by mail.                              

      12.   Please note that APA may elect to suspend or postpone receipt of any or all entries if judgement

    of the contest cannot be run smoothly, securely or without affecting the fairness of the judging process

            due to circumstances beyond its control, including but not limited to network failure, computer viruses

            or unauthorized access to its servers.

      13.  Property and Right Usage of the Photo Entries:  The Copyright of all photo entries belongs to the

            original photographers who took the photos.  However, all photo entries for the Contest are subject to

            the disposal of APA and APA has the exclusive right of their usage.

      14.  Atlantic Photographers Association reserved all rights and explanation. 

To participate the photo contest, please download and fill the submission form: Photo contest Form.pdf

After download the form, please print it out, fill in with a pen, and scan or picture it and send the image file of the filled form to tiopcontest@gmail.com