Eligibility

• Open to residents of North India only
• Participants must enter the appropriate category based on their experience level
• Only digital camera photographs are eligible for submission

Themes & Categories

• Theme 1: “Wildlife Through the Lens”
• Theme 2: “Captivating Vistas”
• Categories of participants: Beginners, Amateurs, and Professionals
  • Beginners: Young photographers in the age group of 10-18 years
  • Amateurs: Nature and Wildlife photography enthusiasts
  • Professionals: Acclaimed experts with over 10 years of experience in the profession

Submission Guidelines

• Contestants can participate in only one of the above themes.
• Each participant may submit up to 3 photographs.
• An entry fee of Rs.100 per photograph must be sent along with the submission.
• Photos must be in digital format of ratio 1620 or 1920x1080 px in 300 DPI resolution.
• For those images selected for the award, submitting the original RAW or JPEG files will be mandatory. If these original files are not received, the entry will be disqualified.
• Photos must be original (without any watermark) and taken within the past two years.
• Photos taken using a mobile phone camera will not be eligible for a prize.
• Basic editing (colour correction, cropping) is allowed, but heavily manipulated/fabricated images will be disqualified.
• Submissions must include the photographer's name, contact information, category, and a brief description of the photo in not more than 50 words. Photos without proper captions will be disqualified.
• Deadline: Aug 10, 2024

Judging Criteria

• Adherence to theme
• Creativity and originality
• Technical excellence
• Emotional impact

Prizes

For each theme, three winners will be chosen in each category, i.e., beginners, amateurs, and professionals and felicitated in a gala Awards Ceremony at the first anniversary celebrations of In Vogue Life Magazine in Delhi NCR in October 2024.

• 10 Special mentions will receive certificates and goodies
• All winning photos will be exhibited at the In Vogue Life photography exhibition
• All winners will receive a print copy of the magazine with their photographs published

Definition

Please note the following definition of Nature and Wildlife photography images for submission:

• Nature and Wildlife photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history in such a fashion that a well-informed person can identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation.
• Human elements must not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural phenomena.
• Photographs of human-created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible.
• Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted.
• It is perfectly legal to remove dust, flares or digital noise. Minor global colour/tone correction is fine as long as it is not selective and the final image looks natural but not dramatic. Selective darkening of the background is prohibited.

Breaches of Rules

If at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the organizer or the judges before, during, or after the judging of this competition that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with these guidelines, the organizer reserves the right to disqualify the entry and void any awards in connection with the competition.

To ensure that images comply with submission guidelines, the contest organizers may carry out reasonable measures to verify that the photos are the entrant's original work.

Rights

By entering the contest, photographers grant 'In Vogue Life' non-exclusive rights to use the submitted photographs for publication and promotion related to the contest and magazine.

An entry may be rejected when the Sponsor or the Exhibition Organizers, in their reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these Conditions of Entry.

Judges

The contest will be judged by a jury committee comprising a group of experts from the Wildlife Photographers Collective India (WPCI) and headed by the grand jury.

Grand Jury: Akash Das, Veteran Celebrity Photographer

Jury Committee:

Nature	Wildlife
Ajay Rawat	Dr. Divakar Rao
Mohit Aggarwal	Kumar Kumud Gangesh
Kaushik Roy Choudhury	Nishant Rana
Subhamoy Das	Samir Sachdeva