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We are delighted to be able to launch the first purdiegallery annual landscape photography competition. It is open to everyone, free to enter, the theme is landscape and there are prizes!
prizes
There will be 3 winners. Each prize is to have your picture made into a canvas print by David. The maximum size I can print is 95cmx180cm. The actual size is up to you to choose. If you would like me to I will do all the usual printing type work I do on my own pictures, to get the absolute best print from your picture. If you would like to sit in on this while I do the work then you are welcome to. It should take a couple of hours on the computer, than I'll print it later. I will be working on these at the gallery during the first week of September 2008.
It will be judged by me (David), my wife Andrea, and our excellent staff Louise and Emma.
exhibition
We are holding a special show during the first week of the Rye Arts Festival. This will be to show the 3 winning canvases, smaller prints of some runners-up and a slideshow off all the entires. This will run from Saturday 13th to Friday the 19th of September.
At the end of the show the winners will need to be able to collect their canvases. If you are abroad we can arrange shipping but will have to charge you for this at cost. If you would like us to try and sell copies of your canvas we would need to discuss this at the time before the exhibition opens.
how to enter
The theme of the competition is, as the name suggests, landscape. I am keen to encourage people to enter, so we will be generous about what counts as landscape. It is free to enter. We are taking entries by email only, we cannot accept any prints in the gallery, it would make administering and judging too difficult and time consuming. Sorry.
You can enter up to 5 photos in total. We will be strict about this so if you think you might want to send something later, don't send all five straight away.
I am keen to encourage all kinds of entries. Children's pics, phone pics, pretty much anything that you think makes an interesting photo. Technical perfection is the least important issue, it is the picture that matters. Try to think if it's something new or different or visually exciting. For instance, though not really a landscape, I recently took this from the back seat of a car in Valencia during a downpour. Actually I wouldn't rule this out as a landscape for the purposes of the competition.
It was shot on a 2 megapixel phone camera with a scratched lens. I still think it's a lovely picture, I like the drivers hand, the fact you can only see the suggestion of shapes through the window. I like the odd split-down-the-middle composition, and even the hazy quality caused by the scratched lens.
To submit your entry, please size your pictures to about 1000 pixels along the longest side. The files should be .jpeg or .jpg, and if you have a choice of quality setting, at medium quality or 7 if using photoshop. If this is all too technical for you, try to size them 'small' or 'for emailing' or any similar term your software might use. If that's still too technical each picture should be around 500k to 1Mb in size. The idea is that they should fit into an email easily.
Send your pictures (maximum of five) in an email to competition@purdiegallery.co.uk
You can enter straight away, the closing date for entires is 30th of August 2008. We will contact the winners to get bigger copies from them to make the finished canvases.
Good luck.
David Purdie
July 2008
the small print
- Copyright remains with entrants.
- Published/displayed images will always be credited to the photographer
- The images will be only ever be used by the Purdie Gallery to solely and exclusively promote the competition and such usage will not exceed 2 years. This means we might want to use a couple of the winners on a flyer advertising the exhibition, or as publicity for next year's competiton. There will be no commercial usage of the images, which means we won't be selling any of them.
- If anyone expresses an interest in buying any of the winning canvases we will contact the photographer.
