2012 Photo Calendar Contest

North America Wilderness Backpacking invites amateur and professional photographers to this First Annual Photo Calendar Contest. You must read the following rules, terms and conditions before submitting any photos!

North America Wilderness Backpacking's First Annual Digital Photo Calendar Contest (the "Contest") is open to ALL photographers at least 18 years of age. The Contest is open to all participants regardless of residence or citizenship, so long as the laws of their jurisdiction allow participation.

What are we looking for?

• We are looking for striking digital images of scenes relating to backpacking and hiking in North America.

• Your images for the Photo Calendar Contest may be taken anywhere in North America.

• Your images may show backpacks, backpacking and hiking gear, scenic places, natural landscapes, backpackers or backpacking groups, fantastic weather shots, trail signs, wildlife, plant life, or anything else relating to backpacking.

• The one standing rule for your photos is that each accepted photo must have somewhere in the shot either some kind of backpacking gear (tent, backpack, boot, trekking poles, snowboard/skis, etc…), people backpacking (groups or solo), or something that lets the viewer know that this is specifically a backpacking/hiking photo. Be creative!

• For the Photo Calendar Contest, we are especially interested in images that showcase the wide range of terrain and landscapes across North America, including all types of forests, grasslands, lakes and rivers, deserts and arid lands, rainforests, etc…

• Please do not include photos that show facial features in detail. The face can be sillouetted, blurred by movement or weather, or it can be a clear profile or back of head shot, just no recognizable facial features.

• All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared.

• Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified.

• Multiple exposures that have been combined to produce a single "High Dynamic Range" image are certainly acceptable.

• Images that do not meet these requirements may or may not be judged at the judging panel's sole discretion.

• Photo captions MUST accompany all submissions, and should include the subject of the image, the location the image was taken, and the name of the photographer(s). Please clarify trail name, junction, lake, river, public land, etc... where photo was captured.

• All photographs will be credited with the caption "© Person's Name." North America Wilderness Backpacking has final approval of any language that appears on its web site or calendar.

How do you enter?

How to be eligible? How will you be judged?

Entries to the Backpacking Photo Calendar Contest may originate in any format -- including, but not limited to digital files, digital prints, color transparencies, color prints, or black and white prints -- so long as they are submitted electronically.

Previously published material for which non-exclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license (see "Your Rights" below). You must be able to disclose when and where the photo appeared previously to North America Wilderness Backpacking upon request.

Images will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. North America Wilderness Backpacking shall determine winner eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion. All decisions made by the judges are final.

Deadline

Entrants may be asked to submit a paragraph about the story behind the photo anytime on or after submission. Finalists will be announced on or before December 20, 2011.

North America Wilderness Backpacking reserves the right to adjust any deadline(s) as the result of causes beyond its immediate control.

Winning Photos

The winning photos will be printed in the North America Wilderness Backpacking annual calendar, with your name and credit given to the photo, offered for sale at http//:www.north-america-wilderness-backpacking.com.

Your Rights

You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit to the Photo Calendar Contest -- including ownership if applicable. If your image is selected as a winner, you grant North America Wilderness Backpacking a nonexclusive right, in perpetuity, to:

• Publish the images for North America Wilderness Backpacking’s purposes in any format, including on North America Wilderness Backpacking’s website and in North America Wilderness Backpacking’s publications or presentations, including, but not limited to the annual 12 month calendar.

• Provide images for sale to individuals and organizations.

• Use, in connection with the Photo Calendar Contest, your name, city, state and country of residence in promotions and publications.

• Keep the files provided, and to archive the images on CD or in other electronic forms, so that your photos can be used to support our mission and be properly credited.

As conditions of this permission, North America Wilderness Backpacking shall credit all photographs with the caption "© Person's Name" when the full name is available.

Legal ConditionsBy entering, participants agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless North America Wilderness Backpacking, its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives, from any and all third party liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the competition (collectively, "Losses"), including without limitation any third party claim for copyright infringement or a violation of an individual’s right to privacy and/or publicity right. The Contest is void where prohibited by law.

Each entrant in the Contest (each a "Entrant") is responsible for ensuring that he or she has the right to submit the photos that he or she submits to the Contest per these rules.You agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved with North America Wilderness Backpacking, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, before a court of competent jurisdiction, which court shall apply the laws of the Commonwealth without regard for rules of conflicts of law. IN ANY SUCH DISPUTE, PARTICIPANT SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEYS' FEES, OR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN PARTICIPANT'S ACTUAL OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES (IF ANY) ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHTS TO HAVE DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR INCREASED. North America Wilderness Backpacking’s web site are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

North America Wilderness Backpacking is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the photo competition, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to the photo competition, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. North America Wilderness Backpacking assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries.

North America Wilderness Backpacking is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, servers, providers, computer on-line systems, software, or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site, including injury or damage to participant's or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or uploading images or information in the photo contest.

If, for any reason, the Photo Calendar Contest is not capable of completion as planned, including but not limited to, any reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of North America Wilderness Backpacking that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the photo competition, North America Wilderness Backpacking reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the photo competition. By submitting photos to this competition, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions of this Photo Calendar Contest.

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