South Pennines Rail Partnership’s
Photographic Competition

RULES AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

Eligibility to enter
The competition is open to professional and amateur photographers without distinction. Any photographs entered must be the entrant’s own work and must not have been manipulated electronically other than for cropping, resizing, colour, brightness and contrast. Photographs must be taken within the South Pennines and be accessible by train. Any persons wishing to enter the first two categories must still be within the age range of the category at the closing date of the competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws.

Closing date
The closing date for the competition is Friday 30th May 2008. Any entries received after this date will not be considered for the competition.

Cost of entry
Entry to the competition is free, excepting for cost of submission, and for this reason the South Pennines Rail Partnership (The Partnership) will not be able to return any photographs.

Number of entries permitted
Each entrant can submit up to a maximum of five photographs.

Copyright and other intellectual property rights At no stage in this competition, nor subsequent to it shall The Partnership, or any sponsor, lay claim whatsoever to the ownership of copyright or other intellectual property rights in the images entered into the competition. The Partnership does however reserve the right to use the images and where images are used and will print a credit to the photographer.

Submission of entries
The preferred method of submission is by email attachment in jpeg format to the following address
Rowena@southpenninesrail.co.uk. However entries may be made by post enclosing either a CD ROM with
burned images, or printed versions of the photograph(s). Negatives, transparencies or any other format, that require further development will not be considered.

Please state the location of the photograph. Postal entries should be sent to: Rowena Chantler, Community Rail Partnership Officer, South Pennines Rail Partnership, The Rail and River Centre, 15a New Street, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield HD7 5AB. Images can be in colour or black & white and all will be given equal consideration. Due to the possible small file size of images recorded on mobile telephones it is preferable that submissions are not made using this format.

The judging
All the judges are appointed by The Partnership, which reserves the right to change any judge without notice.
The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Any entrant seeking to communicate directly with a judge on any matter whatsoever concerning the competition will be disqualified from the competition.

Image rights and reproduction
By entering the competition, the short-listed, runner up and winners of each category authorises the use without additional compensation, of the images for promotional and/or advertising purposes in any manner and in any medium (without limitation) which The Partnership deems appropriate, not withstanding the copyright and other intellectual property rights as mentioned above.