BBC 2005 Photo Competition

[viper_larry]

Seen some excellent pics on here this year - must be some category suitable for entry in the BBC's annual competition?

DEADLINE: THEMES
8 August - My family & friends
22 August - Fashion
5 September - Power
19 September - Work
3 October - Environment
17 October - Spaces
1 November - Final vote

Would be great to see a PH'er win

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4652389.stm

>> Edited by viper_larry on Tuesday 26th July 13:26

[docevi1]

Check the small print carefully...

[CVP]

It would be nice to see a fellow PH'er win but..... be very very sure before entering as there are some lovely T&C's applied by the BBC

Text directly lifted from their T&C site
"Contributions to bbc.co.uk
Where you are invited to submit any contribution to bbc.co.uk (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the BBC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the BBC's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the BBC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to bbc.co.uk."

Basically after you send your images in you may retain ciopyright but the BBC can basically do whatever they want with your image and they never ever, ever at all, until the end of the world have to pay you a bean.

The cynic in me says this is a very cheap way of the BBC getting images good enough to use on the website without having to pay the photographer for them at all.

Chris

[simpo two]

Yep. We had the same thing last year

Still, there would be some kudos to saying 'my photo was chosen by the BBC'.

...or stolen by the BBC...

>> Edited by simpo two on Tuesday 26th July 18:43

[imperialism2024]

Can Americans submit pictures?

[CVP]

simpo two said:

Yep. We had the same thing last year Still, there would be some kudos to saying 'my photo was chosen by the BBC'. ...or stolen by the BBC... >> Edited by simpo two on Tuesday 26th July 18:43

True, it would be great to say "** - BBC Photographer of the Year".

The rules seem a bit strange because if you submit your pictures to the BBC for the Countryfile comnpetition the rights you grant them are very limited and it seems like a good competition to enter;

link [url]www.bbc.co.uk/nature/environment/programmes/countryfile/photocomp_2005.shtml[/url]

Top prize is also GBP 1,000 of photo kit, so not too shabby at all.

Chris

[viper_larry]

Voting has started on the first round:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4145838.stm

I think #2 is the one I would vote for.

WTF is #5 doing in there? Aweful picture...

[_dobbo_]

Number 8 for me.

number 5 looks like a Martin Parr style effort - which might go some way to explain it's presence. I like it but wouldn't put it in the company of some of the others.

[Chim_Knee]

Tough one... current short list is 2, 8 and 11.

2 has wonderful colours and is very crisp
8 just immediately made me smile, is full of character
11 is well composed, lit and is, for me, an interesting picture in that it shows a way of life unfamiliar.

If I had to choose right now... 8 would win. There, I said it...

[viper_larry]

Number 8 is a very good picture, but I can NEVER bring myself to vote for anything with babies or kids in them - bah humbug!

[gopher]

viper_larry said:

Number 8 is a very good picture, but I can NEVER bring myself to vote for anything with babies or kids in them - bah humbug!

mmm I think thisis what I was thinking when I went for #11