RULES / GUIDELINES

Who is Eligible?

Open to all photographers world-wide. Photographers may be professional or amateur. There is a special "student" category for college undergraduate or high school students.

Invitational Rules

All photographic processes and formats are eligible.
Images made in any location worldwide are eligible.
Images must be in keeping with the mission of the ICP Awards. We ask that your image(s) convey a clear environmental/conservation theme. Please accompany each submission with one descriptive sentence, phrase or word, especially the "At-Risk" categories. We are certainly looking for beautiful photographs with fine composition, etc. – but moreover, images should convey a sense of urgency of what would be lost in our world if the subjects of your photograph(s) no longer exist on this planet or in the universe.
You may enter as many categories as you like, but you may submit only up to 4 entries per category.

How to Enter

Images produced in all film formats and types, including digitial media, are eligible. Once your entry fees have been sent and received, you will receive further instructions on submitting your images which will include submission in digital format via e-mail attachments to the ICP Awards.

No entries will be accepted by mail.

Entry Fees

GENERAL: $60 (US) for up to 4 entries and $15 (US) for each individual entry thereafter, with limit of 4 images per category.

DOCUMENTING A CONSERVATION PROJECT: Entrants in this special category MUST provide 6 images for the $60 (US) entry fee.

STUDENT CATEGORY: For student entrants, the fee is $30 (US) for up to 3 entries and $10 (US) for each individual entry thereafter with no limit on the number of total entries allowed. Students are considered those enrolled in college undergraduate or high school programs.

How to Pay Entry Fees and Submit Images

All submission fees will be paid on-line through this site’s shopping cart using your credit card or PayPal account. Follow instructions under the big green SUBMIT PHOTOS HERE button to the right. Here is where you will pay your fees and be instructed on how to submit your images. For international submissions, appropriate exchange-rates will automatically be accounted for.

Entry Period: December 1, 2011 – February 28, 2012

Digital Specifications

Images must be no larger than 2.5 MB in JPEG format at maximum quality, with the longest dimension no larger than 1024 pixels, at a resolution of 72 dpi, in 8-bit RGB mode.
Color management preferred ICC Profiles are Adobe RGB (1998) or sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Images must be named lastname_firstname_category_sequence#.jpg with no spaces in filename.
Examples: wolfe_art_landscape_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_02.jpg
If the category is too long, use the first word in the category. Example: Puget Sound at Risk = puget.
No border, embedded marks or logos.
Accompany each submission with one short descriptive sentence, phrase or word about your entry (No more than 25 words, please).

Digital Manipulation Guidelines

Heavily manipulated images will not be accepted. Color and contrast adjustments, sharpening, burning and dodging, etc. will be accepted within reason so long as it does not alter the subject content of the original image.

Requirements for Selected Photographers and Images

Accurate caption information must be available should your image be chosen for the ICP Awards exhibit. This would include information regarding plant or animal species, where appropriate, and the state/province and country in which the photograph was taken. Wildlife images should include whether animal is wild or captive. [ All categories should convey the idea of what the planet stands to lose if the subjects of the images were lost from this world. Quality and composition of your submissions are important; but your images will also be judged on their ability to convey potential environmental loss from a human perspective.]

Photographers with the selected photographs must be prepared, prior to exhibit and awards, to submit a brief written paragraph on the artist’s intention and process in capturing the conservation-themed image(s).

Photographers whose images are selected for the exhibit agree to allow ICP Awards to post said images on the ICP Awards website, to publish/feature a selection of said images in both print and online magazines, to incorporate photographs in slideshow for educational and community outreach purposes, to give the Burke Museum the right to use your image(s), if selected, for use in promotion of the ICP Awards both before and after the Burke exhibit. Photographers will receive appropriate credit in all cases.

The ICP Awards will discard all images not selected as winners after final jury decision is made.

Submission of Selected Images

Upon notification, selected photographers will be responsible for submitting a high resolution /high quality image file to match our exact specifications. The ICP Awards will print the images and provide high quality frames and mats for the exhibition at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and any potential subsequent showings during the following year.

SUBMIT PHOTOS

DEADLINE

FEBRUARY 29

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for Entries

Entry deadline: February 29
Public opening Burke Museum: June 30
Burke exhibit closes: November 25
Traveling exhibit begins: early 2013 (tbd)

Juried Exhibit - 2012

June through November - a 5-month
exhibit at The Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture at the
University of Washington, in Seattle.