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GWC Photo competition, don't talk about it......... Claim it!!
Welcome to GWC photo competition site. This competitions aims to promote our home, Geraldton, Midwest of Western Australia and our local club members. It is about an idea that came together during an epic wave sailing session Up North, this Easter break. It is all about claiming it.. How many times have you heard the story.... Did you see that move.. wave...guy... me...? Well the time has now arrived to go to the next level. Show us... or to be more precise.. Show the whole world.. Perhaps your photo will get front cover in the Pommie magazine or the rider get a free trip to Hawaii to train with the big boys.. Being more realistic, it might get you through the long cold Australian Winter with temperatures hoovering between 16 and 23 degrees.
Entering the competition:
Rules:
There are 5 categories:
Best wave photo. (Windsurfing) Best jump photo. (Windsurfing) Best wave photo. (Kiting) Best jump photo. (Kiting) Overall biggest wave photo (Kiting or Windsurfing)
1) To enter all photo's have to be in gif format and have the following maximum size: 250 Wide and 200 High. The best way to adjust this is in photo shop or windows paint. The size of the gif file should not be bigger than 50 kb. Basically this means you have to reduce your photo to a size that is manageable for downloading on the internet. You further have to keep the same photo in the bigger, high quality format, in case you win the competition and we need it.
2) By entering this competition you have given permission to the Geraldton Windsurf Club to view and use the photo for the competition, website and any other use.
3) Best wave and jump photo ( Windsurfing and Kiting)
Although the action in the photo is important and often makes or breaks a photo, it is the quality of the photo that counts. The judges will not only look at the rider on the photo, it will look at the wave, the spray, the background, the colour, the location of the rider in the photo, the originality etc. So in other words, you can have someone doing a 10 meter jump, if the photo is all glairy because of the sun, than your photo might be worthless. At the other side, you can have an awesome bail out photo that could win......
4) Biggest wave photo (Kiting and Windsurfing)
As this competition has been designed to promote Geraldton and Area the location of the photo is restricted between Jurien and Gnaraloo.
5) Membership.
To enter this competition, you have to be a full member of the Geraldton Windsurf Club at the time you submit your photo. Membership forms can be downloaded here.
6) Entry.
If you satisfied all above criteria, you can E-mail your photo to: Lcfp@bigpond.com. To avoid disappointment, only the above formats and sizes will be accepted. When you send your E-mail, make sure that you have given your first and surname, phone number, the person who made the photo, the person who is featured in the photo, the location and the date. Furthermore you are allowed two entries for each discipline and you can change it only two times. As this is the first time that this competition is running we allow photo's made before last year, as long as it is made in the area indicated above.
7) Finally, this idea is set up for a bit of fun. No photo enhancements* will be accepted and if we find out that your photo has been enhanced*, you will be disqualified from the competition. *To be more precise: You are allowed to change the colour, sharpness etc, but not change the photo in such a way that the wave looks bigger, or the jump looks higher...
Tip: As the resolution of the photo can be low for viewing on the internet, the use of Digital Video equipment can be very handy. Some video's allow 24 frames or more in one second which give you heaps of change to catch the right moment.
Example of and valid entry:
View here the current photo's that are running in this competition
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