PARTICIPANTS

     All photographers who so desire, amateur or professional, may take part.

CATEGORIES

A/ Mountain Landscape: Captions showing mountains and their environment, in any of their forms.

B/ Alpinism: Captions showing alpinism, climbing on ice, mountain ski and the world of heights from a sports point of view.

C/ Mountain climbing: Captions showing rock climbing and the vertical world.

D/ Man in the Mountain; Captions showing people hiking, trekking, etc. and also those showing people from the mountains, their customs, traditions and ways of life.

E/ Animal World: Any animal photographed in their environment.

F/ Vegetal world: Any vegetal especies photographed in its environmet.

G/ Biodiversity: captions in this category will show animals or plants in their natural habitat. Judges will take into account the link between the different species and their environmet and, also, the image composition criteria on the environment.

H/ Nature landscapes: Rest of landscapes not included in the A Category.

I/ Mountain and Nature in abstract: Captions where forms, textures, colours, etc are determining in the composition. Abstract photography.

J/ The Forest and its ecosystem: In its International Year, the forests, the undergrowth and the rest of forest masses, as well as their ecosystems, will be the themes of this special category. The relationship between different species -vegetal and/or animal- will be assessed.

PHOTOGRAPHS

     Irrespective of the support employed in their execution, the works will be presented as digital archives in JPEG format, preferably with colour profile Adobe RGB 1998 and must be 1,500 pixels wide in its largest side, no addings such as frames, borders or foot notes allowed.

     There is a limit on the number of entries per person: a maximum of five photograhs per entrant in each category entered.

PRESENTATION

      There are two different ways to submit the photographs, any of the two can be used but not the two of them at the same time.

      1st (Preferably) To enter, visit http://www.memorialmarialuisa.com/ and follow the instructions given in that site.

      2nd Send your photograhs by ordinary mail in a CD or a DVD and include a card with your full name, postal address, telephone number, email address (very impportant), and a numbered list of the photo captions mentioning their titles, there will be a list per each Category.

ADMISSION DATE

      Until 1 December 2011

DELIVERY

      To: "Memorial Maria Luisa" / Concurso de Fotografía de Montaña / Apartado de Correos 19 / 33530 Infiesto (Principado de Asturias)-Spain.

      The organization will inform each contestant by e-mail of the reception of the photographs submitted.

JUDGES

      The panel of judges will be designated by the Founders Board of the "Memorial" from amongst mountain photographers of recognised prestige. Its verdict will be final and it will also decide on any complaints or other incidents which could arise.

VERDICT

      The decisions of the Judges Panel will be made public on 2 February 2012, through announcements in the press and specialized magazines, without prejudice to immediate communication to the participants.

PRIZES

      The Overall Winner of the "XXII Memorial María Luisa", the Golden Asturcon Award of photography 2011, will be awarded a cash prize of 3.000 Euros, a Trophy and a Diploma. The Overall Winner will be chosen from the nine category winners; the Jury will give the Prize to the most memorable & shocking caption. The overall winner will receive a cash prize 3.000 Euros, including the amount corresponding to his/her category.

      Winner Prize of each Category: € 300, Trophy and Diploma. Also, the winner of C/ Category will be awarded a Game of 12 friends Wild Country.

      Young Photographers Prize: a Premium Mini Laptop, a Trophy and a Diploma will be awarded to the best photograph submitted by contestants not having reached the age of 20 years on 1 December 2011

      The Judges Panel is also empowered to award the honourable mentions it may deem fitting.

PROJECTIONS AND PRIZE-GIVING

      A selection of the photographs submitted to the competition will be projected on Saturday 10 March 2012 after the prize-giving ceremony, at a time and place to be designated by the Organization. The Organization will provide free accommodation for the winner and a companion at the "La Pontiga" hotel/apartments: http://www.laviejapontiga.com

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

      Developing the photographs, the typical adjustments of digital developing (white balance, exposure, levels, contrast, colour saturation, focusing, vignetting removal...) will be admitted; also the cleaning of particles, and slight cuttings. Alterations or manipulations of the image or even of part/s of the image, which imply that the photograph shows a different reality from the photographed reality, will not be admitted.

      The authors of short-listed photographs may be asked to provide such clarification regarding the image as may be deemed fitting. The technical committee may reject those photographs which do not comply with the present rules, subjects and categories.

      Also, and in any case, entrants will be asked to provide the camera primary files (RAW), not providing such files implies the disqualification of the photograph.

      The Organization reserves the right to make such copies of all award-winning photographs as may be required for exhibitions, projections or publications related exclusively to the activities of the present competition, without limits in time, geographic location or mediums, and always crediting the authorship of said photographs. As it sees fit, the Organization may request a copy of the original file with maximum quality and size. Without prejudice to the above, the authors of the photographs will retain all legal rights to the same for any future use.

      The Organization of the competition will refuse any request that may be received from third parties with commercial interests, such as the concession, loan, exploitation, sale etc. of the personal details of participants and of the images submitted by them for the purposes of the competition.

      The participant must be the sole owner of the rights to the photographs and will accept full responsibility for assuring that no third party rights to the works submitted exist, and for any claims by such third parties as may arise.

      Participants entering the section for Young Photographers may be required to provide documental proof of their age.

      The digital material submitted will not be returned and the CDs/DVDs will be destroyed at the conclusion of the competition

     All personal details provided by contestants for the purposes of the competition will be treated according to the stipulations of the Personal Privacy Protection Act 15/1999 of 13 December, said contestants having the right of access, rectification or deletion..

     The act of participation in the competition implies acceptance of the present rules in their entirety. The Organization reserves the right to decide on any case not contemplated in these rules.

INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES

Telephones: +34 985 226 850 / 985 710 350

Website: http://www.memorialmarialuisa.com
E-mail: certamen@memorialmarialuisa.com

     Participation Form