The entries have been flooding in for this year’s TradeWinds' Maritime Photographer of the Year competition, but there is still time to add your treasured snap to the list.
Some of the first photographs are viewable in the gallery – and the bar has already been raised pretty high.
We’ve had pictures from brokers, owners, managers and other shipping folk from all over the globe, each with a unique and often beautiful take on the maritime experience.
The deadline is noon GMT on 29 November, and the splendid prize up for grabs to the winning amateur snapper is a Nikon D90 digital SLR camera, as well as the coveted TradeWinds' Maritime Photographer of the Year trophy.
Competition rules
- This is a maritime photography competition so only images relating to the merchant shipping industry are eligible. Images submitted may reflect shipboard life, show vessels or parts of vessels, illustrate maritime operations, news events or otherwise have a clear relationship to our industry while demonstrating the creative and/or technical skills of the photographer.
- Photographs can be entered as digital images, prints or transparencies and be colour or monochrome. Up to 10 images may be submitted by each contestant.
- Digital images should be submitted as jpg files of at least 1MB, print entries should be of a minimum size of 125mm x 175mm, while transparencies should be 35mm format or larger. Good quality scans of prints or transparencies are also acceptable.
- Images should be the original work of the contestant and taken since 1 January 2010. Images should be without embedded text or date stamps. All entries should be accompanied by a caption showing where and when the photograph was taken, the name of the ship if relevant, the camera used and the name of the photographer.
- Images should not have been digitally created or edited but use of filters, time exposures and other traditional photographic techniques is acceptable.
- A contestant's occupation should be in the shipping or related maritime industries. Those eligible include seafarers, shipowners, shipmanagers, shipbrokers, marine surveyors and inspectors, classification and marine administration officials, port employees, search and rescue and coastguard officers, ship finance, marine insurance and shipping law professionals, as well as students on a course leading to a shipping industry career. The competition is not open to ship enthusiasts, professional photographers or naval personnel, other than those involved in search and rescue, pirate interdiction or other services relating to merchant shipping. Employees of TradeWinds and related companies are also not eligible.
- The winning contestant will receive a Nikon D90 digital SLR or equivalent camera and the TradeWinds' Maritime Photographer of the Year trophy. The winning image and the name of the successful contestant will be published by TradeWinds soon after the closing date.
- Copyright remains with the photographer but TradeWinds may publish submitted images in the course of this or future photographic competitions.
- TradeWinds reserves the right to crop images for the purposes of publication.
- Digital images should be e-mailed to competition@tradewindsnews.com with the attached images clearly captioned along with details of the contestant. Prints or slides can be mailed to TradeWinds Photo Competition, Christian Krohgs gate 16, PO Box 1182 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo, Norway, or TradeWinds Photo Competition, 25 Farringdon Street, London, EC4A 4AB, England.
- The closing date for entries for the competition is noon GMT on Tuesday 29 November. A short list of the best entries will be selected by the editor of TradeWinds with the final winner chosen through a readers' vote. Voting closes noon GMT Tuesday 13 December with the winner to be announced shortly afterwards.
- In all matters relating to this competition, the decision of the editor of TradeWinds is final. TradeWinds will do its best to return submitted images if requested but is under no obligation for any lost or damaged.
By the TradeWinds team