IMAGINE IRELAND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

Send in your favourite Irish Holiday Photo, and tell us about your holiday memories and you could be the lucky winner of a £300 voucher against an Imagine Ireland Holiday.

Please take a minute to read through the Terms and Conditions below before submitting your entry. Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions and to have agreed to be bound by them when entering this competition. The Imagine Ireland Photo Competition has a number of Terms and Conditions for entry. These are important to ensure that the photo you submit is both eligible to win and meets important legal and fair criteria. Please note that any deviation from these Terms and Conditions may regretfully render your submission to the competition void. The start date of the competition is January 1st 2012 and the closing date of the competition is December 21st 2012.

• Please submit your photo to us using one of these three methods:
• Post your photo on our Facebook page with “Photo Competition” in the description
• Email to photography@imagineireland.com with "Imagine Ireland Photo Competition" in the subject field.
• Burn a Disc and post to Imagine Ireland Ltd, Photographic Competition, Embsay Mills, Embsay, Skipton, BD23 6QF, UK.

2. Basic Requirements:

• Your photo must be of Ireland
• Your photo must have: a short caption/title in English for your photo that details the subject of the photo, this should include the location in Ireland where the photo was taken. This text will be published alongside the photo, should you be the lucky winner.
• Photos need to be supplied in either jpeg or tiff format (these should not extend the maximum file size of 5 Mb). .
• Minimum size: 1600 x 1200 pixel dimensions @ 72dpi or the equivalent 12cm wide @ 300dpi
• Please refrain from resizing or manipulating - keeping the EXIF data intact.
• If supplying by email take care when attaching files (choose the largest resolution possible and choose not to resize the image).

Optional: Supply a small write-up of a maximum of 500 words in English on your Irish stay that can be published with your photograph. It can be about any part of your holiday, e.g. the best beach moment, the great restaurants, hilarious moments, fabulous view – the list is endless. Some simple guidelines may help:

• What time of year did you go and how long did you stay?
• What you did when you got there? Highlights / recommendations for others?
• Best places to eat, best spots for a picnic, must do/see things, things to avoid?
• Who your day out would be perfect for (families, couples, friends, visitors with dogs)?
• Details on the property you stayed in?

3. Submission and Acceptance

• Please ensure all photos taken are of Ireland
• No entries will be accepted after 21st December 2012 for the 2012 competition.
• To enter the competition, no purchase with Imagine Ireland is necessary.
• All entrants must declare that the photographs are their own work and free of any copyright other than their own personal copyright. In submitting to the competition, you agree to grant Imagine Ireland a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the submitted material including any written comment in any way that we want. You still own the copyright to everything you contribute.
• You may submit to multiple photos that count each as one entry.
• Imagine Ireland has provided three methods for submitting your photograph to the competition; these are Email or Post.
• Imagine Ireland cannot guarantee that all pictures submitted through these methods will be accepted into the competition.
• Pictures will not be accepted into the competition if they are deemed inappropriate. This includes images that may be offensive, previously published, copyrighted (by somebody other than the entrant) or otherwise contrary to the spirit of the competition or any of the specific rules noted for each competition category. Photos may also not be accepted into the competition if the focus of the photo is an identifiable individual who has not given their consent to appear or if photos feature advertising or trademarks which would otherwise require Imagine Ireland to obtain permission to use or would contravene rules which may govern publications.
• If your photos are deemed inappropriate, they will not be considered by the Photo Competition judges and / or will be removed from the accepted pool of photos. We cannot guarantee a personal response or dialogue for the reasons behind the removal.
• Should a photo be identified as inappropriate whilst it has been accepted into the competition, Imagine Ireland reserves the right to remove it from the competition, disqualifying the owner (an example of this scenario is if an image is accepted, but later identified as a copyrighted image from a film or magazine where the entrant was not the photographer or the copyright holder).

4. Competition Prizes, Judging & Prize Draw

• The Jury will select a winner by looking at the following criteria: Expression of the holiday feeling (image and text)
• Originality
• Technique
• The winner will be chosen by a judge selected by Imagine Ireland comprised of Imagine Ireland employees and/or external professionals.
• The prize winner of the competition will be announced during December 2012.
• The jury’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The Grand Prize will consist of a £300 Imagine Ireland discount voucher to be used for a minimum 7 days stay in an Imagine property. This holiday needs to be taken before December 2013 and is only applicable to Imagine Ireland, Imagine France and ImagineUKCottages properties within Imagine Ireland Ltd.
• The prize is transferable.
• No cash alternative, charity donation or substitution prize will be offered.
• Imagine Ireland reserves the right to change the prizes at any time.
• In the event of unforeseen circumstances Imagine Ireland reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.
• Winners will be notified by email and the winners are required to contact Imagine Ireland to confirm acceptance of their prize within 14 days of notification. In the event of non-acceptance within the specified period, or if the person is not contactable, Imagine Ireland reserves the right to reallocate the prize awarded to the next best entry or to forfeit the prize. No responsibility is taken for failed delivery of the prizes.

5. Copyright, Licence and Your Work

• In submitting to the competition, you agree to grant Imagine Ireland a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the submitted material including photos and descriptions and short stories in any way that we want. You still own the copyright to everything you contribute.
• If your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside it wherever used as part of the Imagine Ireland Competition. Note that this accreditation may not be possible with use of your photo in printed publications, general Imagine Ireland website use or incorporation on any other media outside the context of the Imagine Ireland Photo Competition.

6. People in your photographs

• If you take pictures of other people, you are responsible for gaining their consent for Imagine Ireland to use their image free of copyright, fee or any other usage restriction. If you happen to take pictures of people aged under 18 as part of your entry, you must get consent from the subject’s parents before submitting your photo.

7. Standard terms and conditions

• Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and disclaimer and to agree to be bound by them when entering this competition.
• No responsibility can be accepted for emails and accompanying photographs which are lost, delayed, misdirected or corrupted during delivery to or from Imagine Ireland due to any computer malfunction, virus, bug, delay or other reason whatsoever.
• Imagine Ireland reserves the right to alter these competition rules at any time.
• Imagine Ireland reserves the right to withdraw or amend this competition at any time without notice.