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Rules & Procedures: There are two (2) photography classes: 1) Class 16--Digital submissions: Images submitted as digital files, even if they weren't originally shot with a digital camera (i.e., even if they were scanned from film negatives, slides, or prints). 2) Class 17--Prints and slides: Images submitted in any physical (non-electronic) medium, even if they were originally shot with a digital camera. Prints may be in black-and-white or color, and may be mounted or unmounted. Entries in both photography classes are limited to images of killifishes, as defined in the most recent KMI (Killifish Master Index), i.e., oviparous cyprinodontiform fishes. Fishes pictured must belong to a genus or family contained in the KMI, even if the particular species in question is too new (or undescribed) for inclusion. Parameters for digital files submitted for competition: File format: JPEG Each digital file submitted for competition should be devoted entirely to the actual photographic image ("live art") only; no borders or other decorative effects should surround the photographic image. There are no limitations on post-exposure editing/manipulations. It's understood that photographers may take creative liberties with digital files. It's up to the judges to detect and determine when such interventions are unnatural or otherwise obtrusive, and evaluate images accordingly. File name: File name should include entrant's last name, first name, and the full binomial/trinomial, as per the following example: doe_john_cyprinodon_variegatus_ovinus.jpg Images will be archived, renamed, and cross-referenced before being submitted for judging, so that judges will not see entrants' names as part of the file name. Method of delivery: Entries should be e-mailed as file attachments to Barry Cooper at barry.cooper@mac.com by May 18.2009. A checklist of submissions must occupy the body of the e-mail(s) accompanying the attached files, and may contain additional information about the fishes pictured, such as, but not limited to, sex, locality, and any other pertinent information, at the entrant's discretion. Number of entries allowed: There is a limit of five (5) images per entrant. AKA Use of images: Entrant agrees to: 1) ...allow thumbnail images to be made available to JAKA editor, not for use as thumbnails, but merely as part of a database from which future requests could be made. There is no obligation on the part of the entrant to grant permission for subsequent usage. 2) ...allow publication of winning entries in JAKA (winning entrants will be required to supply larger/higher resolution files of the winning images for use in JAKA). 3) ...allow publication of winning entries (at a size and resolution no larger than that at which they were submitted) on the AKA Web site. Winning images to be reproduced in JAKA must be identical in all parameters (except for size/resolution) to the images that were submitted for judging. No qualitative alterations should be made. Other than this one-time usage in the dual contexts of JAKA and the AKA Web site, there will be no usage of files whatsoever unless the entrant is contacted and agrees to send a larger file appropriate to whatever usage is requested. Direct any questions to: |