The EASTS Best
Transportation Landmark Photo Contest (BTLP) is a biannual competition held in
conjunction with the EASTS conference. The aim of the contest is to find contemporary photographic images
that exemplify the development of safe, secure, sustainable and efficient
transportation systems in the EASTS member countries and regions. To this end,
BTLP contest entrants are encouraged to submit
photographs that highlight a specific issue or development in transportation
from their country or region, and that do so through excellence in photographic
composition, imagery and artistry.
1. Schedule
Late August
2007: |
Call for
submission of photographs, on EASTS website |
14 September 2007: |
Deadline for submission of photographs |
21 September
2007: |
Selection of
candidate photographs by BTLP Sub-Committee. The shortlisted
photographs will then be judged at the conference |
During
conference (24-25 September): |
On-site voting
by EASTS members at conference (concludes at lunch time on Day 2 of the
conference) Selection by
sub-committee and approval by Board |
2. Prizes
First, second and
third prizes will be awarded. The prize awards are:
1st Prize $US
125
2nd Prize $US
75
3rd Prize $US
50
Prizes are awarded
on the basis of public voting by EASTS regular members, selection by the BTLP
Sub-Committee, and the approval of the EASTS Board.
3. Procedures
Contestants submit
photos to a pool in one or more categories. A panel of volunteer judges (the
BTLP Sub-Committee) independently selects photos from the pool immediately after
the last date for submission. All submitted photographs complying with the
rules of the competition as assessed by the sub-committee are displayed on the
website and open to public voting until the commencement of the conference.
3.1 Applicant
eligibility
Photographs must
be submitted by EASTS regular members or others who register to attend the
EASTS conference. This measure is introduced to encourage entrants to attend
the closing ceremony of the conference. Note that the cash prizes can only be presented
to prize winners who actually attend the closing ceremony, as EASTS is unable
to pay the additional costs of bank transfers that would then be incurred.
3.2 Competition
rules
Photographs made with
a digital camera or digital images made by converting from films will be
considered:
Some image
modifications are allowed. The following rules apply unless stated
otherwise:
The following examples
of permitted modifications may be applied selectively or globally unless
otherwise stated:
Copyright and
permissions are of vital
concern:
Certain general
conditions also apply in assessing the eligibility of a photograph for the
BTLP competition:
3.3 Voting and
selection
The prize winning
photographs are selected by a process including public voting by EASTS regular
members, evaluation and recommendation by the BTLP Sub-Committee, and approval
by the EASTS Board. As well as popularity as indicated by the public voting,
the concept, composition and message conveyed by the photograph is also taken into account. The selection process is thus:
Public voting is
open to EASTS regular members only and only one vote per member is allowed. The
vote may only be lodged on-site at the conference venue. Voting will be through
the use of voting sheets distributed at the registration desk and a display of
the candidate photographs near the registration desk.
4. Use of prize
winning photographs
EASTS reserves the
right to use the prize winning photographs for such publications as
exhibitions, ID card backgrounds, journal covers and web page design. The
digital data of the prize-winning photographs will be kept by EASTS for two
years after the conference. After that time, the data will be discarded.
5. Procedure
for submitting photographs
Photographs for
the BTLP competition should be emailed to eastsBTLP@unisa.edu.au by the final submission date of 14
September 2007. Entrants must supply full contact
details (Name, Sex, Affiliation, E-mail, Post
Address, Tel/Fax), including their EASTS regular membership number (or evidence that
they have registered for the EASTS 2007 conference), and should provide a
title and short description for each photograph (see examples in
the previous
contest).
Professor Michael
A P Taylor
Convenor, BTLP
Sub-Committee of EASTS