Out of the Blue Environmental Photography Awards 2015

• The Royal Commonwealth Society in order to spread awareness about the importance of Oceans, Seas and waters of the commonwealth organizes Out of the Blue: The Prince of Wales's Commonwealth Environmental Photography Awards.
• The Awards are open for individual of all ages residing in commonwealth countries.The Applicants need to submit photographs related to the following 3 themes:
  • Nature’s Assets
  • People and the Oceans
  • Human Impacts
• The photographs should be taken only in commonwealth countries. Applications for the Awards are online and no offline submission is required to be made to the organizers.
• There is no participation fee to participate in the awards and the winner of the Awards will receive an all-expense paid trip to Malta (Europe) to receive the award.

Out of the Blue Environmental Photography Awards Rewards

The winners of the Out of the Blue Environmental Photography Awards will be declared under the 3 themes mentioned above, under every theme the winners will be selected in accordance to the below mentioned categories:

• Under 18: Total 3 finalists will be selected and out of them one winner will be selected for the grant of the reward. The winner will be offered cash prize of 1000 GBP (Approx. INR 98,000)
• Over 18: Out of the entries received, one image will be selected as winner out of shortlisted 3 finalists. A cash prize of 1000 GBP (Approx. INR 98,000) will be offered to the winner.
• Highly Commended – Smart Phone Entry: The Award will be given to the most commented photo taken using a smartphone.
• Highly Commended – ‘Most Liked’ Photo Entry: The entry receiving most likes on the Out of the Blue competition website will be awarded with this prize.

Reward:

• The winners of the Awards will get a cash prize of 5000 GBP (Approx. INR 4,90,000) along with an invitation to an all-expense paid trip to Malta (Europe) in the award ceremony to be organized in November 2015.

Out of the Blue Environmental Photography Awards Application Process

The interested candidates are required to submit their entries online, in order to participate in the awards. >> Click here to Register for the awards.

• Number of Entries: Each applicant can submit up to 5 entries.
• Specifications of the Images:
  • Format: JPEG.
  • Size: 5 MB.
  • Max Width/height: 2500 Pixels.
  • Color Scape: sRGB
  • Borders, Watermarks or Signatures are not to be included in the photograph.

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London SW1A 1BA

Phone: 020 7024 2106
Email: outofthebluephotocomp@gmail.com