The competition aims to showcase what the community values most about the area in which we live and work. “We invite locals to send us an image of your favourite natural space or local species within the local government area,” City of Canada Bay Mayor, Helen McCaffrey said. “This could include local parks or foreshore areas, local flora such as native plants or bushland and fauna such as birds and crabs.”
Each unique entry will be judged on its creativity, ability to highlight local natural beauty as well as photographic techniques applied.
The winning entrant will receive a $100 restaurant voucher with two runners-up awarded $50 restaurant vouchers.
Not only will the competition give residents an opportunity to get creative with their photography skills, but it also has a more serious side in providing the community with a way to engage with Council around environmental issues which will be used to shape City of Canada Bay’s environmental strategy and state of the environment reporting.
“The photos will reveal what areas are held dear to our community by showing what the most popular natural spaces or species are,” Mayor McCaffrey said.
“This will provide a visual outcome to feed into our environmental strategy, which also includes a survey that is running alongside the photography competition.”
“Competition entrants and anyone else living and working in the City of Canada Bay who is interested in our natural spaces, are also invited to fill out the short survey as part of community engagement for our environmental reporting,” Mayor McCaffrey said.
The survey includes six questions in regards to the environment and how Council is tracking in achieving favourable outcomes.
To participate in the survey .
Photography competition entrants can email photos to . The emailed photo must be an original image and the email must include the entrants name and contact number.
Photos should be saved as an uncompressed JPEG at 300 dpi pixels. The competition opens on Tuesday, 18 July and will close at 11.59pm on Sunday, 13 August.
Selected photos will be included in a photo gallery on Council’s Facebook page. The winner will also be announced through City of Canada Bay’s social media and enewsletters.
See below for terms and conditions
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City of Canada Bay Photography Competition Terms and Conditions
The competition The City of Canada Bay is inviting the community to send images of their favourite natural space or local species within the local government area for a photography competition. This could include local parks or foreshore areas, local flora such as native plants, mangroves or bushland and fauna such as birds, crabs or lizards. The competition is free to enter and open to all residents and visitors to the City of Canada Bay. Employees of the City of Canada Bay and their immediate families are ineligible to enter.
Simply email your photo to environment@canadabay.nsw.gov.au. The emailed photo must be an original image and your entry must include your name and contact number. Image quality should be at 300 dpi, saved as an uncompressed JPEG.
All suitable entries will be judged by City of Canada Bay’s environment and communications personnel. The Panel will judge each response according to creativity, ability to highlight local natural beauty as well as photographic techniques applied.
The photo competition is free and open to all residents and visitors to the City of Canada Bay. Employees of the Promoter and their immediate families are ineligible to enter. The competition commences at 10am on Tuesday, 18 July 2017 and ends at 11.59pm on Sunday, 13 August 2017. An electronically sent image’s quality is to be at 300dpi, saved as an uncompressed JPEG and emailed to enivironment@canadabay.nsw.gov.au The winning photos will be considered by the judges to best represent the nature theme. The judges’ decisions are final.
Entries may be featured in Council publications, on its website, social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) or in media campaigns. Council will include the name of the entrants to acknowledge photographs where possible. Copyright of photos remains with the photographer. By entering the competition, the entrant warrants they are the owner of all intellectual property rights in the artwork. Artwork that infringes intellectual property rights will be immediately removed from the competition. Entrants agree to indemnify the City of Canada Bay against any costs that the City of Canada Bay may incur as a result of any intellectual property rights infringement.
The information submitted by the entrant will be stored, used and disclosed in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth). City of Canada Bay Council collects information for the purposes of conducting and promoting the competition, exhibition and awarding prizes. Prizes There will be one grand prize winner and two runner-up prize winners. The grand prize winner will receive one $100 voucher to a store within our City. The two runner-up prizes are $50 vouchers for a store within the City of Canada Bay Council area.