WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Any member of a FELASA member association can participate and send
pictures. The participation is a personal process and individuals should
send their pictures directly to FELASA.
PICTURES’ OWNERSHIP
By sending pictures to FELASA, participants confirm owning the pictures’
copyright, and they give rights to FELASA to use, freely and whenever,
all pictures sent, without any mention of credits, ownership or
authorship, and without any fee. All pictures can be used by FELASA,
whether awarded or not. The senders also keep the right to use their
pictures. FELASA has the right to decide whether to use a picture or not.
AWARD
The three first ranked pictures will be awarded a prize of 200 € each.
The authors will be awarded personally.
HOW TO COMPETE?
You are kindly invited to send pictures, preferably batches of photos. A
batch would include at least five pictures. More will be welcome. Files
must be gathered in an identified numeric archive. Ideally, the files
could be named “name of the author _ name of the member
association_photo number_FELASAphotocontest2020”. The files must be
sent to felasabox@gmail.com _BEFORE 15TH JANUARY 2021_.
PICTURE SELECTION
The judging panel will rank pictures according to the following criteria:
– Technical quality of the picture (colour, composition,
clearness, sharpness…)
– Images of animals that can give a welfare example
– Images related to LAS without animals
– Human animal interactions
– Interest for use in communication and illustration
– Pictures shall not permit the identification of persons or
institutions
– Humorous or atypical situations that could be
subject to interpretation by laypersons will be excluded. These criteria
will be very important. FELASA being a scientific association, the panel
will prefer realistic pictures that show animals or scientific
environments in an ethical and professional context.
TECHNICAL FEATURES
Pictures shall be numeric photographs or figures with a format compatible
with the publication in a website. Requested format: .pdf/ .jpeg / .jpg /
.png with a maximum definition of 300 dpi.
CONFIDENTIALITY
The names and email addresses of participants will be kept in confidence
and only for the purpose of the competition.
