– Freely express or interpret the delight emotions and scene - a kind of beautiful state or feeling of human beings and other living things
Submission Deadline: 24:00 December 31, 2009 (12/31/2009) Pacific Time
Voting: Starts at 00:00 a.m. PDT on or about January 1, 2010
Ends at 11:59:59 p.m. PDT on or about January 22, 2010
Judging: January 23th, 2010
Winner Announce: Date adjust to February 1st, 2010 (Original Date: January 25th, 2010)
There are five awards setting for Linkdelight 2009 Photo Contest. The prize name and number of winner on each prize is listed at below table. The Grand Prize will be awarded for the most outstanding photograph out of all the entries, which is getting top votes from voters. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize is award to next 9 related winners according to the vote number of their photographs. The Participation Prize is for next 30 winners. More details about the prize content please go to the "Prize" page.
| Prize Name | Grand Prize | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Participation Prize |
| Numbers of Winners | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 30 |
• Go to our photo contest web page: http://www.linkdelight.com/photocontest2009/
• Sign in by your linkdelight.com registered email to submit your image, if you haven’t registered in linkdelight.com yet, please register first.
• Each entrant only submit one image (format includes .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .gif and .png).
• Please fill out the correlative title, shot description, equipment and parameter for the image.
• Entrant can edit the description or delete image in the “My picture” panel after upload image.
• The uploaded image will be displayed on LinkDelight photo contest gallery after uploaded.
• Submitted images will not be returned under any circumstances.
• LinkDelight reserves the right to delete any images that do not have anything to do with this contest theme.
- Photography must be in digital format. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this contest.
- The photograph is not subject to image taken by digital camera, taken by film cameras, scans of negatives, transparencies, or photographic prints (must be transfered to digital format) are also acceptable.
- All digital files must be 1000KB(1024000 bytes) or smaller, must be in .jpg, .jpeg, .gif and .png format. File W * H not less than 735 * 488 pixel is better.
- No manipulation beyond color correction, conversion to black & white, brightness and contrast.
- The photographs must not have won an award in any form contest in the last two years, or else, LinkDelight reserve the right to cancel the qualification of the entrant.
- The photo must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intel lectual property rights or that constitutes copyright infringement.;
- The photo must not contain brand names or trademarks.;
- The photo must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Winners may later be requested to submit images with higher resolution for winning works, for such purposes as the production of publications and exhibitions related to the contest.
- The entrant will retain the copy rights to their photographs. However, by uploading photograph to LinkDelight 2009 photo contest gallery, contestants grant LinkDelight Ltd and its agency unlimited rights, for 18 months, usage of the entry photographs in any adverting/promotion efforts by LinkDelight Ltd.
For encourage voting, voter will be offered shopping discount coupon (value US$1.00) for voting each photograph. Voter can leave a valid email address in the input box above the vote button, and click the vote button to send a vote and we will also restore the email address, the coupon code will be sent to this email address after 48 hours when the vote and email address are checked.
Voting for one photograph will get one shopping discount coupon. But each person only gets one discount coupon for same one photo.
The shopping discount coupon (code) is valued US dollars $1.00 and will be expired on 31 March 2010. It only can be used on www.linkdelight.com. The shopping discount coupon can not be accumulated, it is for single use.
- At the time of entry, entrants are deemed to have read, understand and be in agreement with all rules and conditions, our company reserves the right to rule on any issues not covered in this page. In this contest that an entrant should disagree with any decision made by our company, that entrant will have the right to withdraw his or her entry/entries.
- In the event that the efficient, security, selection procedure, fairness of the contest or any related operations are deemed to have been compromised by our company beyond the control of the organizer – such as troubles relating to computer networks, com puter virus infections or unauthorized computer access – then the receipt of some or all entries via the interne may be postponed or discontinued.
- Entrants retain all copyrights and other equivalent rights to entered photographs, however the organizer will possess rights as stated below in “Rights of the organizer”.
- Winner will be entirely responsible for any tax or charge related to the receipt of any prize.
- The decisions of the judges are final, our company reverse the right of the judge.
- Our company reserves the permanent nonexclusive right to publish, reproduce, display, distribute, and show on screen any winning photograph on websites. Photo exhibitions, tradeshows, or any other media which is under the management of the organizer for the purpose of promoting our company. In all cases where such photographs are used, our company reserves the right to do so without obtaining the further prior permission of the winner and without offering any further compensation in any form.
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