Travel photography is a great hobby for the business traveler. I’m a big fan myself and drag my SLR everywhere I go. It’s just something that is easy to do in your off time and a great way to capture the places you visit. InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and National Geographic have announced “InSights”, a photography contest inviting amateur photographers to share their travel photos for a chance to win. From now until July 1, 2007, travelers can submit their travel photos for a chance to win a 16 day expedition to Australia and hone their skills with National Geographic photographer Roff Smith during a two-day guided tour of Sydney.
In addition to spending quality time with a world-class photojournalist down under with accommodations provided by InterContinental Sydney, the winner’s photograph will appear in National Geographic Traveler in the United States, National Geographic magazine in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and Asia, as well as on nationalgeographic.com, intercontinental.com and broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in October.
The second place prize winner will receive a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5/B digital camera and enjoy one complimentary stay of two nights at any InterContinental hotel or resort worldwide.
The third place prize winner will also enjoy one complimentary stay of two nights at any InterContinental hotel or resort worldwide and receive a copy of the award-winning National Geographic Eighth Edition Atlas of the World, which combines state-of-the-art cartographic technology with dynamic cultural content.
Finally, the competition will culminate with a traveling exhibition of the top 20 photo submissions touring InterContinental Hotels & Resorts in major global destinations throughout the world.
To enter, visit intercontinentalinsights.com where you can complete an entry form to submit with your digital photograph. Entries may also be submitted in print and are limited to one photograph per person.
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Dear Sir,
The competition being run between National Geographic and Intercontinental is a scam. It is simply an attempt by Intercontinental to build up a Royalty free library of images exploiting the ignorance of amateur photographers. Basically it states by entering this competition they will own all rights to the images submitted. Not a healthy proposition by anyones standards except Intercontinental who will inherit a bank of images with which they can use and abuse them at will.
This is highly disrespectful of the work submitted.
The rules state;
> Each entrant grants to the Authorized Parties a non-exclusive, royalty-free
> license through the entire world and for the duration of intellectual property
> rights pertaining thereto, to use and reproduce, in whole or in part, without
> any number limitation, in any form, by any mean or process, or any medium,
> whether now known or hereafter existing, the Photograph for editorial,
> commercial, advertising, promotional, publicity or trade purposes, including
> commercially using and exploiting it to fullest extent possible. Each winner
> further acknowledges that any Authorized Party may use a name credit in
> connection with such use, in any media now or hereafter known. No Authorized
> Party will be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any
> additional approval in connection with such use or exploitation.
Yours faithfully,
Chris Close
Dear Chris,
Thank you for your comment. It is true that the photographer relinquishes all rights to the photo once it it submitted. But that seems to be a standard practice for contests of this nature. That certainly is one thing the photographer should consider when deciding whether or not to enter the contest. But for an unknown amateur photographer who would like the recognition if he or she won, or the credit he or she could use if attempting to launch a career, it may be a risk worth taking. I would imagine most entrants to this contest wouldn’t see their photos published anyplace but Flickr anyway, so why not take a shot. I will.
Carrie
P.S. I’m not a sir
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