…AND THE CHEESE
STANDS ALONE
My family enjoys joking… that if I continue moving to towns with smaller and smaller populations that I will eventally live in complete isolation except, of course, for my husband, internet access, food delivery, my dogs and a separate home for my shoe collection. Funny, eh? There is something to be said for both urban AND country living. I love them both, but buying fresh eggs and goat milk from a farm on my way home has skewed my objectivity just a smidge.
I cannot wait to see the results of the Call for Entries for The Urban and Country Landscape Annual Book from The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards. It is a type of art publication–which you know I love, and part published exhibit. There is no entry fee unless you are accepted. Take advantage of this great opportunity to both tell your story and show your work.
CALL for ENTRIES: Urban and Country Landscape
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards invite photographers from all over the world to submit their work to be featured in The Urban and Country Landscape Annual Book – Nature and People, Life and Culture, and in the online WonderPick Gallery.
In this occasion WPGA wants to select images displaying your city or neighborhood, or that city that you visited this summer or in past years, or it can be the country landscape of your dreams, that one that have stimulated your eyes and your imagination; images about the city and the country life, the culture in your home town or in the remote Bhutan or in La Havana; images of that unforgettable wedding or of your family during a remarkable week-end or at home.
The theme is ample and everything will depend on your interpretation, knowing that we will like to screen landscapes and cityscapes with or without people in the scene. People can be predominant in the scene.
Both color and black and white (including duotones, toned) will be accepted to be screened. Abstract, micro and macro images will not be accepted. All kind of processes, including digital manipulation will be accepted.
The selection process: There will be two screenings
First screening: Selection will be done by WPGA’s artistic and editorial staff. The first screening will be conducted to accept or reject the submitted works. There’s is no entry fee to submit works to the first screening, and you may submit a minimum of 3 images and a maximum of 12 images.
Within 1 week after the reception of the images sent for consideration of the jurors in the first screening, submitters will be notified by email detailing which works have been accepted and which have been rejected. Together with the notification’s email a brief structured feedback will be provided.
Second screening: Selection will be done by Julio Hardy, WPGA’s Managing Director. Accepted images in the first screening will be included in the second screening and entered in the competition. Those works which passed the first screening will be exhibited for one year in the online WonderPick gallery, and available for sale.
During the second screening, 80 images will be selected to be featured in The Urban and Country Landscape Annual Book – Nature and People, Life and Culture.
ENTRY FEES: There is NO INITAL ENTRY FEE. Participants in the second screening will have to pay an entry fee within 1 week after receiving the notification that their image/s have pass the first screening and have been entered into the competition.
The entry fee for those works selected (those that have passed the first screening and have been entered into the competition) will be: $15 for each image accepted, up to 3 images; and $8 for each additional image.
PAYMENT OF FEES: Once the number of images selected in the first screening –and that have therefore been entered into the competition- an email will be sent to you as well as a Paypal invoice with the entry fees to be paid according to the calculation based on the images accepted, to settle the entry fees.
Prizes: Best Image of Show (to be featured in the book cover) will receive a $ 500 B&H gift certificate. Runner up (to be featured in the book back cover) $ 300 B&H gift certificate.