First Blog Contest — 9th Sept 09 to 17 Oct 09

Written by Anurag Bhateja on September 9, 2009 – 10:15 am -

Attention Participants: Due to high number of participation and a bit buy schedule on my side, there is a little delay in result announcement. I will post the results asap.

Thanks for co-operation.

I am introducing my first blog contest on completion of 25 years of my life ;) (Yesterday was my Birthday :D ). The rules are simple and easy to follow. After working a lot on this contest I came up with the following contest.

Rules:
1. You need to write about the blog contest with a link back to the post. – 5 points (Only one blog post review will be counted)
2. You need to stumble it, digg it, tweet it. – 2 points each (please do these only once. Doing it again and again is your wish but they will not be counted.)
3. You need to comment on the blog posts. You can dig old posts and check them, comment on them. Make sure you use same name and mail ID while commenting. – 1 point for every 2 comments. (Unlimited accepted :) )
4. Bonus points:
a. If you have flickr account add me and comment on my pictures here. – 1 point for every 5 comments.
b. If you want you can write a small review on theoriginof.com on your blog – 5 points. (Only one review will be counted.)

Prizes:
1. 1st prize: USD 50 (by Anurag Bhateja) + 2 domains of your choice (.com, .net, .org type price slab) (by Anurag Bhateja) + Flickr pro for 1 yr (can be converted into cash) and a wordpress theme (by Anurag Bhateja) + lifetime adv on Poshcraze.info (wordpress theme and life time adv sponsored by Poshcraze.info), Unmetered diskspace (by The Fairytale Host)
2. USD 25 + 1 domain of your choice (by Anurag Bhateja) and a wordpress theme (wordpress theme sponsored by Poshcraze.info), 300GB diskspace (by The Fairytale Host)
3. USD 10 + 1 domain of your choice (by Anurag Bhateja), 30GB diskspace (by The Fairytale Host)
4. 10 domains will be given to randomly selected people (by Anurag Bhateja), 1 GB diskspace (by The Fairytale Host)

Payment Methods:
1. By paypal
2. For Indians: to bank account of ICICI, HDFC, SBI, SBOP or any nationwide bank. USD to INR according to present rate of USD @ time of contest completion.

Sponsors:
Posh Craze (2 wordpress themes and lifetime advertisement on poshcraze.info)
The Fairytale Host (Diskspace)

The winner list will be forwarded to the sponsors.

How to comment:
Link to post review:
Stumble ID:
Digg ID:
Tweet ID:
Facebook ID:
Flickr ID:
Theoriginof.com review link:
Comments from your side:

Results: Will be declared on 21st Oct 2009.

Please note: The winners will be decided by the points. If two or more people have same number of points then the winner will be decided by random selection process.

For sponsorship please contact me.

CLOSED!! I need a little time to calculate the points. Thanks a lot to participants for such a great response.




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Important Information for Photographers Regarding NetGeo Contest

Written by Anurag Bhateja on March 26, 2009 – 1:01 pm -

The following information is posted in CFC thread by Udit Kulshrestha. This piece of information is very important as by joining the contest you may loose your copyright over the submitted photograph.

Udit Kulshrestha Says:

I came across the NGC Moments Awards and while going through the Terms and Conditions also came across Pt 9 which states,

“The pictures, clippings and films uploaded/posted on the Website shall be so done under an irrevocable, royalty free license and an applicant hereby accordingly grants NGC the right to use the picture/clipping in any medium anywhere in the world in perpetuity.”

and pt 11.,
NGC will have the right to use the pictures without the credits of the author/producer/owner of the image or the movie clipping

www.natgeotv.co.in/MomentAwards/TermsandConditions.aspx

In the interest of unsuspecting photographers, I am of the opinion that is an unethical business practise to hoodwink an amateur or an enthusiast who is not aware of terms like ‘royalty free’, ‘any medium’ or ‘perpetuity’ or its implications for an incentive like a free gift.

Also, I find it an unfair trade practice that an agency of the repute of National Geographic is involved in.

My communication to you is for the simple reason that we as a photographic community should not endorse the same by non participation as well as by spreading the word of caution.

I am spreading the word about this to all relevant communities, media and sponsors alike to ensure malpractises such as these do not spread further at least in India and if we as a photography community donot set standards or educate fellow photographers’, corporates like nat geo will benefit commercially at the expense of the photographer.

Lets join hands in this folks




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