RULES
The First Annual TK Tankha Memorial Photo Contest is promoted by lifeandmore and
hosted on lifeandmore.in, and lifeandmore’s terms and conditions and privacy policy apply.
In addition, please note the following in relation to this contest:
1. Eligibility
The competition is global and open to people of all ages and nationalities.
Any entrant under 18 when they enter the competition must gain the permission of a parent or
guardian to do so.
It is the responsibility of each entrant (or the entrant’s parent or guardian) to ensure that they
have read and promise to abide by these rules and lifendmore’s terms and conditions. By
submitting an entry, each entrant (or the entrant’s parent or guardian) agrees to these rules and
that their entry complies with these rules.
The date of closure of the First Annual TK Tankha Memorial Photo Contest is February 15,
2021.
Use of a false name or other false details will result in disqualification.
2. Submission Rules
All entries must be submitted via the lifeandmore’s online platform. No entries will be accepted
by email or post.
It is imperative that images submitted to the First Annual TK Tankha Memorial Photo
Contest do not feature creatures who have come to harm at the hands of the photographer.
By submitting an image to the awards you confirm that any creature in those images were
interacted with during the image making process in a way that treated them respectfully and did
not result in them experiencing distress, injury or death.
Methods of stilling insects that involve freezing, chemically spraying, pinning or killing them for
the purposes of taking an image are not permitted in submitted images for the awards.
It is recognised that creatures die of other causes in nature, and in the past have also been
collected and kept in the name of science. Images of dead creatures are not therefore excluded
from entry to the First Annual TK Tankha Memorial Photo Contest.
Any images of creatures must also be in conformance with any existing legislation regarding
permitted or forbidden interaction with that species or its habitat.
With these policies in mind, we reserve the right to ask for further information from the
photographer about their photographic methods and the state of the creature before, during and
after the shot was taken.
Images (including similar images taken from the same series of photographs) that have
previously won a national or international photography award (including winner, runner-up or
highly commended) or are entered into a competition where the results are pending, are not
eligible for entry.
There are some restrictions on the use of digital manipulation of submitted images.
Images submitted to the First Annual TK Tankha Memorial Photo Contest must essentially
show the scene and subjects as they were shot. They must not combine multiple different
elements in one shot.
Focus stacking and similar techniques necessarily require the combining of multiple images, and
this is allowed. However, images of fundamentally different subjects or backgrounds that have
been brought together into one image are not allowed.
Examples of this would be:
- – Multiple different creatures shot separately then combined into one image to give the
appearance that they were in the same place at the same time - – Creatures being cloned out of the background they were shot against and dropped into
different backgrounds (unless the backgrounds were very similar, or of no consequence to the
overall effect of the image) - Photographers may make reasonable use of digital darkroom techniques which enhance quality
but do not distort the photograph. Major alterations should be avoided, although the cloning
out/ removal of elements in an image is allowed, so long as this does not fundamentally change
the likely interpretation of the behaviour of the creature in the image. - Adjustment to levels, curves, colour balance, colour saturation, dodging and burning, selective
adjustments using layers and blemish and dust spot removal are all examples of acceptable
manipulation. - You may crop your images in the interests of composition, correcting horizons, etc.
Any changes to the original photograph not itemised here are unacceptable and will render the
photograph ineligible for a prize. - Lifeandmore reserves the right to request from the entrant a copy of the original camera file and
a screengrab of their editing software showing other images from the same shoot, and to
eliminate entries where such a request is ignored or where it is suspected that the rules have been
infringed. - Lifeandmore reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify or remove any entry that
does not comply with the rules or the spirit of the awards, at any stage of the awards.
3. Prizing
The three-member jury will pick up the best three photographs from the received entries. The
first prize winner will get gift vouchers worth Rs 1,500, the second prize winner vouchers worth
Rs 1,000 and the third prize winner vouchers worth Rs 500.
4. Competition Judging
Once the entry period has closed, a panel of three judges will convene to determine the category
winners. All participants will be awarded e-certificates.
The winners will be announced on February 23, 2021.
Please refer to the Judges section for more information on the judges. The judges’ decisions are
final and binding in all matters and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the
decisions.
5. Copyright and permissions
All imagery MUST be the exclusive work of the submitting photographer and may not include
any element that is the copyright of another. The copyright for each image entered will remain
with the submitting photographer. By entering the competition and submitting your
photograph(s), you hereby grant lifeandmore and the awards sponsors a non-exclusive,
irrevocable license to use your photograph(s) for any purpose connected with the competition,
including (but not limited to), promoting the competition within printed and online media, the
inclusion within printed and digital versions of any competition book, the inclusion within
printed and digital versions of any competition calendar or other merchandise, display at
exhibitions, use in press, promotional and marketing materials, social media networks and for the
promotion of any future photographic competition in both print and online media.
6. Publicity
You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and likeness for the
purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation.
7. Liabilities
Lifeandmore is excluded from liability for any loss, damage or injury which might occur to any
of the winners arising from their acceptance of the prizes. Entrants indemnify lifeandmore for all
liabilities, including legal costs, in relation to any action or complaint taken by any third party
against lifeandmore in relation to the entrant’s photograph(s).
8. General
Lifeandmore reserves the right to cancel this competition at any time.
Lifeandmore reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions. When a photograph is
submitted and the entry date has passed, the entry cannot be changed or withdrawn. Entry to the
awards shall be deemed full and unconditional acceptance of the terms and conditions.
9. Judges
The three-member jury comprises
Mr Jagdish Yadav – news and feature photographer with over four decades experience
Ms Anjali Sinha – photographer and visual artist with over two decades experience
Mr Pushpesh Dhingra – fashion photographer with over two decades experience
For more information send us a mail at lifeandmoreplus@gmail.com