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IHG & NGS: Photography Contest

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The Intercontinental Hotel Group and the National Geographic are sponsoring a travel photography contest, which calls for a single color photograph that captures the sense of a destination anywhere in the world. The rules say that the photograph should be compelling, and can be of any subject. The contest ends July 1, 2007. The grand prize is a two person trip to Australia.

As usual in this kind of photography contests, entrants must grant 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.

Professional photographers (of course, with the condition above) may not enter. The definition of a professional photographer by the sponsors are individuals who derive more than 10% of their annual gross income from the sale of photographs and/or provision of photographic services.

If any non-professional travel photographer is interested, here's the link. While I don't encourage anyone to give away their rights to their photographs, some may see the grand prize as adequate compensation.