How to use The Rights On List
Click this - The Rights On List - to go straight to it, but if you have never read the following notes before about using The Rights On List take a minute or two to have a look at what you can do when you get there. The Rights On List is a list of all those competitions that have passed The Bill of Rights tests and have fair and respectful terms and conditions. These are recommended photography contests. Click on the link at the end of this text to view the list, and click on any competition in the list to see the details of that specific contest. This list will over time become lengthy and to help you use the list effectively please note the following features that are available to you. The competitions are listed in descending order of their closing date for entries so the oldest contests are towards the end of the list, the most recent at the top. The closing date for each contest is shown in the contest title in the format yyyy mm dd. Contests which recur are listed as Weekly, Monthly, or Ongoing. If a contest is annual there will be separate entries in the list for each year. Searching & sequencing the Lists Filter; Use this to find a particular competition when you know its title, or part of its title. For example you could enter 'landscape photographer of the year', press enter and all contests with that phrase in the title will be listed. Order; This is a drop down menu that lets you choose a sequence for the list. By default this is set at 'Ordering', that is the contests are listed in descending order of closing date for entries. The drop down menu provides four other sequences that you are free to use. Display; This lets you control how many competitions are listed per page. By default this is set at 30, but the drop down menu also offers you 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25. Search; The 'Search Pro-Imaging' box can be used to search our competition lists for organisations participating in these contests as promoters, sponsors, subsidiaries, affiliates, judges, and media partners. It can also be used to search for photographers and organisations who participate as judges in our listed competitions. For example if you wanted to find all the contests that an organisation is participating in, type the organisations name in the search box and press enter. This takes you to the search screen which offers further options, best results will often be given by selecting the Exact phrase option but feel free to experiment. The search results will indicate whether the contests found are on the the Rights Off or Rights On Lists.
Likewise if you know a photographer who serves as a judge you can use the search facilty to discover which contests they participate in. When looking at the detail of a particular competition it will detail the organisations and photographers involved, and you could use the search facility to discover what other contests these photographers and organisations are involved in.
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