Call For Submissions

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Submit your best Lensbaby photos for a chance to be published in a new Lensbaby book by Lensbaby Guru Corey Hilz, due out from Focal Press in the Summer of 2010. The book will feature 'how to' and inspirational content, along with galleries of Lensbaby photos by some of the foremost Lensbaby photographers in the world.

At least 12 of the submitted images will be featured in the Lensbaby book. Popular voting on the Lensbaby forum will be used to help decide one of the chosen images. Corey Hilz and Craig Strong will pick the remaining images. You can only submit two images for consideration, so send your best Lensbaby work. If one of your images is selected, it could be featured in this beautiful book credited with your name – and you’ll receive a copy of the book itself.

The closing date is midnight 6pm PST: 31st December 2009.

For further information please visit the competition website.

This competition meets all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights. Competitions which pass the Bill of Rights do not -

claim copyright
seek waiving of moral rights
fail to give a credit for all free usage.
add, alter, or remove metadata from digital images
seek usage rights other than for solely and exclusively promoting the contest. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs.
seek free usage rights in excess of 5 years
use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 5 years.
make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement.
fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
fail to explicitly state all the organisations who will acquire rights to the images
set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how images are used.

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