Competition Gastronomic Photography.

Eligibility

All users can participate in the contest. • Any user registered on Blipoint, over the age of 18 years old or under 18 years old with the expressed authorization of their parents or legal representative, will be able to participate once they accept the conditions of registration, data protection and intellectual property, in addition to all those conditions already established for the participation of users of Blipoint. It is recommended that users upload their participations without a watermark so that the presentation and evaluation of the participating image is not affected.

Summary:

Participation: From 10th April 2019 to 03rd June 2019.

Online voting round: From 04rd June 2019 to 07th June 2019.

Jury voting round: From 08th June to 12nd June 2019.

Closing date and winners announcement: Wednesday, 12nd June 2019.

Prizes:

The winner photography will be exhibited at the Blipoint Festival from 25 to 27 October 2019 in Utopia 126 in Barcelona, Spain.

1º PRIZE:   Jury Premium Winner: Gimbal A1000 Doble 330008.. Only users with an active premium account (basic or PRO) will be considered for this prize.

2º PRIZE:   Jury Winner: Backpack Manfrotto RedBee 210. The first 50 most voted images will be evaluated by our Jury and one of those will be selected as the jury winner. 

3º PRIZE:   Online Vote Winner: 3 months of PRO Premium Membership. The most voted photograph during the voting phase will also receive a prize.

A competition sponsored by Blipoint.

Contest mechanics

The Contest runs in three phases

1st Stage – Participation phase

This is the stage for participation in the Gastronomic Photography contest organized by Blipoint, which can be done by uploading an image. It starts on 10/04/2019 and finishes on 03/06/2019. Only those users who are registered on Blipoint will be able to participate. Every premium user may upload up to a maximum of three (3) images and every free user may upload up to a maximum of one (1) image. The technique to be used is free, photographs, collage, painting, illustrations or mixed media images can be presented. Only digital images with a minimum of 1500px on the longest side will be accepted. It is recommended that they do not exceed 1.5 MB and they should be in jpg format. All Images detected as previously published in any other Blipoint contest will be deleted. By publishing your image, you automatically confirm that you own the copyright and that your images are free from any right or claim of a third party. You will retain all copyright and other rights you already have in relation to the images you publish on Blipoint. When submitting, publishing or displaying these contents, the authors of this call authorize Punto y Línea 07 SL, a company registered in Spain, the legal representative of the Blipoint web portal, to a non-exclusive  reproduction, distribution and public communication of the finalists’ works, in the following terms: The right of reproduction: for the sole purpose of creating, postcards or posters, promotional press releases of such and publication in various media on the Internet, such as social networks, within the Blipoint web portal and blog related events of photography and art, only and solely for the purpose of advrtising and promoting the contest and/or its winners. The Blipoint web portal undertakes to respect the recognized moral right in favour of the authors enchored in Article 14 of the Consolidated Text of the Law on Intellectual Property. You hereby agree that no comment, publication or other information you provide to Blipoint will violate any personal or property rights of any third party (including, without limitation, copyrights and trademark rights). You also agree that no comments or other information that you give to Blipoint will be defamatory, obscene, harassing, abusive or illegal, and that you remain  responsible for the contents of any comments or other information you make or give to Blipoint.

II Stage: Voting phase

This stage runs from 04/06/2019 to 07/06/2019. After finishing the stage of online votes, the first 50 highest voted images will be evaluated by our Jury and one of those will be selected as the Jury Winner. The Image with the highest number of  votes  will automatically win the price for the Online Vote Winner. Each user can vote for each image only once. Fake or abusive profiles whose objective is the promotion of any image or images in particular will be deleted. Blipoint, as the organizer of this contest, reserves the right to, at any time, modify the conditions of the contest, including the dates of the contest, its possible cancellation before the closing date of the contest, whenever there is a justified cause, committing to notify the new terms, conditions or, if applicable, the definitive cancellation sufficiently in advance. In the event that Blipoint detects that any participant in the contest is using any type of automated or recurring method or process, or carrying out any type of false conduct that disrupts the normal operation of the contest, Blipoint may immediately withdraw said participant from the contest (Blipoint will send an email informing him or her of the immediate expulsion from the contest), leaving without effect the votes accumulated up to that moment by said participant. In the event that Blipoint is the subject of any claim, judicial or extrajudicial, initiated by third parties and based on possible infringements of the intellectual property or image rights of said third parties, originated from the use by Blipoint of the images provided by the participant, this will assume all expenses, costs and compensations that may arise from such legal actions, responding to Blipoint or to such third parties, as appropriate. In the event that this competition is suspended due to a forces superior, Blipoint will be exempt from any responsibility.

Phase III - Final phase: Selection of Jury

On 12/06/2019 the winners of the Gastronomic Photography Competition, together with the winner of the Jury Premium Winner and the Jury Winner will be announced. The winner will be contacted by email. At the end of the call, the winning images, along with the profiles of the authors will be published on the contest history, therefore, it is recommended that the authors  have their profiles up to date. In addition, the winners will be announced on the official contest website as well as on the Blipoint Blog. The prizes will be shipped free of charge in the territory of the Spanish Peninsula. If the shipment has to be made outside the peninsula, the cost of shipping will be carried by the winner. No prizes will be delivered to third person, only to the author of the winning image. Once announced,  winners will have 30 working days to contact Blipoint so that shipment of the prizes can be arranged. We will contact the authors of the images selected for the exhibition in order to acquire their  highest-resolution version. Those will be subsequently  used for a one-time impression which will be exposed at the exhibition. If the exhibitor wants to receive his or her printed copyafter  the exhibition is finished, the print will be shipped at the expense of the author.

You can contact us in relation to the competition at info@blipoint.com