The Competition
Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
The Scottish Nature Photography Awards celebrate nature, wildlife and landscape photography in Scotland.
The Scottish Nature Photography Awards Photographic Competition 2016 is open to professional and amateur photographers from around the world, but images must be taken in Scotland.
Entries close 24:00 hours GMT on Wednesday 30th November 2016.
This is the 7th annual competition to seek the Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year. The categories are:
- Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2016
- Scottish Wildlife Portrait
- Scottish Wildlife Behaviour
- Scottish Landscape - Sea & Coast
- Scottish Landscape - The Land
- Scottish Landscape - Urban Greenspace
- Scottish Botanical
- Natural Abstract
- Environmental
For further information please visit the competition website.
Complies with the Bill of Rights
This competition meets all the standards set out in
the Bill of Rights For Artists
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- claim copyright
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- seek free usage rights in excess of 3 years
- use the submissions commercially without the entrant's agreement, and such commercial usage is to be subject to a freely negotiated license independently of the competition.
- make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement
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- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how submissions are used.
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