1) ‘Take a view’ is an annual photographic competition open to everyone except those involved in its organisation. The organisers of the competition are Lightworx Ltd t/a Take a view.

2) Entries must have been taken in the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

3) Entries must have been taken within the five years immediately prior to the closing date. Images that have won an award in a nationally promoted competition (including Take a view 2007), or that have been entered in such a competition where the results are still pending, are not eligible for entry.

Classic view
Living the view
Your view 
Phone view

For further information on which category you should choose, please see the ‘How to enter’ section.

A maximum total of 15 images per entrant may be submitted across these categories. For example, you may enter 3 in Classic view, 3 in Living the view, 5 in Your view and 4 in Phone view or you may enter 15 in Classic view. Entrants may submit the same image into more than one category, but each category entry counts as a separate image upload. (For example, if you pay for 5 entries and upload the same image into Classic view and Your view, then 2 of your 5 entry spaces have been used).

The entry fees are as follows:

Up to 1 image:           £7.00
Up to 5 images:        £15.00
Up to 10 images:      £20.00
Up to 15 images:      £25.00

If you pay for and submit five images but then decide to submit a further five images as a new transaction at a later date, you will have to pay the full ‘five image’ fee for this second transaction, rather than paying the difference between the ‘five image’ and ‘ten image’ fees. ie. You will pay £15 + £15, rather than the ‘ten image’ discounted fee of £20.

Classic view
Living the view
Your view 
Phone view

For further information on which category you should choose, please see the ‘How to enter’ section.

A maximum total of 15 images per entrant may be submitted across these categories. For example, you may enter 3 in Classic view, 3 in Living the view, 5 in Your view and 4 in Phone view or you may enter 15 in Classic view.

The entry fees are as follows:

Up to 15 images:      £2.00

The overall winner, the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year 2008, will be the person whose image is selected as the best by the judging panel from these four categories. Entry fees for those under 16 will be paid online, by credit or debit card, by the entrant’s parent or guardian. Paying for the entry will be seen as granting permission for the entry to be made.

8) Initial entry.

Image files should be uploaded to the site as jpegs with 800 pixels along the longest length. You must ensure that you upload your images the right way round. No responsibility can be taken by the organisers for images that are submitted backwards or incorrectly orientated. Black & white images are eligible for all categories, as are images of panoramic format.

9) File naming protocol.

Please name your digital files with your surname, initial & image number. For example, if your name is Joe Bloggs and you are submitting 10 images, your numbers would run from bloggsj01.jpg to bloggsj10.jpg. Please do not include capital letters, spaces or any other characters in your file names. All images will be cross-referenced, by the organisers, with a unique identifying number, so that the judging is completely anonymous and based on the image alone. When you upload your images, you will be asked for caption information. This will not be used for judging purposes.

10) File sizes.
a) Images from digital cameras can be submitted to Classic view, Living the view and/or Your view and must have been taken using a camera with a sufficiently high resolution to allow the image to be reproduced at A4 size or above (at 300 ppi). We recommend that you use a camera of 4 mega pixels or more.

NB Please ensure that your camera is on its highest-quality setting.

b) Images that have been scanned from transparencies or negatives are eligible for Classic view, Living the view and Your view. The high-resolution scan that will be required for short-listed images should be a minimum of 30mb as an uncompressed tiff file, although a high-quality jpeg is acceptable. (8 bit, Adobe RGB 1998 colour space).

The entrant of 16 & under, who creates the entry deemed by the judges to be the single best image, taking into account all four youth categories, will become the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year 2008 and will win £1,000 + a 2-day photography workshop, in the UK, with renowned landscape photographer, Charlie Waite. Payment of the cash element of the prize will be made to the winner’s parent/guardian.

There will be a prize of a 2-day photography workshop, in the UK, with renowned landscape photographer, Charlie Waite for the image judged the best in each of the four youth categories.

Each winner of the ‘Workshop’ prize may be accompanied by one parent/guardian. Travel to and from the workshop, that will be in the UK, is not included.

By submitting images to Take a view, each entrant confirms and warrants that:

a) they are the sole author of each entry and that it is their original work;
b) they own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights of each image;
c) they have the permission of those pictured in the image (or, where the image shows any persons under 18, the consent of their parent/guardian) for the usage rights required by Take a view in #16 and will indemnify Take a view against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement;
d) they have not licensed or disposed of any rights in the image that would conflict with uses to be made by Take a view (see #16 ); and
e) they have received any necessary permissions from the owner(s) of buildings included in submitted images for the usage rights required by Take a view in #16 and will indemnify Take a view against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement. 

16) By entering the competition, you grant Take a view and its sponsors and supporters a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for any purpose connected with the competition. This may include, but is not limited to:

a) inclusion in the Take a view book;
b) display at any exhibitions;
c) on a secure web browser for judging purposes;
d) on the Take a view website and on the websites of sponsors and supporters;
e) for use in press releases to be distributed to national, regional & specialist press giving information about or promoting the competition; and
f) on any merchandise commissioned by the organisers. 

Entrants also agree that the organisers can sub-license images to the media for reproduction in connection with the competition.

In addition, the UK’s national and regional tourist organisations (including, but not limited to: Enjoy England, Visit Wales, VisitScotland, VisitBritain, Britain on view, Jersey Tourism, VisitGuernsey, Northern Ireland Tourist Board) may also reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for promotional purposes, with sufficient accreditation, from the date of 2008 results notice until 31st December 2009. All photography to be credited ‘Take a view/Photographer name’.

By accepting the terms and conditions of the competition and subsequently submitting your images, you have entered into an agreement with Take a view. Once entered, images cannot be withdrawn unless the organisers are notified of a permissions problem, in which case the images will be withdrawn on request of the copyright holder (entrant) but no refund will be payable.

If you intend to submit ten images and pay the fee for this, but then only submit/upload a smaller number (for example, five) then you will not be entitled to a refund.