Okayama Photo Competition

  • Prizes awarded to the top 3 entries
  • Special Mentions for up to 5 selected participants

JAFA looks forward to receiving your photo!!

Please submit your entry by the deadline (April 15th, 2013, by 11:59 PM Adelaide time). To be fair to all contestants, no late entries will be considered under any circumstances. The best 50 entries will be chosen by JAFA and displayed at Kodomo no Hi Japan Festival. The winner will be voted on by festival patrons and the winner announced at the festival (Sunday 5th May) and subsequently contacted by email or phone. The final decision will be in JAFA’s absolute discretion. You must also comply with the Rules and Regulations below.

 

Rules and Regulations

Only ONE photo entry per candidate.

Photos should be printable in A4 size (210 by 297 mm), either portrait or landscape, at 300 dpi resolution. File Format: JPEG. You may zip the file (using WinZip or WinRAR) before uploading. The size of your upload may not exceed 7 MB. If you cannot keep it below this size, please contact JAFA to discuss whether there is an alternative way of submitting it.

Upload your photos to an email and send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The email must have the subject line “KNH Photo Competition Entry (Candidate’s name)”

Your personal information (Full name, address, contact phone number) in the body of the email.

JAFA is a volunteer organization and we respect people’s intellectual property rights and reputations.  So any photo submitted must be original and not be direct copies / modified derivatives of any other published photo or artwork, including books or magazines, which may infringe copyright, trademark or other rights or laws, and must not be defamatory.  By submitting your entry you are taken to represent to JAFA that you have complied with the preceding sentence. No copyrighted work will be accepted.

By submitting your entry you are taken to grant JAFA the right to display the entry at Kodomo no Hi Japan Festival. The JAFA committee will decide how and where the photo entries will be displayed.

JAFA is not responsible for any lost, incomplete, or undelivered entries, or for Internet errors during file upload. You will be sent a confirmation email upon receipt of your entry.

Please respect JAFA as a volunteer, cultural and social organization by NOT submitting any inappropriate, indecent, obscene, distasteful, hateful, or defamatory photos. JAFA will reject and disqualify any such entries and reserves the right take any action in response that JAFA deems appropriate.