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Photo Salon Special Prizes (2010)

Mike Moore Books prize for best mining photo

Sponsored by Mike Moore Books, moorebooks.co.uk; £100-worth of mining books* for the best colour or monochrome print with a mining or man-made underground theme. (£20-worth of mining books* for the runner-up). As well as mining in the strictest sense, this includes quarrying and other man-made tunnelling activities. (* these prizes must be collected from Moore Books during the weekend).

Summary of the conduct of the competition

• The competition will be governed by the same Rules & Guidelines as the standard categories in the BCRA Photo Salon
• Entries are limited to colour or monochrome prints
• Up to three entries per person. One prize. Entries also eligible for distinction' and 'merit' awards.
• These entries will also be judged in the standard photo salon categories. They must be listed on the standard entry form and must not cause the allowable number of photo salon entries per person to be exceeded. (Note: this rule has been updated from a differently-worded version used in previous years. The rule, as stated here, over-rides any differently-worded version you may read elsewhere. DG 7-Sept-2010)
• Use the entry form; check-in at the main photo salon desk; entries will be displayed on the main photo salon boards
• Competition to be judged by Mike Moore and two further people, appointed by Mike Moore and the Hidden Earth team

Additional Rules

The pictures must be from an abandoned mine or a former industrial underground site (this includes sewers and drains). In all cases the site must not have been in use at the time the photo was taken; the emphasis of the competition is on historical sites. The location of the photo can be anywhere in the world. The competition will be judged by Mike Moore, aided by two further judges to be announced.

Additional Guidelines

The photograph should provide a simple understanding of a particular site; it can show the unique features, such as stoping, mining methods, mining machinery or equipment, mineralisation or some other particular feature. It should not, however, depict wildlife.

Cave Life

Each cave life picture should be accompanied by a written description of its location and the environmental conditions where the specimen was found, together with the name of the species and any behaviour being exhibited. This documentation will form part of the entry. Up to three entries per person. One prize.

Summary of the conduct of the competition

• The competition will be governed by the same Rules & Guidelines as the standard categories in the BCRA Photo Salon
• Entries may be submitted in any of the alloweable media (print, transparency, digital file)
• Up to three entries per person. One prize. Entries also eligible for distinction' and 'merit' awards.
• These entries will not be judged in the standard photo salon categories unless they are specifically entered on the appropriate form and if this does not cause the allowable number of entries per person ot be exceeded
• Use the entry form; check-in at the main photo salon desk; print entries will be displayed on the main photo salon boards
• Competition to be judged by the Hidden Earth Photo Salon judges plus a guest biologist

Additional Guidelines

The Cave Life award was introduced to encourage cave photographers to look further at their environment than just at formations and other more obvious close-up subjects. To that end, the rules require that accompanying written material is submitted in order to add scientific value to the photograph. The description should record the name of the organism (common/Latin) as well as details of its behaviour, location (e.g. cave entrance or deep within a cave), conditions (e.g. wet /dry / stream / draught) and so on. This documen-tation will form part of the entry, and will be taken into account by the judges.

When judging this category the usual team of three judges will be headed by a fourth, who is a specialist in cave biology (at least to the extent that they are a caver and a biologist) and can, therefore, place a photo-graph of a mundane fungus into context alongside a photograph of a rare beetle exhibiting some behaviour. The Cave Life category is intended to go beyond photography: it will be awarded to fine photography of course, but also to a photograph which records an aspect of cave life and is documented as such.

British Cave Research Association (UK registered charity 267828) and British Caving Association.
The Old Methodist Chapel, Great Hucklow, BUXTON, SK17 8RG
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