The Education & Training Department will be holding a Digital Photography Competition to coincide with Annual Conference 2008 in Liverpool, City of Culture. The overall winner will receive a laptop computer. Anyone wishing to enter should submit their photo by email to learn@cwu.org no later than 12 noon on Friday 25th April 2008.

Your photograph should show what you feel to be the essence of Education and Learning. It can be a picture of a learning centre, it can be a picture of people or objects but should relate to Education and Training. It could be serious or humorous (but should always treat its subjects with respect).

Each photograph may include a short narrative (up to 100 characters) describing the image, what it depicts and the ideas behind it.

To be eligible photographs should relate to learning and education. Any CWU member can enter in any of 3 categories but will only be short-listed in a maximum of one.

• Union Learning
• Community Learning
• I wish I'd learnt that sooner!

Entries will be judged on the interpretation of the theme as well as the skill involved in taking the picture. Photos can be taken in real time or posed, and may be a composite or the result of digital manipulation.

The short-listed photographs from each category will be printed and exhibited at Annual Conference 2008. The three photographs considered to best reflect the overall brief will be awarded a prize and published on the CWU Education & Training website ( www.cwueducation.org )

The judges will be looking for:

• Relevance to theme
• Creativity
• Atmosphere
• Originality
• Impact
• Composition

COMPETITION RULES -

• Entrants may submit a maximum of one entry per category - but they may only be short-listed in one category.
• In the event of an entrant being short-listed in more than one category the photograph achieving the highest mark will be the one submitted.
• Entry is dependent on the submission of a valid email address.
• The competition is open to all CWU members, however the entrant must be the sole author and owner of the copyright and all other rights. It is the legal responsibility of the entrant, and not the organisers, to ensure that they comply with these ownership and copyright and other rights requirements, that they own the rights to reproduction of their images and that the images which they submit are lawful and in accordance with these rules.
• We make no claims on your copyright. We will use images to promote and publicise the competition but you will be given full credit.
• Entries can only be made via the email address learn@cwu.org .
• A valid email address must be provided with your entry and entries without a valid email address will not be accepted.
• The organisers cannot be held responsible for any entries that are not received. As all entries are digital, no images will be returned at the end of the competition.
• The organisers reserve the right to refuse to accept any images that contain offensive or inappropriate content. The criteria for such content is solely at the discretion of the organisers.
• The narrative supplied with the photograph may be published alongside the image or displayed with the image at exhibition. The name submitted will appear with your photograph; if you do not specify a name no name will be published.
• All entries must be received by the Organisers by 12 noon on Friday 25th April. No entries will be accepted after that time and date.
• By entering this competition, prize winners agree to their success being publicised by the organisers.
• By claiming the prize, the winner authorises the use, without additional compensation, of his or her name and /or likeness and/or photograph and for promotion and/or advertising purposes in any manner and in any medium (including without limitation, radio broadcasts, newspapers and other publications and in television or film releases, slides, videotape, distribution over the internet and picture date storage) which the organisers may deem appropriate.
• Competitors agree to allow the organisers the rights to use any submitted image for promotional purposes of this competition and/or the CWU's Lifelong Learning project in any media format and to alter, crop, montage those images with the consent of the contributor.
• The organisers of the competition will not be held responsible for misuse by any third party of images published on the website if not supplied to the third party by the organisers.
• By entering the competition you are agreeing to be bound by these rules.

Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be addressed to Trish Lavelle or Paul Dovey at CWU, Education & Training Department, 150 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RX or email pdovey@cwu.org

Trish Lavelle

Head of Education & Training