Natural Selection Member Photos

How to Enter

Each photo must be submitted electronically via Flickr™.

Not Familiar with Flickr™?
Flickr™ is an online photo sharing web site that is made up of many groups, including a Nature Conservancy group. You can add your photos to the Nature Conservancy group and quickly enter many images into our contests.

To add a photo to Flickr™, just follow these easy steps:

  1. Log on
    Use your Yahoo!® ID to login to www.flickr.com. If you do not have an account, you can sign-up for free.

    Flickr™ and Yahoo!® are trademarks of Yahoo, Inc.
     
  2. Join The Nature Conservancy's Flickr group
    If you are not already a member of The Nature Conservancy's group on Flickr™, join by clicking "Join this Group?" on the group's homepage.
     
  3. Upload an image
    After logging in, upload your images using the form provided. 
     
  4. Send the Image to Our Group
    Browse to the image you wish to submit for the contest, and use the "Send to Group" function above the image to add your photograph to The Nature Conservancy's photo pool.
     
  5. Tag it!
    Once added to the group, tag each photo with "NatureKids-TNC09". If you do not upload your photo to The Nature Conservancy's group on Flickr™, or do not tag your photo with an appropriate tag, it will not be considered.

If you have trouble using Flickr™, please consult their online help files. Nature Conservancy magazine is not responsible for any issues or problems you encounter while trying to upload a photo on Flickr™.

Rules, Terms, and Conditions

Nature Conservancy magazine’s Natural Selection is open to ALL photographers at least 18 years of age, except employees of The Nature Conservancy and the immediate families of such employees. The contest is open to all participants regardless of residence or citizenship, so long as the laws of their jurisdiction allow participation.

Your Rights

You will retain all rights to any photograph you submit — including ownership if applicable — other than those rights licensed in the next sentence. By entering Natural Selection, you hereby grant to Nature Conservancy magazine (i) a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, one-time publication rights in the print publication and one year web rights for the magazine’s online publication, and (ii) the right to use your name, city, state and country of residence in both publications.

What to Enter

We are looking for striking digital images of our stated quarterly theme, highlighting the diversity of life on Earth. Your images may be taken anywhere in the world. Your images may show natural landscapes, animal behavior, portraits of wildlife in natural habitat, plant life, weather or people interacting with nature.

Please do not include photographs of pets or domestic animals. Images of captive animals photographed in zoos and commercial game farms are also prohibited, however wildlife photos from state and national wildlife preserves are allowed. If you choose to include people in your submission, you are responsible for obtaining the necessary releases from the individuals depicted, and must be able to provide copies of those releases to Nature Conservancy magazine upon request. Entrants must not submit images that involve the willful harassment of wildlife, damage to the environment by the photographer, or that infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.

All photographs should accurately reflect the subject matter and the scene as it appeared. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, adjustments to color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified. Multiple exposures that have been combined to produce a single "High Dynamic Range" image are acceptable.

Photo captions must accompany all submissions, and should include the subject of the image, the name of the location where the image was taken, the date the image was taken and the name of the photographer(s). Please clearly label animals as wild in caption information to assist editors in determining eligibility.

All photographs will be credited with the caption "© Person's Name." The Nature Conservancy has final approval of any language that appears on its website with any of the photos and will not promote or endorse third-party products or services.

Eligibility and Judging

To ensure eligibility for Natural Selection, entries must have a resolution of 6 million pixels or greater (6 megapixels). Images that do not meet this standard may or may not be judged at the magazine’s sole discretion.

Resolution can be calculated by multiplying the pixel width of the image with the pixel height. For example, a photograph taken with a 6 megapixel camera set for the highest resolution and best quality produces images approximately 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels, which are acceptable under the rules (2832 x 2128 = 6 million).

Entries may originate in any format — including, but not limited to digital files, digital prints, color transparencies, color prints, or black and white prints — so long as they are submitted electronically. Previously published material for which nonexclusive rights were granted may be entered as long as you still maintain the right to grant us a license (see "Your Rights" above). You must be able to disclose when and where the photo appeared previously to Nature Conservancy magazine upon request.

Images will be selected by Nature Conservancy editors based on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. The editors of Nature Conservancy magazine will make selections. Nature Conservancy magazine shall determine eligibility in its sole and absolute discretion. All decisions made by the editors are final.

Selected participants may be asked to submit additional information about the photograph to accompany image in print and online.

Selected Photos

Nature Conservancy Magazine will publish a selection of images in both print and online.

Deadlines

Deadlines for submitting photographs are as follows:

Autumn issue: June 11, 2009
Winter issue: September 10, 2009
Spring issue: December 10, 2009
Summer issue: March 11, 2010

Images will be published in print and online per the following schedule:

Autumn issue: August 21, 2009
Winter issue: November 20, 2009
Spring issue: Feb 19, 2010
Summer issue: May 21, 2010

The Nature Conservancy reserves the right to adjust any deadline(s) or publication date(s).

Questions

Questions and inquiries about Nature Conservancy Magazine’s Natural Selection can be emailed to magazine@tnc.org. Please include “Natural Selection” in the subject line.

Legal Conditions

By submitting images, participants agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless The Nature Conservancy, its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives, from any and all third party liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with Natural Selection (collectively, "Losses"), including without limitation any third party claim for copyright infringement or a violation of an individual’s right to privacy and/or publicity right. Natural Selection is void where prohibited by law.

Each participant in Natural Selection (each a "Participant") is responsible for ensuring that he or she has the right to submit photos to Natural Selection per these rules.

You agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved with the Conservancy, and causes of action arising out of or connected with Natural Selection, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, before a court of competent jurisdiction located in Arlington, Virginia, which court shall apply the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia without regard for rules of conflicts of law. IN ANY SUCH DISPUTE, PARTICIPANT SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEYS' FEES, OR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN PARTICIPANT'S ACTUAL OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES (IF ANY) ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICIPATING IN NATURAL SELECTION. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHTS TO HAVE DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR INCREASED. Nature Conservancy Magazine’s Natural Selection and the Nature Conservancy’s website are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

The Conservancy is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the photo competition, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to Natural Selection, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. Nature Conservancy assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Nature Conservancy is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, servers, providers, computer on-line systems, software, or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, including injury or damage to participant's or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or uploading images or information in Natural Selection.

If, for any reason, Nature Conservancy magazine’s Natural Selection is not capable of completion as planned, including but not limited to, any reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of The Nature Conservancy that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of Natural Selection, The Nature Conservancy reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Natural Selection.