Rules of Entry

1. Entries open at 5:00pm Tuesday July 1st 2025 and closes at 11:59pm September 21st 2025.
2. The Life and Light Photo Competition is open to all amateur and semi-professional photographers, excluding judges of the competition, competition organisers and their immediate families.
3. All entries must have been taken on or after 1 January 2024 in Western Landcare NSW Inc region, our map is available here.
4. Entries will be limited to 20 images per person, total.
5. Only entries submitted via the competition website lifeandlight.com.au  are eligible. Hard copies or photos submitted on USB will not be accepted.
6. Entrant must create a login at lifeandlight.com.au that will consist of that entrant’s name, address, contact telephone number and date of birth (for junior entrants).
7. Entrant must complete the entire online entry form providing photographers name, image title, location (property or town), year of the photograph and the entry category for each individual entry. Image files must be named in accordance with the photo title on the entry form.
8. Entries must be of high resolution in JPEG (.jpg) format. Maximum file size - 10MB. Image should be between 2000 and 5000 pixels on its longest side. Low resolution images may result in disqualification. Please Note: Please be patient when uploading images - Image files may take some time, this can also be impacted by your internet speed.
9. Entries must not contain animal cruelty or animals in distress.
10. Entries must not contain any form of nudity.
11. Entries with watermarks are ineligible.
12. Entrants may not submit a photograph that has previously won any other photography competition.
13. The entrant accepts complete responsibility for obtaining permission from all people featured in their photographs to publish their image publicly and enter the competition. The Life and Light Photo Competition accepts no liability where an entrant has not obtained this permission.
14. The copyright of each entry submitted remains with the photographer.
15. Western Landcare NSW Inc and Life & Light Photo Competitions 2025 financial sponsors reserve the right to use any entry submitted for promotional purposes, including but not limited to marketing materials and promotional items. Where a promotional item is sold, any profit will support the running costs of the Life and Light Photo Competition only.
16. Photographers will be credited when their image is used whenever possible.
17. Entrants may use their social media platforms to promote their entries.
18. Photographs entered in the Life and Light Competition must not have been published for profit prior to entry, or until after the 2025 winners are announced.
19. Semi-Professional photographers may only enter the Semi-Professional Category and are ineligible for the Peoples' Choice Prize.
20. Entrants will be deemed Semi-Professional photographers if they;
    a) have a business social media page, they use to publish their images to share with followers and/or the public.
    b) publish images for the purpose of income/profit.
21. Entrants in the Junior category will be aged 16 years or under at the close of the competition.
22. All entries in the Life & Light Photo Competition - excluding the Semi Professional Category, will automatically qualify for entry in the People’s Choice Award.
23. The Life and Light Competition winners will be announced at an exhibition with Cobar Arts on October 17^th2025, coinciding with The Miners Ghost Festival.
24. Prizes will be awarded as set out in Categories & Prize Money.
25. The judging panels' decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
26. The competition organisers reserve the right to immediately disqualify any entrant deemed to be in breach of these competition rules. Any such disqualification is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.