Australian Hydrographers Association Photographic Competition.

Australian Hydrographers cover every nook and cranny of Australia in their day to day work as hydrographers. Many images have been recorded over time by hydrographers in their working travels of where they work and what they do.

Over the next few months the AHA will be running the Australian Hydrographers Association Photo competition. With a prize of a complimentary registration[1] for the 15th Australian Hydrographers’ Association Conference in Perth. 2010.

More details will be made available shortly and a judging panel formed but to get you thinking about that technical or interesting hydrographic shot, preliminary information and guidelines for the competition are as follows: 

  • The submitted image should pertain to a hydrographic/hydrologic theme and/or be related to work that AHA members or other hydrographers are involved in.
  • All images must be submitted in digital format, in either JPEG format or TIF format. Images may be in colour or black & white and should accurately represent conditions at the time the images were captured; do not edit or alter content. Images may be from a digital camera or may be scanned from traditional print, slide, or negative media. For best results, use the highest quality your digital camera supports. Use the highest density when scanning images
  • Submitted images are to be the photographers own work.
  • Where an image has been taken while involved in the activities for an employer, it is the responsibility of the entrant to ensure that there are no copyright restrictions on the use of the image by the employer or seek appropriate permissions to release its copyright to the public domain
  • Where an image is submitted containing persons other than the photographer, it is assumed that the submitting photographer has sought, and received, permission from the subject to use the photo in this competition. The entrant will provide a statement with the image to this effect to the Judging Panel
  • Images submitted and accepted for the competition are submitted on the understanding that the image enters the public domain for copyright purposes at that point in time and is available for unrestricted use by the AHA in (but not limited to) promotional material, publications, website etc. Where used in AHA publications every effort will be made to acknowledge the photographer where appropriate. The AHA will not monitor or enforce the image’s acknowledgements outside AHA use once in the public domain.

The judging committee reserves the right to reject an image from entry in the competition considered to contain unsuitable or inappropriate content. 

Entry details and full conditions will shortly be made available.

Page Updated 5/7/09

[1] The prize is a full 2010 Conference registration fee only (1 Only). Travel, accommodation and ancillary costs are the responsibility of the prize winner. The prize may be transferred to another person if required but only after written application to the Committee of the AHA.