Call for photo award:

IENE and the organizers of the IENE 2024 International Conference invite you to take part in the photo award competition
on the theme of biodiversity in the headlight of future transport.

The aim of the competition is to raise awareness about the importance of biodiversity in the context of linear infrastructure
and to inspire finding solutions for its protection and promotion in the future of transport.

The competition is open to every registered conference participant regardless of age, profession or nationality. Photographs should be uploaded in your participant account. Deadline for submission is on August 23, 2024.

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The competition is open to every registered conference participant regardless of age, profession or nationality. Photographs
The contest will not only allow IENE to reward the best photograph, but also to make an image bank available to our IENE members for use in publications.

The theme of the call:

Biodiversity in the headlight of future transport. There are not multiple categories. There is only one free category, which corresponds to the title IENE 2024 and thus the competition should be photographs depicting the natural phenomena
of landscape connectivity in relation to different modes of transport and the future of transport as such.

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Technical requirements:

  • No restriction on type of capture devices• image format: JPEG
  • Minimal image dimension 1920×1080 pixels 
  • Maximal image dimension 3000 x 2000 pixels/maximal size 10 MB
  • Maximal number of submitted photos: 3 pcs

Do not put your logos, signatures or watermarks on photos, no intervention on the images
is allowed except basic adjustments (contrast, sharpening, levels adjustments).

By submitting a photo to the competition, each participant agrees to its publication
by organizers / IENE in printed or electronic form (always with credits) and must confirm that
is the author and copyright holder (©) of the images submitted. 

After the submission deadline August 23 rd an IENE jury will make the first selection
of up to 40 images which will be featured on the Conference Virtual Venue.

Selected photos submitted to the competition will be included in the photo archive within
the IENE platform and will be available for publications such as Handbook and other IENE documents.

The author agrees to the subsequent use by IENE and its members under the CC BY-NC-SA license. This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially,
as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.

Scoring:

The winners of the photo competition will be selected by a jury of the conference programme committee members. Judging criteria:

  • Originality and artistic value of the photo (attention to originality and creativity
    of the photos. How the author interprets the theme of the competition and whether he/she presents a new point of view is evaluated. Emotional element) 
  • Relevance to the theme of the photo competition 
  • The informative value of the photograph (whether the photographs present a story
     or carry a message is assessed) 
  • Technical quality of the photo (focus, exposure, color correctness, contrast and resolution are assessed)

Publication of winners:

The best photographer will be selected and awarded based on the judging (above).

The top 10 selected photographs will be displayed in the conference venue.

The 40 selected photographs could be hosted on the virtual conference venue and will be part of the IENE platform photo archive (with affiliation) and will be available for publications such as the handbook and other IENE documents.

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