Photo contest "Native land"

Participants: every interested person, amateurs, students, professionals in the sphere of photography, registered on the website of the International Association "VATIKAM".

Contest start date: June 1, 2016.
Work submission end date: August 30, 2016.
Voting end date: August 30, 2016.
Result announcement date: September 1, 2016.

Contest description: Dear friends, we invite everyone who can and loves to take pictures to participate in our new contest! Photo contest on the theme "Native land" starts on the website of the International Association VATIKAM on the 1st of June.

If you love your mother land, ready to walk for hours through the streets of your native city, proud of your compatriots, thus we wait your photo portfolio on the website VATIKAM! Invite your friends to vote for your works. The best photos will be hosted as a banner on the main page, and their authors will receive honorary diplomas.

Conditions of the contest.

The contest is held in the nomination "Photography".

To participate in the contest one should:

• be a registered participant of the VATIKAM project website;
• be sure to completely fill in your profile details;
• create a new separate portfolio for the contest “Native land”;
• upload samples of your works to the portfolio;
• be sure to check the option titled “Participating in the contest “Native land”;

The contest can admit one portfolio per participant containing from three to ten works. After the completion of the contest "Native land", portfolios, specially created for this contest, continue to participate on the same basis in the main contest of the project VATIKAM "Best works of 2016".

Winners of the first three awards are participants with portfolios that get the maximum number of votes for the entire period of the contest.

Both the participants and registered visitors can vote for the participants’ works. For the objectivity of voting the rule was set according to which a registered participant or user may vote for the same portfolio only once.

Contest prizes: the Winners of the contest will be awarded with special first, second, third degree diplomas from the International Association VATIKAM. Also as prizes winners will have the opportunity to place their portfolios on the main page of the site for a period of 1 month. From 5st to 30d of September, 2016 their portfolio will be on the first page of the website VATIKAM.