Registration
	Before uploading Images for the Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2007 Competition all entrants must first register and submit their details using the Registration button above. Organisers will attempt to respond to the registration request, within 72 hours, once your registration and residency of the Isle of Wight has been verified; you will then be supplied with a password and login details. Please ensure that your email address is updated, if necessary, in case we need to contact you at the end of the competition.
Images
	IWPOY 2007 is a themed competion: 'lifestyles' and all images must have been taken on the Isle of Wight and reflect Island people, places, events, leisure or work activities. This theme is fairly open but please note that images not meeting this criteria will be disqualified. A maximum of 3 Images per entrant are allowed of which these Images must have been taken within one year prior to the closing date of the competition 18th October 2007. The copyright of all images including individual images making-up a composite image must belong to the photographer. Images may be colour, monochrome, manipulated or a combination of all three. Images must not contain text (i.e. photographer's name). Images taken with digital media and scanned film images are acceptable, however exif data from digital files and negatives from film may be required for date verification of the winning images. If an entrant wishes to change previously uploaded images they must delete the image they wish to change before uploading their new entry, maintaining a maximum of three images in total. Images that have previously won any other competition or that have been used for commercial purposes for obvious reasons will not be acceptable. Three sizes of each respective image in jpeg format will be required: one for uploading to the Online Competition Gallery a max of 500 pixels at longest side @72ppi and not exceeding a max of 60kb file size, an Image of 1024x768 pixels max 1mb to be retained by the entrant which may be required if the Image is short listed for the IWPOY Awards Evening viewing in December and a further image that can be printed to a maximum of 12" x 8" if required for the 50 short-listed exhibition entries.
Closing Date
	The closing date for entries will be midnight the 18th October 2007 the short-listed entries will be displayed in the online Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2007 Gallery within 21 days after the competition closes. All short-listed entrants will be invited to attend the Final Awards presentation evening of the Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2007 in December. All 50 short-listed images will be exhibited early in 2008.

Copyright & Liability Each entrant must be the sole author and owner of copyright in all pictures entered. It is the legal responsibility of the entrant, and not the organisers, to ensure they comply with these ownership and copyright requirements and own the rights to reproduce their images. The copyright will remain with the photographer. Images that are discovered to not fulfil these criteria will be deemed ineligible and disqualified. Images are uploaded at the entrant's risk and the organisers regret that they cannot accept any liability for the unauthorised duplication or use of images submitted to the website. It will be the entrants responsibility to ensure that the images submitted are bonafide. Details and Pictorials for those entrants unsure of how to resize their Images for the Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2007 will be provided in the Foyer of the IWDIG online Forum at www.digitalfoyer.co.uk

The organisers retain the right to remove images if they are judged not to be in keeping with the spirit of the competition or are deemed to be of an inappropriate nature. It is the entrants responsiblity to ensure that images are submitted correctly. By registering you agree that your details and images may be used for other promotions relating to this competition.