PhotoArt magazine, Prague, Czech Republic.

The Photo Journey 2016 is divided in 4 sections, all digital:
<b>A • OPEN Monochome / PSA PID mono</b>
<b>B • OPEN Color / PSA PID color</b>
<b>C • NATURE / PSA ND</b>
<b>D • TRAVEL / PSA PTD</b>

<b>Closing date: 29.08. 2016</b>
<b>Judging: 03. – 04. 09. 2016</b>
<b>Notification: 09.09. 2016</b>
<b>Exhibition date: October 2016</b>
<b>Delivery of the awards to the authors by October 2016.</b>

Participation fee is mandatory for all participants and it is EUR 15 for fi rst section and additional EUR 5 for next section.

<b>The fee can be paid:</b>
• via PayPal through our web site: xxx
• by postal mail along with the CD with photographs sent to the address:
PhotoArt magazine, Vlasimska 5, Prague 10100, Czech Republic
• by bank tranfer:
For Czech entrance, c.u.: 51-37 033 30 237 / 0100
For Slovakian entrance, c.u.: 2947 0024 70 / Tatrabanka, a.s.
For EUR: Tatrabanka, IBAN code: SK67 1100 0000 0029 4700 2470, SWIFT code: TATR SK BX
For payments from Singapore to the PayPal account fi [email protected]
• online via VISA / Master Card on the website http://photoart.cz/eshop.en.php.
Please write “The Photo Journey“ in description fi eld.
The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.

The Photo Journey 2016 salon is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifi es the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. An entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.

The photographs of authors with the application are submitted in these ways:
• uploading through our web site: xxx (Entry form filled online)
• by e-mail: [email protected] (along with filled and signed scan copy of entry form)
• on CD, along with the participation fee and filled and signed entry form, use this postal address:
<b>PhotoArt magazine</b>
Vlasimska 5, Praha 10 – Vinohrady
10100 Prague, Czech Republic

To participate at The Photo Journey 2016 authors will apply with black & white or color works. Maximum number of photographs per theme is 4. No title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image. An entrant‘s images will be presented to the judges consecutively. Entry form and contact info must be written in one of the official FIAP languages. We are accepting all dimensions of photographs. Recommendations: Photographs are sent in digital form, as a picture file with dimension 2500x1400pixels at 300 dpi or any other derived dimensions. Judges will use monitors 27“ EIZO CX270-BK EcoView with 2560x1440 pix resolution. No file naming is needed.

<b>Garik Avanesian, MFIAP (Czech Republic)
Jozef Danyi, AFIAP (Czech Republic)
Alexander Kharvat, EFIAP (Ukraine)</b>

At The Photo Journey 2016 there will be awarded:
BEST AUTHOR - FIAP blue pin
FIAP 4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze medals, 24 honourable mention ribbons
CFFU 4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze medals
IAAP 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal, 4 honourable mention ribbons

<b>A monochrome image</b> is defined as having varying shades of no more than one color (various shades of that color from very light to very dark) but it may be any single color. Multi-toned images (various shades of two or more colors) and greyscale ima¬ges with an added accent color are not acceptable in Monochrome Class sections and must be entered in Color Class sections.

<b>Open color</b> photography is on the free theme. The only condition is to perform the maximum dimensions, which are written in the ,,Submission of works“ section.

<b>Nature</b> photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anth¬ropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The storytelling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintai¬ning high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic state¬ment. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, fo-
cus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not per¬mitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared ima¬ges, either direct captures or derivations, are not allowed.

A Photo <b>Travel</b> image must express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, its distinctive features or culture in its natural state. There are no geographical limitations. Close-up pictures of people or objects must include distinguishable environment. Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. Conversion to full monochrome is acceptable. Derivations, including infrared, are unacceptable.

Notification cards will be sent by email.
All participants of the competition (the authors which submitted works and paid the participation fee) will receive PDF catalo¬gue of the photo salon. The organizer will take all possible care while handling the email, awards, however we assume no liability for damages and loses during shipment.

<b>Contact person:</b>
<b>Ing. Kristina Stejskalova</b>
<b>e-mail: [email protected]</b>