Art Dunes Photography - <b>UNITED ARAB AMIRATES.</b>
The Exhibition consists of 4 Digital Sections and 2 Prints, and is open to all photographers from all over the world.
The Salon will be conducted in accordance with the patronages rules and requirements, approved by PSA, FIAP, IAAP and EPS.

There are four sections digital and two prints sections
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp A) OPEN COLOR (PID color)
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp B) OPEN MONOCHROME (PID monochrome)
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp C) NATURE (NPD)
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp D) TRAVEL (TPD)
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp E) OPEN COLOR :: PRINT
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp F) OPEN MONOCHROME :: PRINT

<b>Closing date:</b> 18th September 2016
<b>Judging date:</b> 22nd September 2016
<b>Notification date:</b> 1st October 2016

<b>Sending catalogue and awards:</b> 20th October 2016

<b>Award Ceremony Public projection:</b> 15th October2016, APS, Abu Dhabi, UAE
<b>Second Public projection:</b> 19th November 2016, Dar Ibn Al Haytham for Visual Arts, Dubai, UAE

<b>Digital Sections</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp One section: 25$ / 23€
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Two Sections: 30$ / 28€
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Three Sections: 35$ / 32€
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Four sections: 40$ / 37€

<b>Print Sections</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Open Colour: 25$ / 23€
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Open Monochrome: 25 US$ / 23€

<b>All 6 sections: 55$</b>

PayPal transfer to [email protected] (preferred method). For other method of payment please contact the Chairman: Omar Al Zaabi at [email protected]

Fee payment; please follow the instructions on the website when filling out the entry form. Payment should be in accordance with the entry fees stated there. Cheques are not accepted. Entries for which no or insufficient payment has been received will not be judged.

The Salon is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable distraction, believes the entry does not conform to the exhibition rules and conditions.
Entries are limited to note more than 4 images per section.
There are no restrictions as to subject matter except as outlined in the rules and definition of specific sections.
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 certifies the work as his own (aliases are not permitted). The entrant 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. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced or used “will not be eligible for awards” or inclusion in audio-visuals of the exhibition “and could be subject to disqualification” by the exhibition sponsors.
The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright. All final work must be on JPG file. Images may be altered, either digitally or otherwise, by the entrant. Artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated if the photographic content predominates subject to Nature, Photo Travel restrictions.
Entries must originate as photographs made by the entrant. To be up loaded as digital files through the Exhibition's website. 4 images per section, total of 16 images. All images must be in JPG file format, the file size must be 1920 pixels horizontal and 1080 pixels vertical and should not exceed 2MB.Entry submission signifies acceptant of all rules and conditions of the Circuit.
The Salon will be conducted in accordance with the patronages rules and requirements, Approved by IAAP, PSA, FIAP, GPU, EPS

With the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP; that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking; that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations.

SUBMISSION of an entry signifies acceptance of all our conditions.
REJECTION, an entry may be rejected by the organizers if it does not conform to Circuit rules and conditions.

The Judging of the submitted photos will be through Full HD TV Screens.
Submissions must NOT contain any NUDE materials, any entry having NUDE content will NOT be accepted.
ENTRIES RECEIVED WITHOUT FEES WILL NOT BE JUDGED.

SUBMISSION OF AN ENTRY SIGNIFIES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RULES & CONDITIONS
The Salon will be conducted in accordance with the patronages rules and requirements, Approved by IAAP, PSA,FIAP, GPU, EPS

NOTE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS: By participating you should agree as follows:
I hereby expressly agree to the FIAP document 2014/317 E « Conditons for application and regulations for organization of international photographic events » and especially to its chapter II « Regulations for International photographic events under FIAP patronage » dealing under Section II.2 with the FIAP participation rules and the red list.”
Please check the FIAP regulation on this link: http://patronages.fiap.net/assets/info-317-patronage-e.pdf

The organizers will exercise care in the handling of the entries but accepts no responsibility for loss or damage howsoever caused.

Photo Print
To subscribe to the section of printed pictures- coloured or black and white, please NOTE the following:
- Printed photos must be sent by courier to the Competition address or Chairman postal address.
- The size must not exceed ( 30x40 )cm ( +/- 10cm ) 0r ( 12x16 ) inches and must be accompanied by a CD/DVD containing a copy of the images and its title, as well as the photographer's ( registration number, full name and address )
- No instructions on photos with borders.
- All other terms and conditions apply to participants in this section.
- All prints should be sent with " photos for exhibition only , of no commercial value , to be returned to sender".
- If you wish to return your printed photos please add ( 30 Euros or 35 US$ ) to your regular fees.

<b>Address for receiving Prints:</b>
Yousef Khalil Ibrahim
P.O.BOX 5268
ABU DHABI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

To participate at Art Dunes Photo Salon participants will apply with both black & white or color works. Maximum allowed number of works in section, category, or class is four (4). No title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image.
Entry form and contact information must be written in one of the official IAAP, FIAP or PSA languages. Each image must have a unique title. Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture file names or titles consisting of only numbers. No file naming is needed.
Once an image has been accepted in a PSA Recognized exhibition, that same image, or a like “in camera” or a “reproduction” duplicate of that image may not be re-entered in any section of the same Division Star Ratings class in that exhibition regardless of media, format, or title.
An entrant’s images will be presented to the judges consecutively. Minimum 30% acceptance rate is guaranteed.

1. Saeed Al Shamsi; EPS (UAE)
2. Mohammad Arfan Asif; EFIAP/P (India)
3. Saleh Al Degari (Saudi Arabia)
• Alternative: Nasser Haji; EFIAP (UAE)

Medals (GPU PSA FIAP IAAP EPS): 74
Honorable Mentions and Diploma: 54
Judges choice: 12
Best entry (FIAP Blue Pin for Best Author): 1

<b>Nature Photography Definition</b>
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology 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 story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining 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 statement.
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, focus 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 permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to grey scale monochrome. Infrared Images, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed.
Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife.
Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.
Images entered in Wildlife sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above are further defined as one or more extant zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections. Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species.
Wildlife images may be entered in Nature sections of Exhibitions.

<b>PSA definition of Monochrome Photography:</b> An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of gray which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a grayscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.)
A grayscale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.

<b>FIAP Definition of the black and white photography (monochrome).</b>
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey.
A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category; such a work can be reproduced in black and white in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.
On the other hand a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

<b>Photo Travel Definition:</b> A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally. There are no geographic limitations. Images from events or activities arranged specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment. Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable adjustments are removal of dust or digital noise, restoration of the appearance of the original scene,and complete conversion to greyscale monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared, are not permitted. All images must appear natural.

<b>PSA definition of Monochrome Photography:</b> A monochrome image 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 images with an added accent color are not acceptable in Monochrome Class sections and must be entered in Color Class sections.

Each entrant will received via e-mail a report card with the results of the submitted photos and PDF Catalogue. All results will be uploaded in the Salon's website.

Chairman: Omar Al Zaabi
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +97150 3560653
Web site: http://www.artdunesphotocircuit.com