What have you discovered lately? A hidden curiosity in your neighbourhood? A new recipe? A long-forgotten object? Or a new friend? Show us a photo you’ve taken that perfectly captures something you’ve discovered recently. From people to places – to things you’ve seen, touched, learned or felt.
The person who submits the best photo will win a Guardian photography Masterclass of their choice. Whether this is the first time you’ve picked up a camera or you’re ready to tackle the challenges of professional level photography, we have classes to match all abilities and interests.
The photos will be independently judged by award-winning photojournalist and Masterclass tutor, Antonio Olmos, whose work focuses on issues surrounding human rights, the environment and conflict. Antonio is also an editorial and portrait photographer whose images have appeared in all the UK broadsheet weekend magazines, including the Observer Magazine. Antonio will select a winning image that he finds most interesting, well composed, artistic and original – and which evokes the best interpretation of the theme.
You might like to add a description to your image to let us know more about the picture, how you took it, or what it means to you – but it’s the photo itself we’ll be judging.
To take part, click on the blue ‘contribute’ button above or download the free GuardianWitness app for your smartphone.
Closes 15 November 2013 at 2pm GMT
GuardianWitness is the home of user-generated content on the Guardian. Contribute your video, pictures and stories, and browse news, reviews and creations submitted by others. Posts will be reviewed prior to publication on GuardianWitness, and the best pieces will feature on the Guardian site.
Terms and Conditions – Guardian Photography Masterclass Competition
Entering the Competition
1. The Guardian Photography Masterclass competition (the “Competitionâ€) is open to UK residents aged 18 and over subject to paragraph 2 below.
2. Employees and employees of agencies of Guardian News Media Limited (“GNM”) or its group companies, or their family members, freelance contributors to GNM, or anyone else connected with the Competition, may not enter the Competition.
3. By entering the Competition you are accepting these Terms and Conditions. Any entry or entrant which does not comply with these Terms and Conditions may be disqualified.
4. To enter the Competition, you must sign in to GuardianWitness (on desktop, Android or iPhone app) using your Guardian, Facebook or Twitter account and submit a photograph which relates to the theme “discover†(“Photoâ€), and which meets the requirements in section 12 below. In submitting your entry, you must follow the instructions on GuardianWitness (including as to file format and size). Your photograph can be taken in a style of your choosing. The maximum file size is 20MB on desktop and we can receive .jpg, .png and .gif files.
5. If you have any questions about how to enter or in connection with the Competition, please e-mail us at peter.langdon@theguardian.com with “GuardianWitness†in the subject line.
6. You are responsible for the cost (if any) of sending your Competition entry to us. You must not endanger yourself or others, or take any unnecessary risks, in order to produce or make any Photo to be submitted to this Competition.
7. Only one entry, and one Photo, is permitted per person. The winner shall be the owner of the Guardian, Facebook or Twitter account from which the selected winning entry is sent. Entries on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed. No purchase is necessary to enter.
8. The image must not have been published previously in any other publication or website.
9. The competition opens at 16:00 on 25 October 2013 and closes at 14:00 on 15 November 2013. Entries received after that date and time will not be considered.
10. Entries may be featured on an online gallery on witness.theguardian.com, and on the Guardian Masterclass Twitter page.
11. By submitting an entry to the Competition, you grant GNM:
a. a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual licence (with a right to sub-licence) to use, republish, reproduce, edit and/or modify your Photo without restriction in any and all media (including in electronic format and hard copy), for purposes connected with the Competition (including the promotion of the Competition and to report on the Competition both now and in the future) and as otherwise described in these Terms and Conditions, including a licence for publication of the Photo on GNM websites including but not limited to witness.theguardian.com and theguardian.com (“GNM Websitesâ€) and on any social media account controlled by GNM, including but not limited to Facebook and Twitter accounts (“GNM Social Media Accountsâ€), and in GNM hard copy publications; and
b. the right to use your name and town or city of residence for the sole purpose of identifying you as the author of your entry and/or as a winner of the Competition.
12. You also hereby waive all your moral rights in your Photo. Notwithstanding the afore-going waiver, in order to use Photos as intended and advised in these Terms and Conditions, (i) GNM may need to modify Photos, including but not limited to resizing, cropping or colour adjustment as necessary, provided that GNM shall endeavour in undertaking such modifications to maintain the integrity of your Photo as originally created; and (ii) GNM shall use its best endeavours to provide a picture credit for all Photos.
13. You own the copyright to your Photo as its author. Your Photo must:
a. be your own work, must not be copied, must not contain any third-party materials or public domain materials (including third party works of art, and third party brands or trade marks) or any other content that you do not have permission to use; and
b. not be obscene, defamatory, offensive, inappropriate, or in breach of any applicable legislation or regulations.
If GNM has reason to believe your entry is not your own work or otherwise breaches these Terms and Conditions, then GNM may not consider it. You accept that You will be liable for any claims, losses, fines, penalties, costs or damages suffered or incurred by You or GNM as a result of Your breach of this clause.
14. If your Photo contains an image of another person, you must have that person’s consent to enter the Photo in the Competition. Where an individual whose image is featured in a Photo is aged less than 18 years the entrant confirms that the parent or guardian of that individual has given the relevant consent. On request of GNM and by any stipulated deadline, you must provide a written signed personal release (in any form requested by GNM) from the person featured in the Photo (or their parent or guardian) granting GNM permission to use the Photo without restriction in any and all media (including in electronic format and hard copy), for purposes connected with the Competition (including the promotion of the Competition and to report on the Competition both now and in the future) and as otherwise described in these Terms and Conditions.
Picking the winners
15. An independent judge, photographer Antonio Zazueta Olmos, will choose one winning entry from all the valid Competition entries received in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
16. When choosing the winner, the judge will be looking for the most interesting, well composed, artistic and original Photo that evokes the best interpretation of the theme.
17. The judge’s selection of the winner will be made on or before 22 November 2013. The prize is awarded at GNM’s discretion. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The Prize
18. The winner will win a place at a GNM photography Masterclass (the “Prizeâ€). The winner may choose which course he or she attends out of the list of one and two day courses contained at http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/photography-courses, subject to availability of places in that particular course, and the Prize must be taken by 30 April 2014. The Prize does not include anything other than the course and any advertised inclusions applicable to that course, and in particular, the winner will need to arrange and pay for their own travel, accommodation and incidental costs as necessary to attend the course.
19. The terms and conditions of attendance at the course, found at http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/terms-and-conditions?intcmp=239guni=Article:in%20body%20link (“the Masterclass Termsâ€), shall apply to the winner’s participation in the course, except that the winner will not be required to undergo any separate application process or pay the fees.
20. The winner will be notified by GNM by telephone or email on or before 29 November 2013 and will be given details of how to claim the Prize. If the winner does not respond to GNM to claim the Prize within 14 days of being notified by GNM, rejects the Prize, or the entry is disqualified, fraudulent or deemed invalid, then the Prize will be forfeited by that winner and the Judge shall be entitled to select another winner based on the criteria described above (and that winner will have to respond within 14 days or else they will also forfeit the Prize).
21. Details of the winner and their Photo will be published in a Masterclass newsletter. Details of the winners can also be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to the following address: Masterclasses, Guardian News Media Limited, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU.
22. Details of how to book a course and obtain the Prize will be confirmed to the winner by GNM within 7 days of the winner being notified that he/she has won. GNM will not be liable if the Prize fails to reach You, if You cannot accept it for reasons beyond GNM’s control, or if GNM is unable to contact You, including due to Your provision of inaccurate or incomplete information.
23. The Prize cannot be exchanged or (notwithstanding clause 4.3 of the Masterclass Terms) transferred by you and cannot be redeemed by you for cash or any other prize. You must pay all other costs associated with the prize and not specifically included in the prize.
24. We retain the right to substitute the Prizes with another prize of similar value in the event that the original Prize offered is not available.
Some other rules
25. We take no responsibility for entries that are lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete or cannot be delivered or entered for any technical or other reason. Proof of delivery of the entry is not proof of receipt.
26. By submitting your Photo and entering this Competition, you consent to the use of your personal data by GNM as set out in these terms and conditions and GNM’s privacy policy located at www.guardian.co.uk. GNM will not pass your details to any third party not referred to in these terms and conditions and/or the privacy policy located at www.guardian.co.uk.
27. Entrants’ details will be used by GNM for the purposes of administering the competition. Entrants’ details will also be used for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you want to receive marketing materials (such as email newsletters) from GNM. GNM may pass entrants’ details to third parties where the third party is acting on GNM’s behalf for the purposes of administering this competition and/or any subsequent publicity, and/or for the purposes of sending you GNM’s marketing materials (provided you have indicated that you want to receive any such marketing materials); and/or as otherwise required by law.
28. Entrants may be required to take part in promotional activity relating to the Competition. By entering the Competition, you agree to the use of your name, voice, image and likeness by GNM for such purposes, and in advertising and promotional material, in any media, without further compensation.
29. The Promoter of the Competition is Guardian News Media Limited whose address is Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Any complaints regarding the Competition should be sent to this address.
30. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude the liability of GNM for death, personal injury, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation as a result of its negligence.
31. GNM accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of entering the Competition or accepting any prize. GNM further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to you or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in connection with the Competition.
32. GNM reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Competition with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud), including where it has not received a sufficient number of entries of suitable quality to allow for selection of an appropriate winner. The decision of GNM in all matters under its control is final and binding.
33. GNM shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations where the failure is caused by s33. omething outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.
34. If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these terms and conditions (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these terms and conditions shall not be affected.
35. The Competition will be governed by English law and any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Photography competition: show us something you"ve discovered
