This competition is open to ALL Australian food and drink bloggers, not just conference delegates.

For the Eat Drink Blog 4 writing competition this year, entrants can submit a limit of three (3) photographs per blog with food or food culture a prominent component, if not the main subject, of the photograph to Eat Drink Blog’s Flickr Group

Photographs must have been featured in a blog post published between the dates of 1 January 2013 and 29 September 2013.

This year we will be exhibiting photos from the 12 finalists chosen by the judges at the conference venue – the Exhibition Space at Perth City Farm during Eat Drink Blog 4 in Perth.

These 12 finalists will also be the ones that will go up for the publicly voted Community Award.

Does your photography has what it takes to be blown up, printed and displayed for all to see?

Thanks to Australian Pears for sponsoring the Eat Drink Blog 4 photography exhibition.

Entries must be submitted by 20.00 (ACST) on Sunday 29th September 2013

To enter, simply send an email to [email protected] with:

1. Your full name
2. Your email address
3. Name of your blog and website address
4. Social media ID
5. Link(s) to photograph(s) on Flickr

PRIZES

(1) IMPACT Photography Award – The winner will receive a $1000 Visa gift card sponsored by Impact Communications

(2) IMPACT Communications and KitchenAid Community Award (public voted) – The winner will receive a KitchenAid artisan stand mixer valued at $655 sponsored by KitchenAid.

(3) Nescafé Dolce Gusto Runner Up – Will receive a Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee machine valued at $149 sponsored by Nestlé.

JUDGING PANEL

Jessica Shaver

Jessica is a Perth based food photographer. She is proudest of her valued relationships in WA; collaborating directly with chefs, brewers, farmers and other food producers is both her passion and the core of her business.
She spent a number of years working in Seattle and with Stock Food Munich prior to moving to Perth in 2007. These days you are just as likely to find her in Balingup as you are in Perth as she is working on a project with Katrina Lane of Taste of Balingup documenting and celebrating the Blackwood River Valley’s many incredible farmers.
She recently volunteered her time traveling all over WA creating images for the cookbook Forage, which features WA chefs, cooks and farmers. All proceeds from the sale of Forage go directly to Upside, a not-for-profit that supports sustainable agricultural projects in Nepal.

Seng Mah

Seng is a photographer based in Fremantle, where he runs Venture Photography Workshops, a business dedicated to photography training for beginner, intermediate and advanced photographers.

Seng’s background is in English and Fine Arts – so he has a love for both written and visual expression. Photography allows him to explore the world visually and creatively. For him, light is the photographer’s paintbrush and chisel; it can be used to paint or to sculpt whatever subject the photographer wants to create. Knowing how to use light is, thus, the most critical skill a photographer can master.

He is an experienced teacher and educator – having taught at high school and university, designed courses for TAFE, universities and the corporate sector, and project managed IT and eLearning development before he decided to combine his love of photography and teaching into Venture Photography Workshops.

Seng is also involved in a range of community-based photography projects, from being part of the FotoFreo committee to running photography workshops for the likes of CanTeen, Propel Youth Arts and the Edmund Rice Institute of Social Justice. More recently, Seng had organised PhotoExpose WA, a 9-day festival of photographic events, shoots and talks in Perth.

Kate Olsson

Kate is the founder and editor of Finger, Fork & Knife and editor and co-founder of (soon to be launched) Tucker.

Kate stumbled upon her passion and flare for styling and photography while at university in Melbourne studying History and Politics. While writing essays and debating international policy was something she enjoyed, breaks between classes and weekends were spent flipping through the pages of Gourmet Traveller, Delicious, and Vogue Living. Beautiful food consumed her.

With a degree behind her she found work in publishing houses and in events. She began her hugely successful blog, Finger, Fork & Knife in 2011 and has worked as a freelance food writer for a number of local Melbourne publications since. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Nutrition and Food Studies) and working on the next biggest thing in food, Tucker, which is to be launched in December ’13.

JUDGING CRITERIA

The judging criteria revolves around three main areas –

• Technical (5 points) – Technical aspects such as the use of appropriate exposure, colour balance, sharpness, depth of field etc.
• Aesthetics (5 points) – How beautiful/visually pleasing the subject, composition, and the other elements are in the image.
• Creativity (5 points) – The interesting and unique manner the subject, elements, and the message/story of the image are presented.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

About Your Blog

• You are an Australian food blogger, that is, either a food blogger living in Australia or an Australian food blogger living abroad.
• Your blog must be at least twelve (12) months old.
• You must have published a minimum of 25 posts.
• You are not a commercial blogger i.e. those blogging only for money or as part of their job, for example, a chef blogging for a restaurant or staff blogging for a brand.

About Your Photographs

• There is a limit of three (3) photographs per blog regardless of number of authors on a specific blog.
• Food or food culture must be a prominent component, if not the main subject, of the photograph.
• The photographs must have been featured in a blog post published between the dates of 1 January 2013 and 29 September 2013.
• All entrants must email [email protected] with the entrant’s name, email address, name of blog and website address, social media ID and link to photograph(s) on Flickr to be eligible for entry.
• The photographs must be original works from a photographer of the blog, and the person submitting the image must either own the copyright, or represent the photographer who owns the copyright.
• The photographs must be free from graphic design elements included during post-production such as, but not limited to, text, logos and watermarks.
• When the competition finalists are announced, a high resolution image must be made available by the deadline specified in the notification email. Failure to do so may mean disqualification from a finalist position.
• It is the entrants’ responsibility to inform Eat Drink Blog if their email address changes during the Competition Period.
• All entries will be decided anonymously and will be judged upon technical aspects, aesthetics and creativity.

Competition and Usage

• Any submissions that don’t meet the above criteria will not be included for consideration by the judges.
• By submitting your images to the competition, whilst you retain copyright of the images, you give the current and future organisers of Eat. Drink Blog and their assigns a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute them.
• As well as the above rights of use, if you are a winner of one of the competition prizes, you also give permission for IMPACT Communications Australia and their assigns to use your high resolution image in media releases regarding the Eat Drink Blog 2013 photography competition.
• Any decision made by the Eat Drink Blog organizing committee, such as valid entrants or entries, and the decision by the judging panel regarding the winner of the competition, are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The Eat Drink Blog 4 organising committee members and the Sponsors (and their employees) associated with this Competition are not eligible to enter.