Participants are to submit their entries on-line.

All final work must be digital file. Images shot on film MUST be scanned into digital format. All entries must be submitted in JPEG format.

Judging is done remotely online.

• Photos and the entry form to be submitted via the internet www.goldenpeacockphotocircuit.com
• Entries will NOT be accepted on CD/DVD.
• Each participant is allowed with a maximum number of 4 photographs for each section;
• The entrant must be the owner of all rights of the submitted works. All parts of the picture must have been photographed by the author.
• One and the same author has not right to introduce identical or similar photos into different sections of the Salon; Photographs that have been submitted to previous editions of the Salon are not accepted;
• An entry may be rejected when the members of the jury, in its reasonable discretion, believe the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.

REQUIREMENTS:

• No information about the entrant or country will be given to the selectors. Through your participation to this circuit we assume that you totally approve of all the stipulated requirements.
• Entries are limited to not more than 4 images per section, category, or class. An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section.
• This competition is run under GPU rules.
• The one who has achieved the highest number of total acceptances of all the sections of the salon added together will be proclaimed “best author”. In the event of a tie, the organizer will decide irrevocably. The name of the best author will be mentioned in the catalogue.
• If at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organizer or the judges before, during, or after the judging of an exhibition that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition organizers reserve the right to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees may be forfeited or refunded in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the decision of the exhibition organizers or the judges is final.
• In order to ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the exhibition organizers may carry out reasonable measures to verify that:
  a) the images are the original work of the entrant and
  b) the images comply with the rules and definitions as set out in these Conditions of Entry.
• These steps include, but are not limited to, questioning any entrant, requiring the submission of RAW files or other digital files representing the original capture of the submitted image(s), confronting the entrant with evidence that one or more submitted images fails to comply with the Conditions of Entry (also known as Entry Rules), and offering the entrant a reasonable opportunity to provide counter evidence to refute the exhibition organizer’s evidence by a set deadline. Such entries that are not cleared or are still questionable after the entrant has presented evidence may be considered in breach of these Conditions of Entry, and declined.

EXHIBITION
All the winning entries and accepted entries will be published in the circuit website.

SUBMISSION

• The digital image must be a maximum image width (horizontal) is 1920 px, maximum image height( vertical) is 1080 px and saved as a JPEG picture using sRGB color space at 300 dpi, compression 7-12, max 2Mb
• Permission is assumed to reproduce any image (at low resolution) in an internet exhibition and in the salon catalogue.
• By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work is original and his own and permits the organizers to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition.
• The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright.
• With the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under GPU Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that:
  1. the submitted images can be investigated by GPU to establish if these obey to GPU regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of GPU;
  2. GPU will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking;
  3. any refusal to cooperate with GPU or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by GPU and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with GPU regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules.
  4. it is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations.

IDENTIFICATION

ENTRY FORM
Authors must fill out online entry form.

FILE NAMING

• No requirements for file names, file name should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue (same as title name). Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture filenames or titles consisting of only numbers.
• Each image must have a unique title.

JURY

• An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging for that section.
• Each round of judging will not contain more than ONE image from each entrant.
• Judging of electronic still images will be on line.

DEFINITIONS

MONOCHROME DEFINITIONS
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 & white work toned entirely in a single color will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black & white category; such a work may be reproduced in black & white in the catalogue. On the other hand a black and white work modified by partial toning or by the addition of one color becomes a color work (polychrome) to stand in the color category.

NOTIFICATION & CATALOG
The results of the exhibition will also be published on the website www.goldenpeacockphotocircuit.com

CATALOG
PDF catalog will be on site for free downloading.