Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2024 (to be sold for Mary Potter Hospice)

Murray from Paraparaumu Beach

The competition to get your photo in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2024, to be sold to raise funds for Mary Potter Hospice, is now open.

To submit a photo for consideration please join the "Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2024" facebook group, and once accepted you can enter your photos and view other entries. You can also enter by email.

Main Conditions:

Closing Date: Midnight 31 August 2023
Must be your own photo - no 3rd party entries
Landscape format and you must have a file that will print at A4
Must be at or about sunset
Must include Kāpiti Island and/or Kāpiti Coast
Maximum of 3 entries per person (but see also T&C number 10a).

Please read full Ts & Cs available on the facebook competition page or below.

If you're on facebook, enter via the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2024 facebook group:
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If you're not on facebook, email your entries to me at kapitisunsets@gmail.com

If you are emailing me entries, please pay special attention to amended T&C number 5a.

Terms & Conditions (subject to change)
1. The organisers of this event are Murray Short & Barney Shiels-Reddin.

2. The organisers’ decision is final.

3. All submitted photos must be your own work, i.e. you must own the copyright to the image. You cannot submit photos on behalf of third parties.

4. You, the photographer, will retain the copyright to the photo. However, by submitting the photo for consideration/competition to be included in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2024 (hereafter called “the calendar”) you are agreeing to its use in the calendar free of charge and without any further financial reward. You are also agreeing to its use in any advertising or publicity materials for the calendar (in print or on-line), again, free of charge/without financial reward, even if the image is not selected for the calendar.

5. All photos must be in JPEG and landscape format. You must have an original file copy of at least 3500 pixels wide by 2500 pixels high. This approximates to A4 at 300 dpi, which is the size that the calendar will be printed. If your camera (or phone) is rated as 8.5 MP, or higher, your image should be large enough. Do not submit your full size file to this facebook submission page. facebook automatically crops to a maximum of about 1800 pixels wide. If your image is selected you will be asked to provide the full file version to the organisers.

5a (amended T&C) If you are submitting by email, please send either the original file (photo) from your camera or phone, or if you have edited it, your best quality version, preferably cropped to A4 dimensions at 300dpi. If you need technical assistance to do this, please contact me.

6. Photographs that appeared in the 2022 & 2023 Kāpiti Sunsets calendar are ineligible for this year’s competition but entries that didn’t make the final calendars are permissible.

7. “Brief” - All photos must be taken at or about sunset and must include at least a part of Kāpiti Island or be recognisably from or of Kāpiti Island or the Kāpiti Coast. Please keep filters and post production to a reasonable level. Images that have been modified to look like paintings will not be considered for the calendar. Colour images are preferred but black & white will be accepted. Recent photos are preferred, (e.g. within the past 3 years) but any age of photo is acceptable. Please include the date and place from which the photo was taken, as well as your contact details (on initial submission your facebook username is sufficient).

8. The closing date for submissions will be midnight on Thursday 31 August.

9. You may enter up to three photographs but only one per date taken.

10. Once you have submitted three images that have been accepted you cannot change them. (Tip: If you think you might get a winning shot in the last few days of August, hold one entry back for a deadline submission).

10a (amended T&C) Once you have submitted 3 images, you can add an additional 2 images provided they have been taken during August 2023.

11. There will only be a general category this year.

12. The organisers reserve the right to exclude any submission for any reason, for example (but not limited to), not including Kāpiti Island or the Kāpiti Coast, not being a sunset image, poor image quality, offensive material, political content, advertising material, etc. The most common reason for rejection over the past two years has been the image not being “landscape” mode. Although a brief statement of the reason for exclusion may be supplied, the organisers will not enter into any correspondence regarding unsuccessful submissions.

13. All eligible entries will be included on a new “open” facebook page and presented for “The People’s Choice” selection, to be determined by the most “likes”. This voting page will be open for a specified period of approximately 7 – 10 days and be will opened for voting within 7 days of the initial submission closing date. Voting will be “open”, i.e. you will not need to be a group member to vote.

14. The 12 calendar pages will (if possible) be from 12 different photographers. As the principal organiser, I am reserving one page for one of my photographs. The remaining 11 calendar pages will be the highest ranked photograph from the top 11 ranked photographers. In the unlikely event that there are insufficient photographs of sufficient quality to fill the calendar with 12 different photographers, the organiser reserves the right to select second or third photographs from the highest ranked photographer(s). The organisers also reserve the right to exercise a degree of editorial control to ensure that the calendar contains a variety of images rather than multiple submissions of the same “superlative” sunset.

15. The selected images will be included in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2023, along with a photo credit and a free copy of the calendar. No other prize is included in this competition/selection process.

16. The organisers reserve the right to make minor modifications to the selected images that they deem necessary (e.g. cropping to size for printing).

17. In the event of there being any issues not covered by these terms & conditions, T&Cs number 2 applies!