Have you traveled to the Czech Republic and taken a lot of nice photos? Select one and submit it to Czechia Through Your Eyes contest. It should fit under one of the following categories: nature, cities, and life in the Czech Republic.
The CCMH Team will select 10 pictures from each category that will be posted on the CCMH Facebook profile and the photos with the most “Likes” will win in each category. Authors of the best pictures in each category will receive an award. A desk calendar will be made of the 12 best pictures and gifted to CCMH contacts for the New Year.
Photos submitted should be at least 1.5 MB large and in JPG or PNG format. Shorter side should be at least 1200px. Photo cropping is allowed as well as darkening or lightening. However, use of any filters is prohibited. Each applicant can submit just one photo.
Email photo submissions to social@czechcenter.org with the subject line “Czechia Through Your Eyes Contest Submission”.
DISCLAIMER
Information about this competition will be announced and promoted on various social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram, but participation in the competition and competition administration will be done via email. Contest winners may be announced on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; However, Facebook and Instagram are not partners or sponsors of the competition. Please note that if you enter the Contest and upload content to Facebook, you will be bound by the Facebook Terms of Service and any agreements with Facebook set forth therein.
PHOTO RETOUCHING: Submitted photos must not be significantly retouched: no element in the photo (people, animals, scenery, objects, etc.) may be altered, removed, enlarged or moved. Cropping is allowed, as well as slight darkening or lightening of parts of the photo.
PHOTO REQUIREMENTS:
A. Entries must not contain obscene or sexually explicit material, nudity, profanity, depictions of violence, incitement or incitement to violence, commercial solicitation or commercial promotion. Entries must comply with local law and must not contain content or images that could be considered offensive, inflammatory, disparaging or disrespectful to the Contest sponsors or any group, individual or institution. Competition entries must comply with the norms of civic discussion in terms of appearance and substance. In other words, the content of all entries must be appropriate for a global audience.
B. Entries must have original content created by the entrant and must not contain any elements protected by third party copyright or otherwise fall within the scope of the intellectual property or proprietary rights of third parties, including the right of privacy and the right of publicity (except as expressly permitted in (d) below). The Sponsors of the Contest do not allow "fair use" of copyrighted material, nor do they allow the use of licenses of copyrighted material created or owned by a third party.
C. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entry that does not comply with these criteria and does not comply with the intent and spirit of these Official Contest Rules.
D. In the event of any doubt or difference of opinion regarding the compliance, interpretation or application of these content requirements or any other provision of these Official Contest Rules, the Sponsors reserve the exclusive right to resolve such concerns or differences of opinion in their sole discretion.
E. By submitting a photograph to the Contest, the contestant confirms that he/she has obtained the written consent of all persons whose image or likeness it contains (or from such person's parent/legal guardian if he/she is considered a minor in his/her country of residence) and that he/she has obtained the necessary rights, licenses, consents and permissions to use all material such as music, images, text and other content of the Contest entry. The Contestant further confirms that he/she is ready to submit reliable documentation of all such consents, licenses, etc. upon request. Failure to obtain such rights, licenses, consents and permissions may result in the photographic entry being disqualified from the Contest at the sole discretion of the Contest Sponsors.
The Czech Center Museum Houston would like to thank Paul Beatly, Madelyn Dusek, Dr. Grace England, Era Ford & Jaroslav Rysavy, Rev. Paul Chovanec, Charles & Betty Lou Hlavinka, Chris Hlavinka, Ann Jurecka, John Martinec, Kerry & Peggy Mazoch, Sherry & Lindsey Pierce, Alice & Risher Randall, William & Donna Vanburen, Ray & Nina Vitek, Diana & Bryan Weldon, and donors who wish to remain anonymous for generously supporting our Czech Heritage Month programs.