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| NEW LOOK OGA PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
A new competition will be held in 2009, so keep your cameras handy.
Again, there will be two categories of photographs:
'Sailing Gaffers' (or variations of course),
'Sailing Shots' (anything else that is sailing related)
· Send digital images to viv.head@talk21.com ideally around 1mb
· Prints should be sent to Gaffer's Log Editor, Keith Watson · Closing date for entries is 1st December 2009
· Judging will take place during December and the results announced at the AGM in January. In 2009 we hope to be able to offer members the chance to participate in a web based voting process during December. Finalists will be displayed on the web site and the winning photos will be displayed at the AGM and appear in Gaffers Log. · Cash Prizes (or at least, cheques) will be awarded for the first, second and third photographs in each category. A whopping £75 first prize, £50 for second and £25 for third.
Rules of Entry
· The competition is open to OGA members. Entries must have been taken by the member or their immediate family/crew participating in gaffering activity. Images from any other source should not be entered.
· The image should be renamed with a selected title, then submitted by email, together with the member's name and membership number, it's title and a brief description of what, when and where it was taken. · There is no limit to the number of entries submitted by any one member but each image should be accompanied by the appropriate information. (Linking images to the correct 'owner' is imperative of course!)
· The spirit of the competition is that it is open to all members on an equal basis. We do want to encourage good quality images of course and therefore the use of good camera equipment. But essentially, it remains an amateur competition and professional users of expensive equipment and/or techniques are asked to consider whether their entries would fall within this ethic of fair play. · Entries may be displayed
on the Association's web site, printed in Gaffers Log or used for the
Association's boat archive.
Digital photography is not expensive these days and cameras are becoming ever more reliable. It is well known that digital technology and water, especially salt water, do not make a good mix and neither does sand for that matter. But a simple plastic bag kept in the cockpit can be a very effective way of keeping spray out. So there is no excuse for not firing off a few quick shots when you spy a good looking gaffer coming up astern. And that's the other huge advantage of digital cameras in action situations of course, they allow the rapid taking of multiple shots and the luxury of selecting the best one in the comfort of home (or the bar) later. So do please take your camera with you on board and fire a shot or two across the other fellow's bows.
We want the OGA photo competition to be a vibrant part of the Association. And as an international Association, the competition is of course open to members wherever you live. All we need are those sublime salty images of ships and the sea. Gaffers- yes of course, but classics too- and the trailer section and all those ones of people simply out there enjoying themselves messing about in boats or on the quayside. So lets have plenty of choice and make it hard for the judges- there's real money prizes to be won, as well as the satisfaction of seeing your photos on the website or in Gaffers Log and who knows, it may even brighten up the AGM!
Please send in your photos and remember, the closing date is the 1st of December. If you need a reminder of the rules or procedure, email Viv at viv.head@talk21.com
Good Luck!
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The Winners for 2008 are displayed on the 
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cropping to exclude unwanted areas of an image is acceptable but no other image
manipulation is permitted.