Wild Rivers Captured photo competition

Forest & Bird is looking for winning photographs of wonderful rivers in their wild and natural state. There are a number of great prizes including a first prize of a Lieica D-Lux camera worth $1,700.

There are two categories

• New Zealand river landscape without people
• New Zealand river landscape with people

Wild river: a remote and free-flowing river surrounded by indigenous forests, shrub or tussock lands.

Wild Rivers is an organisation set up dedicated to supporting the protection of New Zealand's wild rivers. For more information about this organisation and ways that you can support them please visit their website, www.wildrivers.org.nz

• Digital entries only can be accepted
• Photographers can scan prints or transparencies and email them
• Jpeg and tiff files accepted. Initial entries must be 500Kb-2Mb and winners will be asked to provide larger files or the original print/transparency
• Email your entry with your name, postal address, daytime phone number and the name of the river or other waterway
• Entries must include a description of the river and your experience of it in 100 words or less (this is purely for background information, and is not part of the judging process)
• Entry is open to photographers of all nationalities
• One entry per person in each category
• Photographers will retain copyright but their photos may be used in print, online and display material in the wild rivers campaign
• The judge’s decision is final and will not be discussed
• Entry is open to everyone except Forest & Bird staff and executive members

• All photos must be taken between
  1 November 2009 – 15 March 2010
• Entries can be submitted from
  1 January – 15 March 2010

Winning photos will be printed and displayed in a wild rivers road show touring New Zealand in 2010. Apart from the winners of the two categories, up to 11 runner-up pictures from each category will be chosen for display in the show.