“#CaptureChongqing” Photo and Video Competition has freshly launched! Cool competition prizes, exposure of your beautiful works. What's more, have your unique photo or video works about Chongqing impress millions of people around the world.
Chongqing, the secret metropolis of China, is a city of extremes that defies description. Towering futuristic skyscrapers cut through forests of old buildings. Fiery hot and numbing local dishes with a flavor so bold, even the locals pause before taking a bite. Equally, the fiery local spirit pulses through the locals in the city. Surrounding the city itself is a blanket of forested mountains, towering peaks, and crashing waterfalls that beckon each and every visitor, foreign and locals alike. From the city’s skin to its soul, getting to know the city of Chongqing, is an experience you will not easily forget.
The beautiful skyline of Chongqing city
From Nov.1 to Nov.30, iChongqing would like to invite foreign friends and visitors to participate in #CaptureChongqing and gather stories from foreigners who:
- Have visited Chongqing, recently or in the past
- Are living in Chongqing currently, or have lived here in the past
- Can find something related to Chongqing overseas, or near their home
This competition has been set up as a way to collect these stories, memories, and thoughts about Chongqing, its landscape, scenery, culture, and history.
We hope you will participate by sharing with us, photos or videos that you have taken in the past or produced, especially for this competition.
The subject of the contest is about Chongqing, whether it is in the city or its surrounding areas, or you have found a piece of Chongqing overseas. The content should be ideologically sound and positive and themes can include (but are not limited to), natural scenery, mountains and rivers, history, culture, construction and development, restaurants and food, the local people, even souvenirs, Chongqing restaurants overseas, Chongqing’s achievements, and Chongqing’s effort to opening up Western China.
Read more competition details and submit your photo and video works on the competition page: https://www.ichongqing.info/special/capture-chongqing/
Competition photo by Mikkel Larsen from Denmark.
Competition photo by Martin Stokic from Croatia
Competition photo by Andrew Avitt from the U.S.
How to participate
Entering into this competition is free of charge, and it's open for foreigners who are currently living in Chongqing or have lived here in the past, or to visitors who have been to Chongqing or people who can find a piece of Chongqing anywhere overseas. This competition is not open to Chinese Nationals.
Each participant can share up to five photos and one video no more than 3 minutes in length. Photos can be uploaded to us through our website (address), and videos can be submitted by sharing links to YouTube or via cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Baidu Cloud, etc.
When submitting your photos and video, please include an introduction to the work you are offering, how you were inspired to create it, and what the city of Chongqing means to you, as well as an introduction about yourself.
Participants shall ensure that the submitted photos or videos are original. Works that are not original will not be selected, and related participants shall bear the corresponding legal results.
Disclaimer
By entering the iChongqing Capture Chongqing competition, you retain the ownership of your work while granting Chongqing International Media Center (iChongqing) the unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual right to use, reproduce, communicate, modify and display the works (in whole or in part) for any purpose without any fee or other form of compensation, and without further notification or permission.
Awards
From November 1st to 30th，it's the time to upload the photo or video works. From 00:00 on December 1st to 23:59 on 14th, the voting channel of the competition works will open. On December 16th, expert judges will score the works. Votes and expert judges’ scores each account for 50% of the final score. The winners will be selected based on the highest total score. The winners will be announced on December 20th, 2019, on www.ichongqing.info, iChongqing social media, as well as via emails to the winners directly.
There are two categories in this competition — one for photography and one for video. Photos can be submitted regardless of whether they are taken with a professional camera or a phone. Videos of all kinds are also welcome, it is not the equipment that matters, but your content.
Two winners will be selected, one in each category (Photo and Video). The winner of the Photo Competition will get a GoPro Hero 7 Black with Accessories. The winner of the video competition will win a DJI Ronin SC three-axis gimbal stabilizer.
The prize for the winner of photo competition: GoPro Hero 7 Black with Accessories
The prize for the winner of video competition: DJI Ronin SC three-axis gimbal stabilizer
Requirements
Individual photos and photo series are accepted. Each participant can enter no more than five pictures and one video for the contest. Each photo should be no larger than 20MB in size, as a .jpg file, and the video no longer than 3 minutes long. The video resolution should be at least 1280*720.
For Submitting videos, you can upload the video to your YouTube channel and share the link with us directly or share the video through an online cloud service and send us the share link. Make sure you share the link to the video as well as any password we would need to get access to the file.
If you have any trouble sharing a video file with us, contact us through service@ichongqing.info, and we will find a solution!