The Dragon's Head Blog: Be in to win — Wong Dai Sin photo contest
We are holding a photo contest to celebrate Wong Dai Sin Temple winning the Governor General’s Medal for Architecture 2016 Award, the A-Z Award, and the Ontario Concrete Award. A ceremony to award prizes will be held at Fung Loy Kok’s Wong Dai Sin Temple on International Awareness Day, August 11, 2016.
Contest details
WHEN: July 1, 2016 to 5pm July 31, 2016
WHERE: Wong Dai Sin Temple, 378 Steeles Ave. E, Thornhill, Ontario, L3TOE7.
WHAT: Take a photo of the EXTERIOR or INTERIOR of the Temple. Official opening hours for photo taking are (a) Outdoor 24 Hours and (b) Indoor 10 am to 5 pm.
COST: It’s free to enter. Maximum four entries per person.
Categories:
(a) PROFESSIONAL – interchangeable lens camera.
(b) AMATEUR – all other types of cameras except interchangeable lens camera
(Note: Must specify contest category otherwise submission will be void.)
Contest Rules:
(a) Email your photos to wdstphotocontest@gmail.com
(b) Attach with the photos your name, phone number, category (Professional or Amateur).
(c) Photo Format – digital images should have a long dimension of at least 2000 pixels in JPG, uncompressed file size not exceeding 4 megabytes recommended. Metadata of all Professional category photos must be retained.
(d) All Amateur contestants can upload their photos to the Wong Dai Sin Photo Contest on Facebook, Wong Dai Sin Photo Contest on Instagram or Email photos to wdstphotocontest@gmail.com
(d)All photos submitted to the contest will be required to rename the file name as “yyy.wdspcXXX” where yyy represents the original photo file name and XXX is your own name. For example, if your name is David Wong, and you have two photos to submit, then the file names will be “yyy.wdspcdavidwong1” and “yyy.wdspcdavidwong2”
NOTE: All contest participants will retain their own photo copyrights, but FLK reserves the right to use all photo contest entries for its own promotion and any other purposes without notifying the contest participants.
Contest Prizes:
Professional Category
(i) Winner – Plaque + C$1,000.00
(ii) 1st Runner Up – Plaque + C$500.00
(iii) 2nd Runner Up – Plaque + C$200.00
(iv) 10 Honorary Participants – 2 FLK Autumn Vegetarian Banquet Coupons each
(v) Lucky Draw: One coupon for a table of 10 people for a FLK Autumn Vegetarian Banquet will be drawn amongst all participants.
Amateur Category
(I) Winner – Award Medal + C$600.00
(ii) 1st Runner Up – Award Medal + C$300.00
(iii) 2nd Runner Up – Award Medal + $100.00
(iv) 10 Honorary Participants – 2 FLK Autumn Vegetarian Banquet coupons each
(v) Participant whose Facebook photo receives most “LIKES” (repetition not counted) will be awarded a Medal + one Bottle each of FLK Pure Honey and FLK Pure Maple Syrup.
(vi) Participant whose Instagram photo receives most “LIKES” (repetition not counted) will be awarded a Medal + one bottle each of FLK Pure Honey and FLK Pure Maple Syrup.
(vii) All visitors who “LIKE & SHARE” unlimited times in Facebook and Instagram will be automatically entered into a Lucky Draw for a table of 10 people for a FLK Autumn vegetarian Banquet.
Contest Judges:
- a. FLK representative
b. Amanda Yeung Collucci, Ward 6 Councillor, City of Markham
c. Lik Fong Ng, Internationally well-known photographer
d. Stephen Siu, Chairman, Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto
e. David Lai, Visions by David, Owner
f. Albert Fok, FLK Photographer
g. Julie Suen, Canadian Chinese Radio, President & CEO, PR Consultant of FLK