Cycling + Photography = Prize

Win a Nikon D5000 with your best cycling photo in the months Guardian Camera Club competition.

Rules:

How to enter

1. Visit guardian.co.uk/cameraclub for this month's assignment
   
2. Pick your favourite shot from your assignment portfolio. This should be the photo that you feel is the strongest from your selection and best fulfils the brief.
   
3. Email a low-res version (preferably no more than 2MB in size) plus your name and a contact telephone number to us at camera.club@guardian.co.uk by 11:59pm on Monday 12 October 2009 in order to enter the competition to win the camera.
   
   

Brief:

This month, the theme is cycling.

Prize:

Nikon D5000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/15/nikon-d5000-camera-competition

Lots of strong entries here ;)

Photography is for losers.

The 100000s of east end losers you mean

Slamm - get in there son, you'll walk it

Can I send a picture of someone 'doing a skid'?

"Someone" ?

Can I send a picture of some smug mug walking his bike in Brick Lane?

I was really interested until they said a Nikon D5000 was the prize, now if you would have said a D700.......

I was really interested until they said a Nikon D5000 was the prize, now if you would have said a D700.......

Sell it, put the spoils in your piggy bank and keep saving?

Yuh I guess.

If I get any significant inheritance from my dear ol' Nan (God rest her etc) I'm gonna drop it on a D700. I don't need one but I don't give a fuck, yo - I *want *one.

Yeah i've got a D300 at the moment, but the SNR on a D700 in comparison is unparelelled, its just worlds apart.
Ultra clean files at high ISO's, Annie Leibowitz shot one of the founders of Profoto with a D3 (same sensor/image quality) at ISO 800 and it was still producing print quality files of a pro standard.

Annie Leibovitz almost lost the ownership rights of all her work...silly just to fuel a lavish lifestyle.

Yeah I know, she kind of went off the rails a bit when her partner died, and her mother I think all within a short space of time.
That kinda stuff is gonna mess a person up no matter how much money you've got.

Didn't know the back story, all I've read is that she offered her work to take out a loan, to pay out another huge loan for a massive house.

"Someone" ?

Ok, YOU! DO a skid Zed, do a skid! :)

I can't skid, but I got rythm?!

It wasn't a question it was an order!

p.s. I did a skid once. Long time ago now.

hey d!, don't you have some pressing editing to do?

I can't skid, but I got rythm?!

Nope, ain't got that either.

• Rhythm.
  

call me stoopid, but I can't work out the entry process on their site despite the OP, has anyone else tried?

hey d!, don't you have some pressing editing to do?

Jeeez! Slavedriver! I'm rendering right now boss. ;)

call me stoopid, but I can't work out the entry process on their site despite the OP, has anyone else tried?

"Email a low-res version (preferably no more than 2MB in size) plus your name and a contact telephone number to us at camera.club@guardian.co.uk by 11:59pm on Monday 12"

Full Rules: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/15/nikon-d5000-camera-competition

Guess the most important rule is that you can only enter 1 picture, so choose the best....

Oh and this is separate to posting your images on the Guardian Camera Club Flickr Page. You can not enter this competition via the Camera club Flickr page.

The Nikon D5000
Each month on Camera club we give a Guardian photographer – and you – a monthly assignment to complete. To win the camera, we want you to pick the best shot from of your assignment photos and email it to us. The best of bunch will win the D5000. Simple.
This month, the theme is cycling. Tom Jenkins went down to the London Open Circuit Race Championships in Redbridge to take pictures of the competitors there – and you can see how he got on with our exclusive audio slideshow and video. Plus, Tom has also given his top 10 tips on how to get the best cycling shots. Take heed and you could be our winner.
An independent picture professional will pick the best picture emailed to us by 11:59pm on Monday 12 October 2009, with the winner receiving a Nikon D5000. Good luck.
How to enter

1. Visit guardian.co.uk/cameraclub for this month's assignment
   
2. Pick your favourite shot from your assignment portfolio. This should be the photo that you feel is the strongest from your selection and best fulfils the brief.
   
3. Email a low-res version (preferably no more than 2MB in size) plus your name and a contact telephone number to us at camera.club@guardian.co.uk by 11:59pm on Monday 12 October 2009 in order to enter the competition to win the camera.
   Please note - you must email a photo to the above address in order to enter the competition. You can not enter this competition via the Camera club Flickr page.
   Full terms and conditions are below.
   Terms and Conditions
   
   

Entering the Competition

1. The Camera club competition (the "Competition") is open to UK residents aged 18 and over ("You") subject to paragraph 2 below.
   
2. Employees or agencies of Guardian News & Media Limited ("GNM", "We") its group companies or their family members, or anyone else connected with the Competition may not enter the Competition.
   
3. By entering the Competition you are accepting these terms and conditions.
   
4. To enter the Competition, you must e-mail your name, contact telephone number and chosen image to camera.club@guardian.co.uk. If you have any questions about how to enter or in connection with the Competition, please e-mail us at camera.club@guardian.co.uk with "Camera Club Competition" in the subject line.
   
5. You are responsible for the cost (if any) of sending your Competition entry to us.
   
6. Only one entry is permitted per person.
   
7. The closing date and time of the Competition is 11.59pm on Monday 12 October 2009. Entries received after that date and time will not be considered.
   
8. You own the copyright to your Competition entry as its author.
   
9. By submitting an entry to the Competition, You give GNM:
   a. permission for your entry to be published on guardian.co.uk and grant GNM a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish your Competition entry in electronic format and hard copy for purposes connected with the Competition; and
   b. the right to use your name and town or city of residence for the sole purpose of identifying You as the author of your entry and/or as a winner of the Competition.
   GNM will use reasonable efforts to assert the entrant's moral rights in the photograph. However GNM may cut, edit, crop or arrange the entry as it sees fit.
   
10. Your entry must be your own work, must not be copied, must not contain any third-party materials and/or content that you do not have permission to use and must not otherwise be obscene, defamatory or in breach of any applicable legislation or regulations. If we have reason to believe your entry is not your own work or otherwise breaches this paragraph 10, then we may not consider it. You warrant and undertake that photos submitted will not infringe intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party. You must ensure that any person or persons whose image is used in an entry has given valid consent for the use of their image or has waived any rights they may have in the image submitted. Where such person is under 16, the consent of that person's parent or guardian must be obtained. Failure to adequately demonstrate such consent to the satisfaction of GNM may result in the entrant's disqualification and forfeiture of any prize.
    Picking the shortlist of finalists and the winner
    
11. An independent judge will choose a shortlist of finalists from all Competition entries. The independent judge will then choose one winning entry from the shortlist of finalists. Full details of the judging process and the judge are available on request to camera.club@guardian.co.uk.
    
12. When choosing the shortlist of finalists the judge will be looking for the pictures that are the most striking in terms of photographic quality and best illustrate the brief laid down in the monthly assignment.
    
13. The judge's decision of who the winner is will be made on or before Monday 19 October 2009. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
    
    

The prize

1. One winner will win a Nikon D5000 camera.
   
2. The winner will be notified by GNM by phone or email on or before Tuesday 20 October 2009. If a winner does not respond to GNM within 7 days of being notified by GNM, then the winner's prize will be forfeited and GNM shall be entitled to select another winner (and that winner will have to respond to the phone call or email from GNM within 7 days or else they will also forfeit their prize). If a winner rejects their prize, then the winner's prize will be forfeited and GNM shall be entitled to select another winner.
   
3. Details of the short list of finalists, the winner, the short list of finalists entries and the winning entry will also be published in a gallery, on guardian.co.uk/cameraclub on Tuesday 27 October 2009 or (at GNM's sole discretion) at a later date.
   
4. The prize will be sent to the winner by GNM by Monday 2 November 2009.
   
5. The prize cannot be exchanged or transferred by you and cannot be redeemed by you for cash or any other prize. You must pay all other costs associated with the prize and not specifically included in the prize.
   
6. We retain the right to substitute the prize with another prize of similar value in the event that the original prize offered is not available.
   

"Email a low-res version (preferably no more than 2MB in size) plus your name and a contact telephone number to us at camera.club@guardian.co.uk by 11:59pm on Monday 12"

and this:

1. Pick your favourite shot from your assignment portfolio. This should be the photo that you feel is the strongest from your selection and best fulfils the brief