1. Submit ONLY 1 work per month at a time. You will have the ability to load more than one image, but please do not do so as it will not matter.
2. Once you have had an image accepted for that month then you may no longer submit any more images for that month.
Technical quality is a prime reason for rejection.
3. At the end of each month a Group Host will send a message letting the membership know that it is time for them to vote on their favourite image.
To vote for your favourite image of the month, please use the link provided on the home page, stating the image title and the artist’s name. Please don’t bubblemail your hosts.
The winning image will then become the group icon for the next month as well as going into a year-end top 12.
Voting by all members is *MANDATORY. We realize that some do not like this rule, but voting is critical to the smooth running of this groups main purpose. Non-voting members could be removed from the group without explanation.
Once voting is completed, we will make the announcement of the winner, and the winner plus nine other images (for a total of ten) will be retained in the monthly gallery for posterity.
All non winning images from a month will then be deleted from the group gallery.
Any image that was submitted in a previous month but does not win is eligible to be submitted again, but this is not recommended.
4. At the end of the year the group will vote for a photograph of the year.
5. All judging decisions will be solely up to the Group Hosts, and no explanation will be offered for works rejected beyond the initial rejection notice.
6. There will be ABSOLUTELY NO acceptance of imagery submitted that directly or indirectly suggests the wildlife or environment depicted was from a zoo, game farm, canned animal shoot, farm, domestic pet, aquarium, or anything of similar non-wild nature including sanctuaries and the like. For example Yellowstone National Park bears are acceptable, but bears from say a wildlife rescue are not!. it is suggested that you will include in the description where was the photo taken.
However, do not think that animals or nature in your local city park are off-limits, it is just harder to keep out the buildings, etc. So you do not have to travel far and wide to shoot imagery of wild things. If you have questions always feel free to ask.
7. NO 3D, digitally created (i.e. in computer only), or non-photographic artwork of any kind. Images will NOT be accepted that show any ‘Hand of Man’. No frames, borders, signatures, unnatural adjustments (inc. over-sharpening, blurring, cloning, saturation, levels, dodge/burn, etc) or the like are acceptable.
8. This group will 99.9% of the time not accept an image that does not contain an animal of some form (i.e. no landscapes, waterscapes, etc. unless they are part of a broader environmental image depicting an animal in its native habitat). There are other excellent groups for these types of images. But remember, insects, snakes, etc. are critters too! If a floral image is accepted it is rare, but possible.
9. NO t-shirts, greeting cards, writing of any kind.
10. This group will accept macro work, but again the selection of these types of images is even more critical.
Our hope is to make this a group that not only shows the best nature photography available on RedBubble but throughout the globe, while providing a showcase that may potentially evolve into other possible venues of exposure and recognition.
Cheers!
Your Hosts