General Rules

1. The 2008 DEEP Indonesia competition is open to entrants of all skill levels, and Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com staff.
2. Photo contest staff and judges are not allowed to enter the contest.
3. Each individual can only win one prize. Entrants with multiple winning entries will be given priority in prizes by value.
4. Winners will be announced and exhibited at the 2008 DEEP Indonesia Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 28-30, 2008)..
5. We are adopting the Conservation Rules established by EPIC®. Marine life should never be stressed or endangered for the sake of a photo. Conservation rules will apply to all entries, and decisions will be final. Eentries suspected of exhibiting the following behavior will be disqualified:
    
   • Divers visibly damaging the environment (e.g. gear dragging or kicking up sand).
   • Animals with signs of stress (e.g. puffed puffers, inking octopus).
   • Animals moved to an unnatural environment or risky location.
   • Animals being fed (especially with artificial food from divers).
   • Marine life being touched (e.g. coral polyps, seahorse tails).
   • Divers exhibiting poor buoyancy control
     
6. Category descriptions are available at the home page of each photo competition. Scroll down until you see them.

Additional Rules for Image Entries

1. All submitted images must have been taken by the entrant.
2. Images that have won or placed in photo contests with winning entries announced before December 31st, 2007, may not be submitted. A winning image is defined as follows:
   • any image that has placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any contest that has resulted in prizes worth $100 USD or more.
   • any image that has placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a "major" photography contest (to be determined subjectively by judges).
   • any image that has placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any "photo of the year"-type contest. Photos of the day, week, or month are fine, as long as they have not resulted in prizes worth $100 USD or more.
3. Photographers retain all copyrights to their images. Wetpixel.com, DivePhotoGuide.com, and UnderwaterCompetition.com retain the right to publish the contest entries in print or online to congratulate or feature the winners and their respective images, and to promote future events.  Winning images will be included in a press release for third party websites and publications, in the context of congratulating and/or featuring the winners and winning images, and to promote future competitions. Strict guidelines requiring photo credit and specific one-time press release usage are issued along with the press release.
4. All images need to have been taken underwater.
5. Entries may have been taken from any camera, film (as scanned slides) or digital.