Photo Competition Guidelines

Dive Rite is excited to sponsor our annual photo competition. Winners will receive one of the following prizes!

Grand Prize - $1000 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

2nd Prize - $500 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

3rd Prize - $250 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

Submission Timeframe

Deadline for submitting entries is July 15, 2012.

How to Submit Photos

Please send a 1MB JPG file or the URL for web-hosted submissions to: photos@diverite.com

Make sure you include a description with your photos (who, what, where, when)

Rules and Guidelines

  • Entrants can send as many photos as you like.

  • Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of their photographs.

  • Photos will be used on the Dive Rite website or our 2011 print ad campaign ONLY. If we desire to use the image in any additional manner we will contact you for your express permission.

  • Entries must be your own work and a model release must be obtained (if appropriate).

  • Some digital manipulation is fine but this is not a competition in Photoshop use and original photography is preferred.

  • We reserve the right to crop the images as we see fit.

  • We reserve the right not to award some or all of the prizes if the quality of the entries falls below the required standard.

Themes

Please note that images used on our website must be workable in a 958 px wide x 248 px tall crop or a 958 px wide x 370 px tall crop.

Gnarly Dive

Show us your gnarliest dive. We want to see images of divers in gritty situations, demonstrating the skill, mindset and preparation that is inherent in advanced/technical dives. Divers decompressing, entering wrecks, squeezing through a cave restriction or ice diving are all desirable.

Wildlife Interaction

Ever come face to face with a mola mola, a hammerhead shark or a school of baitfish? We want to see images of divers interacting with marine wildlife, depicting the awe-inspiring opportunity divers have to get up close and personal with the underwater realm. NOTE: Respect for marine wildlife is of the utmost importance and we will not consider any photo of divers harassing or touching marine wildlife.

Dive Rite Divers

We have an amazing fan base out there and are constantly sent fabulous snaps of divers in our gear. If you have an inspirational shot of a Dive Rite diver, we want to see it. Old gear, new gear, abused gear. Doesn't matter. We love the spirit that these shots demonstrate. Shots can be on land (gearing up) or in water.

Style Guidelines

We are looking for images of divers in action in a variety of underwater environments. Natural, authentic moments showing divers engaged in activity are preferred over staged and posed photographs. Pictures of divers staring into the camera in a posed fashion are not desired.

As a manufacturer and seller of technical SCUBA diving gear we are naturally interested in photographs of divers that include Dive Rite gear. We are also realistic and know that divers often configure their gear from a variety of manufacturers. Tight photos of divers and little else in the image would not be useful if all the gear or the main gear elements (regulator, harness/wing, rebreather, etc.) are a non-Dive Rite product. On the other hand it is not necessary that the subject of the photo look like a Dive Rite billboard. Ideally we don’t want the dive gear to be obvious and if it is obvious, it should be obviously Dive Rite.