Each prize will be worth $2,500 — $1,000 for the photographer, and another $1,500 for the community group that nominates them.
For everybody else who puts their photos into the community picture bank, you get the opportunity to open up an iconic image of your community and your organisation among people looking for great images. If people are writing about you or your community, don't you want them to show you as you want to be portrayed?
The winner of the Most Popular Picture Award will be chosen by the votes of visitors to the website. The winner of the Community Groups Award will be chosen by a panel selected from the Australian community sector and representatives of Our Community and Australia Post.
The 2010 Awards will be open from 31 May, 2010 to 5pm on 15 October, 2010. The winners will be notified in November 2010.
Submit your photos by uploading them to http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/marketing/photobank/ or posting them on disc (will not be returned) to: Picture Bank, Our Community, 51 Stanley Street, West Melbourne 3003
The group or individual that nominates the photographs takes responsibility for obtaining clearances from the people in them for the use and hosting of the pictures.
Photos will be placed on the site under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License, meaning that they can be used freely (but can't be sold or taken away from you or used for commercial purposes). Full terms of the license are available from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/legalcode.
Please note that photographs uploaded to this website will be available for public use. We reserve the right to apply discretion in photographs involving children.