Tuesday, April 14, 2015

'Balikatan' photo contest to be launch this week

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 14): 'Balikatan' photo contest to be launch this week

With the 31st iteration of the annual "Balikatan" exercises to start this April 20, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday announced that it is launching "Balikatan" Photo Contest this week.

All interested individuals must first register online at http://dwdd.com.ph/2015/balikatan-2015-photo-contest-registration/.

Each participant may register and send five entries per event through the DWDD Facebook fanpage Balikatan 2015 Photo Contest App (https://www.facebook.com/dwdd1134/app_451684954848385).

Each entry must be accompanied by the name of the photographer, title of photo, description, and event that shall be submitted through registration application of the Facebook fan page of DWDD.

Prizes at stake at the national level are Php15,000 (Military Category), Php15,000 (Civilian-Pro) and Php15,000 (Civilian Non-Pro).

On the local level, prizes are Php10,000.00 (Military Category), Php10,000.00 (Civilian-Pro) and Php10,000.00 (Civilian Non-Pro).

A participant can only win once per area. An area winner can also win in the national level.

There will be three (3) winners on the national level and nine in the area command level.

The contest is open to military, civilian, professional and non-professional photographers.

Each photo entry will be judged according to content (45 percent), technical aspect (35 percent) and online votes (20 percent).

"Balikatan" is an annual combined joint exercise between the Governments of the Republic of the Philippines and US which will be held in the Philippines on this April 20 to 30.

This is conducted every year to serve as a venue for joint and combined training between the Philippines and United States militaries.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=752817

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