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Capture insects with your smartphone and win an exclusive book by Armin Coray!

Are you ready to showcase your photography skills and share your best insect photos? Join our smartphone photography competition for a chance to win an incredible book by Armin Coray, the talented Swiss illustrator renowned for his detailed black-and-white insect drawings.

Deadline:
March 31, 2025
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How to Participate:

  1. Use your smartphone to photograph insects in their natural settings. Don't forget: Insects have only six legs. Don't get distracted by spiders or millipedes :-)
  2. Submit your photos along with a brief description of the moment and what makes it special. If you encounter any problems while submitting, contact us via our website’s contact form.
  3. Explore our gallery to draw inspiration and learn more about the fascinating world of insects.
  4. Submissions from all around the world are welcome. The submission deadline is 31.03.2025

Judging and Prizes
Our esteemed judge, Thorben Danke, a celebrated insect portraitist featured on our website, will review submissions and select the winner. Remember, it’s not just the quality of the photo that counts – your description and story matter, too!

The prize for the best photo is the book “Mikro|Makro” with outstanding scientific drawings by Armin Coray, published by edition 19+ (in German)

Don’t wait! Open your eyes to the natural world around you, find insects, and start snapping. The Insects360 Team is excited to see your incredible photos!

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The prize for the best photo is the book “Mikro|Makro” with outstanding scientific drawings by Armin Coray, published by edition 19+ (in German)

-All photos must be taken with a smartphone; professional cameras are not allowed. Extensive editing of the photos is not allowed.

-No age restriction!

-Photos must be taken in 2024 or 2025.

-Each participant can submit up to five images of the same insect or different ones. 

-Some submissions may be disqualified due to low resolution, irrelevant content, copyright violations or other issues. 

-If the number of entries is low, the Biocommunication Group reserves the right to cancel the competition. 

-The winner will be contacted by e-mail. The claim to the prize expires if the winner cannot be contacted, fails to respond or does not accept the prize within 30 days of the first announcement of the winner.   

-By submitting the image, participants confirm that they are the sole owner of the image rights. The Biocommunication Group is granted a non-exclusive, irrevocabel right to use the photos for an unlimited period of time for reporting on the competition and to edit them for this purpose. This includes distribution on the organiser's social media platforms and website. 

-To participate in the competition, users must register via a contact form created specifically for the competition. By registering on https://biocommunication.org/, participants agree to the privacy policy https://biocommunication.org/en/privacy-statement/. 

-Users under the age of 13 must inform their parents or legal guardians about their registration on https://biocommunication.org/. Users or their parents or legal guardians guarantee that all information provided during registration is accurate and complete. They are solely responsible for the content of the registration and the information provided. If the personal data submitted during registration (e.g. surname, first name, email address, age) is false or incomplete, the user's right to claim any competition prize is automatically forfeited. Such users may be excluded from the competition by the operator without prior notice.

-The winners may be published on https://biocommunication.org/ and in other media distributed by the operator and its partners. Typically, this will be done in a manner that does not allow full identification of the winner (e.g. ‘first name, age’).

-No correspondence regarding the competition will be entered into. Legal recourse is excluded. Cash payment of prizes is not possible.

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