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In a departure from previous years, the RORC Rating Office launched a competition on 15th July to select the photograph that will grace the front cover of the 2014 edition of the RORC IRC Yearbook, published by Yachting World.
The fascination with recording our lives has never been more apparent than it is today with the extraordinary escalation of social media and 24-hour technology impacting on many of us.
Whilst the majority of keen amateurs wouldn't claim publicly to be the world's greatest snappers, privately we all like to think that we are and we take great delight in taking thousands of photographs to prove it, especially now that digital and point and click cameras are the norm these days.
Entry to the 2014 Yearbook Competition is restricted to two submissions per person to be submitted by 30th August 2013 and a shortlisted selection will then be judged by Yachting World's Racing & Technical Editor Matthew Sheahan, RORC's Technical Director Mike Urwin, award-winning photographer Ian Roman and the marine leisure PR consultant Peta Stuart-Hunt.
What will the judges be looking for?
The front cover photograph is carefully chosen by the editors to represent IRC’s main constituency of racer/cruisers, rather than the ‘latest and greatest’ high tech racing boats. The judges will be looking for an exciting image that reflects the club racing ethos of IRC rating. This may be round-the-mark action from one of your local club weekend races, a fleet shot from a weekday ‘twilight’ race, or perhaps a lucky catch from one of the offshore classics.
They will not be looking for the ‘glamour shot’ of a exotic racing boat so much as something that encompasses everything IRC stands for – competitive racing for all.
The winner will be notified by 30th September 2013 and will receive a Certificate, and have their photograph featured on the cover of the 2014 RORC IRC Yearbook, with appropriate credit as agreed with the winner. There is no monetary prize.
The all-important rules are published here: http://tinyurl.com/irc-cover-comp-rules.
