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SUCCESS!

Thank you for registering for the 2024 Safe Digging Month Competition!

To complete your entry, you must email your photos to: safediggingmonth@gmail.com
or click the link below.

Remember: Each file must be no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 10MB. Each entrant may submit a maximum of 12 photographic entries overall, not exceeding five photographic entries per day.

Good Luck!

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SAFE DIGGING MONTH

Photo
Competition

It’s Time for Our Annual Safe Digging Month Photo Competition. Open to everyone in the industry, this is your chance to showcase how you promote safe digging practices and prevent damage to underground utilities across New Zealand.

01 - 30 NOVEMBER 2024

🏆 Win a $200 Prezzie Card

📸 Get featured on the beforeUdig login screen for a year!

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How To
Participate

Step 1

SNAP

Working on an interesting excavation project or found something in the field that caught your eye?
Take a photo!

Step 2

SUBMIT

Enter our Photo Competition page and submit a maximum of 12 entries there. Make sure your photos follow our guidelines.

Step 3

WIN

The best shot will win a $200 Prezzie Card + bragging rights for being able to see your photo every day for a year on your beforeUdig login screen.

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Get
Creative!

Anything within the field of excavation will be accepted. Examples include:

ABSTRACT
PEOPLE
NATURE
URBAN

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COMPETITION GUIDELINES

beforeUdig’s Photo Competition celebrates our Safe Digging Month and we want your help to keep promoting Damage Prevention of utility cables and pipes across New Zealand! Enter to win a NZ$200 Prezzie Card and have your work featured in beforeUdig's login page for a year.

Entries close 5pm, Saturday 30 November.
Winner announcement 10am, Thursday 5 December.

ENTRY CONDITIONS

Required Photo Format:

Photos must be submitted as JPEG files. They can be portrait or landscape orientation.
We recommend you leave the format of your image in standard rectangle shape; images will be cropped as required.

File Size:

Minimum file size 1MB; maximum file size 10MB

Original Work Only:

Borders, watermarks, signatures or other additions will result in images being disqualified.

Timeline:

The deadline to submit photos is November 30, 2024. Winners will be contacted by December 5, 2024.

Get Started:

Fill out the form below and submit your photo. If you have additional questions, please contact marketing@beforeudig.co.nz

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Please Note:

The competition is open to all amateur photographers resident in New Zealand. Professionals (defined as having earned 20% or more of their income through photography at any time) are barred from entry, as are commissioned images, images used for a commercial purpose, or images entered in other photography competitions.
Images that are heavily digitally altered will not be accepted as entries.
Each person can submit a maximum of 12 photographic entries overall, not exceeding five photographic entries per day.
Entries will be judged by a panel of judges – this is a blind judging process.
Full terms and conditions are available here

Judges

Our judges have been selected from around our team. They are a mix of construction industry professionals and talented photographers amateurs.

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