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Nikon-Walkley photographic categories include:

    * News photography
    * Daily life/feature photography
    * Sport
    * Photographic essay
    * Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year

Nikon-Walkley Photographic Prizes

    * Spot news*
    * General news*
    * Community & regional photography
    * Portrait photography

(*winners become finalists in the "News photography" Walkley Award)
Special conditions of entry for photographers

The competition is open to any photographer who has submitted a picture for publication in an Australian media outlet in the 12 month eligibility period.

The cost of entering the photographic categories, including GST, is $260. For photographers only one fee is payable, regardless of the number of categories entered. Through its support of the Walkley Awards, the Alliance covers the entry cost for its financial members as a benefit of membership.

Only photographers working in community or regional media are eligible to enter the "Community and regional photography" category.

Photographers must submit up to a 400-word entry statement with each category entered

Photographers are required to register their entry on the Walkley online registration as well as register online on the Nikon website to upload low-res. images. Photographers must also physically send in a CD of the same images in an uncompressed TIFF 10-15MB file size for printing together with copies of entry forms. No cloning, montaging or digital manipulation other than cropping, "digital spotting", burning and dodging is permitted. One photographer and his/her entries per CD

Photographers may enter one or more of the photographic categories and the all media categories

Each entrant can enter once in any one category but may submit one or more pictures on the same subject (a series is limited to 5 images) however;

    * Photo Essay can be up to 12 images with at least one published image
    * Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer can be between 6-10 images with at least one published image

Entrants may not enter the same photograph in more than one category except:

    * Where the entrant applies to both the Photographic and the All Media categories in either the Portrait or Community/Regional categories. These are Nikon-Walkley Prizes. Entrants in both these categories are eligible to submit these entries again in another appropriate Walkley Award category.
    * In the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year award where the body of the year's work may include shots included in other entries