Viii Dipol Holiday Photo Contest 2009

Subject of the photo contest is a challenge that, at first, seems to be difficult to be up to. What can be interesting in antennas? Can they really inspire and become the focus of artistic interest?

DIPOL organizes this photographic competition for the eight time. The seven previous editions showed that antennas can be interesting subjects of the environment we live in, and - besides useful functions - they can bring artistic inspiration. We hope the competitors will again take up the task that, apart from having aesthetic qualities, requires dash of imagination, grain of wit, and sometimes a certain measure of risk.

Antennas constitute a part of our everyday landscape. Many of us can remember all of these past "forests" of traditional TV antennas that disappear from our lives being replaced by "dishes" of satellite antennas, and "tubes" or "columns" of communications devices.

Some of them irritate our sense of beauty and ruin the looks of even the most architecturally-advanced buildings, but others may have just an opposite effect, creating a sort of unity and harmony with their surroundings.

There will be 3 prizes:
I. Satellite HDTV receiver Ferguson HF-8900
II. Satellite HDTV receiver Ferguson HF-8500
III. Satellite HDTV receiver Ferguson HF-8500

Works can be submitted from June 1st, 2009 to September 30, 2009. The works will be adjudicated by photographer and designer from Krakow, Mr. Pawel Zechenter (I and II prize).
III prize will be awarded by our technical department - the main criterion is ability of communicating technical ideas in an interesting way.

The results of the previous editions are available at DIPOL website. In 2008 the first prize went to Mr. Dariusz M?czynski for the aesthetic values of the series

"In a distorting mirror".

Works in electronic form - JPEG format, min. size 600 x 800 pixels, max size 1200 x 1600 pixels and file size not exceeding 600 kB - should be sent to konkurs@dipol.com.pl - with Subject:

"8th DIPOL Photo Contest", and the Body including:

• title of work

• first name and surname of the author and some comment on the picture/s (place, date, etc.)

DIPOL reserves the right to change the format of the picture/s for Internet presentation and to make it/them available to the public for promotion of the Contest.