Resta-Jay Photography Contest: the first photo contest for percussionnists!

Resta-Jay Percussions runs its very first photo contest!

Our goal : gather you, percussionnists, amateurs & professionals all around the world, and live together a singular and creative time about percussion and Resta-Jay mallets.


Your mission: stage at least one Resta-Jay mallet in an unexpected, funny, sensitive, symbolic, dynamic, or whatever you imagine photography. Share with us pictures that tell something about you, about us and about music.

And win mallets!

Four winners of the Resta-Jay Photo Contest will be announced in September 2020: first, second, third prizes, and a special prize for the Resta-Jay team  favorite picture.

The jury is composed of:

  • Gregory Picout (president of the jury): official photographer of the Handisport French Federation, photographer of the 2nd International Percussion Meeting in 2019.

  • Emmanuel Jay, head of Resta-Jay Percussions and amateur photographer.

  • Resta-Jay team members.

The theme of the Photo Contest is open, the only requirement is that at least one Resta-Jay mallet appears on the picture.

Four prize-winners will be announced, and awarded by Resta-Jay Percussions :

  • 1st prize : 3 sets of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections and a visit of the workshop.
  • 2nd prize : 2 sets of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections.
  • 3rd prize : 1 set of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections.

  • Special Prize of the Resta-Jay team : 1 set of custom mallets

How to enter the contest ?

The competition is open to all professionnal or amateur musicians excepted members of the jury.

Pictures in .JPG format with a sufficient quality for a photo contest (max. 5 Mo per picture) will be accepted, whatever the type of camera used.

Submitted pictures must show a 2:3 or 1:1 size ratio with a maximum of 3000 pixels on their largest side.

Please name your pictures according to the following scheme:
PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME.JPG

or if you submit several pictures:
PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME-1.JPG
PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME-2.JPG

To enter the contest, send us up to 5 pictures by E-MAIL only, with mail subject: Photo Contest NAME Firstname at accueil@resta-percussions.fr

with your complete contact details in the body of the e-mail: see article 3 in the full contest rules document.

Photographs have to be sent before September 1st 2020 at 23:59 UTC.


From 6th june to 1st september, we will share all pictures meeting the requirements on :
our Facebook page

www.facebook.com/RestaJayPercussions

our Instagram account 

@restajaypercussions

Don't hesitate to share your pictures too with the following hashtags:
#RestaJayPhotoContest
#ConcoursPhotoRestaJay
#RestaJay


After the contest, the winning pictures will also be published on the Resta-Jay Percussions website.www.resta-percussions.com

Resta-Jay Photo Contest 2020 official rules.

Article 1 – Organization and deadlines

Resta-Jay Percussions (SARL) organize a photography competition, in partnership with Gregory Picout and Claudia Hansen, photographers. The participation is entirely free.

Submission of pictures: from June 6th to September 1st 2020.

The final closing deadline is September 1st 2020 at 23:59 UTC.

Article 2 – Theme

Contestants may submit up to 5 pictures on the theme of their choice, provided that at least one Resta-Jay mallet is displayed in each picture.

Article 3 – Eligibility

The competition is free and open to all amateur photographers, except members of the jury.

Contestants have to be owners of the rights related to the photos and have obtained permission of the people that appears on the photos.

Each entrant can send up to 5 photos.

The photos will be sent in attachment by e-mail to accueil@resta-percussions.fr with the following requirements :

Email subject: 
Photo Contest NAME Firstname

Body e-mail:
participant first name and last name, postal adress, email adress, phone number  

  • file format : JPEG (.JPG)
  • 5Mo max. per picture.
  • File name: PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME.JPG
  • or if you submit several pictures:
    PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME-1.JPG

    PHOTO-CONTEST-NAME-FIRSTNAME-2.JPG
  • Dimensions : 2:3 or 1:1 size ratio with a maximum of 3000 pixels on their largest side.

    The photos that do not respect those points will not be selected.
Article 4 – Selection

The photos will be elected on their artistic value by the members of the jury. The composition, the inner qualities of the photo (light...), the choice of the subject will be taken into account.

Article 5 – Prizes
  • 1st prize : 3 sets of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections and a visit of the workshop.

  • 2nd prize : 2 sets of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections.

  • 3rd prize : 1 set of mallets of your choice among the current mallet collections.

  • Special Prize of the Resta-Jay team : 1 set of custom mallets

The prizes cannot be exchanged against  money or other prizes.

Article 6 – Photo publication and usage rights

Participant accept to give copyright of all submitted images.
Rewarded photos will be published on the Resta-Jay Percussions Website.
Participant photos will be published on Facebook and Instagram Resta-Jay pages. They also can be printed and exhibited on the Resta-Jay workshop and on the PercuSpace, and during events organized by Resta-Jay Percussions. The name of the author of the picture will be specified in all cases.

Article 7 – Winners announcement and notifications

The winners will be notified by e-mail, and the results of the competition will be published on the Resta-Jay website, FB and Instagram official pages.

Article 8 – Prize giving

The winners can retrieve their prize at the Resta-Jay Percussions workshop or ask for a postal expedition.

Article 9 – Jury members

Gregory Picout, professionnal photographer.
Claudia Hansen, professionnal photographer and percussionnist.
Emmanuel Jay, head of Resta-Jay Percussions, amateur photographer.
The Resta-Jay team, percussion mallets makers.

Article 10 – Exclusions

The competition organizers reserve the right to exclude photos of a pornographic, pedophile, racist, discriminating nature, or other nature that is disapproved by the law.
Participant cannot contest the organizers decisions.

Article 11 – Image rights

The participant declares that he owns the rights to the images he sent. The participant declares that he obtained the authorizations to diffuse the photographs he sent.

Article 12 – Responsibilities

Organizers cannot be held responsible for any problem relative to the competition, in case of mistake due to human, computer cause or any other type of cause.
In case of force majeure, Resta-Jay Percussions reserve the right to change these Competition Rules, to postpone or annul the competition. Its responsibilities can not be engaged due to those changes.

Article 13 – Obligations

The participation to the competition entails the acceptation of those Competition Rules by the entrants.
In case of failure to respect those rules, the participation will be canceled.

Article 14 – Privacy policy

All personnal data transmitted by the participant is used exclusively by the company RESTA-JAY Percussions who commits to not disclose, share or trade it.

Accordance with the Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 amended in 2004, you have a right to access and rectify any information of your concern, right that you can exercise by contacting RESTA-JAY Percussions - 428 route de Verchizeuil - 71960 Verzé (FRANCE) or by logging on our website.

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