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SAFE DIGGING MONTH
Photography

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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 Bunnings Voucher and have your work featured in beforeUdig's annual calendar.
Entries close 5pm, Wednesday 30 November.
Winner announcement 10am, Friday 9 December.
ENTRY CONDITIONS

Winning photos:
- 13 photos will be selected to feature in the 2023 beforeUdig Calendar. The best shot (cover) will win a $200 Bunnings Voucher. The rest of the winners will receive a $50 Bunnings Voucher each. We will also award beforeUdig kits for extra 10 photos that will feature future marketing materials.
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 to the 2023 beforeUdig Calendar is November 30, 2022. Winners will be contacted by December 9, 2022.
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.