Enter your favourite photos from your 2024/25 Albatross Tours European Christmas, New Year or Northern Lights small group tour for your chance to WIN 1 of 2 prizes.
Your photos must feature a landmark, region, village, city or memory taken on your Albatross tour.
Photos will be judged on creativity and photographic quality. The top finalists will be selected by Albatross Tours which will then be displayed on the Albatross Tours website for public voting to determine the winners.
The first prize winner of the Winter Wonderland 2023/24 photo competition was Karen Rogerson's magical photo of the Ill River in Felkirch on the Swiss Alpine Christmas Markets tour.
Our runner up was Lorraine Mitchel's mighty photo of the snowy Matterhorn in Zermatt on the Swiss Christmas in Zermatt tour.
1.1 Information on how to enter forms part of the terms of entry. Entry into the promotion is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.
2.1 Entry is open to residents of Australia and New Zealand only who have travelled on an Albatross Tours European Christmas, New Year & Northern Lights Small Group Tour on the 2024/25 festive programme.
2.2 All employees and their immediate families of Albatross Tours and The Albatross Group are not eligible to enter.
2.3 Entrants under the age of 18 to have obtained permission from their parent/guardian.
3.1 Entries must be true photographs or videos and not composites or overly enhanced by digital manipulations in an unrealistic manner.
3.2 Photos are to be supplied free of watermarks, date stamps or text. Collage/ mural images will not be accepted.
3.3 Entrant must be the photographer and owner of the copyright for any image entered.
3.4 Entries must be in digital form, submitted in JPEG high resolution format. Entries submitted via email must be a minimum file size of 1MB.
3.5 While the photographer retains the copyright of all images submitted as competition entries, Albatross Tours and The Albatross Group reserve the right to unlimited use of any image submitted for Marketing and Promotional purposes.
4.1 The 'Winter Wonderland' photo competition entries must be submitted by midnight, Friday, 18 April 2025 AEST. Finalists will be announced on Friday, 25 April 2025 with voting open until Midnight Monday, 5 May 2025.
4.2 In order to be eligible, entrants must submit the highest resolution version of the image as possible via the website upload.
4.3 Entries must feature any landmarks, regions, villages, cities or memories which are visited by Albatross Tours on any of Albatross Tours European Christmas, New Year & Northern Lights tour from the 2024/25 programme.
4.4 Entrants may submit an unlimited number of photos in the competition.
4.5 All photo entries must be correctly labelled with the location of the image, your name and provide relevant contact details.
4.6 Photos are to be supplied as single images without date stamps or text. Collage/ mural images will not be accepted.
4.7 Photos will not be eligible if submitted in hard-copy. Only high resolution JPG files of images will be accepted.
4.8 Photos submitted in previous years 'Best of Europe' or 'Festive Europe' photo competitions are not eligible to enter. Entries can only be accepted from tours that have operated between November 2024 to March 2025 and that you have travelled on.
4.9 Entries will not be returned at the completion of the competition.
5.1 Albatross Tours will select our top finalists based on creativity and photographic quality. The images will be open to voting on the Albatross Tours website.
5.2 The top two (2) photos with the greatest number of votes on the Albatross Tours website will win one of two prizes:
i. First prize: $500 Visa Gift Card
ii. Second prize: $200 Visa Gift Card
5.3 During the online website voting period, only one (1) vote per person will be accepted. Multiple votes from the same computer IP address will not be accepted and will be deemed invalid.
5.4 The winners will be notified via email and will be announced via Albatross Tours social media pages.
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