| 24 May 2010 |
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With the continuing success of the Vita Gallery, a free photo gallery for beekeepers, honeybee health company Vita (Europe) Ltd is launching a photography competition. Anyone can submit up to three photos relating to bees or beekeeping to try to win a cash prize, while at the same time contributing to the enormously popular Gallery (www.vita-europe.com) which is benefitting beekeepers across the globe. |
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| Since its launch last September, the Vita Gallery - which contains more than 300 images of bees and beekeeping - has received huge interest from beekeepers across the globe. |
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| “The Gallery has users from more than 600 beekeepers in 40 countries and we’ve been delighted by the spontaneous feedback from may of them,” said Jeremy Owen, Sales Director of Vita (Europe) Ltd. “We knew that many beekeepers needed images to accompany their talks on bees and beekeeping – but we never quite realised just how many people give such talks. The Vita Gallery is turning into an important educational tool and we therefore want to expand it by inviting anyone to contribute their best bee-related photos.” |
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| The winner of the competition will receive a €50 cash prize, plus Vita anti-varroa products for 10 colonies. There is also a special prize for the winner of the under 16s category. |
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| The deadline for entries to the competition is 1 December 2010, allowing plenty of time for people to take some photos this season, or select ones from their collection. |
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| To enter the competition, just email up to three digital photographs (no larger than 1mb each) relating to bees or beekeeping to gallery@vita-europe.com. The theme is broad, with current photographs in the gallery ranging from vintage beekeeping equipment to shots of active colonies and foraging bees. |
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| For full application details and information about prizes, see: www.vita-europe.com. Vita reserves the right to use any photographs in the Vita Gallery, but will acknowledge the source on the Vita Gallery website. |
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| Terms and Conditions |
| Please include your name, postcode (or equivalent) and country in your email. You may also include captions for your photographs if you wish. |
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| The deadline for entries to the competition is 1 December 2010. |
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| Entrants must certify that the image/s they are submitting is their own work and that they own the copyright for it. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws. In providing images for the competition, each entrant agrees that Vita can put it in the online Vita Gallery for others to use. |
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| About Vita (Europe) Ltd |
Vita (Europe) Ltd is a mite control and honeybee health
specialist based in the UK and operating across the globe.
Vita researches, develops, manufactures and markets acaricide
products and is the world's dominant supplier of honeybee
health products to the honey and pollination industries. |
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In the development of new and ecologically-sensitive
approaches to mite pest control, Vita collaborates with universities
including Cardiff, Milan, Udine and institutes including
the Tierhygienisches Institut (Institute of Animal Health)
in Freiburg, Germany, the UK Central Science Laboratory and
the USDA in America. Vita's innovative research and development
work has received support from the UK Government. |
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| Vita’s
products are available through a network of 60
distributors in 50 countries and have been registered by
more than 60 veterinary authorities. Its
product range includes anti-varroa acaricides (Apistan
(outside the USA/Canada) and Apiguard), chalkbrood and
wax moth controls, and foulbrood diagnostic kits) and two
health-promoting feeds. All the control products are designed
as elements of Integrated Pest Management programmes to
inhibit the build-up of resistance and wherever possible
use natural compounds and biological controls that are
benign to all but the target pests. |
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| As a result of its primary research of natural control agents,
Vita is currently engaged in new projects exploring mite control
in the agricultural, veterinary, and horticultural industries
as well as public health and human allergen control. |
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| Media Enquiries |
Stephen Fleming at Palam Communications
Tel +44 (0) 1635 299116
Email sfleming@palam.co.uk
Web www.palam.co.uk |
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| General Enquiries |
Jeremy Owen
Vita (Europe) Ltd
Tel +44 (0)1256 473 176
Email j.owen@vita-europe.com
Web www.vita-europe.com |
