Miss Palace Photo Comp
**** - Miss Palace 2010 - ****
*** Do you want a chance of entering the lucrative world of modelling ***
**** Then this could be your big chance ****
****** €25,000.00 and still growing ******
That is the prize fund guaranteed so far in the biggest portrait photography competition to be launched in Ireland this year. It begins on Friday 2nd October.
The competition is entitled ‘Miss Palace’ , it will take place in The Palace Nightclub in Navan in association with The Meath Chronicle Newspaper and David McLean SWPP of DMC Photography.
The competition is the brainchild of David McLean, an award winning photographer based in Navan, the aims of the competition are:
1. To discover a young lady who will be the face of The Palace Nightclub for 2010.
2. To promote local businesses who are sponsoring prizes for the monthly winners and the winner and runners up in the Grand Finale which takes place early next year.
3. To give every entrant the opportunity to become ‘Miss Palace 2010 and win valuable prizes including top class photographic portraits and stylish portfolios which could help them to launch a career in the lucrative world of modelling.
4. To give exposure to prize sponsors, entrants in the competition and monthly winners by means of special features which will be run in The Meath Chronicle Newspaper, the preferred media partner in this venture.
The format of the competition is simple. Any young lady over the age of 18 and a patron of The Palace Nightclub in Navan can enter. Although the title of the competition is ‘Miss Palace’ the entry is not restricted to single young ladies, if you are female and of an age that you frequent The Palace Nightclub you can enter. Not all of the beautiful ladies are still single !
Each entrant will have a selection of full length and head and shoulder portraits taken by David McLean in The Palace Nightclub. For the entry fee of only €10 they will receive two professionally mounted 7”x5” portraits of their choice from the selection taken at their personal photo shoot. Already everyone is a winner as these 2 portraits would cost considerably more if ordered from DMC Photography following a normal portrait sitting.
To enter you simply fill in the competition entry form which will be available in The Palace Nightclub . Then leave your entry form in the special box in The Palace Nightclub and fill in you preferred time slot for your portrait session on the time sheet beside the entry box.
You can also enter on-line using the form at the end of this page and we will contact you to arrange a suitable time for your photo shoot.
All you have to do then is choose your favourite outfit, check the hair and make-up and turn up at your chosen time and enjoy the whole experience. Feel free to bring a friend along if you are nervous.
When you arrive for your portrait shoot you can check out a selection of poses on a computer screen and choose which ones you feel most comfortable with and then David will proceed to take your portraits in your chosen poses.
The whole experience will be very relaxed and should take no more than 10 – 15 minutes. You will be given a password for a private portfolio on David’s website www.dmc-photography.eu where you can view your portraits a few days later and choose which ones you wish to receive and also which portrait you would like to enter in the competition.
Your chosen portraits will be available for collection in The Palace Nightclub within a few days of you making your choice.
The portrait which you choose to enter in the competition will go on display in The Palace Nightclub along with the other entries for that particular month.
The monthly competition entries will also be available to view on this site in a special portfolio and people can vote for their favourite on-line using the voting form attached to the portfolio.
Anyone attending the Palace Nightclub can view the entries on display and vote for their choice of monthly winner simply by filling in a voting card which will be available in the nightclub. Multiple votes by one person will be ruled out as each voting card must have a mobile number and or an e-mail address filled in or it will be invalid.
Each month a selection of entries will be printed in The Meath Chronicle and can be seen at www.dmc-photography.eu
Each month the winner and two runners-up will be chosen by the voters selecting their favourite entry and they will all receive prizes which will be presented at The Palace Nightclub. The value of the monthly prizes to be shared between the winner and the 2 runners-up will be at least €1000.00.
In addition each month there will be another 12 prizes totaling € 1400.00 shared between the other entrants and the voters bringing the total value of the monthly prizes to €2400.00 or €14,400 over the first 6 months of the competition.
The winners from the first six months will be automatically entered in the Grand Final which will take place during a special night in The Palace Nightclub around the end of April 2010.
In addition the voting will open up again for a period of 2 weeks for the two runners-up from each monthly competition in order to choose a further 6 finalists bringing the total number of entrants in the Grand Final to 12.
There will be a specially invited panel of judges for the Grand Final and the overall winner, ‘Miss Palace 2010’ and the 2nd and 3rd place runners-up will be chosen by means of a combination of votes from the clientele in the club that night and the votes of the special judging panel.
The overall winner will be crowned as ‘Miss Palace 2010’ and will receive a selection of prizes valued at over €5000.00 at present including among other items :
A champagne hot air balloon flight, the use of a limo for a drive around town with friends, travel and accommodation vouchers, restaurant voucher, mobile phone, gym membership, beauty treatments, a hamper of luxury chocolate, boutique vouchers etc. At present there are 16 individual prizes in the selection for the winner.
The young lady who is placed second will receive prizes worth over €2600.00 at present made up of a selection of 8 individual prizes.
The young lady who is placed third will receive prizes worth over €1850.00 at present made up of a selection of 8 individual prizes.
In total there is a prize fund of almost €10,000.00 guaranteed for the Grand Final and this figure may increase.
The various businesses committed to the competition so far include a photographer, travel experts, a hot air balloon company, restaurants, beauty salons, hair salons, gift shops, mobile phone suppliers, gyms,boutiques, a handmade chocolate company, a cinema complex, a specialist garden products supplier, limo companies etc.
There is still an opportunity for other local businesses to get involved in this great competition and benefit substantially from the large amount of publicity surrounding it simply by donating a gift voucher to be used in their own business.
To find out more about the ‘Miss Palace 2010’ competition and how you can get involved contact
David McLean of DMC Photography on 086-0684415 or by e-mail at dmclean@eircom.net.
