Rules Governing Submittal of Slides and Prints for Competition 1

Rules Governing Submittal of Slides and Prints for Competition

1. No submittal can be over five years old. As a teaching club we all would like to see what improvement has been made in your work.

2. If your past submittals have won first, second, third or HM ribbons, they cannot be entered in future competitions.

3. If you are entering both slides and print competitions, they cannot be of the same image. The subject can be the same but, the composition, exposure and other variables must be obvious.

4. Both commercial and makers prints will be judged in the same category.

There are two categories in which to enter:

Pictorial - which is any subject. This can include nature but, the hand of man must be seen in the picture, i.e., a bridge, park bench, road, etc.

Nature - Pure nature photos are defined as follows:

          1. The use of the photographic process to depict all observations of facts and phenomena from the various branches of natural history EXCEPT anthropology and archeology in such a fashion that the well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and to certify to its honest presentation.

          2. Detailed and micro and macro photos are acceptable.

          3. Scientific banding on wild animals is acceptable.

          4. Photographs depicting cultivated plants, domestic animals, mounted specimens, museum habitats, still life studies or derivations are ineligible and should not be submitted. Scenes including man-made structures do not fall in the nature category and should be automatically disqualified. Photographic manipulation such as sandwich, montages, derivations or other alterations of original images are not acceptable in nature competition.

          5. There will be no talking or commenting when the images are being judged. Do NOT identify yourself in any way to the image while being examined by the judges.