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Note: as of June 2008, the club has voted to eliminate slide competition - all projected images
must be in a digital format.
Members may enter photographic prints or digital files. The images in all categories are
presented for voting by members and critiquing by our guest judge. Subject matter may be open or
assigned (see calendar below).
Competition meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month. (In November and December,
meeting is 2nd Wednesday. The December meeting is the Annual Banquet and Awards Presentation.)
The monthly competition include the following categories:
projected digital files and prints, B&W/monochromatic and/or color (from film or digital).
Awards are given based on popular vote and judge selection.
Points earned each month accumulate toward annual awards. Monthly entries are eligible
for the year-end competition.
Please check competition rules before preparing your entries.
Click on the Competition Date to see shots of the winning images.
Assigned subject definitions will be provided, here and in the newsletter.
(2008-2005 Calendars below in reverse order.)
| 2008 Competition Calendar | |
| January 23 - Assignment: Open / Prints & Slides | July 23 - Assignment: Open Digital files due July 16 |
| February 27 - Assignment: Open / Prints & Digital | August 27 - Assignment: The Color Green Green is to be the predomiant subject, with monochrome images being in various tones of green. Digital files due August 20 |
| March 26 - Assignment: Patterns / Prints & Slides | September 24 - Assignment: Open Digital files due September 17 |
| April 23 - Assignment: Open / Prints & Digital |
October 22 - Assignment: Graffiti The Graffiti is to be markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings--written, spray-painted or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building, side of a boxcar, or the like. Must be unauthorized (no murals, etc.) and found (not arranged by the photographer). NO creative. Digital files due October 15 |
| May 28 - Assignment: Open / Prints & Slides | November 12 - Assignment: Open Note that this is the 2nd Wed, due to Thanksgiving. Also, Year-End entries due - see Nov. newsletter. Digital files due November 5 |
| June 25 - Assignment: Birds / Prints & Digital Similar to nature - live birds only, no creative, though captive environments are acceptable. |
December 10 - Banquet & Year End Entries Year-end entries are judged prior to the banquet. Images are shown and awards announced after the meal. |
| 2007 Competition Calendar | |
| January 24 - Assignment: Open | July 25 - Assignment: Open |
| February 28 - Assignment: Open | August 22 - Assignment: Broken/Abandoned |
| March 28 - Assignment: Open | September 26 - Assignment: Open |
| April 25 - Assignment: Shadows Shadow(s) must be either the main focus or an integral part of the image. Subject(s) causing the shadows(s) may appear in the image also or not. |
October 24 - Assignment: Nature **See definition below** |
| May 23 - Assignment: Open | November 14 - Assignment: Open Note that this is the 2nd Wed, due to Thanksgiving. Also, Year-End entries due - see Nov. newsletter. |
| June 27 - Assignment: Motion/Action Self-explanatory, e.g. activity or process of moving. |
December 7** - Banquet & Year End Entries ** Note Date Change. Year-end entries are judged prior to the banquet. Images are shown and awards announced after the meal. |
| 2006 Competition Calendar | |
| January 25 - Assignment: Open | July 26 - Assignment: Open |
| February 22 - Assignment: Open | August 23 - Assignment: Flowers |
| March 22 - Assignment: Open | September 27 - Assignment: Open |
| April 26 - Assignment: Portraits (People Only) | October 25 - Assignment: Nature |
| May 24 - Assignment: Open | November 8 - Assignment: Open Note that this is the 2nd Wed, due to Thanksgiving. Also, Year-End entries due - see Nov. newsletter. |
| June 28 - Assignment: Water/Waterfalls/Streams | December 13 - Banquet & Year End Entries Year-end entries are judged prior to the banquet. Images are shown and awards announced after the meal. |
| 2005 Competition Calendar | |
| January 26 - Assignment: Open | July 27 - Assignment: Open |
| February 23 - Assignment: Open | August 24 - Assignment: Creative Use in-camera, darkroom, digital, or manual techniques to produce "An obvious departure from reality" |
| March 23 - Assignment: Open | September 28 - Assignment: Open |
| April 27 - Assignment: Elements of Water (Snow/Rain/Ice/Water/Fog) |
October 26 - Assignment: Nature |
| May 25 - Assignment: Open | November 9 - Assignment: Open |
| June 22 - Assignment: Pictorial Landscape | December 14 - Banquet & Year End Entries |
NATURE definition: A Nature Photograph is a print or slide (from a single negative, slide, digital capture,
electronic transfer, etc.) taken at a single moment in time, that accurately depicts one or more natural subjects
(including animals, fish, geological formations, insects, plants, etc) as they appeared at that moment in time
with sufficient detail that the identity of the subject(s) can be readily determined. If a man-made object is in
the photograph, it must be incidental to or contribute to the nature story without drawing attention away
from the subject of the photograph. Photographs of constrained animals (such as those found
at game farms, animal rehabilitation centers & zoos), feral domesticated animals and cultivated flowers are permitted as subjects. Scenics or landscapes where the type of plants or rock formations
are NOT easily determined (such as silhouettes and layered ranges of mountains, hills, or trees), images where heavy filtration (other than polarizing or enhancing) is used to the extent that the accurate rendition
of the original subject is lost, or where long exposures alter the perceived scene (such as:
cotton candy water), are more properly pictorial subjects than nature subjects."