Many different categories for our most prestigious competition of the year.

📋 General Competition Rules

• Eligibility: Open to all fully paid-up club members.

• Originality: All images must be the sole work of the photographer. No AI-generated content or third-party stock elements are permitted.

• Re-use: Images must not have been previously entered into any major club competitions this season.

🖼️ Category 1: Triple Print Competition (Common Theme)

• Format: Three physically separate prints presented together.

• Cohesion: The three images must share a clear common theme, conceptual narrative, or visual style and labelled left, centre and right.

• Mounting: Each print must be separately mounted on a standard board size (e.g., 50cm x 40cm or as per club preference).

• Judging: The judge will score the entry as a single cohesive triplet based on story-telling value and thematic alignment. [1, 2]

🌿 Category 2: Nature Digital Projected Image (DPI)

• Theme: Must adhere strictly to standard Nature photography guidelines.

• Subject Matter: Images can feature untamed flora, fauna, geology, or natural phenomena. Domesticated animals, cultivated plants, and obvious human environments are excluded.

• Digital Format: Must be submitted in JPG format, sRGB colour space.

• Resolution: Sized to a maximum width of 1600 pixels and maximum height of 1200 pixels (or the club’s specific projector standard). [3, 4]

🎴 Category 3: 5-Image Print Panel (Common Theme on One Board)

• Layout: Exactly 5 separate photographic prints must be arranged and mounted onto a single physical board.

• Thematic Flow: The images must display a strong common theme, continuous narrative, or graphic relationship.

• Presentation: Balance and panel layout will be taken heavily into consideration during the final assessment.

• Sizing: Recommended individual print sizes should be smaller (e.g., 7″x5″ or 6″x4″) to comfortably fit the dimensions of a single 50cm x 40cm mounting board. [5]

🌌 Category 4: Open Theme Digital Projected Image (DPI)

• Theme: Completely Open with no subject constraints—allowing landscape, portraiture, street, abstract, or creative composite photography.

• Digital Format: Must match identical resolution rules to Category 2 (e.g., max 1600px x 1200px, JPG format).

• Editing: Full post-processing, creative enhancement, and digital manipulation are allowed. [6, 7]