COMPETITION RULES
GROUP COMPETITION RULES
Guidance on General Competition Rules
(1) At the AGM on 2nd March 1999, it was agreed to introduce a ruling regarding entries for all competitions:
"With effect from the AGM each year, members must date all entries with the year(s) of the programme current at the time e.g. 1999/2000
All work thus dated may be used freely for all competitions in that year only and must not be shown in subsequent years.
Work does not need to be newly produced. Old work is acceptable provided that it has not been entered into competitions in previous years"
Dated March 1999, John Bellenie, Chairman
(2) All prints to be mounted minimum size 10" x 8" (25cm x 20cm) maximum of 20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm)
the only exception is the Myall Natural History Trophy where the print maximum size is A4 and the maximum mount size is 12" x16" (30cm x 40cm).
(3) All print entries must be clearly marked with the club label, entrant’s name, title, relevant year and the category to which they are submitted.
(4) Once a piece of work has been submitted, it must retain its title for any competition during the year and should only be used in one quarterly plus the Annual and/or Myall competition.
(5) Any work submitted during the year can be called upon for entry to inter-club competitions.
(6) No print used in a previous quarterly can be entered again as a digital image or vice-versa .
(7) Digital images to be sized up to 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels high, resolution 72 dpi and profile sRGB . Then saved as a large JPEG
The file name should be numbered 01, 02,etc,then underscore,then title and put into an individual folder bearing the author's name.
eg: 01_Autumn Mist.jpeg
(8) Digital entries to be emailed to the club projectionist and print entry titles to the club recorder two weeks before the competition date.
ANNUAL & QUARTERLY COMPETITIONS:
Quarterly Competitions.
1. Prints
2. Digital Images
Two entries per category.
Can be either colour or monochrome (an image in Black & White or in varying tones of one colour)
These competitions will be judged on a points basis with the author’s name read out after marking.
Each submission will be marked out of a maximum of 10.
The total amount of marks over the year will determine the winner of each category
and certificates will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places
John & Mary Bellenie Trophy
(Donated 2009 by Mary Bellenie)
To be awarded to the person who gets the highest overall aggregate in both sections of the Quarterlies.
Annual competition.
1. Colour Prints
2. Digital Images
3. Monochrome Prints (for the annual competition only)
Two entries per category.
This will be marked 1st ,2nd ,3rd plus certificates of merit in each category .
The winner’s trophy of each section to be held in their keeping for one year.
Zelley Shield
(Donated 1987 by Zelley's Jewellers, North Walsham)
For the winner of the colour print section of the Annual Competition
The DPI Cup
For the winner of the digital image section of the Annual Competition
Jolyn Trophy:
(Donated 1995 by John & Olive Nottingham ex. Ilford black & white staff
photographer).
Will be awarded to the winner of the monochrome section in the annual competition
Myall Trophy
(Donated 1994 by Dennis Myall)
This is an annual competition for the submission of natural history prints maximum size of A4,
for which the best image is selected by an independent judge
and the winner awarded the above trophy to keep for one year.
This will be marked 1st, 2nd and 3rd plus certificates of merit
Three A4 prints per entrant.
Natural History of the British Isles pictures only that is flora and fauna in its natural environment.
All submissions must be of the current year from AGM to AGM.
Natural history definition.
.PAGB NATURE DEFINITION Issue 1, Feb 2013
Nature photography depicts living, untamed animals and uncultivated
plants in a natural habitat, geology and the wide diversity of natural
phenomena.
Photographs of animals, which are domesticated, and photographs of
cultivated or hybrid plants are ineligible.
Minimal evidence of humans is acceptable for nature subjects, such as
barn owls or storks adapting to an environment modified by humans,
or natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves, reclaiming it.
Any manipulation or modification is limited to minor retouching and
must not alter the truth of the original scene.
Note: PAGB Competitions are not Wildlife Competitions, unless otherwise specified, and Nature
photographers frequently take pictures of animals under “controlled conditions” in order to record species
or behaviour that would be very difficult or impossible to record in the wild. Such photographs are eligible
for entry to PAGB Competitions. So too are pictures of “wild” flowers growing in parkland or “wild”
gardens provided these have not been modified by such cultivation. (This note is advisory - not part of the definition)
The Hardy Cup
(Donated 2014 by Jim Hardy)
For the author of the winning print voted by the public in the Peoples' Choice at the Annual Exhibition of Members Work
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(1) At the AGM on 2nd March 1999, it was agreed to introduce a ruling regarding entries for all competitions:
"With effect from the AGM each year, members must date all entries with the year(s) of the programme current at the time e.g. 1999/2000
All work thus dated may be used freely for all competitions in that year only and must not be shown in subsequent years.
Work does not need to be newly produced. Old work is acceptable provided that it has not been entered into competitions in previous years"
Dated March 1999, John Bellenie, Chairman
(2) All prints to be mounted minimum size 10" x 8" (25cm x 20cm) maximum of 20" x 16" (50cm x 40cm)
the only exception is the Myall Natural History Trophy where the print maximum size is A4 and the maximum mount size is 12" x16" (30cm x 40cm).
(3) All print entries must be clearly marked with the club label, entrant’s name, title, relevant year and the category to which they are submitted.
(4) Once a piece of work has been submitted, it must retain its title for any competition during the year and should only be used in one quarterly plus the Annual and/or Myall competition.
(5) Any work submitted during the year can be called upon for entry to inter-club competitions.
(6) No print used in a previous quarterly can be entered again as a digital image or vice-versa .
(7) Digital images to be sized up to 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels high, resolution 72 dpi and profile sRGB . Then saved as a large JPEG
The file name should be numbered 01, 02,etc,then underscore,then title and put into an individual folder bearing the author's name.
eg: 01_Autumn Mist.jpeg
(8) Digital entries to be emailed to the club projectionist and print entry titles to the club recorder two weeks before the competition date.
ANNUAL & QUARTERLY COMPETITIONS:
Quarterly Competitions.
1. Prints
2. Digital Images
Two entries per category.
Can be either colour or monochrome (an image in Black & White or in varying tones of one colour)
These competitions will be judged on a points basis with the author’s name read out after marking.
Each submission will be marked out of a maximum of 10.
The total amount of marks over the year will determine the winner of each category
and certificates will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places
John & Mary Bellenie Trophy
(Donated 2009 by Mary Bellenie)
To be awarded to the person who gets the highest overall aggregate in both sections of the Quarterlies.
Annual competition.
1. Colour Prints
2. Digital Images
3. Monochrome Prints (for the annual competition only)
Two entries per category.
This will be marked 1st ,2nd ,3rd plus certificates of merit in each category .
The winner’s trophy of each section to be held in their keeping for one year.
Zelley Shield
(Donated 1987 by Zelley's Jewellers, North Walsham)
For the winner of the colour print section of the Annual Competition
The DPI Cup
For the winner of the digital image section of the Annual Competition
Jolyn Trophy:
(Donated 1995 by John & Olive Nottingham ex. Ilford black & white staff
photographer).
Will be awarded to the winner of the monochrome section in the annual competition
Myall Trophy
(Donated 1994 by Dennis Myall)
This is an annual competition for the submission of natural history prints maximum size of A4,
for which the best image is selected by an independent judge
and the winner awarded the above trophy to keep for one year.
This will be marked 1st, 2nd and 3rd plus certificates of merit
Three A4 prints per entrant.
Natural History of the British Isles pictures only that is flora and fauna in its natural environment.
All submissions must be of the current year from AGM to AGM.
Natural history definition.
.PAGB NATURE DEFINITION Issue 1, Feb 2013
Nature photography depicts living, untamed animals and uncultivated
plants in a natural habitat, geology and the wide diversity of natural
phenomena.
Photographs of animals, which are domesticated, and photographs of
cultivated or hybrid plants are ineligible.
Minimal evidence of humans is acceptable for nature subjects, such as
barn owls or storks adapting to an environment modified by humans,
or natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves, reclaiming it.
Any manipulation or modification is limited to minor retouching and
must not alter the truth of the original scene.
Note: PAGB Competitions are not Wildlife Competitions, unless otherwise specified, and Nature
photographers frequently take pictures of animals under “controlled conditions” in order to record species
or behaviour that would be very difficult or impossible to record in the wild. Such photographs are eligible
for entry to PAGB Competitions. So too are pictures of “wild” flowers growing in parkland or “wild”
gardens provided these have not been modified by such cultivation. (This note is advisory - not part of the definition)
The Hardy Cup
(Donated 2014 by Jim Hardy)
For the author of the winning print voted by the public in the Peoples' Choice at the Annual Exhibition of Members Work
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