These are the topics from 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2023
Rules
Summary: Each topic heading will confirm the medium (digital and/or print). Unless stated otherwise, the max entried is 2 images.per competition.
In Detail: refer to the rules page (click here)..
Street Photography - hand in July 14th - digital only.
Judge: Matt Leamy
Medium: Digital only. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open).
Flora & Fauna - hand in Aug 11th - digital only
Judge: Gail Stent
Medium: Digital only. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open). Flora & Fauna - so anythng 'living'
Black & White / Monochrome - hand in Sept 8th - digital and print
Judge: Bob McCree
Medium: Digital and/or PRINT.. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open).. B&W. Monochrome as in shades of grey, sepia, blues, greens ... manipuate an existing photo!!
Macro Photography - hand in Oct 13th - digital and print
Judge: Geoff Beals
Medium: Digital and/or Print. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open). Check your current lens to see it can do MACRO and close-up on everything!
Long Exposure - hand in Nov 10th - digital only
Judge: Chris Parkin
Medium: Digital only. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open). Use a 'slow' shutter speed, or even the B setting. Be creative and have fun.
Summer - hand in Feb 9th 2023 - digital only
Judge: Liz Davidson
Medium: Digital only. Max number of images: 2 (Set and/or Open). Tell a story of what summer means to you in an image
2022-2023 Photo Editing opportunity/challenge/project for members
Judge: In Club
What A&B graders are one team and C graders another team. How will that work?
2023 interclub with Hay-On-Wye. Topic yet to be decided. Hand-in Feb 9th maybe or March 9th. TBC
Judge: Hay-On-Wye judge
International competition with Hay On Wye, Wales, UK. Last year they won!!
Natural History - hand in March 9th 2023. 2x Prints & 2x Prints (MCC TROPHY Topic: )
Judge: Errol Kelly
MCC TROPHY Topic: Natural History strict rules apply so you can re-renter your images into other competitions.
Landscape - hand in April 13th. 2x Print and 2x Digial images (MCC Trophy topic)
Judge: Irene Callaghan
MCC TROPHY Topic: An image that captures a sense of “space” and “place” and tells a story of the scene before the camera.
Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Competition (External Competition)
Judge: PSNZ
(External Competition) To encourage creativity and no prescriptive definition of “landscape” has been specified for the Laurie Thomas Landscape competition
Hands and/or Feet - Hand in May 11th. Digital only
Judge: Cushla Moorhead
uummm hands and/or feet - human, non-human; this will stretch the imagination :-)
PSNZ Trenna Packer Salver inter-club Competition (External Competition)
Judge: PSNZ
As a club we submit a set of six images to illustrate the diversity of the natural world in New Zealand and its off shore islands
Shot Of Year - Black & White/Monochrome - hand in June 8th
Judge: Ilan Wittenberg
Trophy Topic - Black & Whote/monochrome - thinking of extending scope from Print only to Print & Digital.
Shot Of Year - Digital - Colour - hand-in 8th June
Judge: Ilan Wittenberg
Trophy Topic - Digital - Colour
Autumn - hand in June 8th - digital and print
Judge: Roger Thwaites
Let New Zealand's Autumn shine through your images