SECTION 1 – GENERAL CONDITIONS AND DEFINITIONS
REFUSAL: The Competition Secretaries on behalf of the Club Committee have the right to withdraw or refuse any image considered for any reason to be unsuitable.
OWNERSHIP: Images entered must be entirely the work of the photographer. Composite images are permitted provided all component images meet this requirement. (For the avoidance of doubt, use of images from any other source including, but not limited to, royalty free image banks and clipart are not permitted).
USE OF IMAGES BY THE CLUB: The club has the right to store and to use any image submitted in any Club competition and may use it to publicise the club in any way, including publication on our website. The club accepts no responsibility for loss or theft of, or damage to, any photograph entered.
TITLES: For Club (and SPF and PAGB) competitions, you should never change the title of a photograph, even if you enter it in a different form.
MONO/COLOUR: Prints fully toned using just one colour may be entered as Monochrome Prints. Prints which are toned or printed with two or more colours or have one spot colour in addition to black, white & tones of grey must be entered as Colour Prints. The Competition Secretary may reclassify or disqualify as appropriate.
NATURE (N): We use the PAGB Eligibility Rules for Nature. See http://www.thepagb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/nature_eligibillity.pdf Our League Competitions have no Nature Category, but the Annual Competition does.
BEGINNER (B): A “Beginner” is anyone who has been a member of our club for less than 2 years at the date of the Annual Competition judging and who has never won an Annual Competition Trophy or a Final League Trophy, or anything similar in a previous Club. The Beginner classification can be subjective. The decision to enter as a "Beginner" is purely down to the individual and we welcome any new member to enter regardless of their skill level. Our League Competitions have no Beginner Category, but the Annual Competition does.
SECTION 2 – LEAGUE COMPETITIONS
2.1 There will be Leagues for Mono Prints, Colour Prints and PDI, each with a number of Divisions. Divisions A to C in each League will ideally comprise of 8 entrants and League D, or E, if required, will have everyone else. The Competition Secretaries may modify these numbers before the judging of the first competition if there are many more or fewer entrants than expected. Divisions may be amalgamated or split for judging if necessary. The Competition Secretaries will, in conjunction with the entrant, allocate members joining after the first competition to the most appropriate Division.
2.2 We can only finalise the League Divisions when we know exactly who is entering and we publish these as soon as we can - probably AFTER the first hand in. The top finisher in each League will be allocated in the following season to the Division above. The bottom finisher in each League will normally be allocated to the League below. The Competition Secretaries may modify this, possibly to cope with a reduced or increased number of competitors or to meet with the wishes of an individual to compete in a lower Division.
2.3 There will be 4 Rounds in the Projected Digital Image (PDI) League Competition, 4 Rounds in the Colour Print (CP) League Competition and 4 Rounds in the Mono Print (MP) League Competition each season. Entries may be submitted in one or all of these League Competition but Prints and PDI entered in previous League Competitions are ineligible. Exceptionally, in each Round of each of the three League Competitions, one previously entered image may be used again, provided that it has not scored as Commended (16) or more previously. Only images entered in the current or previous season can be re-entered.
2.4 Whilst it is permissible, and even useful as a source of work for external competitions, to enter the same photograph as a Colour Print, a Mono Print and as a PDI, this can be very repetitive for the audience. It would be very helpful in this respect if you entered as much new work as possible every round and avoided entering the same image in two different forms in consecutive Print and PDI competitions. It is very foolish to enter similar images as Colour Print and Mono Print on the same night as they inevitably compete against each other and it is very unlikely that both will do well.
2.5 The judges will be asked to choose a single winning photograph in each League and nominate others to 2nd and 3rd place, Highly Commended (HC) and Commended (C). Judges are appointed from other clubs throughout the UK and we do our utmost to get the very best people we can. Judging is, however, an art not a science and it represents only that judge's personal opinion. You may not agree with that opinion, but that's ok!
2.6 At the end of each season the final positions in each Division will be calculated from 6 scores from a minimum of 3 Rounds with no more than 2 scores counting from any one Round and the Trophies will be awarded to the entrants in each Division with the highest aggregate. Where fewer than 6 images have been entered the total will be made up with scores of 15.
2.7 The number of entries may be limited at any time by the Competition Secretaries. The current maximum is 3 per author in each of the three Leagues (CP, MP and PDI). In the event that we receive too many entries, we may withdraw your 3rd Print or PDI.
See also Scoring and Points https://www.dumfriescameraclub.co.uk/club/scoring-points
SECTION 3 – ANNUAL COMPETITION
The Annual Competition is separate and different from any Annual Exhibitions we may stage.
3.1 The Competition Secretaries on behalf of the Club Committee have the right to withdraw or refuse any image considered for any reason to be unsuitable.
3.3 Entries will be accepted in two classes – PDI and Prints (monochrome and colour combined). The maximum entry per author will be set each year by the Competition Secretary and you are strongly encouraged to submit pictures for a wide variety of categories.
3.4 Both Print and PDI classes will be divided into Open and Nature Sections although some of the Award categories are available to both Sections.
3.5 There is no entry form but you must enter PDI and PDI of your Prints online and you must use the appropriate Annual Print Label, see Useful Downloads.
3.6 Entry restrictions.
3.6.1 PDI which have been entered in previous PDI Annual Competitions may not be entered again in the PDI Competition. Colour Prints or Mono Prints which have been entered in a previous Print Annual may not be entered again in the Print Competition
3.6.2 Whilst it is permissible, and even useful as a source of work for external competitions, to enter the same photograph as a Colour Print, a Mono Print and as a PDI, this can be very repetitive for the audience. It would be very helpful in this respect if you entered as much new work as possible and avoided entering the same image as a Print and a PDI in the same year. It is foolish to enter similar images as Colour Print and Mono Print in the same year as they inevitably compete against each other and it is unlikely that either will do well.
3.6.3 No PDI or Print may win more than one trophy and no PDI or Print which has previously won an Annual Trophy may be entered again in another form.
3.7 Each competition will be assessed by one judge who will award the trophies specified, plus commendations. It will be the judges’ decision as to which category a particular entry belongs, unless otherwise specified. Trophies will not be awarded if there is no suitable entry in a particular category.
3.8 The categories for which there are awards in the Annual Competitions are listed below.
ANNUAL COMPETITION PRINT AWARDS
BEST MONOCHROME - GRACEFIELD SHIELD
BEST COLOUR - BARNETT SHIELD
MONOCHROME LANDSCAPE - GEORGE AUSTIN CUP
COLOUR LANDSCAPE - SALON SHIELD
CONTEMPORARY/IMAGINATIVE - SALON 93 TROPHY
SPORT/ACTION - JOHNSTON PLAQUE
STILL LIFE - SAN FRANCISCO TROPHY
RECORD/JOURNALISM - LYTHAM ST ANNES PLATE
PORTRAIT - SIMON REID TROPHY
ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAIT - J K TURNER SHIELD
NATURE ACTION - www.permajet.com Trophy
NATURE - JOHN HARRIES TROPHY
BEST BEGINNER - GORDON RAE SALVER
ANNUAL COMPETITION PDI AWARDS
BEST OVERALL - Nithsdale Cup
LANDSCAPE - Syd Ball Trophy
CONTEMPORARY/IMAGINATIVE - Glenkiln Shield
SPORT/ACTION - Warwick Cup
STILL LIFE - Nith Quaich
ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAIT - Lockdown Quaich
RECORD/JOURNALISM - Doonhamer Plate
PORTRAIT - Criffel Goblet
NATURE ACTION - www.on-linepaper.co.uk Trophy
NATURE - President’s Tankard
BEST BEGINNER - Frances Allen Memorial Trophy
SET THEME - Washington Lamp