Club Competitions 2025
Entries Due | Projected | Subject |
11 Feb | 18 Feb | Open (2D to 3D conversions accepted) |
11 Mar | 18 Mar | Action |
15 Apr | Southern Cross Projection | |
13 May | 20 May | Living Creature (not pet) |
10 Jun | 17 Jun | Open |
8 Jul | 15 Jul | Creative |
12 Aug | 19 Aug | Open |
9 Sep | 16 Sep | Macro |
14 Oct | 21 Oct | Audio Visual (to be judged by club members) |
18 Nov | Image of the Year (to be judged by club members) |
All Competitions in 2025 will be in 2×1920×1080 format.
2D to 3D conversions are only permitted in the February Open competition.
Narrower images can be black-banded
to fit the required format.
Images can be of any dimension or shape with black-bands or borders as long as the overall format is complied with.
Award winning images from earlier years cannot be entered in monthly Open and set subject competitions. Award winners from the October Audio Visual competition will NOT be included in the point score competition. However, a separate prize will be awarded for this competition.
- Open
- Any subject.
- Living Creature (not pets)
- A picture of an animal, bird or insect. It can be more than one living creature and pets are NOT allowed! Nor human!
- Macro
- Extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size.
- Action
- A picture depicting a person or people doing something in a non-leisurely manner e.g. sport, an emergency, at play or at work.
- Creative
- A creative photograph due to either its viewpoint/composition or through software manipulation of its natural colour, form, shape, or any combination of the three. High Dynamic Range (HDR) images without further changes are not considered
creative
. - Audio Visual
- Any subject matter is allowed—format 2×1920×1080—maximum time 5 minutes. The author's name is not to be included in any titles that you may use. Any music used is to be royalty free. The audio visual can be either a video or an exe file.
- Image of the Year
- Voted best of the year's competitions.