Competition Submission Dates

[Print Comps. - up to 5 images, Pdi - up to 4 images per member]

Refer to the Club's Competition Rules as to how the images must be presented for each type of competition.

Reminder: for all BCC judged competitions, images must have been taken by you in the last 3 years from the date of the competition, and once an image has been submitted to a BCC judged competition it cannot be submitted to another.

• 22nd Sept : Open Pdi
• 20th Oct : Open Print
• 17th Nov : Mono Pdi
• 12th Jan : Water
• 23rd Feb: Three
• 6th Apr: Ultimate Challenge

Competition Description

Open Pdi: Any Subject

Open Print: Any Subject

Mono Pdi : Any Subject presented in monochrome

Water (Pdi): Liquid water. Including rivers, streams, puddles, raindrops, rain. The water must be the main topic of the image. Any subjects human or otherwise are incidental to the image.

Three (Pdi): A single image in which exactly three distinct main subjects form the primary compositional focus. The subjects may be people, animals, objects or a mix of these eg three people driving tractors around a field. No additional subjects may compete for dominance and all other elements must be purely incidental.

Ultimate Challenge (Print): The Ultimate Challenge is a print competition and the usual format rules apply. Points will be awarded for each image (out of 20) in each Category, and the Entrant with the most points overall is deemed the Winner. Entrants may enter ONE image in up to 6 categories in order to try to win the Challenge, or fewer if the aim is to win one or more Categories. 

The categories are as follows;

Action Focus on speed, energy and motion, most notably in sport (human and animal) but other situations should they arise. Could include creative blur effects eg panning, as well as freezing the action. 

Architecture Featuring human-made structures. Can include whole structures but also parts of said structures, or architectural details. Note: urban cityscapes count as Landscape. 

Creative Focus on imaginative or altered reality. Composites and other creative effects are acceptable such as icm, Adamsky effect etc. All elements including textures etc must be photographed by the Entrant. 

Land/Seascape Includes land, sea, rural, urban - day or night, HDR, panoramas etc. People and animals can appear incidentally but should not be the main subject of the image. 

Lowlight/Long exposure Outdoor photos taken in ambient light after sunset/before dawn, or evening/night/poorly lit indoor scenes shot just using available light ie no flash etc. Also images taken where daylight is significantly reduced eg by neutral density filters, to enable such effects as blurry water, cloud trails etc. 

Nature Flora and fauna ie plants, fungi, animals, insects. Not pets. Includes macro/closeup as well as larger subjects. 

Portrait/person.

A photograph of a single person. The image may be posed or candid,

show any proportion of the subject from a headshot to a partial or

full length figure, and may be taken in any location. The person must

be the main subject of the image and no additional people may be

visible.

Still Life A composition of inanimate subjects selected and arranged by the photographer. 

Street Captures candid human moments in public spaces. Focus on authenticity, humour and emotion. Can include street environments without people provided they indicate human activity or influence