In-club Competitions

The in-club competition is designed to allow members to enter their images for friendly competition and feedback. Scores for submitted images are used to award a number of trophies and ribbons at the year-end awards banquet, and are also used to evaluate a member's photographic skill through the accumulation of colour dots.

By submitting an image for competition (either in-club, theme, or for an inter-club competition)the photographer consents to the digital duplication of the image by the club. Digital copies of slides and prints are made to 1024 x 768 for projection when competition results are announced; these copies are destroyed at the end of club year. Low-resolution digital copies are retained in the HGCC competition database for record-keeping purposes.

In 2008-9 there are two rounds of in-club competition. Within each round up to 6 images may be submitted. There is no need to enter the maximum number of images to participate in any particular round. Members can choose to submit images to either round, or bypass a particular round, at their discretion. However, lack of participation will almost certainly affect their standing in the Photographer of the Year competition (see below).

Each image entered in the in-club competition needs to be assigned a category. The choices available for categories are: Nature, Fine Art, Landscape, Urban, Portraiture, and Other/Photographer's Choice. Images entered may be any mix of slides, prints, or digital files. Images entered in the Nature category must adhere to the rules for nature images as outlined by CAPA.