Internal league competition
Round |
Judging |
Theme |
Closing Date |
Judge |
1 |
11 Oct 2021 |
Open |
20 Sep 2021 |
Peter Ottley |
2 |
22 Nov 2021 |
Images in a Minimalist Style Guidance Notes |
01 Nov 2021 |
Ralph Snook |
3 |
17 Jan 2022 |
Open |
20 Dec 2021 |
Colin Harrison |
4 |
14 March 2022 |
Water as a Subject |
14 Feb 2022 |
Peter Weaver |
5 |
16 May 2022 |
Open |
25 Apr 2022 |
Michael Krier |
6 |
06 Jun 2022 |
Open |
09 May 2022 |
Leigh Woolford |
Thornbury Camera Club runs an internal league competition open to all club members each season. The competition has 6 rounds spread between September and June with separate sections for prints and digital projected images (DPIs).
There is a club meeting for each round at which images entered are shown and commented on by a judge.
The judge will also select some images to receive awards. Images that receive awards earn points that count towards the entrants’ league scores.
At the end of the season, a trophy is awarded to the entrant with the highest league score in each section.
Some of the rounds are themed which means that images entered are restricted, e.g. the subject of the image should be water or the image should be in a minimalist style.
Other rounds are open and any images that meet the general requirements for entry may be entered.
The dates for competition meetings, the competition themes and the closing dates for submitting images are shown above. This information is also in the club programme.
Internal League Competition Rules
Substantive changes from 2019/20 season rules:
● 2 images per section per round may be entered
● Unmounted prints may be entered
● Permission to display images entered on the club website is assumed
1. Entrants may enter up to 2 images in each section (print and DPI).
2. Entries must meet the general entry requirements.
3. Submissions should follow the submission guidelines.
4. An image may not be entered if it is nearly identical to an image that received an award when entered into
an earlier round (in the same season or an earlier season) of the internal league competition
5. An image may not be entered if it is nearly identical to an image that was entered in an earlier round in the same season of the internal league competition unless
○ The earlier entry was to an open round and the later entry to a themed round
○ The earlier entry was to a themed round and the later entry to an open round
6. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, two images will be considered nearly identical if the main differences between them are one or more of:
○ One is monochrome and the other colour
○ One is in a portrait orientation and the other a landscape orientation
○ One is a print and the other a DPI
7. The judge will allocate awards as follows:
○ First place (5 points)
○ Second place (4 points)
○ Third place (3 points)
○ Highly commended (2 points)
○ Commended (1 point)
8. The number of highly commended and commended awards in each round will be adjusted so that approximately 10% of the images entered receive an award.
9. Judges have limited discretion to vary the number of commended and highly commended awards they make to avoid having to discriminate between images which they judge to be of equal merit
10. A separate league table is maintained for each section
○ An entrant’s league score in a section is the total number of award points received plus one point for each round in which they entered images in the section
○ If there is a tie for first place based on league points alone, then the entrant with the most first places in the season will be declared the winner. If there is still a tie when the number of first places is taken into account then second places, and then third places and so on will be considered in order until the tie is broken.
If this is still not sufficient to break the tie, then joint winners will be declared
● 2 images per section per round may be entered
● Unmounted prints may be entered
● Permission to display images entered on the club website is assumed
1. Entrants may enter up to 2 images in each section (print and DPI).
2. Entries must meet the general entry requirements.
3. Submissions should follow the submission guidelines.
4. An image may not be entered if it is nearly identical to an image that received an award when entered into
an earlier round (in the same season or an earlier season) of the internal league competition
5. An image may not be entered if it is nearly identical to an image that was entered in an earlier round in the same season of the internal league competition unless
○ The earlier entry was to an open round and the later entry to a themed round
○ The earlier entry was to a themed round and the later entry to an open round
6. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, two images will be considered nearly identical if the main differences between them are one or more of:
○ One is monochrome and the other colour
○ One is in a portrait orientation and the other a landscape orientation
○ One is a print and the other a DPI
7. The judge will allocate awards as follows:
○ First place (5 points)
○ Second place (4 points)
○ Third place (3 points)
○ Highly commended (2 points)
○ Commended (1 point)
8. The number of highly commended and commended awards in each round will be adjusted so that approximately 10% of the images entered receive an award.
9. Judges have limited discretion to vary the number of commended and highly commended awards they make to avoid having to discriminate between images which they judge to be of equal merit
10. A separate league table is maintained for each section
○ An entrant’s league score in a section is the total number of award points received plus one point for each round in which they entered images in the section
○ If there is a tie for first place based on league points alone, then the entrant with the most first places in the season will be declared the winner. If there is still a tie when the number of first places is taken into account then second places, and then third places and so on will be considered in order until the tie is broken.
If this is still not sufficient to break the tie, then joint winners will be declared
General Entry Requirements
1. Entrants must be club members in good standing throughout the period from the submission date to the judging date inclusive.
2. Entries must be submitted by the specified closing date, except in the case of prior arrangement with the competition secretary.
3. By entering, entrants agree that their images may be displayed on the competition results pages of the club website.
4. All images and all components of composite images entered must be the sole work of the entrant and the entrant must own the copyright to the whole image and all the components of composite images.
5. Digital projected images (DPIs) must be in JPEG format, use the SRGB colour space and be no more than 1600 pixels wide and no more than 1200 pixels high.
6. Prints may be mounted using card or unmounted.
7. Mounts must be rectangular, no larger than 50cm by 40cm.
8. Unmounted prints are typically A4 in size. They must be no smaller than 10 inches by 8 inches and no larger than 12 inches by 8.5 inches.
9. Images must not, in the opinion of the club committee, be likely to cause significant offence.
2. Entries must be submitted by the specified closing date, except in the case of prior arrangement with the competition secretary.
3. By entering, entrants agree that their images may be displayed on the competition results pages of the club website.
4. All images and all components of composite images entered must be the sole work of the entrant and the entrant must own the copyright to the whole image and all the components of composite images.
5. Digital projected images (DPIs) must be in JPEG format, use the SRGB colour space and be no more than 1600 pixels wide and no more than 1200 pixels high.
6. Prints may be mounted using card or unmounted.
7. Mounts must be rectangular, no larger than 50cm by 40cm.
8. Unmounted prints are typically A4 in size. They must be no smaller than 10 inches by 8 inches and no larger than 12 inches by 8.5 inches.
9. Images must not, in the opinion of the club committee, be likely to cause significant offence.
Submission Guidelines (Updated 08.12.21)
DPI entries must be sent by email to the competition secretary at intcomp.thornburycameraclub@gmail.com
The email should
Whilst we are running hybrid meetings, prints will be collected in Rock Street car park prior to the meeting on the closing date. The usual collection times are 6:45 to 7:30, but these may vary. If submission at this time is not possible, contact the internal competition secretary to make other arrangements.
Prints should have a title on the back bottom right of the print along with the initials of the entrant and an image number (e.g. bwm-1). A DPI version of each print should also be submitted following the DPI submission guidelines.
Both print and DPI submissions will be acknowledged by the competition secretary. If an acknowledgement is not received in a reasonable time, contact the competition secretary to check the submission has been received. The acknowledgement will show how the entry has been recorded by the competition administration software. Please contact the competition secretary promptly to report any errors in recording the entry
The email should
- Have a subject line identifying the competition and round
- Clearly identify the submitter
- Have the submitted images as direct file attachments - avoid zip files and embedded images
- Image file names should generally be the title of the image with a file extension indicating its file type, i.e ‘.jpg’.
- Use spaces between words
- The file name should only contain letters, numbers and the characters space, dot, hyphen or underline.
- When the full image title contains characters other than those allowed in the file name, the full title may be specified in the submission email.
- Do not include additional identifiers or other text in the file name
- File name extensions should be lower case.
- For example, an image with the title ‘Severn Sunrise’ should have a file name ‘Severn Sunrise.jpg’.
- Use spaces between words
Whilst we are running hybrid meetings, prints will be collected in Rock Street car park prior to the meeting on the closing date. The usual collection times are 6:45 to 7:30, but these may vary. If submission at this time is not possible, contact the internal competition secretary to make other arrangements.
Prints should have a title on the back bottom right of the print along with the initials of the entrant and an image number (e.g. bwm-1). A DPI version of each print should also be submitted following the DPI submission guidelines.
Both print and DPI submissions will be acknowledged by the competition secretary. If an acknowledgement is not received in a reasonable time, contact the competition secretary to check the submission has been received. The acknowledgement will show how the entry has been recorded by the competition administration software. Please contact the competition secretary promptly to report any errors in recording the entry