An image that shows a life long-lived – can be animate or inanimate including humans, animals, buildings, cars, books – anything that is showing old age.
May be in colour or monochrome.

Selection for the Australia Cup.

TOPIC: THIS IS AUSTRALIA
Definition: Any image that shows a flavour of life in Australia including landscapes, people, iconic events and iconic places including architecture, birds and animals.
Images may be taken in any of Australia’s territories.

We will be looking at the honours and merits from the last 12 months for the DIGITAL image, if you have received an award for a PRINT image, submitting those for selection would be greatly appreciated.

The final entry the club submits must only have 2 image per author.

Low light photography encompasses capturing images in dimly lit conditions with minimal ambient light available. It can be anything from subdued indoor lighting to low light night photography.

A pictorial representation of land, sea, seashore, or urban environments that captures the aesthetic appeal of these outdoor settings. It brings the viewer into the scenery and perfectly captures the settings, mood, and feeling in the location. In can focus on wide-angle shots of landforms, rivers, estuaries, seas, seashore, city skylines, streetscapes and the
like. It may also involve closer shots of features of these environments. If humans or animals are in the image, they should not be the main foci, but rather be intentionally present to give a sense of scale to the image.

Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. Similar to still life painting, it is the application of photography to the still life artistic style. The image must include at least three distinct, separate subjects (e.g. not three pears), arranged by the photographer and not found accidentally. The whole arrangement will be lit and photographed. Sections of the arrangement may be highlighted [ e.g. light painting] and the subsequent exposures blended in post editing to achieve the final image. Individual, separate elements photographed and composited to form the final image will not meet the criteria.
The subject can include flowers and food. A collection of discarded objects found in the environment does not satisfy the definition.

Any digital image that has received an honour or merit in the last 12 months will be considered automatically.
However you can submit up to 8 images for particular consideration for the Interclub Competition by submitting 4 print and 4 digital images.

The selection will be done at the start of August, a panel of members will select 3 images that stand out for each of the following categories:
* Aged
* Low Light
* Scapes (an expansive view, no dominant subject)
*.Portrait (waist up)
* Open
* Non-A Grade Open (or Novice photographers for clubs who don’t have gradings)

An image featuring a person or people participating in some form of sporting event.

An image displaying any vehicle(s), mechanism, devices(s) or creature(s) used as a method or form of transport.

An image that features people in candid situations within public places.

Refer to MGPS website competition page or Member handbook number 6.1 page 11

An image of any subject or genre

2 open images can be entered for both the digital and the print competitions.

This is for testing purposes only