MGPS Digital Competition Submission

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.

A photograph of a person or people that must show all of the person(s) from head to foot (no head to waist close-ups).
The person(s) in the photograph must be the focal subject, however the image could also depict their environment or a broader scene. Can be posed or candid.
Must be a live human being (mannikins, statues or ornaments will not be accepted).

An image featuring an expansive view without humans dominating the scene - urban, rural, sea, sky scapes, and traditional landscapes are all included in this category.
A landscape is a photograph of natural scenery with land and sky-based elements displayed in a pictorial fashion. It may include evidence of man, people, animals, even part of the sea provided that none of these additional elements dominate the photograph.
A seascape is a photograph of natural coastal scenery, a wave study, or a picture of the open sea, provided always that the sea is the centre of interest of the photograph. People, boats, and man-made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph. (APS definition)

Any photograph containing shades of only one colour. If toning is carried out, it must be over the total photograph-partial toning and/or the addition of one or more colour is not acceptable in this monochrome section

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:
* People (head-to-foot showing all of person)
* Nature
* Scapes (an expansive view, no dominant subject)
* High Key
* Water in Motion
* Animals
* Non-A Grade Open (or Novice photographers for clubs who don't have gradings)

The state or situation of being alone, a lonely uninhabited place.

Curves are graceful, rhythmic, dynamic and add energy to an image.

An apparatus or part there-of, designed to apply mechanical power or to carry out some mechanical function. It must consist of several parts each with its own function.

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