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 ====== 2023-2024 Competition Year ====== ====== 2023-2024 Competition Year ======
-===== July 2022 – Step Into The Past ===== +===== July 2023 – Open ===== 
-Historic sites, buildings, antiques, and relics of the past. This can also include images of people in period costume.+Competition is open to any photographs of any genre.
  
-===== October 2022 – Travel ===== +===== October 2023 – Nature ===== 
-Reality-based. A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally. There are no geographic limitations. Images from events or activities arranged +The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. Something that exists in nature: insects, butterflies, spiders, trees & leaves, etc., Nature can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food. [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders], [SEE: Checklist and Explanations of Nature Definitions]
-specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment.+
  
-For PSA Journal article clarifying this definition, (SEE: Note Clarification Photo Travel Definition), +Photographs of all flowers and plant blossoms, hybrid or not, in any stage of development (including buds, seedpods, fruit, etc.) are ineligible - unless they are acting as an adopted habitat for eligible living organisms that are the main focus of the image*. However, small flowers may be included provided they are incidental to the main subject of the image. – Such as a bee in the wild pollinating in a flower, its adopted habitat for the purpose. See Checklist and explanations of Nature Definitions. 
-however, S4C uses a uniform definition regarding alterations for all 3 reality-based divisions (see +[SEE: Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders] 
-Alterations below).+
  
-Note 1: An image taken just while traveling may or may not fit this definition. The primary elements of +===== January 2024 – Creative ===== 
-the image must be characteristic with respect to features or culture.+Creative is defined as altered reality that is apparent to the viewer. This definition includes alterations utilizing: colored lights and gels, black light, Mylar, sandwiches, projected images, double exposures, zoomed images, lithograph, birefringence, and computer manipulation. The image should have strong composition, pleasing quality, and color, texture, pattern, and/or tone impact. The appropriateness of the technique selected and pictorial merit is considered in judging. Small amounts of manipulating images (changing opacity, using filters, adding text, fantasy or textured backgrounds, etc) is NOT considered Creative. The content is unrestricted.
  
-Note 2: Entrants are cautioned that the sentence on arranged events or activities includes any images +===== March 2024 – Photojournalism ===== 
-that appear to be arranged to the judges even though the judges will give the benefit of the doubt to the maker. Entrants are therefore advised that such images may well be disqualified (DQed). [SEE: +Photojournalism entries shall consist of images with informative content and emotional impact, reflecting the human presence in our world. The journalistic (story-telling) value of the image shall receive priority over pictorial quality. In the interest of credibility, images that misrepresent the truth, such as those from events or activities specifically arranged for photography or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are not eligible.
-Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders]+
  
-===== January 2023 – Non-studio Portraits ===== +Note: Entrants are cautioned that the previous sentence includes any images that appear to be arranged or posed to the judges. Entrants are therefore advised that such images are likely to be disqualified (DQed). [SEE: Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders]uch images are likely to be disqualified
-Portrayal of a person or persons either posing or candid. An image is eligible for the Non-Studio Portrait class if it was not taken in a formal studio setting, whether indoors or outdoors in a natural or artificial environment. Elements of the image can include but are not limited to: the lighting, including the use of reflectors and diffusers; the arrangement of people, props; backgrounds; makeup; or apparel. +
- +
-===== March 2023 – Human Interest ===== +
-Reality-based. In addition to the requirements for Photojournalism General (see below): +
- +
-Human Interest is defined as an image depicting a person or persons in an interactive, emotional or +
-unusual situation, excluding recreational or organized sports action. Guidelines for Human Interest +
-Images. [SEE: Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders] +
- +
-Photojournalism entries shall consist of images with informative content and emotional impact, +
-reflecting the human presence in our world. The journalistic (story-telling) value of the image shall +
-receive priority over pictorial quality. In the interest of credibility, images that misrepresent the truth, such as those from events or activities specifically arranged for photography or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are not eligible. +
- +
-Note: Entrants are cautioned that the previous sentence includes any images that appear to be arranged +
-or posed to the judges. Entrants are therefore advised that such images are likely to be disqualified+
 (DQed). [SEE: Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders] (DQed). [SEE: Alterations], [SEE: Note], [SEE: Borders]
  
-===== May 2023 – Transportation ===== +===== May 2024 – Trains ===== 
-Any type of vehicle (car, train, boat, airplane, etc.)+Any topic related to trains, such as train cars, railroad tracks, train close-ups, train paraphernalia, etc.
  
-===== June 2023 – End of Year Competition =====+===== June 2024 – End of Year Competition =====
 This competition will not be judged, instead our membership will vote on their favorites. It is not This competition will not be judged, instead our membership will vote on their favorites. It is not
 necessary to resubmit your qualifying digital entries but Accomplished prints must be brought to the necessary to resubmit your qualifying digital entries but Accomplished prints must be brought to the
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 above. above.
  
-[Rev 07/15/2022]+[Rev 03/19/2024]
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