Ampthill & District Camera Club

Six internal competitions will be held each year: three for prints and three for digital images, each contributing towards the Les Pick Shield.
Some of these will have themes and some will be open.
There will be an external judge for all competitions.

Members may submit up to four images or prints for each competition.

Each Print and Digital Image is to be numbered (01, 02 etc), according to your selection preference.

Depending on total number of entries, it may be necessary to select only three images or prints from all authors.
Prints and digital images should preferably be less than four years old and may be submitted for one internal competition only, regardless of further manipulation, including conversion to monochrome.
All entries must have a title.

Prints and Digital Images entered in a previous Annual Exhibition are eligible for Internal Competitions.

All entries for the Internal Competitions must be submitted by the preceding Thursday. Late entries will not be accepted.

For Prints

• On the back of the mount, each numbered (e.g. 01, 02, 03 or 04) along with the title and the name of the author.
• Image size must have a minimum area of 300 sq cm (about 20 x 15cm), with a mount size of 500 mm x 400 mm.

For Digital

• File names must be in the form, "nn TITLE IN UPPERCASE by Author Lowercase" where nn=01, 02, 03 or 04
• "by" must be in lowercase
• Images must have a maximum size of pixels of width 1400 by height 1050.
• Image File Type must be "jpg"

This is awarded annually for the most consistently successful photographers for the calendar year.

For each photographer, the best three marks from each of the six internal competitions will count towards the Les Pick Shield.

Awards will be made for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.

The member with the highest total score for the 18 counted scores will be awarded the trophy. In the event of the scores being tied, then the entrant with the greater number of entries scoring 20 will differentiate places 1st, 2nd and 3rd. (If a tie still exists then scores of 19, 18 etc to be considered.)

The Print title must be on the back of the mount with the name of the author.

Entry to consist of three related images

• Three prints, separate 500mm x 400mm mounts OR
• Three separate prints, in one 500mm x 400mm mount OR
• Three images on one print, in one 500mm x 400mm mount

Each entry may include up to two images that have previously been entered in internal competitions.

Members may submit up to three entries.

For each entry, up to two previously unused prints may also be entered in a future competition.

The judge will decide the best individual panel.

This is awarded annually to the entrant with the highest combined score for three monochrome prints.

Members may submit up to four entries. Depending on the total number of entries, it may be necessary to select only three prints from all authors.

Prints should preferably be less than four years old.

Prints entered in a previous Annual Exhibition or a previous internal competition are eligible.

Prints entered in previous Monochrome Cup competitions are not eligible.

In the event of the scores being tied, then the entrant with the greater number of entries scoring 20 will differentiate places 1st, 2nd and 3rd. (If a tie still exists then scores of 19, 18 etc to be considered.)

If this fails to find an overall winner then the judge will be asked to decide.

For 2013 only:Entrants may submit Prints or DPI's but not both.
For 2014 onwards: The competition will be for Prints only.