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2010 OHS Photographic Competition Rules

2009 Class 1 Spring has Sprung, Judge's Choice, 1st Angela Snowdon

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Members' garden related pictures are always welcome submissions to the OHS website. Just e-mail files to the webmaster or give your prints to Jeff Blackadar at one of the meetings.

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2010 OHS Photographic Competition

Theme: Open to the world

Photo Competition Convenor: Deborah McPhedran c/o sci-tech(-at-)sympatico.ca

Class

  1. “Up Close and Personal” Close-up photos of spring or summer flowers. Location: open.

  2. “Flora and Fauna” Photos involving animals, birds, or insects as part of the gardenscape. Location: open.

  3. “Voluptuous Vistas” Photos of beds, borders, colourful drifts, and masses of mixed plantings. Location: open.

  4. “Shade planting” Photos of shade groupings or individual specimens. Location: National Capital Region.

  5. “Edibles” Photo containing at least one plant part that may be consumed by an animal. Location: National Capital Region.

  6. “Winter interest” Photo of a winter scene with horticultural interest. Location: Eastern Canada.

  7. “Photographer’s choice”. Open subject matter (bearing in mind the horticultural merit requirement). Location: open.

All entries are to be printed on photographic-quality paper and no distinction will be made between film or digital. Entries received on non-photographic quality paper will be disqualified. The year in which the photo was taken does not matter. However, it may not have been entered previously in this competition.

There are two components to the voting procedure:

A Judge’s Choice vote, which will be judged first, second, and third in each class for both the best film and /or the best digital print. The overall winner, as voted by the judge, will receive the Photographic Stores Ltd. Trophy and a plaque of the winning image as a memento, and will have his or her winning photograph appear on the cover of the 2011 yearbook. Voting typically takes place before the December AGM.

A People’s Choice vote, which will be judged first, second, and third in each class. The overall winner will receive a plaque of the winning image and a $25.00 cash prize. The Popular Choice Award is based on a weighted aggregate of the People’s Choice votes. The winner will receive a $25.00 cash prize. Voting will take place at the December AGM.

The results will be tallied and all winning photographs will be displayed at the January 2011 meeting. The names and photographs of all winners will appear on the Society’s website.

The Photographic Stores Ltd. trophy is awarded each year for the image that according to the Judge shows the greatest imaginative quality and technical excellence. The winner in 2009 was Anne Johnston.

General Rules

  1. The competition is open to all members of the Ottawa Horticultural Society.

  2. A photograph may be entered only once as a print; it does not matter whether it originated on film or digitally.

  3. Each competitor can enter a total of six images per class (any combination of film or digital prints).

  4. Photographs will be judged on their horticultural merit (40%), their photographic impact (40%), and subject interest (20%). Please note that “photographic impact” includes an assessment of the technical quality of the print with respect to colour reproduction or other physical elements in the preparation of the print. Keep this in mind especially when editing and/or printing digital images at home.

  5. Digital and film entries will be combined.

  6. Entries must be submitted to the competition’s co-ordinator, Deborah McPhedran, or the Society’s secretary, on or before the date of the October 2010 OHS meeting.

Rules for Prints

  1. Prints must be on photographic paper and be 4” x 6” in size.

  2. To allow for an unbiased judgment, we ask that your name appear nowhere on the print.

  3. Please submit your photos in an envelope upon which you have clearly printed your name, phone number, and e-mail address, and have indicated whether or not you agree to have your winning photos reproduced (see item 4 below). Please include the word “Class” and the Class number on the back of each print. A competition code will be assigned to each entry in the envelope and will be recorded on the back of the print.

  4. Unless you indicate otherwise, by entering the competition you agree that your name and scanned images of your winning photos may be reproduced in the OHS yearbook or newsletter and/or displayed on the OHS website.

  5. If possible, please provide the names and cultivars of the plants in each photo, and indicate the location in which the photograph was taken. Note that whether or not this information is present may be taken into consideration in instances where the vote is tied.

  6. Please place a small arrow on the back of each photo to indicate which way is up.

  7. For our records, please enter the word “digital” or “film” on the back of all photos.

Viewing of all photographs, and the People’s Choice voting procedure, will take place at the Annual General Meeting in December 2010. The announcement of the winners in all classes, as determined by the judge, plus the results of the People’s Choice and Popular Choice awards, will take place at the first meeting of the New Year in 2011. All entries will be returned at the February meeting of 2011.
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