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2008 OHS Photographic Competition Rules

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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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2008 OHS Photographic Competition

Theme: Floral Details

Co-ordinator: Angela Snowdon c/o web@ottawahort.org

Class

  1. “Spring has Sprung” Close-up photos of spring flowers anywhere in the Capital region.
  2. “Up Close and Personal” Close-up photos of summer flowers. Location: open.
  3. “Reflections” Photos of flowers, branches, etc., reflected. Location: open
  4. “Pretty Maids All in a Row” Close-up photos of repetitive patterns in the garden, Location: open.
  5. “Flora and Fauna” Photos of animals, birds, and insects as part of the gardenscape. Location: open.
  6. “Good Things Come in Small Packages” Photos of buds and/or pods. Location: your own garden.
  7. “Voluptuous Vistas” Photos of beds, borders, colourful drifts, and masses of mixed plantings. May include any of the flowers listed above. Location: private gardens.

All entries are to be on photographic-quality paper. Entries received on non-photographic –quality paper will be disqualified. Where the words “print,” entry,” and/or “image” appear, reference is to both film and/or digital. Only prints will be accepted. It is requested that slide entries be converted to a print format before submission. The year in which the photo was taken does not matter. However, it may not have been entered previously.

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 2009 yearbook.

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. No distinction will be made for film or digital. Voting will take place at the December AGM. The Popular Choice Award, new in 2007 and based on an aggregate of the People’s Choice votes, will also be awarded. The winner will receive a $25.00 cash prize.

All winning photographs will be displayed at the January 2009 meeting, and 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 2007 was Angela Snowdon.

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. Digital and film entries will be combined if not enough entries are received in any one class.
  5. All entries will be returned in February of 2009, after the award presentations at the January 2009 meeting.
  6. Photographs will be judged on their horticultural merit (40%), their photographic impact (40%), and subject interest (20%). Please note that “photographic impact” includes and assessment of the technical quality of the print e.g., with respect to colour reproduction or other physical elements in the preparation of the print. Please keep this in mind especially when editing and/or printing digital images at home.
  7. Entries must be submitted to the competition’s co-ordinator, Angela Snowdon, or the Society’s secretary, Gillian Macdonnell, by Tuesday October 28, 2008.

Rules for Prints

  1. Prints must be on photographic paper and be 4” x 6” in size.
  2. To allow for an unbiased judgement, we ask that your name appear nowhere on the print. Please submit your photos in an envelope upon which you have clearly printed your name, phone number, and e-mail address, and have indicted whether or not you agree to have your winning photos reproduced (see item 3 below). Please include the word “Class” and the Class number on the back of each print. A competition number will be assigned to each entry in the envelope and will be recorded on the back of the print.
  3. 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.
  4. If possible, please provide the names and cultivars of the plants in each photo. Please also indicate the location in which the photograph was taken.
  5. Please place a small arrow on the back of each photo to indicate which way is up.
  6. New: Please write the word “digital” on the back of any digital photos. Photos without the word digital on the back will be viewed as a film entry and judged accordingly.

Viewing of all photographs, and the People’s Choice voting procedure, will take place at the Annual General Meeting in December. 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 on January 27, 2009.

We encourage you to enter your photos and share in the beauty of nature.
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