Creative Digital Photography Competition

SACC Creative Digital Competition

Venue: Bellfield GAA Complex, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
Date: 17th May 2009.

The Competition
Creative Digital Photography is defined as follows for this competition.
This is the anything goes imagery. You may wish to remove unwanted elements of the original pictures e.g leaves, branches etc., add creative blurring or use any of the other creative filters available. Your images may be composites of separate photographs and may be made any way you wish. They may be images produced by digital capture or on film or via a scanner but the final image must be generated digitally.
The competition is open to all members of Clubs in good standing with the Southern Association of Camera Clubs (SACC) and the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) at the competition time.
The competition will be for prints only. Colour or monochrome categories will not apply.
The judge appointed for the 2009 competition is John Crowley. John is a lecturer on Graphic Design and Digital and Film Photography .with the Tipperary Institute, Thurles.

Entries
Entries will be accepted at the venue on the day of the competition.
Entries may also be sent to Nicholas Egan Barmoney, Ballyhogue, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in which case they must be with the secretary two days prior to the competition date. (This is a variation of the rules published on the SACC website and only applies to the 2009 competition)
The entry fee is EUR 5.00.
Entries sent to Nicholas Egan by post should be adequately packaged to ensure their safe delivery and return afterwards and should include the entry fee and return postage.

Each competitor may enter up to three prints.
Prints must have a minimum size of 10" x 8" and a maximum of 12" x 16". All prints must be mounted on card with a maximum mount size of 20" x 16" or metric equivalents.
Entries and photographs used in them must be the original work of the competitor.
Each entry must carry the entrants name, club, and image title on the back of the print mount.
Entries which have been entered in previous Creative Digital Photography competitions are ineligible.
Prints will be marked out of twenty.
SACC Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals will be awarded to first, second,and third placed entrants
The entrant getting first place will in addition receive the Nancy O'Brien Perpetual Memorial Trophy.
A SACC Medal will also be awarded to the best SACC entrant.
Prints cannot be collected until the results are announced and the event is concluded.
Copyright of all images will remain with the respective photographers.
The organisers will take all reasonable care of entries submitted but cannot accept responsibility for non-receipt (whether or not there is proof of postage) loss or damage.

The rule requiring submission of a CD containing submitted images will not be applied for the 2009 competition.