The winners of our competitions for 2009/10. From left to right...
Pictures must be from an event organised by a club member and published in the official programme. Events must take place between 2nd May 2010 and 15th September 2010 inclusive.
Six rounds spread over the year
Digital or traditional film images acceptable
Slides or Medium Format Transparencies taken with a proper camera. Not Lasergraphics digital conversions.
Maximum print size 7x5 inches or 175x125 mm
Digital images ready for printing to be submitted six weeks before competition. They will all be printed by Pro-Am to the same size & quality, assistance with profiling & scaling will be available.
Members may submit up to two images in each competition.
Images must be wholly the work of the member submitting them, printing or chemical processing excepted.
Submissions may only be submitted to one competition but, apart from the Assignment Competition, may be of any age. You may enter a Daguerreotype which you took 70 years ago, provided it has never been entered into a Laleham Camera Club competition before.All submissions must have a title either printed or hand written in clear block capitals. A number of small labels with the words "No Title" will be provided for those who can't think of anything. The projectionist must be told the titles for slides or projected digital images & will announce these as they are displayed.
Prints will be limited to 12" by 8" or smaller (or a similar area in the case of panoramics).
In each competition members will vote for their top six images. Votes will translate to points as follows:-
Where two or more images score the same number of points, positions will be decided by the number of first place votes, or if necessary the number of second or third place votes etc.
Members will not be permitted to vote for their own images.
Members must vote for all six places even if they do not rate any of the images (unless there are so few images they would have to vote for their own).
In the Assignment Competition & Glazer Trophy cumulative points will be awarded based on positions in each round as follows:-
A member may score points for both their images.
Any objections to images on the basis that they are outside the theme or rules of the competition must be raised before voting commences. Objections will be decided by show of hands of the members, with casting vote to the Chairman. Once the voting numbers have been put down, no further objections will be heard.
The winners of our competitions for 2008/09. On the right David Thwaite, winner of the Assignment Competition, the Glazer Trophy, the Monochrome, N Print and Portrait Competitions. In the centre Jill Neal winner of Single Use Camera Competition and second placed in the Assignment Competition and the Glazer Trophy. On the left Goncalo Machado winner of the Transparency Competition and third placed in the Assignment Competition and Glazer Trophy.