Competitions are open to members who have paid their membership for that year. Membership dues are $40.00

A member will move from Amateur to Advanced upon accumulation of 250 points.

No photograph may be entered in more than one competition in a year and all prints entered must be processed on photographic paper.

A photograph once entered in a CAPS competition, can not be entered again in any CAPS competition. Monthly assignments are not considered competition.

BEST OF SHOW

The competitor with the highest scoring print or slide in each competition, Winter and Spring, is awarded a “Best of Show” plaque.

Aggregate Award

The competitor accumulating the highest total score in all competitions and monthly assignments during the Club year will gain the designation “Aggregate Award” and will be awarded a plaque. Each category, Amateur and Advanced, has this designation and award. There will also be a Aggregate Award for Digital, Black and White, Colour Prints, combining Amateur and Advanced Categories, based on accumulated points in the two competitions. These Photographers of the Year will be awarded a certificate.

DEFINITIONS OF CATEGORIES IN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITIONS

Nature photographs are restricted to all things that are wild. Accepted are any type of plant or any part of it; insects; or animals that are alive; land and seascapes; rocks; fossils; stars or planets.

No subject should show the “hand of man,” e.g. a road, house, fence, cultivated plant, domestic animal or man himself. An exception to this could be an unobtrusive wire upon which a bird is perched.

“Habitat” photos are included in this category. Scientific names are recommended, but common names or descriptive titles will be accepted.

Candid—not posed, informal, subject unaware of photographer’s presence.

Portrait—posed, formal or informal

Contemporary—modern—of this era.

Still Life—the photography of objects.

Landscape—inland natural scenery as seen from a single point.

Monochrome—of a single colour or various shades of the same colour.