Let the World See Your Work!
The Color Camera Club of Westchester is proud to sponsor our 52nd International Photography Competition.
The competition is open to all interested photographers world-wide. The deadline for entries is April 12, 2025. There are multiple exhibition possibilities and cash prizes ($200, $125, $50 in each of three Divisions). To enter the competition, please read all the details below and then click on “Enter Here” at the bottom of this document.
The competition will include photos in three Divisions:
- The “Open” Division will accept images in any style except monochrome, reflecting any subject.
- The “Nature”: Division will accept images reflecting landscapes, seas and skies, and wildlife.
- Objects created by humans, and evidence of human activity, are allowed in Nature images if they are not prominent (e.g., a distant fence would be allowed, but a fence used as a leading line would not be).
- Images taken with subjects under controlled conditions, such as zoos, are allowed, but man-made elements should not be prominent.
- Processing or editing in this division must be limited to making the image look as close to the original scene as possible, except that conversion to grayscale monochrome is allowed.
- The “Monochrome” Division will accept greyscale or single-toned images reflecting any subject. Partial toning, multiple toning, and selective color are not acceptable.
Please note: AI-generated images (in whole or in part) will not be accepted in any division.
Awards: The top-scoring image in each division will receive a Best of Show award along with $200. The second and third highest-scoring images will receive $125 and $50 awards, respectively. Certificates will be issued for these awards and for Honorable Mentions.
Public Exhibitions will include: An online catalog of award winners and honorable mentions, a slideshow of award winners and honorable mentions on YouTube, an online gallery exhibit of the 16 highest-scoring images in each category, and display of the same images on the Club’s Facebook page. For examples of these displays, see last year’s Catalog.
Number of images and Fee: The Entry Fee is USD $15.00 for each division, with a maximum of four images per division. All payments must be made online, via PayPal.
Image Specifications:
- All entries must be submitted via the online entry form using the link below.
- Submitted digital images must be in .jpg format. Using the sRGB color gamut is recommended.
- A maximum image height (vertical) of 768 pixels* and a maximum image width (horizontal) of 1024 pixels will be used for the judging.
- *When the vertical height is set at 768 pixels, the width will default to the correct size to maintain aspect ratio. Images this size will project with no compromise of resolution.
- Digital images will not be altered or resized before judging.
- Oversized images will be rejected.
- Watermarks or signatures are not allowed.
Image Selection: All submitted images will be judged. 75 images in each division (225 in total) will be accepted for inclusion in the catalog, slideshow, and the Club’s social media. In addition, up to 48 images will be displayed in a six-month online gallery exhibition.
Judging:
- This competition will be judged by three professional judges, not associated with the Color Camera Club of Westchester, with extensive judging experience.
- Judging will be virtual.
- Judges will be required to use color-calibrated monitors capable of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution.
- Judges will not be able to view all the entrant’s images together. An entrant’s images will be distributed randomly during judging in that division.
Image creation and ownership: In all divisions of the competition, images must originate as photographs made by the entrant. They may not incorporate identifiable images produced by anyone else (i.e., replacement skies or stock images). Images created in whole or in part by AI are not allowed.
Copyright and Usage: By entering this photo contest, you affirm that you are the sole owner of the copyright to each submitted photograph and that all images are original works created by you. You grant the Color Camera Club of Westchester a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use winning and selected entries for promotional purposes, including online and print publications, with proper attribution to the photographer, while you retain full copyright ownership of your images.
Entry: An entrant can submit from 1 to 4 images in each division (the $15 fee applies to the division, regardless of the number of entries within the division). Entrants may not enter identical or similar* images into the same division or different divisions (*similar is defined as almost identical in subject, composition, elements, lighting, or technique, so that a reasonable person viewing the entries together would decide the entrant has duplicated the previous image except for minor changes ).
Members of the competition organizing committee and judging panel are not eligible to participate.
Titles: Each image must have a unique title, 35 characters or fewer, that relates to the content of the image. Titles such as “untitled” or “no title” are not acceptable. Titles will not be visible to the judges, and nothing in the image may identify the entrant.
Protection of Entrants’ Personal Information: By entering this competition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including physical and email addresses, to be used by the organizers only for purposes associated with this competition. Your information will not be shared.
To see a list of all exhibition entries to date, CLICK HERE.
For questions or more information, contact:
Robert Volin, Chair
internationalchair@colorcameraclub.com