Competitions

For various club competitions and challenges, please be guided by the following:

Club Contests:
1. All club competitions will take place at regularly scheduled club meetings.
2. Generally, you can bring your images on a media device to the club meeting. We suggest you bring them during the meet & greet portion so we have time to transfer them to the display computer. Images may also be accepted by email. For email entries, please make sure the images are sent as an attachment and not "inserted". Please put "For Club Competition" in the subject line of the email. 
3. All entries will be judged based on the CAPA Judging Guidelines.
4. For more information on the current year's contest themes, CLICK HERE.
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Blog "Theme" Challenges:
1. Images must be sized to no more than 640 pixels on the long side for horizontal images and no more than 480 pixels on the long side for verticals.
2. Images will be accepted by email only. Email your submissions to focuscameraclub@gmail.com. Please make sure the images are sent as an attachment and not "inserted". Please put "For Blog Challenge" in the subject line of the email.
3. Each challenge starts the 1st day of the month listed - photo must be taken during this month only.
4. Deadline for submission is by the 1st of the following month.
5. Maximum of 2 images per member per monthly challenge.
6. Naming convention: Name of Photographer and Title of Image.jpg  e.g, JaneDoe_Flower.jpg. All photos will be displayed with the photographers's name and the image title. Note: The name of the image is a name you assign to the image and not the name of the challenge.
7. All images from the theme will be posted to the blog by the 10th of the following month in a single post.

Blog themes for the remainder of 2011:
Mar - Green (in honor of Saint Paddy's Day)
Apr - Water
May - Clouds (clouds should be predominant in the photo)
Jun - Reflections (from any surface - water, glass, mirror, metal, etc.)
Jul - Red & White (not including Canada Day?)
Aug - Motion
Sep - Earth, Wind or Fire
Oct - Autumn
Nov - Abstract
Dec - Lights

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CAPA Competitions:
1. Images must be sized to no more than 1024 pixels on the long side for horizontal images and no more than 768 pixels on the long side for verticals.  High quality JPEG, preferably in the sRGB colour space.
2. Correct orientation for viewing -- images will be shown as submitted and will not be resized, rotated, or adjusted.
3. Naming convention for Clubs and Individuals. Name of Photographer- image entry #-Title of Image.jpg  e.g, JohnSmith-1-Sunset or  JohnSmith-2-Duck. Note: The name of the image is a name you assign to the image and not the name of the competition.


Club Entries: 6 photographs from six different club members may be entered into each competition. All submissions will be judged by the Club and the top 6 entries in each Competition will be sent to CAPA.

Competition rules are set out in great detail on the CAPA WEBSITE.