Mold Camera

Club

Competitions

 

The club holds 6 internal competitions roughly once a month during the Autumn and Winter seasons, for each of these every paid up member can enter three prints and three 35mm slides. In addition, in the Spring normally after Easter, the club holds a print and slide of the year competition. The primary goal of the club competitions is for members to show each other their work and hear the comments of an external assessor. Photography in the final analysis is about enjoying making pictures. No member should be discouraged by a judges remarks or marking. Judges are frequently helpful but also can be highly idiosyncratic in their likes and dislikes.

Members can either compete in group A or group B the former group is for the more advanced workers and for those who have already been successful at the B or what was previously the beginners group. Members can choose which group to enter depending on previous experience.

The prints can be colour or black and white and printed digitally or on silver based paper. They should be mounted the mount size not to exceed 40 by 50 cm or 16 by 20 inches. It is better now to keep to the metric measurements. Slides should be mounted but not necessarily in glass mounts. Slides should be clearly spotted to show how they should be projected.

 

Mounts should have one of the members competition numbers on the back together with the title of the image. Members names should not be on any prints or slides submitted for club competitions.

 

All pictures should be original images and have been taken by the author on film or digitally, they can be processed at home or by a commercial lab.

For the print and slide of the year competition pictures can be submitted that have been previously shown or are yet to be shown in the clubs monthly competitions as long as they have not previously been entered for picture of the year.

Once a year the club holds a print exhibition in Mold Library. Pictures can be submitted for the exhibition as long as they have not been previously exhibited in the annual show.

 

 

More details from Dave Allen,  phone  01352 74097.