PETERBOROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
BILL DUNN - MEMORIAL TROPHY

THEME - The theme of the competition is “Creative Photography” – This can be viewed as being the same as Pictorial photography and does not necessarily mean manipulated images although straight record are not suitable:

Many Photographers have a great sense of creativity and want to break away from the rules and constraints of traditional photographs.

Entries can be of any subject that embodies the elements of good design, arrangement or composition, and reflects the personal interpretation of the photographer, who wants to illustrate an idea, rather than simply record a scene or event.

Lighting can be creative, i.e. early morning or late evening light, night photography, backlighting can all lift a photograph from being straight to being a creative photograph.

All fully paid up members of the Society are eligible to enter this stand alone competition. Each entrant may submit a maximum of two prints, two slides and/or two digital images. These must be current work which has not been used previously in this competition and can be of any subject.

PRINTS - Each entry must bear the author’s name and a title. There is no stipulated minimum size for print entries but for guidance it should measure no less than 25cms along the longest side of the print (excluding the mount) to enable the audience to see the work.

Should you wish your work to be considered to represent the club in Federation or PAGB Exhibitions/Competitions then it will need to conform to the maximum mount size of 50 cms x 40 cms - with the print contained therein. 

PROJECTED IMAGES

SLIDES – Slides should be in a 5 cm square mount, preferably glass, spotted in the bottom left hand corner when viewed from the front and bear the authors name and a title.

The images will be projected by the Society’s 35mm slide projector.

DIGITAL IMAGES – Images may be captured by digital camera, digital scanning (by author or lab) off negatives, slides or prints.

The Images will be projected by Data Projector in landscape format at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. Images must, therefore, be no more than 1024 pixels wide and no more than 768 pixels high, including any border or frame around the image.

If your image is less than the maximum in any direction, the canvas size should be enlarged to 1024 x 768 pixels and the unused area should be filled with black.  It will then be seen to its best advantage when projected on the screen.

Images should be saved as ’jpg’ or ‘jpeg’ - The FILENAME of each must be the TITLE as saved on the CD/USB Memory Stick and be preceded by the image number as follows:

Image 01 (title)…
Image 02 (title)…

Entries submitted on CD should be clearly labelled with the authors name, contact telephone number and e-mail address (if applicable) by using a firm permanent marker pen on the top surface of the disc. All CD’s will be returned to the author after each competition.

Entries submitted on a USB Memory Stick should be identified by the author’s name. All USB Memory sticks will be returned to the author after each competition.

Entries can also be submitted as a file attachment to an Email to :

Jimlhartje@aol.com

All entries received will be acknowledged by a return email.

The judge having been briefed on the rules in advance will be asked to comment on all work presented and to select the best print, slide and D-digital image. These will form the final selection for the judge to choose the over all winner who will be awarded the trophy to hold for one year.

All work must be handed to the competition captain by the week before the competition is judged. (email entries will be accepted up to 48 hrs before the competition is due to take  place)

The Society reserves the right on all images submitted in any given season to be retained on File for use in external competitions to represent the Society in which case the Society will bear the cost of either reproducing it as a print or slide having first sought the authors permission to do so. This will be donated to the author once used. A selection of images including the winner will be published on the Society’s Website.

Any image submitted into this competition may not subsequently be reproduced and entered again in another medium. (i.e – a print cannot be  entered again as a slide or digital image - a slide cannot be entered again as a print or digital image – nor a digital image be entered as a print or slide) – or so similar as to be almost identical are ineligible.

The final image must be the photographer’s own work including the original image and/or parts thereof, by implication the photographer owns the copyright to all parts of the image.

Any late work may be refused entry.

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

The inaugural Competition was won by Neil Malton with his image "Appariton" - very much in the Bill Dunn Style - He was presented with the trophy by the judge Dave Stewart from Deeping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007

Last year's runner up Jim Hartje went one better this time - His Digital image "Michael Mime" was awarded the trophy by judge Ray Brammall ARPS, DPAGB from Doncaster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008

Ian Haskell won with a digital image right out of Bill's school with "MALLARD TAKEOFF" He was presented with the trophy by Peter Cheetham APAGB who was the judge for the event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009

For the first time a Conventionally produced bromoil print was the winner - LIZ KEMP her image "Celebration" was a very worthy winner - she was presented with the trophy by judge Don Byatt EFIAP, MPAGB, BPE5* from Milton Keynes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010

 

Now in its 5th year the winner for the 2nd time was Neil Malton with his image "Wolf" - this image copuld have come straight out of the Bill Dunn text book - He was presented with the trophy by the judge David Steel from Cambridge.