The Merrimack Valley Camera Club is pleased announce the 33rd George W. Glennie Nature Salon photographic competition. We hope that The Camera Council (Formerly Twin Cities Area Council of Camera Clubs) will share this announcement with your member camera clubs.
The salon is a club level competition and open to camera clubs and photographic associations worldwide. Last year, almost 100 clubs submitted images for competition.
This is a premier, international all-nature club competition of digital images known for its diversity of subjects which range from animals to botany to landscapes. In the animal categories, birds and mammals are usually well represented, but each year about a third of the entries are invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians or marine & freshwater life.
AwardsThe Glennie presents awards to both club and individual images. Club awards include:
- Top 5 Clubs Total Score
- Top 5 Clubs Diversity Award - (best score from club's top six categories, club must have entries in at least 6 of the 8 categories)
Individual image awards include:
- Best of Show
- Best Wildlife
- Best of Category (Birds, Invetebrates, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals, Marine & Freshwater Life, Botany, and Landscape)
Additional Subcategory and Honor Awards based upon number of entries. (Last year we had 23 subcategories.)
How to Enter:
Registration is on-line. Each club may submit up to 10 entries, but no more than 2 from any one maker. The club entry fee is $20 payable via PayPal.
Detailed competition rules and the instructions for submission are found on the Merrimack Valley Camera Club's website at http://mvcameraclub.org
Key DatesEntries Open - Feb 1, 2013
Entries Close - March 6, 2013
Competition - March 16, 2013
Results Posted - by March 24, 2013
CategoriesBotany
Landscape
Animals
Birds
Mammals
Invertebrates
Reptiles
Amphibians
Marine & Freshwater Life
More InformationRules & RegistrationQuestions? Email
glennie@mvcameraclub.org
Rikk Flohr served as Artist in Residence for the National Park Service at Badlands National Park in central South Dakota on three separate occasions since 2007. With over 100 days of experience in the park locating scenic vistas, finding unusual formations and discovering the area's unique wildlife, Rikk can greatly enhance your photographic experience. Rikk's Badlands workshops begin on Saturday evenings with an optional sunset shoot and continue until the following Wednesday sunrise shoot and farewell breakfast, or the light gets tough. Over the course of four days, you will experience the grandeur of the landscape from inside the park with the cooperation of the National Park Service. There will be classroom time devoted to the mechanics of photographing the park as well as image review sessions and, of course, there will be hands-on field instruction by Rikk Flohr and Associate Instructor, Laurie Hernandez. We keep our workshop size limited to 8 participants to ensure quality time with our instructors.
Saturday night we start with an optional sunset at a pre-determined location in the park. The workshop goes until Wednesday morning when we finish with a final sunrise and free shooting till the light gets tough. The three full-days in the middle will be spent finding the very early sunrises and very late sunsets as we travel the park setting up our tripods at the best formations. Of course there will be wildlife along the way as we photograph the Black-tailed Prairie Dogs, Bighorn Sheep, American Bison, Mule and White-tailed Deer, There is always a chance at more exotic subjects such as the North American Porcupine, the American Badger, the Coyote, the Bobcat and the numerous other birds and beasts which populate the wilderness. This workshop has early mornings, late nights and warm weather. Don't worry, we take a little downtime in the middle of the day to compensate.
