George W. Glennie Memorial Nature Salon
1. Overview -- The George W. Glennie Memorial Nature Salon has been held since 1981. George was the founder and first chairman of our nature group.
2 Who can participate? Open to all camera clubs worldwide.
3 Competition date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
4 Submission deadline: Thursday, March 17, 2011, Midnight PST
5 Contact The Glennie Committee glennie@mvcameraclub.org
6 Categories Nature.
7 Entry Fee Entry fee is US $20.00 per club, payable by PayPal.
8 Registration Registration for 2011 will open Feb. 1, 2011.
9 Upload Your Images Click here to upload your images.
The Merrimack Valley Camera Club (MVCC) will host and conduct the 31st annual George W. Glennie Nature Salon on Saturday, March 26, 2011. Judging will be held at the Greater Lynn Photographic Association located at 564 Boston St, Lynn, Massachusetts. Judging will commence at 9:30 am and continue until finished in the afternoon. This salon is open to all camera clubs and photographic associations worldwide. Entry is by Club; no individual entries.
Last year we set a new record with 111 participating clubs from around the world. We had participants from 4 continents, 7 countries, and 19 US states
Overall, the Glennie is a club competition, with additional awards to individual images. Each participating organization may submit 10 images, with no more than 2 by each maker. Images that have received awards in previous Glennie Salons are ineligible.
Makers who belong to two or more clubs must coordinate with the respective clubs to ensure that no more than 2 of their images are submitted in total. In the event more than 2 images, or duplicate images, are submitted from the same maker, the earliest submissions will be judged, and the other submissions will be ineligible.
Categories:
1. Animals (consists of the following categories)
a. Birds
b. Invertebrates - Insects, Mollusks (snails etc.), Arachnids, Annelids (worms), Crustaceans
c. Reptiles
d. Amphibians
e. Mammals
f. Marine and Freshwater Life - Fish, Marine Crustaceans/Mammals, Starfish, Corals etc.
2. Botany
3. Landscape
At a minimum, awards will be presented to those clubs receiving the 5 highest scores. The individual awards will include but are not limited to Best of Show, Best Wildlife, and Best of each category. Some categories may be sub-divided, depending on the number of entries. A number of individual Honor Awards will also be presented, based on the level of submissions in each category. Additionally, Diversity Awards will be presented to the top 5 clubs with entries in at least 6 of the 8 Glennie categories. Diversity scores are calculated by totaling the club's top scoring image in their top 6 categories.
Images should be submitted by uploading using our online form. If you have problems, please send an email to glennie@mvcameraclub.org
Image Preparation:
Each digital image may have a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels (for a handy resizing calculator click here). The image must be submitted in JPEG (.jpg) format, and the size is limited to no more than 1 Megabyte (MB). It is suggested that the image resolution be no greater the 100 pixels per inch (ppi) and that the color space be sRGB.
An image filename shall consist of the following: 4 alphanumeric characters indicating the camera club (each club may choose their own); followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately by a 2 digit number indicating the image number shown on the registration form; followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately the image title (with spaces filled in with underscores); followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately by the maker’s first and last name separated by an underscore. As an example, the following would be the image filename for the 4th image submitted by MVCC, with “Purple Fish” as the title and John Doe as the maker.
MVCC-04-Purple_Fish-John_Doe.jpg
Judging:
The judges will be guided by the recently revised PSA definition of Nature. The following is a statement of the basic guidelines concerning Nature digital images:
“Nature Photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify as to its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality.
Human elements shall not be present, except on the rare occasion where those human elements enhance the nature story. The presence of scientific bands on wild animals is acceptable. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
No elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged or combined. No manipulation or modification is permitted except sharpening, resizing, cropping, selective lightening or darkening, and restoration of original color to the scene. No special effects filters can be applied. Any adjustments must appear natural.”
Images submitted for consideration for the Best Wildlife award must meet the additional definition for Nature Wildlife Photography.
“Authentic wildlife is defined as one or more organisms, living free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Therefore, photographs of zoo or game farm animals are not eligible for the Best Wildlife award."
All digital images must be considered “Digital Realism”.
“Makers may perform any enhancements and modifications that improve the presentation of the image that could have been done at the time the image was taken but that does not change the truth of the original nature story. Cropping and horizontal flipping (equivalent to reversing a slide) are acceptable modifications. Addition of elements, removal of elements other than by cropping, combining elements from separate images, rearranging elements or cloning elements are not acceptable.”
Submitting Images:
Submissions will be accepted beginning the first week of February, 2011.
The submission closing date is midnight PST, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
Registration is online, via our form
The entry fee is US $20.00 for a club and is payable by PayPal.
Additional information and assistance may be obtained by contacting the Glennie Committee.
Entries must originate as photographs (image/captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. Images may be acquired digitally, or scanned from traditional film to create a digital file. Images may be altered, either digitally or otherwise, by the maker with the rules of the competition. All submissions must be as a digital file.
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