The 12th Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon 2008

The Christchurch Photographic Society invites you to participate in the Laurie Thomas Landscape Salon.

Following the very successful introduction last year of digitally projected images, this year the 12th Laurie Thomas NZ Landscape Salon is again offering a section for digital images alongside a section for traditionally produced slides. This will give those of you who have entered slides in earlier years but who now no longer use film the opportunity to again enter images in this premier NZ Landscape Salon.

Each section will be assessed separately, with a Champion Trophy (which the winner keeps) awarded to the top image in each section, along with Silver and Bronze Medals, and Honours and Acceptance Certificates. Entrants may submit images in one section only, or in both.

All entries must depict the New Zealand landscape. You may enter either one or both sections. Up to four images may be entered in each section.

Judging rotates between the North Island and the South. For the first time, the Panel will this year meet in Hamilton. It will be chaired by Cliff Threadgold FPSNZ ARPS. Photography has been Cliff’s passion since the early 1990s and is now his profession. He has been running successful workshops for more than 10 years and specialises in landscape and travel photography. He was recently appointed to the PSNZ Honours Board.

Also on the Panel is John Greenwood, President of the Waikato Photographic Society, who won a Silver Medal in the Salon last year. The third member is Sally Phillips LPSNZ, another successful Landscape and Natural History photographer whose work attracts much favourable comment.

A further new development of the Salon this year is the opportunity to purchase a CD of the successful images. For many years, the successful images were duplicated and made available to clubs as a PSNZ Recorded Lecture. With the advent of digital projection, a CD (of digital projection resolution) is a more effective way to make the Salon available to clubs and participants.

Again, up to four images may be submitted in each section. For slides, both card and glass mounts are acceptable. Specifications for digitally projected entries are given on the entry forms as are the specific criteria for slides.

Every entrant will receive a full-colour catalogue.

A copy of the entry form can be downloaded from here.

Hard copies may be obtained by contacting one of the people or addresses listed under Enquiries and or Entries on the entry form.

We look forward to receiving your entry:

  • up to four New Zealand landscapes as slides, or/and
  • up to four New Zealand landscapes as digitally projected images.

The closing date is 4th June 2008.