The North Shore National Salon of Photography – Rules

The North Shore Photographic Society will be exhibiting its sixteenth National Salon of Photography from 12 – 23 July, displaying a selection of award-winning entries from this year’s competition. The digital images show and prize giving will be 4th August.

Categories

The competition has eight categories:

Prints
Open Colour
Monochrome
Close Up	This refers to close range and large-scale photography that reveals the fine detail or texture of the subject. This category is not restricted to the use of specialist “macro” lenses to capture these images.
Architecture	Images of any man-made building or structure that highlight color, light, texture or spatial qualities of the subject.

Digital
Open Colour
Monochrome
Movement	The movement depicted can be either of the subject or created by the photographer.
Red	Any shade, any amount, any place. Just red.

Prizes

The following awards will be given in each category:

The prestigious Gold medal for the winners of each category plus Silver, Bronze, Honours, Highly Commended and Acceptance Awards.
The PROGEAR Trophy will now be awarded to the best overall image chosen from the Gold awards.

Calendar

The major events in the Salon’s schedule for 2010 are as follows:

Dates (2010)	Events
3 May	Entries open
28 May	Closing date for entries
26 June	Salon Judging Day
12 to 23 July	Exhibition of Salon prints and digital winning entries
5 August	Presentation to gold-medal winners and audio-visual presentation of winning entries at the North Shore Photographic Society’s “At Home” evening
14 August	Publication of the Salon’s 2010 Catalogue