The Flatirons Photo Club displays images from dues-paying members at most of its monthly meetings (see this link for more information about meetings; some meetings feature sharing and discussion of images rather than competition). Club dues are $30/year for individuals or $35/year for families. Dues can be paid via PayPal: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments.
There are four submission categories: Special Topic, Nature, Open, and Creative. See these links on competition Submission Guidelines, Special Topics and Year End Competition for more information.
Members may enter up to two (2) images in monthly club meetings, spread across all categories. To encourage printed images, a third entry is allowed if at least one is a print. Note: Prints are currently not being submitted for Club meetings. (Only two (2) entries per person in the Special Topic of the Month.) Digital and Print are judged separately. Awards are given to ~20% of entries in each category. There must be at least three entries in a category for an Award to be given in that category. However, any image receiving a score of 4.5 or higher — no matter how many or how few entries there are — is given an award.
Images receiving an award or honorable mention in a monthly competition cannot be re-entered in monthly competitions unless significantly reworked. But such images can be entered in the year-end competition. Images that have won awards in year-end competitions cannot be re-entered in monthly competitions or year-end competitions. In order to promote new creative work from members, we would prefer to see images created in the last two years, but substantially reworked older images are fine, too.
Image Categories
The distinction between the categories is one of style, not the technique used. Some images captured in the camera can be in the Special Effects category, and some images that have been extensively post processed can be in the Open category.
A topic of the month is assigned. Images may use either traditional style or special effects.
– Digital Special Topic of the Month (A) (projected)
– Print Special Topic of the Month
Traditional style images of the natural landscape and wildlife. The images in this category may include people or buildings, but the subject matter would be the larger landscape rather than human activity.
– Digital Nature (B) (projected)
– Print Nature
Traditional style images on any topic excluding landscape or wildlife. For example: architecture, food, people, street, and action subject matter would be submitted in this category.
– Digital Open (C) (projected)
– Print Open
Images will be created initially using photographic techniques, then further manipulated by adding digital filters or by using other techniques in post process. The effects used will be readily apparent and the image will be clearly altered.
– Digital Creative (D) (projected)
– Print Creative