The great Australian Photographic Challenge is on! We are looking for the best images from Australian Photographic Club members both as a club and as individual photographers.
This Australia-wide Camera Club competition provides clubs with the opportunity to showcase the photography of their members at a National level!
***COMPOSITES***
Entries must be a single image as captured by the camera.
Images must not be ‘composite images’ that combine subjects or elements from different scenes – replacing a background or sky, for example.
HDR, focus stacking ect that has been performed in camera is permissible.
Each club, APS member or non APS member, may enter the competition at:
https://apsauscup.myphotoclub.com.au/
RULES FOR AUTHORS
Twenty PHOTOS PER CLUB ARE MANDATORY using the following limits;
2 images per person for clubs with more than 40 members,
3 images per person for clubs with less than or equal to 40 but more than 20 members,
4 images per person for clubs with less than or equal to 20 but more than 10 members,
5 images per person for clubs with less than 10 members.
Australian Clubs only are permitted to participate.
Authors may only enter with one club (coordinators must check that authors have only entered with one club).
Club coordinators must advise their members if their image has been chosen for the club’s Australian Cup entry.
Coherency between photos is not required.
To Enter, each club will nominate a delegate to upload their club’s entry.
A Club’simageswillnotbepresentedtothejudgesconsecutively. A club’s twenty imageswillbedistributedthroughoutroundsofjudginginthatsection.Distributionofimageswillbeinthesameroundorderas submittedbytheclub.
Images entered in previous Australian Cup competitions will not be accepted.
Colour or Monochrome is accepted.
IMAGE SPECIFICATIONS – 1920px by 1200px HORIZONTAL Images must be 1920px wide and let the height take care of itself as long as it does not exceed 1200px. VERTICAL Images must be 1200px in height. SQUARE oriented images must be 1200px by 1200px.
– The maximum file size is 2mb.
COMPOSITES
Entries must be a single image as captured by the camera.
Images must not be ‘composite images’ that combine subjects or elements from different scenes — replacing a background or sky, for example is not allowed.
Note: The image details are asked for and entered after image has been uploaded.
...
Awards
Close ×
Awards are as follows:
2024 Australian Cup for the club with the highest points.
APS Gold Medal for the club ranked second. Electronic certificate for club website.
APS Silver Medal for the club ranked third. Electronic certificate for club website.
APS Bronze Medal for the club ranked fourth. Electronic certificate for club website.
APS Honourable Mentions for the clubs ranked 5th – 10th. Electronic version club for website.
The authors of the club ranked 1st receive an Honourable Mention.
One APS gold medal, two APS silver medals and three APS bronze medals will be awarded to works of exceptional quality, independent of the clubs classification.
Each juror will award one image ‘Judges Choice Award’.
One Chairmans Choice Award.
Each author can only receive one prize.
All entered Images & individual awards are eligible to count as national acceptances towards APS Honours LAPS, AAPS.
...
calendar
Close ×
Open 1st March 2025
Close 31st May 2025
Judging 7th – 15th June 2025
Results notified to clubs by 31st July 2025
...
Topic Definitions
Close ×
THIS IS AUSTRALIA
Any image that shows a flavour of life in Australia including landscapes, people, events and places including architecture, birds and animals.
Images may be taken in any of Australia’s territories.
Entries must be a single image as captured by the camera. Images must not be ‘composite images’ that combine subjects or elements from different scenes – replacing a background or sky, for example.
HDR, focus stacking ect that has been performed in camera is permissible.
...
Entry Fees
Close ×
AUD$40 per club payable on entry.
...
Exhibition
Close ×
The Australian Cup awards and results will be released during a virtual award presentation to be held on Friday 26th July, 2024. An electronic catalogue will be sent to all club co-ordinators by mid October 2024.
Gary Cranitch Gary has worked as a natural history photographer at the Queensland Museum for 40 years.
His work has been published in Australian Geographic, Popular Science (US), New Scientist, National Geographic online and numerous other publications and journals around the world. He has also contributed to the Queensland Museum extensive range of natural history publications.
Gary is an experienced photography judge at both State and National level. He was the Awards Chair for the Australian Professional Photography Awards from 2020 to 2021 and was the captain for Team Australia at the World Photographic Cup in 2021.
“The natural world never ceases to amaze me and I feel privileged to have photographed so many different landscapes and animal species throughout my career.”
…………………………………………………………………..
Nguyễn Thanh Tùng Tung has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of photography. He now works primarily as a professional photographer, producing images and photo projects. He performs editing and photo editing for books and prints photos for exhibitions for photographers both domestically and abroad.
• 15 years as an official photojournalist at SaigonTimes Newspaper. • 10 years of collaboration with the French news agency AFP. • 10 years of collaboration with the British news agency Reuters. • Currently serving as a brand ambassador for Sony cameras since 2015. • Participating as a judge for photo contests in Vietnam.
Personal photo exhibitions • “Hello Northwest” exhibition in 2013 • “Hello Saigon” exhibition in 2015 • “My Bhutan” joint exhibiton 2015” in Saigon and “My Bhutan” held in Bhutan in 2015.
…………………………………………………………………..
Vanessa Bertagnole Vanessa is a Brisbane based freelance graphic designer and award-winning photographer and photomedia artist with over fifteen years’ experience.
She is often found with a camera at hand and specialises in visual storytelling, portraiture, travel, fine art, and campaign / branding work for marketing agencies.
She regularly exhibits her work throughout Australia and her work featured at Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Powerhouse, National Museum of Australia, San Diego Institute of Art and at the Head On Photography Festival.
Her work has been published widely and she has been a finalist in many national art prizes including the William and Winifred Bowness Photograpy Prize and the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture. She was recently commissioned to create photographic work for the Mater Cancer Care Centre in Brisbane.
…………………………………………………………………..
The judging will be performed remotely by the three judges who will score each image between 1 and 9.
These scores are then added together to give the final score.
Finally the highest scoring images are shown to the judges again for selection of the individual awards.
