I am pleased to announce the continued success of our  annual Atlantic Zone Competition.

Sheldon Boles, CAPA Director of Competitions, agrees that he would arrange 3 CAPA Certified Judges, and ask those judges to provide comments along with scores for each image, if the number of entries is not more than 100 images.

Here is the description of the competition.

Who is eligible: CAPA Individual/Family Members in the AZ and

All current members of the CAPA Club Members in the AZ

Theme:               Open (no sub themes) with the restriction that the original image

                             must have been taken in the Atlantic Canada.

 Closing Date:     April 25, 2022 or when the entry reaches 100.

Submission:       1 image per member.

The entry should be sent by email to Michiko Nishijima at  atlantic@capacanada.ca  with the title of “CAPA Atlantic Competition Submission”.

Please read “Editing Criteria” and “Image Specifications” carefully at https://capacanada.ca/2020-fall-open-theme-theme-libre/ If the submission does not meet all required areas, the image will be returned for resubmission.

Awards: 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 2 honorable mentions. These 5 images will be posted on theCAPA website Atlantic Zone page top bar.

Please contact me if you have questions. We look forward to having the entries from many members!

Best regards,

Michiko Nishijima – CAPA Atlantic Zone Director

Concours de la zone de l’atlantique de l’ACAP 2022

Je suis heureux d’annoncer le succès continu de notre concours annuel de la zone atlantique.

Sheldon Boles, Directeur des concours de l’ACAP, accepte de former un comité de 3 juges certifiés de l’ACAP et de demander à ces juges d’énoncer des commentaires, en plus de leur pointage, pour chacune des images si le nombre de participations ne dépasse pas 100 images.

Voici la description du concours.

Veuillez s’il vous plaît lire minutieusement les ‘’critères de post-production’’ et les ‘’spécifications d’une image’’ sur ce lien: https://capacanada.ca/2020-fall-open-theme-theme-libre/  Si vous soumettez une image qui ne rencontre pas tous les critères alors elle vous sera retournée et vous devrez la soumettre à nouveau.

Prix: 1iere 2ieme 3ieme places et 2 mentions honorables. Ces 5 images seront affichées sur la page de la zone de l’atlantique du site Web de l’ACAP

Veuillez prendre contact avec moi pour toute question. Nous avons hâte de recevoir vos images!

Cordialement,

Michiko Nishijima – Directeur de la zone de l’atlantique de l’ACAP

Scope of Competition

Theme for this competition is ‘Life In The Prairies.’

Competition is only open to current camera clubs associated to CAPA and to individual CAPA members in the Prairie Zone (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Northwest Territories).

For this competition, we are seeking your best image(s) which celebrates the dynamic prairie region and what it has to offer photographers.

Editing Criteria

Eligibility Criteria – Prior to submitting any photo in a CAPA competition, all entrants must first read the CAPA Eligibility Criteria relating to images submissions. – READ ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA HERE

Open Editing – All different in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques can be used.  All elements contained in the submitted images must have been taken by the submitting photographer. Elements contained in an image can be removed but elements cannot be added.

Colour or black & white or monochrome or infrared images are permitted.

Image Specifications

Naming Image Filename

Prior to uploading your image into a competition, please ensure your image filename contains the name of the photographer and a unique title for each submitted image -– such as:

Sally Brown-The Wild Rose.jpg
Walter Rightside-The Wild Rose.jpg
Oliver South-The double rainbow.jpg
Winston_Rogers-CanadaDay.jpg
John Wayne-Sandy beach.jpg

Camera club coding or camera club names are not required in the filename.

Do NOT:

• • use“jpg” or “no title” as a filename
  • use only numbers (for example: 123456.jpg)
  • include punctuation or symbols (such as , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)
  • use more than one period in the filename – .jpg (For example: Robert Smith-Wonderful Sunset…..jpg)
  • use the same filename for more than one submitted image
  • use non-English characters in a filename, such as (â, ê, î, ô, û, é, à, è, ù) due to software limitations

Image Size – Dimensions

You must ensure your image is re-sized to meet the following two parameters:

1. 1. Saved as a jpg image with a maximum file size of 1.8 MB.
   2. Dimensions: Maximum horizontal size: 1400 pixels and maximum vertical size: 1050 pixels.

Note: Images smaller than the maximum dimensions will ONLY be accepted when one of the image edges has a horizontal size is 1400 pixels or the vertical size is 1050 pixels.  For example: square image – 1050 x 1050 pixels; landscape 1400 x 800 pixels; or portrait 700 x 1050 pixels.

Note: Images will NOT be rotated by the judges and will scored as submitted.

During the uploading process of your image, our online competition system will verify if the image is less than 1.8 MB and meets the two parameters.

If your image fails this verification process, you will receive an error message and it will appear below the upload image box.

Depending on the error message – you will need to either reduce the file size of the image to be 1.8 MB or less or re-size the dimensions of your image.  After doing so, please re-try uploading your image.

Suggestions – Use sRGB colour space for your image.  For colour accuracy: we strongly recommend that you calibrate your monitor to ensure colour accuracy from your monitor to the image projected to the judges.

Image Titles

When images are uploaded into a competition – you are required to enter the title of your image into the Title field.  Title can be in either  English or French or both.

An image title should be simple and introduce or set the mood or perspective for your image.

Do NOT:

• • enter the name of the photographer or club name in the title field
  • include punctuation or symbols (such as / –_  , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) or quotation marks in the title (For example: “Running_the_Roads-in/style
  • include punctuation or symbols in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)

Competition Processes

• Closing Date of Competition – May 1, 2022 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (Ontario).
• Open To – All paid-up individual CAPA members and camera clubs associated to CAPA in the Prairie Zone (Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan)
•  Two categories in this competition:– CAPA Prairie Zone ‘Individual’ Competition for only CAPA member and CAPA Prairie Zone ‘Club’ Competition for all camera clubs. Individual CAPA members can upload a maximum of 4 images. Camera clubs can upload a maximum 6 photos but all images must be from different photographers.
• For each category, there will be three Merit Awards presented for the three highest scoring individual images and three CAPA medals will be awarded for the three highest overall accumulated scores.
• How To Enter Competition – check out our How To Upload Images To CAPA Competition here.
• Competition Coordinator– CAPA Director of Competitions – competitions@capacanada.ca

Scope of Competition

This is an open theme with an emphasize of highlighting life in British Columbia and in the Yukon.

As an open theme, animals, birds, insects, landscape, nature and wildlife are permitted as well as creative composite image images.

For this competition, we are seeking your best image(s).

Editing Criteria

Eligibility Criteria – Prior to submitting any photo in a CAPA competition, all entrants must first read the CAPA Eligibility Criteria relating to images submissions. – READ ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA HERE

Open Editing – All different in-camera, on-camera and post-processing techniques can be used.  All elements contained in the submitted images must have been taken by the submitting photographer. Elements contained in an image can be removed but elements cannot be added.

Colour or black & white or monochrome or infrared images are permitted.

Image Specifications

Naming Image Filename

Prior to uploading your image into a competition, please ensure your image filename contains the name of the photographer and a unique title for each submitted image -– such as:

Sally Brown-The Wild Rose.jpg
Walter Rightside-The Wild Rose.jpg
Oliver South-The double rainbow.jpg
Winston_Rogers-CanadaDay.jpg
John Wayne-Sandy beach.jpg

Camera club coding or camera club names are not required in the filename.

Do NOT:

• • use“jpg” or “no title” as a filename
  • use only numbers (for example: 123456.jpg)
  • include punctuation or symbols (such as , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)
  • use more than one period in the filename – .jpg (For example: Robert Smith-Wonderful Sunset…..jpg)
  • use the same filename for more than one submitted image
  • use non-English characters in a filename, such as (â, ê, î, ô, û, é, à, è, ù) due to software limitations

Image Size – Dimensions

You must ensure your image is re-sized to meet the following two parameters:

1. 1. Saved as a jpg image with a maximum file size of 1.8 MB.
   2. Dimensions: Maximum horizontal size: 1400 pixels and maximum vertical size: 1050 pixels.

Note: Images smaller than the maximum dimensions will ONLY be accepted when one of the image edges has a horizontal size is 1400 pixels or the vertical size is 1050 pixels.  For example: square image – 1050 x 1050 pixels; landscape 1400 x 800 pixels; or portrait 700 x 1050 pixels.

Note: Images will NOT be rotated by the judges and will scored as submitted.

During the uploading process of your image, our online competition system will verify if the image is less than 1.8 MB and meets the two parameters.

If your image fails this verification process, you will receive an error message and it will appear below the upload image box.

Depending on the error message – you will need to either reduce the file size of the image to be 1.8 MB or less or re-size the dimensions of your image.  After doing so, please re-try uploading your image.

Suggestions – Use sRGB colour space for your image.  For colour accuracy: we strongly recommend that you calibrate your monitor to ensure colour accuracy from your monitor to the image projected to the judges.

Image Titles

When images are uploaded into a competition – you are required to enter the title of your image into the Title field.  Title can be in either  English or French or both.

An image title should be simple and introduce or set the mood or perspective for your image.

Do NOT:

• • enter the name of the photographer or club name in the title field
  • include punctuation or symbols (such as / –_  , ; : ‘’ “” ! ? & $%*{} [ ] @ # &) or quotation marks in the title (For example: “Running_the_Roads-in/style
  • include punctuation or symbols in the filename (for example: dave/smith-“red rose!!!”..jpg)

Judging Criteria

1. Image title should complement or contribute to the vision or message being presented in the image.
2. Judges will award their scoring based on creative vision and the story telling value of an image along with the pictorial quality and technical quality (e.g. quality of execution, innovation, creativity, and ‘wow’ factor) as well as the degree that the image is within the “Scope-of-Theme.’

Competition Processes

• Closing Date of Competition – October 1, 2021 at midnight Pacific Standard Time.
• Open To – All paid-up individual CAPA members and camera clubs associated to CAPA in the Pacific Zone (British Columbia & Yukon)
•  Two categories in this competition:– CAPA Pacific Zone ‘Individual’ Competition for only CAPA member and CAPA Pacific Zone ‘Club’ Competition for all camera clubs. Individual CAPA members can upload a maximum of 4 images. Camera clubs can upload a maximum 6 photos but all images must be from different photographers.
• For each category, there will be three Merit Awards presented for the three highest scoring individual images and three CAPA medals will be awarded for the three highest overall accumulated scores.
• How To Enter Competition – check out our How To Upload Images To CAPA Competition here.
• Competition Coordinator– CAPA Director of Competitions – competitions@capacanada.ca