This exhibition is being conducted by the Belmont 16s Photography Club, a subsidiary club of the Belmont 16 Foot Sailing Club, located on the eastern shore of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
The exhibition was first conducted in 2016. It has been approved by the Australian Photographic Society (APS). Acceptances in this exhibition may be used in applications for some APS Photographic Honours (as detailed on the APS website).
This is a Digital or Electronically Displayed Image (EDI) competition, with entries for the competition submitted via this website.
Entry image format
The maximum image size is 1920 pixels horizontal and 1200 pixels vertical when the image is viewed with correct orientation. Maximum size of closed file is 2 MB.
Images larger than the permitted size will be rejected. Smaller images are permitted but will be projected smaller on screen. A minimum size of the longest dimension of the image is 1000 pixels.
File format must be JPEG.
Image files should have the same name as the title of the relevant digital image in the online entry system. For example, an image called “Golden sunset” should have a file name “Golden sunset.jpg”. Titles and file names must use the English alphabet and may include numbers. No other characters are permitted.
Images will be displayed to the judges at the size submitted, using an Epson EB-1985WU projector with a display resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and operating in sRGB colour space.
The projection background is black.
Any borders should be included within the dimensions shown above. Please keep borders to a minimum, e.g. to separate images from the background if necessary.
If you need assistance resizing your images for entry please download these instructions.
Sections and exhibitions
The sections for the 2019 competition are:
- Colour
- Monochrome
- Nature (colour or mono)
- Photo Travel (colour or mono)
- Youth (for entrants who are 18 years old or younger on the closing date of the exhibition.
The accepted images will be exhibited at:
- Belmont 16s Photography Club
- Other venues to be advertised.
- Other photography clubs on request.
The submission of entries signifies acceptance of the following conditions:
Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all photographers who are residents of Australia or members of the Australian Photographic Society. An entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to the exhibition rules and conditions.
The Exhibition Chairman, persons closely involved in the organisation of the exhibition, persons in charge of the handling of the exhibition software, and judges are not permitted to enter the exhibition.
Images that have been accepted in the Lake Macquarie National in previous years may not be re-entered.
Recognition: The exhibition is conducted in accordance with the recommendations of and approval of the Australian Photographic Society (APS) – Approval number 2019/16.
Subject to the rules of the APS, acceptances in this exhibition are eligible for inclusion in applications for APS honours.
As a condition of APS approval of the exhibition, all entrants must signify agreement to the following statement before being able to enter images;
By submitting images to this exhibition, I agree to accept without exception or objection the following terms:
- To ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry, including all relevant definitions, the exhibition organisers may ask me to provide originally captured images, with EXIF data intact, by a specified deadline.
- If I do not supply the requested image(s )in the specified time those images will be deemed to be in breach of the Conditions of Entry.
- Images that are submitted as requested may be investigated by any means determined appropriate by the exhibition organisers to establish if the image(s) comply with the conditions of entry.
- Images that are deemed by the exhibition organisers to breach the Conditions of Entry will be removed from the exhibition. Any acceptances or awards allocated to those images will become void.
- The exhibition organizers will provide APS with details of al lbreaches of the Conditions of Entry. APS retains the right to impose sanctions on entrants deemed to have repeatedly breached the Conditions of Entry of any APS Approved exhibition.
Image creation, authenticity and reproduction: Entries must originate as photographs (image captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.
All final work must be an electronic file.
By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his/her own (aliases are not permitted).
The entrant permits the exhibition organisers to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced or used may not be eligible for awards or inclusion in audiovisuals of the exhibition and could be subject to disqualification by the exhibition organisers.
By submitting an entry the entrant certifies that in the process of capturing the image the entrant did not violate any of the standards of ethical practice of the APS.
Copyright: The copyright of each image entered always remains with the author of the image. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright.
Note: The exhibition committee reserves the right to check all accepted images for copyright violation.
Image alteration and computer generation: Except for the restrictions on Nature images and Photo Travel described in the relevant definitions, images may be altered, either digitally or otherwise, by the entrant. Artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated, provided that the photographic content predominates in a way that is obvious to the viewer. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer and all photographic components must have been photographed by the entrant who holds copyright of the complete works submitted.
Image titles: Each image must have a unique title. Images without a title will not be judged.
Titles may not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg. (or any other camera capture filenames). Words such as “untitled” or “no title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture filenames or titles consisting of only numbers.
Titles must use the English alphabet and can contain no more than 30 characters (including spaces). Image titles may be in a foreign language, but the English alphabet must be used.
The titles should be exactly as you want them to appear in the catalogue.
No title or identification of the maker shall be visible anywhere on the actual image.
Titles will not be announced at judging.
Email List
By virtue of submitting an entry, the Entrant accepts that his/her email address will be used for communicating information about this exhibition and future Lake Macquarie National exhibitions. The Entrant may opt out of this email list by using the unsubscribe option at the bottom of each message sent.
Warning: opting out of this email list before the exhibition catalogs are posted may result in the entrant not receiving important information about the exhibition.
The exhibition organisers will not pass email addresses on to any third party.