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Alternate judge: Lynn Thompson, APSA, PPSA and other qualified judges as needed.

This International Exhibition of Photography has been awarded recognition by PSA, the world’s largest patron of international photographic exhibitions.

Acceptances received by PSA members in approved sections of this exhibition are eligible for PSA Star Ratings, listing in the worldwide PSA Who’s Who of photography, and credited toward the PSA Distinctions PPSA, EPSA, MPSA and GMPSA.

PSA is a nonprofit organization promoting the advancement of photography in all its forms to novice, amateur and professional photographers worldwide.

For information on membership and the many services and activities of PSA, contact:

The Grand Canyon PT International Exhibition is open to all photographers around the world. However, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.

Submission of digital entries implies the acceptance of all conditions. The entrant must be the owner of all rights of the submitted works. Entry is limited to the PSA Exhibitions Standards definition of Photo Travel (see #2 below). Entries may be acquired by scanning of personal photographic work.

The images must be submitted as electronic files by upload only at the provided entry form. No CD will be accepted.

By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication on an internet website and/or display in media related to the exhibition. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright by the entrant. Any image that was previously accepted in the Grand Canyon Photo Travel Exhibition may not be re-entered regardless of its title.

Photo Travel Division with PSA PT Star Ratings and Who’s Who Recognition.

PSA Photo Travel Definition

“A Photo Travel image must express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state. Photo Travel images have no geographical limitations. Ultra close-ups which lose their identity and studio-type model shots are unacceptable. Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the image, without changing the photo travel content, are permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. The removal, or manipulation, of colors contained within the original image to enable the production of monochrome images is permitted.”

Entries may be acquired by scanning of personal photographic work.

Important:

The images must be submitted as electronic files by upload only at the provided entry form. No CD will be accepted.

There will be two Sections: No entry is limited to images showing a Grand Canyon theme. Grand Canyon is only a name for the exhibition.

The entry form is available at the website www.apsocietyaz.com and must be submitted electronically using the submit button together with the images.

Instructions for filling out the entry form are included on the website. A list of all the entries received will be published on the Exhibition website. The status of the entry fee and the files received will be listed. The list will be updated as least twice weekly. Please check the status of your entries on the website about a week after sending.

The images must be sent with the electronic entry form. The images must be in JPG format. A maximum of 4 images may be submitted per section. The images do not have to be renamed; the entry form will rename them for you.

The maximum allowable horizontal dimension is 1400 pixels and the maximum allowable vertical dimension is 1050 pixels. Smaller images are acceptable. If you submit larger images, the entry form will resize them. Limit the size to 800 kb.

A maximum of a 5 pixel stroke is allowed to separate the image from the background. No borders or frames are allowed.

The images will be projected on a Canon SX80 projector and judged on a black background.

In each section the entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging.

Three judges will be used with scoring from each judge ranging from 3 to 5. The sum of the three scores will be used to determine acceptance. Each image will have a minimum score of 9 and a maximum score of 15.

This exhibition requires only a single entry fee of $36 USD for the 6 judgings regardless of the number of images but limited to a total of 8 images.

Paypal is the preferred method of payment via the entry form on the internet in USD. A credit card can be used with this method.

The fee will also be accepted by cash in USD. Send to Chairman: John Frelich, 14117 W Sky Hawk Dr., Sun City West, AZ 85375

Entries received without a fee will not be judged, sent results, or returned. The fee must be received by closing date. Be sure to check the Status Page on the website for verification of your payment.

A listing of acceptances and awards will be posted on the internet at the website:

Arizona Camera Club Council, Sundial Rec. Center, 14801 N 103^rd Ave. Sun City, AZ