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 divisions 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 and EPSA.

The Arizona Photographic Society will accept digital images with these recommendations: all PSA Photojournalism rules will apply. You may enter a total of eight (8) images: 4 digital images in General PJ and may include Human Interest images; 4 digital images of Human Interest only.  These images must include a human person(s).

Send entry form electronically found at www.apsocietyaz.com  and fee by mail. CDs for images may be used (no return by AZPS) but will be destroyed.  Send your images by email attachment to apsociety@cox.net

1. Each digital section’s entry is limited to four (4) images.  Format: JPEG, (72dpi) and sRGB for best projection.  Horizontal:  1024, Vertical: 768, 350 kb pixel max and should be flattened.
2. Entries must originate as photographs (images-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.  All images must be original and may not incorporate elements projected by anyone else.  Follow PJ Divisional restrictions.  Artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may NOT be incorporated in the image.
3. By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as their own and permits the sponsor to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for display and/or publication in media related to the exhibition.  This may include low resolution posting on the PSA-PJ web site.  The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright.
4. The same image may be entered in only one section and not used in a previous AZPS-PJ Exhibition.
5. CDs will not be returned but will be destroyed.
6. Entry forms must be filled out and sent electronically to: www.apsocietyaz.com  Include fees with a return address and if using CDs to: Nancy Sams, FPSA, 3861 N. Sapphire, Mesa, AZ  85215 USA
7. Use apsociety@cox.net - for electronic submissions as email attachments.

Human Interest images depict a person or persons in an interactive, emotional, or unusual situation, excluding sports action. See the file for Human Interest.

The sponsors of this International Exhibition of Photography have 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 and EPSA.

PSA is a non-profit 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:

Photographic Society of America
3000 United Founders Blvd. Suite 103
Oklahoma City, OK 73112-3940 U.S.A.
E-mail: hq@psa-photo.org
Web Site: http://www.psa-photo.org

The APSociety Digital 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 entries implies the acceptance of all conditions. The entrant must be the owner of all rights of the submitted works. Entry is not limited to images created and or modified digitally. Images may also be acquired and/or modified traditionally and then scanned. The images must be submitted as Electronic files by Email or removable disk media, i.e. CD-ROM.

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 a CD-ROM catalog, 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 APSociety Digital Exhibition may not be re-entered regardless of its title.

Electronic Imaging Division with PSA EID Star & Who’s Who Recognition.

The Entry Form must be submitted electronically. The Entry Form is available on the Website http://apsocietyaz.com

Instructions for filling out the Entry Form are included on the Website. The Entry Form must be filled out on the Web Site and sent by using the “SUBMIT” button at the bottom of the Entry Form. Your images should be sent in a separate Email (or by Postal mail). A list of all the entries received will be published on the Salon Web Site. The status of the entry fee and the files received will be listed. The list will be updated at least weekly.

Please check the status of your entries on the Web Site about a week after sending so they can be resent if necessary.

The APSOCIETY has two sections:

A. Color General – Open
B. Color Creative – Altered Reality

The appropriate section letter (A, B) must be used as part of the Electronic File Name. Your surname and the initial of your first name will be used as the first part of the Electronic File Name as shown below:
Surname-X-####-YZ.jpg

Surname is your Family name. “X” is the first character (Initial) in your given name. #### is the last four digits of your phone number.

Y is the Section letter (A, B) & Z is the image number (1-4) of the entry.

Example:
The following four images were submitted in Section A, by John Smith, Phone No. 727-784-1234

smith-j-1234-A1.jpg    smith-j-1234-A2.jpg
smith-j-1234-A3.jpg    smith-j-1234-A4.jpg

These FILE NAMES must be identical to those that you enter on the Entry Form and must contain your Surname as shown in the above Example. This naming convention is necessary to assure that files from different makers will have unique names, and that each image is matched to the correct maker. Filenames are not case sensitive.

PLEASE DO NOT USE YOUR TITLES
FOR YOUR JPG IMAGE FILE NAMES.
There are separate lines provided on the Entry Form for your TITLES.

The required maximum horizontal dimension is 1024 pixels and the maximum vertical dimension is 768 pixels. Smaller Images are acceptable. If the Images do not meet the file criteria, the Salon committee will try to notify the entrant by a posting on the Salon Web Site so that the images can be resent. If this is not possible, the Salon committee will try to resolve the problem.

Please keep your compressed jpg image file size under 350KB. Larger file sizes could be rejected by the computer operating system.

Judging will be done by projecting images on a screen with an Electronic Projector at a resolution of 1024 X 768 set to 16.7 million colors. In each section the entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging.

Three judges will be used with a score from each judge ranging from 2 to 9. The sum of the three scores will be used to determine acceptance. Each Image will have a Minimum score 6, Maximum Score 27.

North America:
$7.00 USD for one section
$12.00 USD for two sections

All Others:
$10.00 USD for one section
$18.00 USD for two sections

PayPal via the Internet in USD can pay fee.
Web site: http://www.paypal.com
To: Nancy Sams
Email: apsociety@cox.net

Your fee will also be accepted by Cash-USD. Checks and money orders must be in U.S. funds on a U.S. Bank. Checks must be made payable to Nancy Sams. No IRCs.

Mail Entry Fee to: (Except PayPal)
Nancy Sams, APSA, EPSA
3861 N Sapphire
Mesa, AZ 85215 U.S.A.

Entries received without fee will not be judged and will not be sent any results. Fee must be received by closing date.

A listing of acceptances and awards will be posted on the Internet at the Web Site: apsocietyaz.com for a minimum of three months

The CD-ROM Catalog, showing acceptances and images, will be mailed to each entrant.

Saguaro Camera Club, Mesa, January 25, 2007, 360 East 1st Street, Mesa, AZ

Arizona Photographic Society, February 22, 2007, 360 East 1st Street, Mesa, AZ

Slide Show Programs will be shown on a high resolution Electronic Projector.