Interclub Competitions

At time, Club participates in competitions with other clubs.

Interclub Print Battle 2026

This is being hosted by Porirua Photo Club. More information to come about how to submit your images for consideration.

Topics

Freeze the action - action shot which captures the sense of motion but with minimal or no blur. Panning shots which show background blur are not valid.

Facial expressions - a facial expression which captures and conveys emotion

Fire and / or Frozen - an image that captures either or both senses of heat and cold

Food glorious food - A shot which makes the mouth water and the stomach rumble

Fellowship - a photo which captures a sense of community, togetherness, shared concern or care for others

Fashion, flair, flamboyance - anything goes as long it is conveys the theme

Fungus, Fruit, Flowers - From the natural setting to a formal arrangement, a photo which incorporates one or more of the themed items

Flight - An object, bird, person, in the act of flying through the air

Forces of Nature – Earth, Fire, Water, Resilience of nature

Festival - the image should convey the sense of fun, colour, activities of an event

PSNZ National Interclub Competition

The club plans to enter the Digital Open and Digital Landscape categories of the PSNZ National Interclub Competition. If you wish to submit some images for possible inclusion in the club's entries, please read the information below and email your submissions by *midnight Wednesday 4th March*. More information about how to submnit images has been emailed to Club members.

The PSNZ National Interclub Competition is a competition for clubs. There are four categories, open and landscape in each of print and digital; entries in each consist of four images, which must be by different club members. Time is short (entries close 11th March) so we will just enter the digital categories this year; next year we may enter the print categories too. More information can be found at the link at the bottom of this message.

Under the rules of the competition any image you submit must meet the following requirements:

- It must have been exposed by you.
- Any processing must have been done by you, or at your specific direction.
- Any composite image must contain only original work by you.
- It must not have been created by Generative AI, or contain any elements created, substituted or removed by Generative AI.

For submission purposes please save your images as jpeg sized to screen resolution of max 1920px on the long edge. All images must have a title, and in your email message please confirm that your submissions meet the requirements above.

There's no need to say which category (landscape or open) you're submitting to. All landscape images will be considered under open too, but will be chosen for at most one category.

After submissions have closed, a panel of club members will convene to choose the four images to use in each category. If your image is chosen you'll be asked to provide a copy meeting the technical requirements of the competition (jpeg, max 3840px on the horizontal, max 2160px on the vertical, sRGB colour space, max file size 10MB). We'll need this pretty promptly, to meet the competition deadline.


Competition webpage with all information:

https://photography.org.nz/interclub-salons/

Trenna Packer

In June each year the club enters the Trenna Packer Salver: a nature photography competition that aims to illustrate the diversity of the natural history of NZ and its offshore islands, with images of a high quality.

To enter we need images with a range of subjects (plants, fungi, flowers, insects, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, marine mammals, geological features...anything and everything!) and from a range of photographers: entries consist of six images and can have at most one or possibly two per photographer.

There's some fine print: all subjects must be native to NZ, photographed in NZ, and wild/uncultivated/unconfined and in their natural habitat. Images must avoid evidence of humans, and there are restrictions on the postprocessing techniques permitted.

We'll put out the call for submissions in April or May; this notice is just to put the competition on your radar, and get you out there snapping!

To find out more see the link below

https://naturephotography.nz/trenna-packer-salver/