Good Morning Members, here are a list of soon to close and or upcoming external competitions for those interested.

Landscape photography competition – The Landscape Awards – entries close 18 February 2024 (CLOSES TONIGHT)

APS National: APS National (myphotoclub.com.au) closes 15 March 2024

Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize: Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize-Competitions (a-p-s.org.au)opens 4 March 2024, entries close 12 June 2024

Outback International Photography Exhibition: Outback International Photography Exhibition (myphotoclub.com.au) opens 1 February 2024

Salon of Excellence Queensland 2024: Salon of Excellence Queensland (myphotoclub.com.au) opens 1 January, closes 17 March 2024

HBPC AFFILIATED EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS:

Coinciding with our February – This is Australia monthly competition is the theme for this year’s Australia Cup. Member’s will soon be invited and asked to submit their images to a competition on the HBPC website where a panel of 3 judges will then choose the best 20 images to represent HBPC; max of 2 images per member. Stay tuned for more info around the end of our February competition to enter your images.

Here are the entry details for your Australia Cup images:

Theme: THIS IS AUSTRALIA: Any image that shows a flavour of life in Australia including landscapes, people, events and places including architecture, birds and animals.

Images may be taken in any of the Australia’s territories.

Images must be a single capture as captured by the camera.

Images must not be “composite images’ that combine subjects or elements from different scenes – replacing a background or sky, for example.

HDR, focus stacking etc that has been performed in camera is permissible.