ECC Contests

Monthly Contests
The Club holds monthly competitions with a monthly category and a goal to motivate members to get out and take pictures and hear what our judges think of them so they can grow and improve. We have an advanced and a beginner option for entering your work. There are no prizes but best and runner-up get posted on the web site. Note that this contest is just an opportunity to show your work to fellow members and to motivate you to get out and shoot, and then get some feedback. See below for guidlines.

PSA Competition
The Club particiapates in PSA competitions and submits as an organization. We collect 6 photos from club members each quarter and send them off 4 times a year to the PSA for judging. There is a link to their rules HERE. We compete in the nature division, they DO NOT allow the hand of man to appear in these shots. If you want to submit photos for this competition, please email events@evergreencameraclub.org.

Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hospice Annual Seasons of our Mountains Calendar
The calendar contest is open to anyone and everyone. There are no divisions, beginners are judged along with pros and everyone in between. The rules for submitting to this are covered HERE. This project is primarily an effort to help Mt Evans with their fund-raising through calendar sales. We normally accept entries from early May to early June each year, see the bottom of our home page for more details.

Monthly Contest Guidelines:

ECC is now holding contests on the 4th Wednesday of many months during our T&T sessions.

The theme for the each month’s contest is announced and published in each month’s Contest post.

  • Up to TWO images per member per month may be submitted (not including “fun” images)
  • Members who submit MUST be present in person (or by zoom if available) for the contest judging
  • Images must be received by 6 p.m. the Tuesday before the competition
  • Please submit images in JPG file format only.
  • Images will be displayed on an HD projector at 1920×1200, images at other sizes will be scaled as needed
    • Landscape oriented images ideally should be 1920 pixels wide
    • Portrait oriented images ideally should be 1200 pixels tall
  • Images should be no more than 3 years old, and may not be submitted for multiple monthly competitions (may be submitted at a monthly contest and year-end contest)

Usual retouching of photos, such as brightening, red-eye reduction, cropping, is acceptable. If photos have been edited to the point were editing is too obvious (i.e. over saturated) they may be disqualified.

Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Images created by image creation software (frequently called ‘AI’ images) are not allowed in any competition governed by Evergreen Camara Club, other than for editorial purposes. No elements within bona fide member images may be AI generated.

Submissions are accepted from paid members only. The critique is typically done by club members, and contestant names are anonymous, with only the winners’ names announced. Seeing a variety of images and hearing an expert review of the submissions is a great way to learn how to improve your photography.

In addition to the main theme, contestants may submit images for our fun category. This category is for any photo you would like to submit. It will not be judged, just shown to the audience for fun!! The entries could be funny moments, oops moments, cute, bad backgrounds, ah shots, etc. (Or let’s see some of your worst selfies!!)

Images must be uploaded through the Contest Entry menu item under Contest above.

If your images are for a family account, make each image file name contain the submitter’s name (e.g., jsmith_reallyniceimage01.jpg) – uploaded images have your user name added automatically, but we won’t know which family member.

By submitting an image, you give Evergreen Camera Club permission to post the image on our website and to use the image in promoting the club – you of course retain ownership of the image.