All You Need To Know
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So What’s It All About?
Yes, TPOTY is back for 2023 and for anyone who missed out last year, it’s the Tollesbury Photographer Of The Year competition! Back by popular demand and still a great way for us all to get photomotivated (I made that up last year and thought it was too good not to reuse!), to get our photomojo back (that one already exists, seriously google it) and a what looks like becoming a standard part of TPG life.
To ensure that everyone can take part the photos will be displayed at www.paulaldred.co.uk/tpoty2023 and the monthly results will be posted here too.
In 2023, TPOTY is only run for 11 months, January through November so we can celebrate the results in our December meeting. Also, each month the subject will be set and judged by a member of the group. All of the monthly subjects will be available at the beginning of the year. One last change this year, your image must have been taken within 6 months of the submission date. So January’s image must have been shot since 31st July 2022 and November’s image shot after 30th May 2023.
So how do you take part?
We have a set of categories for each month which you can find below, so just shoot your photos and share one image for each category. You might fancy just entering the odd month or you may want to enter every month to be in the running to be our first annual TPOTY, either way it would be great to get on and shoot this year, safely of course.
All photos must be shot within 6 months of the submission date monthly deadline (eg Anytime from January 2021 for entry in to January's category).
Each month send your photo to tpg@paulaldred.com and I'll upload them to the TPOTY2023 microsite.
Here are the monthly categories (Please bear in mind that you may need to get creative with your interpretation depending on lockdown or social distancing rules) :
· Jan : Three Of A Kind
· Feb : Beatles Song Titles
· Mar : Numbers
· Apr : Open subject (Anything you choose)
· May : Gastro
· Jun : Environmental Trash
· Jul : Our Feathered Friends
· Aug : Yellow
· Sep : Something Green
· Oct : This Is How It Feels To …
· Nov : History
Who is eligible ?
Any paid up member of Tollesbury Photographic Group in 2023 along with members emeritis.
How will the images be judged and scored ?
Rather than having an appointed judge, we'll all have the opportunity to judge one month. This will allow all of us to take part in the competition and to democratise the judging process.
Each month, the judge will rank the top 10 images with points awarded as follows :
· 1st place - 10 points
· 2nd place - 9 points
· 3rd place - 8 points
· 4th place - 7 points
· 5th place - 6 points
· 6th place - 5 points
· 7th place - 4 points
· 8th place - 3 points
· 9th place - 2 points
· 10th place - 1 point
· All other entries - 0 points
The image judged in first place will win that month, with points for all photographers carried forward through the year. At the end of the year, the photographer with the most overall points will be crowned Tollesbury Photographer of the Year.
The points system is designed to reward frequent entries through the year from each photographer and to reward photographers that shoot photos within 6 months of the deadline.
The small print
· Each photographer can submit only 1 picture for each category.
· All submissions must be shot within 6 months of the deadline.
· All images must contain metadata information identifying when they were shot.
· Images must be at least 1000 pixels on the long edge (ie 1000 wide for a landscape shot or 1000 pixels tall for a portrait shot).
· Images should be supplied in JPEG format.
· All images to be submitted by last day of month..
· Submissions to be sent to tpg@paulaldred.com
· Images will be available to view at www.paulaldred.co.uk/tpoty2023
· Evaluation and scoring to be completed and by end of 1st full week of following month, with the exception of January and December as follows
· Scoring will be undertaken by entrants to the competition. Judges should judge images honestly and not tactically. Judges may not vote for their own image but will receive 10 points if they enter an image for that month.
· Entrants will be allocated judging months randomly. Where necessary there may be multiple judges in any given month who will need to reach a consensus on their scoring.
· Photographs will only score points if they are related to the category for the month.
What do you need to do to enter ?
1. Send an email to tpg@paulaldred.com to register your entry in to TPOTY.
2. Send your first image to tpg@paulaldred.com by 5th February 2023.
3. Watch out for the images to be published at www.paulaldred.co.uk/tpoty23