Alpine Club Mountain Photography Competition 2022/23

The Alpine Club is excited to announce a Members Photo Competition, culminating with a special exhibition of the best submitted works in September – December 2023. The competition is open to all Alpine Club members and will be judged by photographer John Cleare.

Members can submit up to two images per category across four categories. Images that have been entered into other, non-AC competitions will be accepted. To take into account the limitations placed on travel by the Covid-19 pandemic, any image taken since 01 January 2019 will be eligible for entry.

The closing date for submissions is the 30 April 2023, with winners expected to be announced by the end of June 2023. Entries should be submitted, in the format detailed in the 'Rules' section, via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

The Club will reproduce the winning entries as high-quality framed prints for display at a celebratory exhibition. These prints will subsequently become the property of the winning photographers.

A selection of the winning entries will also become part of an AC Calendar for 2024. By submitting a photograph to the competition, you are consenting to its use in the exhibition and calendar, but will retain your copyright over the image.

The categories and competition rules are below. Good luck!

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Categories

1. Alpine Climbing – Colour or B&W photos of alpine climbing from Scotland to the greater ranges.

2. Mountain Landscape – Colour or B&W photos of mountain landscapes from any part of the world.

3. AC Gatherings – Colour or B&W photos of AC members getting together on meets, at a hut, at the HQ , at a BC or alpine camp – i.e. a shot the captures members in their environment.

4. The Unusual – A photo that captures an unexpected moment or occurrence while in the mountains: e.g. an avalanche, a wildlife encounter, a mountain meadow full of life.

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Rules

a. The competition is open to all members – full, aspirant or associate – professional or amateur photographer.

b. Members may submit one or two digital images per category via email to the Alpine Club at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. not later than 30 April 2023.

c. The images must be contemporary; i.e. taken since 01 January 2019.

d. Images must be submitted in digital format: they may have been scanned from film or transparency stock, or taken with a digital camera or phone.

e. Photoshopped images will be accepted and will not count against photographers in judging. However, where technology has been used to radically and creatively alter an image, this should be noted in your submission.

f. The member submitting the images must be the author and the owner of the copyright.

g. Entries that have been previously published or entered into other competitions will be accepted, but members need to say when and where the entries appeared when making their submission.

h. The digital images can be in either Portrait (vertical) or Landscape (horizontal) format.

i. The images must be in their final format as defined in these rules. The Competition Secretary will not perform any manipulations, resizing or other alterations to the presented images, other than to place all of the entries into a single competition folder for forwarding to the designated judges.

j. The images should be submitted in as JPEG - .jpg files. Images in other formats such as PSD will be rejected. Images will need a minimum resolution of 300dpi so that they can be successfully reproduced as prints.

k. For each image please include a short caption that details the ‘What, Where and When’ of the photo in question. All image files are to be named in the style: Category, Image Number, Image Title, Location.

l. You may not enter an image previously submitted for an Alpine Club Photo Competition, or one so similar as to be almost identical, irrespective of title.

m. There are no prizes for the winners, but up to six pictures will be chosen from each category for exhibition and the resulting print will be retained by the member who entered the competition.