Associação Jauense de Ambiente e Cultura – AJAC
Juliano Meneghello, Jaú-São Paulo, Brazil
Information: www.photonature.ajac.org.br
e-mail: [email protected]

Participation with 4 photos per section. There are three digital sections:

A) OPEN COLOR (color digital) FIAP and PSA PID Color

B) OPEN MONOCHROME (monochrome digital) FIAP and PSA PID Monochrome

C) NATURE (color/monochrome digital) FIAP and PSA ND

- Each photo can be presented in only one section

• Opening date: 01.06.2018 (June 1st 2018)
• Closing date: 15.10.2018 (October 15th 2018 )
• Judging dates: 20.10.2018 a 30.10.2018
• Notification date: 14.11.2018 (November 14th 2018):
www.photonature.ajac.org.br and each author personally in the mail.
• Reporting to FIAP and EDAS: 01.12.2018 (December 1st 2018)
• Sending awards till: 10.12.2018 (December 10th 2018)
• Date for mailing of catalogues: 10.01.2019(January 10th 2019)

Entry fee is mandatory for all participants
For participants from other countries:

- The fee for a section is 12 euros or 15 dollars
- The fee for two or three sections is 15 euros or 18 dollars

Only PayPal transfer – Associação Jauense de Ambiente e Cultura – AJAC
[email protected]

Members from Brazil 30 reais for all themes/sections
By deposit or transfer to:
Associação Jauense de Ambiente e Cultura – CNPJ 27.623.682/0001-45
Banco do Brasil – Agência 6527-7 conta nº 13.499-6

In the month of July 2018 we will have the call in "early bird" with special discount for clubs above 5 participants, being:
- fee of 12 euros or 14 dollars for the 3 (three) sections.

- Entries of authors who did not paid the entry fee will be disqualified.

The exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to the exhibition rules and conditions. Entries are limited to not more than 4 images per section, category, or class. An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section. There are no restrictions as to subject matter except as outlined in the rules and definitions of specific sections, or specified by law in the country where the exhibition is held. Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own (aliases are not permitted). The entrant permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced or used “will not be eligible for awards” or inclusion in audio-visuals of the exhibition “and could be subject to disqualification” by the exhibition sponsors. The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright. Images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the maker. Image alteration and computer generation: Except for the restrictions on Nature images described in the Nature definition, images may be altered, either digitally or otherwise, by the entrant. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer and all photographic components must have been photographed by the entrant who holds copyright of the complete works submitted. All final work must be on photographic film, or on electronic file, or on photographic or electronic print material, mounting excepted.

FIAP – GENERAL EXHIBITION ENTRY RULES (document FIAP 2014/317 E):

With the sole act of submitting their images or files to the Exhibition under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that:
• The submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey FIAP regulations and definitions, even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP;
• That FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking
• That any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the noncompliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules.

It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations.

All authors must fill out an Online Entry Form on the official website and submit entries online.

Photos must be in JPG file format; maximum 3000 pixels and 2000 pixels in 300 dpi (max resolution); File size max 4MB; Following the instructions on photonature.ajac.org.br

No requirements for file names, file name should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue (same as title name). Images without valid titles shall be rejected and the entrant notified to resubmit the entry with valid titles. Exhibitions shall not create titles for the entrant. Only English letters (a-z), numbers, - , _are allowed.

- Vladimir Jovanovsky, IAAP President, UPI CR3, ISF R4 – Macedonia
- Paulo Guerra, EFIAP, PPSA, EAFB - Brazil
- Guilherme Simões - Photo Artist and independent Printer - Brazil

Reserve and supervision of the jury: Tiago Corazza, AJAC – Brazil

TOTAL OF 132 AWARDS

FIAP Blue Badge for the best author

FIAP Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in each section (9 altogether)

6 FIAP honorable mention ribbons in each section (18 altogether)

PSA Gold Medal in each section (3 altogether)

10 PSA honorable mention in each section (30 altogether)

IAAP Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (9 altogether)
6 IAAP Diplomas in each section (18 altogether)

AJAC Gold Medal in each section (3 altogether)
10 AJAC honorable mention in each section (30 altogether)


The jury reserves the right to grant additional awards. Each author can receive only one award in each of the section

SPECIAL AWARDS

- Best Brazilian Club
- 10 Best Brazilian Authors
- FIAP Blue Badge

PSA – Nature Definition: Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation.
• The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality.
• Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves.

• Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
• Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
• No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted.
• Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning.
• Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed.
• Stitched images are not permitted.
• All images must appear natural.
• Color images can be converted to greyscale monochrome.
• Infrared images, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed.
• Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.
• Images entered in Wildlife sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above are further defined as one or more extant zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat.
• Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections.
• Wildlife is not limited to mammals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species.


FIAP Definition of the black and white photography (monochrome):

A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single color will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category; such a work can be reproduced in black and white in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage. On the other hand a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one color becomes a color work (polychrome) to stand in the color category; such a work requires color reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.


PSA Monochrome Definition:

An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of gray which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a gray scale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A gray scale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.

Notification date: 14.11.2018 (November 14th 2018):
www.photonature.ajac.org.br and each author personally in the mail.

Date for mailing of catalogues: 10.01.2019(January 10th 2019)

Associação Jauense de Ambiente e Cultura - AJAC
Rua João Lourenço, 180fd
Tel: +5514998701200
CEP 17211220
Jaú-SP Brazil