Entries are made through the portal in Members section of the website. Maximum of two per section per member.
Deadline: Sunday 3/11/24
From MCC Rules – 2024 (Members Documents section of the website)
6. Rules Specific to IOTY Competition
6.1 Except for the Nature New Digital Section, entries must have been entered in at least one of the Club’s Monthly Competitions in the current year. Images must be entered into the IOTY from the Section that they were originally submitted. For the Nature New Digital Section, images must not have been entered in any section in any previous competition run by the Club.
6.2 Except for the Nature New Digital Section, all entries in the Club’s Monthly Competitions for the current year are eligible to be entered in the IOTY Competition, regardless of placing or score awarded in the Monthly Competition.
6.3 No image or substantially similar image may be entered in more than one section regardless of changes in media, size, format title, toning or colouring or other treatment.
6.4 Members are eligible to compete in any number of the following sections:
- Monochrome Prints
- Colour Prints
- Digital All Rounder
- Projected Image
- Nature New Digital
6.5 Each member may submit a maximum of two (2) entries in each section.
6.6 One 1st place and three Certificates of Merit shall be awarded in each section. Entries gaining 1st place in the IOTY Competition are not eligible for any subsequent competitions conducted by the Club.
6.7 There is no Point Score Competition associated with the IOTY Competition, only selection of awards. Entries are to be submitted before the IOTY presentation. Details to be provided in the MCC program.
For 2024 the judges are: Dianne English, Ian English, Roy Killen and Peter Ryan.