CAPA :
Nature/Wildlife
日期/時間 Date/Time
2022-10-01
5:00 下午
Scope of Competition
For this competition, we are continuing with five themes which are outlined in the definition section below.
Each entrant MUST enter at least 2 separate images into two different themes to be eligible for overall CAPA medals.
Important Note – For this competition, the entrant must preserve the submitted image’s original un-retouched (not cropped, or edited) JPEG or camera RAW file. Original file must be easily accessible prior to submitting an image into this competition. All editing to an image must be undertaken by using a copy of the original image.
For potential winning images, the entrant must provide the ‘original un-retouched JPEG or camera RAW file’ when requested to do so by the Director of Competitions. Director will request the original file to confirm the authenticity of the submitted image and to ensure the Restricted Editing Criteria has been met.
A DNG and a PSD file are not recognized as an original file. Only exception will be for images capture on specific cameras: Apple iphone, Lecia, Nokia smartphone, Ricoh, Casio, LG, Panoscan, zsamsun, DxO, MegaVision Pentax and Sinar.
The potential winning image will be removed from the contest if the original file cannot be provided and the contest results will be re-sorted.
The provided original file will only be used for our image verification process and will be deleted shortly thereafter.
- Botanical – ONLY wild plants photographed in their natural environment are permitted in this theme such as: flowers, scrubs, bushes, trees, fungi and algae. Human created hybrid plants or ‘cultivated plants” are not permitted. Cultivated plants are ones that are planted and maintained by humans as opposed to emerging naturally in the environment. Wild flowers or plants grown in a botanical garden are accepted in this theme.
In cases where a plant species is known to occur in the wild and has been cultivated by humans, the judging panel will give the image the ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ and accept the image as meeting the definition of this theme.
‘Hand-of-man’ elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral part of the nature story (10% or less of total image area).
- Insects, Reptiles & Amphibians – such as: alligators, ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, crickets, crocodiles, dragonflies, frogs, gecko, hornets, iguana, lizard, mantis, mosquitoes, snakes, turtles,wasps, etc… ‘Hand-of-man’ elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral part of the nature story (10% or less of total image area).
- Landscape – subjects such as weather phenomena, geological formations, landscapes, seascapes and natural phenomena, planets, stars and astronomical events. ‘Hand-of-man’ elements shall not be present.
- Nature – subjects such as living animals, birds and marine subjects – under the control and feeding of humans if not obvious – such as zoos, game farms, animal preserves, aquarium, etc…
No feral or domesticated birds or animals are permitted.
‘Hand-of-man’ is permitted in this theme provided that it is deemed as an element of an ‘adaptive environment’ (e.g. barn owl) and consists of 10% or less of total image area.
‘Adaptive environment’ is defined as:
using a man-made structure for nesting or feeding their young or attracting a mate
consuming a cultivated plant or flower
using a human created structure created for another purpose
consuming their kill or food on a human-element such as a sawed log, fence post, telephone pole
- Wildlife –ONLY living and untamed wildlife mammals, birds and marine subjects. No traditional zoo, open-range zoos, game farms or other areas where animals/birds are restrained or confined and must be living free.
Nature parks are considered natural environments because animals are not in ‘controlled conditions.’
Wild animals and birds are permitted to have scientific bands, tags or radio collars but no tethers or harness attachment.
No feral or domesticated birds or animals are permitted – No hand-of-man is permitted.
Wildlife images can also be entered into the Nature theme.
Note: CAPA’s definition of Hand-of-man – “devoid of all human elements and impacts of human activities” – The following are examples of ‘hand-of-man:’
Human – body or portions thereof.
Sky – cables, telephone/power lines, jet streams, aircraft, light pollution, artificial light, etc…
Land – man-made structures or paths, buildings, concrete, man-made stone, telephone poles, fences, posts, sidewalk, domesticated or cultivated plants/food, cut grass, organized or systematic laying out of planted trees, etc…
Elements – cut trees or branches or stems, tree stumps, posts, man-made food, objects or background, etc…
Sea – boats, ships, piers, docks, posts in the water, etc…
For more details, please visit CAPA website at https://capacanada.ca/2022-nature-la-nature/