KAYAK 2024

GENERAL
KAYAK CIRCUIT 2024 – New Camera Club, Salon Switzerland
KAYAK CIRCUIT 2024 – Greenland Photo Art, Salon Greenland
KAYAK CIRCUIT 2024 – MG Photo Forum, Salon Madagascar

The salon is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. Entrants must be authors of the works they submit. Each participant may send maximum of 4 photographs to each section. The organizer can use the exhibited works for reproduction in the catalogue and for promotion.

DATA PROTECTION
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including email addresses, being held, processed and used by the exhibition organizers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organizations which have accorded official recognition, patronage or accreditation to this exhibition. You acknowledge and accept that entering this exhibition means that the status and results of your entry may be made public. Your email address and contact information will not be made public.

SECTIONS                                                                                                                                                          

1. A) OPEN COLOR –  ( Color )
2. B) OPEN MONO –  ( Monochrome )
3. C) NATURE –  ( Color and Monochrome )
4. D) PEOPLE –  ( Color and Monochrome )

An image may be entered in only one section.
PICTURES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THIS SALON!
Pictures created by artificial intelligence are not allowed in salons run under FIAP patronage.
It is reminded that all parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. Offenders will be sanctioned for life!

ENTRY FEE
Entry fee is 25 EUR for one first Section, each additional section is 5 EUR.
Possible ways of payment is PayPal.
Discount for Group entries from 10 authors is 20%.
Please contact us per Email.

CALENDAR
Closing date: Nov 18, 2024
Judging: Dec 02, 2024
Results: Dec 16, 2024
Exibition Public Showings: Dec 16–18, 2024
Awards and Catalog: Dec 16, 2024

IMAGE FILE NAMING
File name should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue (same as title name).
Each image must have a unique title with maximum 35 characters (incl. space).
Please use English alphabet and numeric (A-z 0-9).
Please do not use accents and other characters.

JUDGING
The judges will Award the Acceptances, Medals and Honorable Mentions of the entered images. The one who has achieved the highest number of total acceptances of all the sections of the salon added together will be proclaimed “best author”. Judges would use Full HD Display 1080P (1920×1080). The target rate of acceptances is 30%.

JURY MEMBERS   
Salon Switzerland
Romain Nero, EFIAP/d1, HonEFIAP, Luxemburg;
Miriam Bennouna, AFIAP, Switzerland;
Alic Angelina, ENCC, Germany;

Salon Greenland
Borislav Milovanovic, EFIAP/d2, EPSA, Serbia;
Slavica Bourgeois, ENCC, APAM, Switzerland;
Jan Barnan, MGRE, Greenland;

Salon Madagascar
Krekovic Dragica, AFIAP, ENCC, Switzerland;
Djalic Stanko, EPAM, Serbia;
Razafinandrianina Tiana, EMGA, Madagascar;

AWARDS (495)
Salon Switzerland (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
FIAP Honorable Mentions (2 per section);
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

Salon Greenland (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
FIAP Honorable Mentions (2 per section);
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

Salon Madagascar (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
FIAP Honorable Mentions (2 per section);
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

RESULT AND ACCEPTANCES    
Each participant will receive the Report card per email.
The results of the exhibition will be also published at our Website, too.

EMAILS SPAM BLOCKING
Confirmations of entry submittals and Report Cards will be sent to entrants Please be sure that this email address gets included in your “safe” email addresses to ensure receipt of these emails instead of having them blocked by your security system. Also, check your Junk E-Mail or Spam folder to see if your email software placed any messages from the exhibition there.

CATALOGUE AND AWARDS SHIPPING
The Best of Show HQ Catalogue showing mostly of acceptances and all Awarded images will be ready online for download. Digital awards (PDF) will be sent via email. FIAP medals and HMs will be sent to each entrant by post.

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FIAP Nature Definition
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, 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 allowed adjustments must appear natural. colour images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct- captures or derivations, are not allowed.

Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife.

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 the 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.

FIAP Monochrome Definition
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 colour 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 colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

Greyscale Monochrome images may be entered for Nature, Photojournalism and Photo Travel but toned images are not permitted for these sections.

PEOPLE  Definition
Show people in all situations, such as daily life, street photography, traditions, portrait, people at work, social events, human relations and etc. The main subject in the photo must be one or more humans.

FIAP Rules
By the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the participant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the participant 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 non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the participant 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

The mention that by the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection the following terms: – that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to 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, – that in case of sanctions following the non compliance 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. If, at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organizer or the judges before, during, or after the judging of an exhibition that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition organizers reserve the right to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees may be forfeited or refunded in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the decision of the exhibition organizers or the judges is final.

“I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 040/2023 « Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage » and FIAP document 038/2023 « Sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list ». I am particularly aware of chapter II « Regulations for International photographic events under FIAP patronage » of FIAP document 040/2023, dealing under Section II.2 and II.3 with the FIAP participation rules, the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list.”

PATRONAT                                                                                                                                               
FIAP Patronat: 2024/604-605-606
NCC Patronat: 2024/005
PCP Patronat: 2024/036
GRE Patronat: 2024/007
MG Patronat: 2024/006

CONTACT  
New Camera Club, Switzerland
Jacques Bourgeois, Salon Chairman
Web: https://newcameraclub.com
Email: info@newcameraclub.com