Photographic Society of America (PSA) is an organization that offers photographic competitions and activities that span all continents, for both individuals and camera clubs.
Vienna Photographic Society has been a PSA club member for many years. As such we are entitled to participate in the PSA Interclub Competitions, which pit clubs from all over the world against one another. Both club honors and individual awards can be achieved.
This season VPS will participate in Open (or Projected Image Division-PID), Nature and Travel categories of the PSA Interclub Competition. All VPS members are encouraged to participate. There are several rounds of competition for each category and deadlines will appear on our club calendar. Entry is via the club website at vpsva.org. We are only able to enter six images for each category. To select which pictures to enter in the Open (or PID), members will vote for their favorite submissions. We will enter the pictures with the most votes into the competition. Judges will select the travel and nature images from those entered that will move on to the PSA.
For more information you can check out the PSA website:
Nature at https://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?divisions-nature-interclub-competition
Travel at https://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?divisions-photo-travel-interclub-competition
Open (PID) at
https://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?pid-interclub-competition
Of note are the rules for the Nature and Travel competitions. These categories are reality-based, meaning that nothing can be added or removed from the image except by cropping, and the image must appear natural. Nature images may not have any human elements within the image. This includes buildings, fences, roads, cultivated/ hybrid plants, and domesticated animals.
The first chance to participate is in the Nature category, with entry deadline September 25. Enter at vpsva.org under Competitions-->Submit Images.
Kathy Swoboda, PSA Representative