PSA Interclub Competition 2025-2026
Nature and Open (Monochrome and Color)
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 can participate in the PSA Interclub Competitions, where clubs from all over the world compete against one another. Both club honors and individual awards can be achieved.
This season VPS will participate in Open (Color and Monochrome) and Nature categories of the PSA Interclub Competition. There are 3 rounds of competitions for each category and deadlines will appear on our club calendar. Entry is via the club website at vpsva.org. VPS may only submit six images for each category. To select which pictures to enter in the Open or PID category (Color and Monochrome), members will vote for their favorite submissions and we will enter the six photos with the most votes into the competition. As for the Nature competition, a panel of 3 judges will select the 6 nature images to be submitted to PSA.
Planned deadlines for entering the competitions this year are projected around the following dates: Round #1 mid September, Round #2 early January, and Round #3 early-mid March. An email will be sent out to all members regarding actual submission dates. Additionally, PSA requires a signed release if you ENTER an image in a competition. So, upon entering one or all three competitions, please forward the VPS PSA coordinator a copy of a signed release form if you have not already done so. The release is needed by PSA to upload all award winning images on their website and in their internationally published magazine. A release form is attached within the list of documents below. Any entries submitted without a release form will be disqualified. A release form is valid for three years. Once you have sent a signed release to the VPS PSA coordinator, you will be notified in advance to submit a renewed release form prior to your expiration date.
IMPORTANT: No use of AI generation is allowed in images.
Below are important documents that will help you achieve the highest ratings for your images and can also serve as a guide to help you choose/vote on images that will be sent to PSA via our selection process. To learn more details about each of the competition’s guidelines, please review the following documents:
PSA Hosting Guide
PSA- Guide for Nature Photographers and Judges (2025-2026)
PSA Open Color and Monochrome Visual Guide (revised 2025-2026)
PSA Interclub Scoring Guide (revised 2025-2026)
PSA Release Form - Word Format
PSA Release Form - JPEG Format
Current Image size for the competitions is 1920px x 1080px.
PSA Round #1 Competitions
Nature
Congratulations to the winning image makers selected by advanced VPS photographers Christina Murray and Kathleen Furey judging via the website with the image authors blinded. Judges who entered images into the competition could not judge their own images. The images must follow the PSA Nature definition and rules. Thank you very much, Christina and Kathleen for taking the time to judge this Round 1 competition.
David Kepley Salmon for Lunch
Bill Mugg Eyes Only
Dennis Tarnay First Landing State Park
Gwen Bowden Getting Ready for a Big Date
Christina Murray May I help you with something?
Mary Rabadan Screech Owls Pair
Slideshow:
Open Color
Congratulations to the image makers of the six selected images. The images were selected by a VPS member vote via the website with image authors blinded.
Bill Mugg Joy
David Kepley Light from the Divine
Mary Rabadan Staying Alive
Kathleen Furey Echos in the Woods
Dennis Tarnay Kenilworth
Gwen Bowden The Simple Life
Slideshow:
Open Monochrome
Unfortunately, we did not have enough entries for monochrome. This category will reopen in early January for a makeup.