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PCA 2025/25
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PCA 2025/25 |
Exhibition: “Balkan Games 2025’’
Propositions-rules
Country: Serbia
Organizer: PCA – PHOTO CLUB ARIZONA
The country of the exhibition: Serbia
E-mail: pca.exhibition@gmail.com
Exhibition homepage: https://www.pca-exhibition.com/balkandream23/
Salon Chairman: Miroslav Darijevic
This is NEW in the world of photography |
Entry fee : EUR 7 or USD 8 per author for all five sections (5 photographs per section, per author allowed) PROMOTION ONLY FROM August 22 to August 29 2025
- FREE REGISTRATION (No registration fee required)
We are proud to announce the opening of the grand Balkan Games 2025 and to invite you to send us your best works. DATA PROTECTION: |
Open to professional and amateur photographers from any country. Exhibition is open to and accepting all photograph formats. |
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Accepted payment methods:
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There are FIVE digital sections: • A. OPEN: Color |
All authors must fill out an Online Entry Form on the official Contest website and submit their entries online.
Each contestant who wins awards / if the jury has doubts about authenticity/ is required to send in their original files to the Organizer of the contest for comparison with the submitted entries. This file will be used only to prove the ownership of the image. Winning Entrants who do not fulfill these eligibility criteria will be deemed ineligible and disqualified without the right to appeal. All entries must be the original work of the contestant and must not violate the rights of any other party. The Organizer of the Competition does not bear any responsibility for the content presented in the photographs. |
Except for the restriction to use only English alphabet (a-z), no other requirements for file names; file name should be the way authors want it to appear in the catalogue (title name). |
All participants shall receive report cards via email. |
Online, digital version: To be sent to entrants via email in a form of a PDF document. |
Jury: |
Each author can receive only ONE award in each of the sections. |
Application deadline: August 27 2025. |
By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies that he is a sole owner of the rights to use sent images, including copyright, patent and/or other applicable rights. All models must be of Legal Age of consent or have guardian permissions issued. The contest organizers assume no liability for any copyright misuse conducted by entrants. |
Definition of the black and white photography (monochrome)
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 PCA 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 PCA Patronage.
Nature definition
Nature photography records all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This
includes all aspects of the physical world, both over water and underwater.
Nature images must convey the truth of the scene. A well-informed person should be able to identify the
subject of the image and be satisfied that it has been presented honestly and that no unethical practices
have been used to control the subject or capture the image. Images that directly or indirectly show anything
human activity threatening a living organism's life or welfare are not allowed.
The most important part of a Nature image is the nature story it tells. High technical standards are
expected, and the image must look natural.
• Objects created by humans, and evidence of human activity, are allowed in Nature images only when
they are a necessary part of the Nature story.
• Photographs of human-created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domesticated animals,
human-created hybrid animals, and mounted or preserved zoological specimens are not allowed.
• Photographs made where the scene is natural and the animal is unharmed in a carefully managed environment
environment, such as Zoo, rescue centers, and ethically managed natural environment farms are
permitted.
• Attracting or controlling subjects through the use of food or sound for the purpose of photographing
they are not allowed. Maintained situations such as provided supplemental food due to hardship caused
by weather conditions or other conditions beyond the animals' control, where photography is incidental
that the feeding of the animal does not fall under this provision.
• Controlling live subjects by chilling, anesthetic, or any other method of restricting natural movement
for a photograph is not allowed.
• Human-made elements shall be permitted under the following circumstances:
a) When they are an integral part of the nature story, such as a songbird singing atop a fence post
manmade object used as nest material, or a weather phenomenon destroying a man-made structure.
b) When they are a small but unavoidable part of the scene, such as an unobtrusive footprint or track
in the background.
c) Scientific tags, collars, and bands are specifically allowed.
When photographing at a zoo, sanctuary, or rehabilitation center, it would be understood that the
photographer ensured that it's properly accredited and conforms to best practices.