GA ERA Camera Club Awards
Individual
Competitions
In
each competition category, at least 3 places will be awarded and are calculated
from member votes that are submitted before the voting deadline. Tie votes are
also awarded. More than three awards are granted when more than 10 entries are
received. If 11-13 entries are received, then 4 places are awarded. If 14 or more
entries, 5 places are awarded.
Annual
Awards
Independent
judging of all awarded submissions will be done by a professional judge as
funding permits. This typically occurs at the annual banquet where the
professional judge will review the awarded submissions, grouped by
classification. The judge will pick the top 10 from each classification
and rank them first, second and third place, with the remaining images receiving
honorable mentions. Prizes will be awarded to those winning
photographers, as funding permits.
In
addition to the awards for each competition, an award for photographer of the
year will be determined. In each competition, submissions placing first
will give the photographer 3 points, second place 2 points and third through
fifth place 1 point. The photographer who has the most total points at
the end of the year will be named “Photographer of the Year”.