RIBI Young Photographer 2022/23 Competition.
This popular competition is back again. The following is a brief extract from the rules, a full copy of which can be obtained from the RIBI website.
Who can take part?  
The competition is open all schools and college communities including those that are home educated and any other young people’s community organisations, for example, community RotaKids, community Interact, Scout Groups, Girl Guides. 
 There three age groups: 
	Junior	    	7 to 10 years old
	Intermediate	11 to 13 years old
	Senior		14 to 17 years old
on 31 August 2022.
With the age qualifying date of 31st August 2022, it should be noted that some junior entrants may be 11, intermediate entrants may be 14 and some senior entrants may be 18 at the time of some or all the stage competitions i.e. a competitor may be 17 on 31st August but turns 18 on 1st September is allowed to enter. Competitors must include their date of birth on the application form.
Task per Entrant
Please note that Prints are not being asked for this year, all entries to be digital.
To produce a portfolio of one digital image based upon the theme, ‘The Beauty of Architecture’ in colour or black and white. Mobile Phones may be used. No actual examples will be shown here as it will be up to the individual competitors to show their interpretation of the chosen topic. The image must be at least 1500 pixels in size on the longest length.
In addition, each entrant should provide a brief sentence of what each photograph represents in relation to the theme.
Please Note: Images which include those of people under 18 years old must be accompanied by written permission from the parent, guardian, or carer of the person for those photographs to be submitted.
Entries should be sent to the stage organiser by the closing date.
Photographs may not be returned unless specifically requested, although winner’s photographs will be retained for display and discs/memory sticks returned.
Competition Rules and Entry Forms.
These take the form of two PDF files obtainable through your browser as follows;
https://www.rotarygbi.org/members/humanitarian-service-programmes/youth-service/youth-competitions/

Additional Information
In all rounds, judges will be looking at Digital Images (DIs).  Digital Narratives (DNs) will also be required, these can be created using Word Pad, or Note Pad (Which generally come with Windows), or MS Word (Part of the MS Office Suite, but sometimes also comes along with Windows). Your clubs winning DIs and DNs should be sent to me at:-

AndrewPearson755@BTInternet.Com.

I have arranged a District 1020 judgement process for all club winners sent to me. I will be sending the winning DIs and DNs from that judgement process to RIBI.

In the District round, judging is done by a small panel of photographers, and is not a public affair.

Closing Dates
The closing date to RIBI is Monday, 27th March, 2023.
The closing date to District is Saturday, 4th February, 2023.
The closing date to Clubs should be Saturday, 24th December, 2022. This allows the entrants to be finished and free to concentrate on school work following the Christmas and New Year break without any impairment to their studies regarding their schools curiculum or exams. It also gives the Clubs the most of six weeks to select and forward their competition entries to District.
Emailing Digital Images (DIs) and Digital Narratives (DNs).
The following is intended to help you transfer what could be, sizeable amounts of data, which normal emailing software cannot do, and  this requires a little bit know-how to accomplish.
Firstly, both the images, and associated narratives and consent forms, would have to be available in digital form. As such, they would need to be scanned in (or photographed and submitted, just as the images themselves would be handled). Images, in some cases, may already be available as digitals, as a digital camera or phone camera was most likely used to take the picture in the first place. Indeed, this may have been the way some Clubs carried out the process anyway.
Secondly, data transferred via email, is generally packaged by your email software into packages that are limited to 25k. This is usually, not enough to hold a set of photographs, particularly, high quality and resolution ones, not to mention the narratives and consent forms that would have to accompany the images. ‘Zip’ing the files up into a single package does reduce the overall size somewhat, but such a package with images included (and bear in mind that scanned or photographed documents are also images), is still unlikely to get it below the 25k limit.
Solution. An alternative electronic transfer facility, specifically designed to handle large amounts of data, is available to us all, and it is free, it’s called WeTransfer. You log on to the WeTransfer web site, and from there, you can download and install the software. This only takes a few moments, including the download and install. Once installed, you use it by selecting the files you want to transfer, indicating the Email address/es to which you want them sent (in this case, mine), and then uploading them. The uploading does take a wee while, maybe 2/3 minutes, but these are large files, that’s why you’re having to do things this way in the first place. Once they have been uploaded, the recipient (Me again) or recipients, is/are notified by email that they have been uploaded. I go into that email, and there I find a link to your upload, which I can click on and have them downloaded to my PC, on which I can organise them as suits my requirements. And that’s it. I have attached a small set of instructions on the process.
Please check out all the rules on the website and good luck to all.
Andy Pearson, Coordinator for District 1020 RIBI Young Photographer Competition, 2022/23.