Please find information below regarding the regional qualifying rounds of this years IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition in association with Canon.
Rules for 2013/2014 competition can be found here.
North West Region – February 8th 2014
The North West qualifying round of 2013/2014 IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition takes place on Saturday, February 8th at Mill Park Hotel, Donegal . Qualifying round for North West Nature Competition takes place the same day (refer to this link for details of Nature Competition)
Enter North West PPI qualifier via this link
Closing date for entries: February 6th
Collection of Prints: 10.15am
Judging Commences: 11.00am
Mid West Region – February 9th 2014
The North West qualifying round of 2013/2014 IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition takes place on Sunday, February 9th at Mountmellick Arts Centre, Sarsfield Street, Mountmellick, Co. Laois. Qualifying round for Mid West Nature Competition takes place the same day (refer to this link for details of Nature Competition).
Enter Mid West PPI qualifier via this link
Closing date for entries: February 6th
Collection of Prints: 10.00am
Judging Commences: 10.45am
North East Region – Complete
The North East qualifying round of 2013/2014 IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition takes place on Sunday, January 26th at Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.
Entry is via online system. Please click here to enter
Closing date for entries: January 12th, 2014
Prints must be received by Des Clinton (Drogheda Photographic CLub) or Denis Whelehan (Dundalk Photographic Society) by Friday January 17th. Prints will be sorted on Sunday 10am in Louth Leader Partnership, Partnership Court, Park Street, Dundalk.
Judging: 10.30am, Sunday, January 26th at Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.
DSLR Region – Complete
The DSLR qualifying round of 2013/2014 IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition takes place on Saturday, November 16th at Palmerstown Parish Centre, Lower Kenelsfort Road (opposite Palmerstown House Pub). Palmerstown Camera Club are hosting the event. This link on the Palmerstown website gives directions to the venue.
Closing date for entries to DSLR competition has been pushed out until midnight Friday, November 15th for both DSLR PPI & Nature Competitions
Enter DSLR PPI qualifier via this link
Enter DSLR Nature qualifier via this link
*Please note that in addition to the PPI competition, the DSLR qualifying round of the IPF National Nature Competition will also take place at this event. Please read through this article about changes to the Nature Competition this year and also read rules.
Schedule for Saturday 16th for DSLR PPI & Nature Competitions
10am-12pm: Handover of prints
Lunch & Judge Preview
2pm: Judging begins. Judging sequence as follows:
Nature Projected (Open, Theme & Natural World), PPI Projected (Open & Theme)
Nature Print (Open & Theme), PPI Colour Print (Open & Theme), PPI Monochrome Print (Open & Theme)
SACC Region – Complete
The SACC qualifying round of 2013/2014 IPF National Print & Projected Image Competition takes place on Sunday, November 3rd at The Horse & Jockey Hotel, Co.Tipperary.
Closing date for entries to SACC competition is midnight Friday, November 1st.
Please refer to this article on SACC website for further information and link to online entry system. The SACC regional competition is open to members of SACC clubs only.