Hibiscus Trimestial Photo Contest

IHS Trimestrial Photo Contest

(Updated December 8, 2005)

This activity comprises two programs in one: the Trimestrial Photo Contest and the membership voting section of the IHS SOTY/HOTY program, the latter of which is comprised of the seedling category - one of the six categories listed below. In addition to these rules governing principally the TPC, please also refer to the IHS SOTY/HOTY program rules.

To encourage interaction and active participation, the IHS has developed this program to provide everyone a new means of enjoying our hibiscus.The details of this program are as follows:

1. New TPC "Trimestrial Photo Competition": The new TPC will be run over 3 competitions each year, the first of which will be 2004-1. There are 6 sections for which the members and affiliate members may vote. In the voting form provided at the end of each section, members are asked to vote for the top 3 in each category except the seedling category, where they will be asked to vote for the best 6 (assuming there are more than 6 candidates) or for the best (if there are less than 6 candidates). The winners of the 6 sections will go into the finals where the annual Grand Champion and a 1st and 2nd runner up will be selected by members and affiliates. The annual Grand Champion winner will be awarded a genuine Tahitian Black Pearl, kindly donated by Richard Johnson, and worth hundreds of dollars on the open market.

2.Categories:

1) Singles section [one bloom]
2) Doubles Section [one bloom]
3) Miniatures Section - single or double [one bloom]
4) Seedling Section - all categories, i.e. singles, doubles, minatures, etc. [one photo of three different blooms of the same candidate]
5) Multi Bloom Section [two or more blooms on a bush]
6) Computer Art Section.

3.The winners of each of the 3 TPC's and the annual Grand Champion selections, will become a permanent record of this web site. They will be posted under the section "Member Activities" and will generally be uploaded within approximately two week of the final voting.

4. The TPC's will be scheduled as follows - the number advancing in accordance with the year, i.e., TPC 2004-1 and the year following TPC: 2005-1, etc. (unless otherwise mentioned, the exact time will be midnight GMT of the date indicated)

TPC 2006-1; will start 1st October 2005, entry deadline 31st December, first two weeks of January 2006 for final web site setup, and second two weeks of January for voting.

TPC 2006-2; Starts 1st February 2006, entry deadline 30th April 2006, first two weeks of May for final web site setup, and final two weeks of May for voting.

TPC 2006-3: Starts on the 1st June 2006, and entry deadline is 31st August 2006, first two weeks of September for final web site setup, second two weeks of September for voting.

TPC 2006 Grand Champion selection will be set up the first two weeks of October, second two weeks of October for voting.

TPC 2007-1; Starts on the 1st October 2006, entry deadline is 31st December, first two weeks of January 2007 for final web site setup, second two weeks of January for voting.

Etc, Etc.

5. Eligibility: To be eligible one must be a valid IHS member or an affiliate as of the entry deadline, which is synonymous with being a member of the IHS mail list.

6. Entries are limited to five in each category per member or affiliate; however, members and affiliates may exchange early entries with a different entry any time up to the deadline.

7. Entries may be submitted in any size, but they will be presented for competition by using Paint Shop Pro to resize the largest dimension to 200 pixels and they will be compressed to result in an image size of approximately 20K or less. Because of the nature of the medium, i.e., digital rendering via the internet, and because alterations are often difficult or impossible to detect, we have little choice but to accept any image regardless of the manipulations undertaken to render it in its final form. Members will judge it simply on its appearance, and we, of necessity, will have to ignore the elements, which resulted in the actual image submitted.

Photos should be of flowers on backgrounds of predominantly natural hibiscus foliage, realizing there may be other extraneous things in view, such at pots, mulch, sky, ocean, etc.

SOTY candidates are to be identified by name and parentage or just the latter if it has not yet been named. HOTY candidates are to be identified by hybridizer, name of the seedling and parentage.

8. As per the web master or TPC directors discretion (whom ever does the layout), entries may be set up generally no later than two weeks following the entry deadline.

9. All entries are to be submitted to jpu11707@bigpond.net.au with the understanding that the IHS may use these photos at their discretion in perpetuity without compensation. Moreover it is understood that the person providing said image (s) is the owner of same or authorized to provide this authorization to the IHS. The IHS will, where possible, provide photo credit as follows: IHS - name of author.

10. A committee may be appointed to oversee this program. This committee will be empowered to modify this program. Any changes that have been made may be rescinded by a majority of members who choose to vote. This committee will referee any related points of contention concerning the selection of winners. Failing the formation of such a committee, this roll will be reserved for the IHS Board Of Directors.