Vetting Checklist
Pictorial Images Definition (Approved by the Competitions Committee, April 2025)
- Sports / People in Action (people should be substantially visible in the image)
- People / Portraits
- Architecture
- Creative Vision (Any form of image manipulation is allowed)
- Abstract Subjects (images that focus on shapes, colors, and forms, often detached from their real-world context)
- Experimental Photography (Incorporating unconventional methods, such as double exposures, ICM, application of painterly filters, etc.)
- Still Life / Tabletop Photography
- Close Up Photography
- Food
- Man-made Objects
- Transportation
- Urban or Rural Life
- Street Photography
- Pictorial Landscape (A landscape or seascape in which HOM is a major component of the image or the subject of the image)
- Plants, Trees and Fungi (Includes wild or cultivated flowers and plants photographed in a controlled environment or in the wild. Controlled environments include studios and indoor settings. To qualify as a pictorial image, (unlike the rules in our Nature and Natural Things competitions), these images do not need to be a true representation of the natural world. The emphasis on these images is the artistic/creative rendering of plants, trees and fungi, not the story telling value.
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