Glennie Nature Salon for 2020

It’s time to be looking through your best nature images to submit for the Glennie Nature Salon.

The images above by Charise Tanner and Marek Pawlowicz won awards last year.

Unlike other competitions, entries are submitted by clubs rather than directly by individuals. Each club is allowed to submit 10 images. We are collecting entries through 31 January and then will conduct judging to select the 10 that we will submit.

Upload your entries here.

The club can entry to Glennie can include more more than two images per individual. However, you may upload up to 5 images for our selection process.

More specifics about how we will select the club entries will be forthcoming.

Read the announcement below for detailed requirements.

Contact Craig Shier for questions about your entries and the club process.

The Merrimack Valley Camera Club is pleased to announce the 39th George W. Glennie Nature Salon photographic competition. The salon is open to camera clubs and photographic associations worldwide. Last year, over 60 clubs submitted images for competition. This is a premier, international all-nature club competition of digital images known for its diversity of subjects which range from animals to botany to landscapes. In the animal categories, birds and mammals are usually well represented, but each year about a third of the entries are invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians or marine & freshwater life. Awards The Glennie presents awards to both club and individual images.  Club awards include: Top 5 Clubs Total Score Top 5 Clubs Diversity Award – determined by totaling the highest image scores for each category entered. Individual image awards include: Best of Show Best Wildlife Best of Category (Birds, Invertebrates, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals, Marine & Freshwater Life, Botany, and Landscape) Subcategory and Honor Awards depending upon number of entries. How to Enter Registration is on-line.  Each club may submit up to 10 entries, but no more than 2 from any one maker. The club entry fee is $50 payable via PayPal.   Detailed competition rules and the instructions for submission are found on the Merrimack Valley Camera Club’s website .

Key Dates Entries Open –  January 1, 2020 Entries Close –  February 29, 2020 Competition  –  April 18, 2020 Results Posted –  TBD Categories Botany Landscape Animals Birds Mammals Invertebrates Reptiles Amphibians Marine & Freshwater Life More Information New this year: Each digital image may have a maximum width of 1400 pixels and a maximum height of 1050 pixels. The image must be submitted in JPEG (.jpg) format, and the size is limited to no more than 2 Megabytes (MB). The competition will be held at the Merrimack Valley Camera Club, Trinitarian Congregation Church, 72 Elm St, North Andover MA 01845.  Judging will commence at 9:00 AM and continue until finished in the afternoon. The public is welcome to attend the judging.