Trenna Packer Salver

Entries open on 1 May 2021

By James Thompson, Salon Coordinator

THE TRENNA PACKER Salver competition is the annual New Zealand nature inter-club competition run by the Nature Photography Society of New Zealand. This competition is for sets of six nature projected images and is open to all clubs in New Zealand. The objective of the Trenna Packer Salver Competition is to illustrate the diversity of the natural world in New Zealand and its offshore islands.

We hope that by running an annual New Zealand nature inter-club competition we can promote an increasing interest in photographing the natural world as well as encouraging best practice in photographing nature subjects.

Coordinators of sets, please note that the competition is for sets and the image showing the format should be presented in a single row of six. The emphasis is on the set, rather than on the individual images, so it may be better to leave out an excellent image if it does not fit well with other images in the set. The completed set must provide a pleasing demonstration of both technical skill and artistry. They will be judged for flow and cohesion, from image one to two, two to three, three to four, etc. As this is a nature competition, titling is important.

Clubs are invited to make it even harder for our judge this year by using diversity, flow, cohesion and correct titling.

This year the judge is Bob McCree FPSNZ. Bob has been a member of the Howick Photograph Society for the past 33 years and is a life member. He is a Fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand. Bob’s favourite photographic interests are landscape, natural history in general, bird photography, macro photography in nature and photojournalism. He lives in Auckland and travels throughout the country, photographing the towns and the countryside, flora and fauna, and events.

Last year the competition was won by the Christchurch Photographic Society. Judge, Julia Home APSNZ EFIAP/b AAPS GPSA PPSA, had this to say about the set:

” A good variety of subjects with consistent image sizes. A very strong starting image and a lovely strong finishing image. No repetitive subjects and all images are of equal size, giving good transition from one image to the other. Just watch the relative brightness of image 4 compared to the rest of the set.”

Entries close on 18 June 2021. See details at https://naturephotography.nz/trenna-packer-salver/