Paula Beaumont – Wins the photographers bar in natural world.
10th March 2020
So…. this happened!! Last year I decided to push myself photographically so I entered The Guild of Photographers Image of the Month Competition. The standard is crazy… I’d been a member for a few years but never dared entered, I mean these guys were awesome! I could never do that, could I? So I put my big girls pants on and entered. You have to go over every single pixel of these images, one dust bunny and that’s it, no points!
You score Gold – 7 points, Silver – 4 points, Bronze – 2 points and then zero for classifieds.
A Gold Bar .. Images of particular distinction (very rare)
A Silver Bar .. Images that are very well crafted (difficult to achieve)
A Bronze Bar .. Images of a strong standard at a national competition level (something to be proud of)…
Classified .. Images of a standard worthy of acknowledgement relevant to the genre entered but which are not deemed award winning at national competition level.
Not scored .. Images that do not reach our ‘Classified’ level score will not be given a grade.
Becoming a member of the Photographer’s Bar is a unique distinction awarded to those photographers who have had images assessed by the Guild via the Image of the Month competition over the course of a competition year.
In other words any member who can secure 24 points* in one section of the Photography of the Year from 24 images in any 8 months of the same competition year will be awarded honorary life membership of the ‘Photographer’s Bar’ in order to acknowledge the fact they have submitted strong images consistently throughout the year in competition judged in accordance with national scoring criteria – a distinction that is very difficult to achieve!! Membership of this exclusive club is clearly something to aim for…
Here are my images that scored me the points for 2019 – 1 gold, 4 silver and the rest bronze.
