PSA 2026-1069
TIR CHONAILL 2026
EXHIBITION DETAILS (PART
A)
Chair: Aleksandar
Sasic (Ireland) Email: office@photoclubemerald.com Location
of Entry Form: https://photoclubemerald.com Click on “ENTRY FORM”
SECTIONS AND THEMES
Five Sections and One
Salon– All Digital
OPEN COLOUR (color
only) PIDC
OPEN MONOCHROME (monochrome
only) PIDM WOMAN (color only) PIDC
LIFE (color only) PIDC
PORTRAIT (monochrome
only) PIDM
FEES AND DISCOUNT 1-3 sections = 15 EURO
4-5 sections = 18 EUR
No Discount
The entry fee can be paid through our website: https://photoclubemerald.com/
By PayPal ID to office@photoclubemerald.com
CALENDAR
Closing date: 2026-02-23
UTC+00:00, Greenwich Mean
All judging completed by: 2026-03-23
Score reports sent by: 2026-03-30
EDAS submitted by: 2026-04-24
Online Galleries posted by: 2026-04-13
Award/Catalog posted by: 2026-05-24
Status Page and Website availability to: 2027-02-23
JUDGES
BRIAN HOPPER, EFIAP/D2, (Ireland) EVA LAMBROPOULU GMPSA,
EFIAP/D2 (Greece)
TIANYI XIONG IPA (China)
AWARDS
The judges
of the event will present the following awards
5 x PSA Gold Medals,
5 x Salon Gold e-certificates
5 x Salon Silver e-certificates
5 x Salon Bronze e-certificates
15 x Salon Honorable Mentions e-certificates
1 x DPA Badge for best author
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E-certificates will not be posted.
Entrants are responsible for downloading and printing their e-certificates.
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All other Awards (Medals) will be
posted.
The organizer is required to
adjust the number of awards based on the total number of entrants
CATALOG
PDF downloadable from web site
by participants. https://photoclubemerald.com/
Result can be downloaded from the website and
individual scorecards will be emailed.
DIGITAL
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Entrants must fill out an
Online Entry Form on the official website and submit entries online:
https://photoclubemerald.com/
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Title of each image cannot
exceed 35 characters. Titles do not need to be translated to English but must
be given in English characters.
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Photos must be in JPEG format, dimensions no more than 1920 pixels
horizontal width by no more than 1080 pixels vertical height
at 300 dpi, JPEG compression value 7-12. Maximum file size is 2 Mb.
Please note, portrait aspect
images must be no more than 1080 pixels vertically.
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Exhibitions are not
allowed to resize oversized images. In such cases the entrant is required to
resubmit their entry with properly sized images.
JUDGING
METHOD
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The
judging will be done by remote online judging using color-calibrated
monitors. Images will be displayed at exactly 100% of their
resolution. That is - the
images will not be enlarged beyond their native resolution
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An award session will be held on-line by the judges viewing the images
together.
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Distribution of images shall be
in the same round order as submitted by the entrant, but they shall not appear
to the judges’ consecutively. Remote judging will take place and all judges
shall use their own color calibrated equipment capable of displaying submitted
images at 100% of their resolution.
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At no stage will exhibition
software allow a judge to view all the entrant’s images together.
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Target Acceptance Range: 25 -
30%
Applicable Rules: This exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules
of the PSA.
Entry Requirements: This
exhibition is open to everyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the
exhibition chair believes the entry does not conform to PSA exhibition rules
and these Conditions of Entry. Membership in any photographic organization is not required. Neither awards nor acceptances will be granted to any entrant who is on the PSA Penalties List for Ethics Violation, and entry fees are not refundable in these
circumstances. Throughout this document, entrant,
author and photographer are used interchangeably, and each term refers to the
person who is the original creator of a submitted image. Entrants are required
to submit their own entries with properly sized images.
PSA Star Ratings: To receive
star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country
exactly the same way in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please
contact PSA in the event of a name
change or relocation to another country. Using one’s name differently in
different exhibitions exposes the entrant to the risk that many of their
acceptances may not be recognized in PSA Star records.
Reproduction: Entrants grant sponsors free reproduction rights for
exhibition-related media, including low- resolution web posting. Entries will
not be accepted from entrants who restrict reproduction rights. PSA may request
specific permission for educational use under mutually agreed terms. If an
image violates PSA’s exhibition rules or its Ethics
Policy, PSA may reproduce the image without permission for educational purposes or to illustrate rule
violations, with the entrant's name withheld. Neither PSA nor the exhibition
assumes liability for copyright misuse.
Re-use of accepted images: Any image that has been accepted in this exhibition, past or present,
may not be entered again in the same division star
ratings class in any future instances of this exhibition. It may be entered in any other PSA
recognized exhibitions but must always
have the same title. Re-titling in another language is not allowed.
Entry: An entry consists of up to 4 images
per section, with each image limited to 20 total acceptances per star
path. Identical or similar images are prohibited within the same exhibition, and if similar images are uploaded, all will be disqualified
across all sections. While similar images may be entered in different
exhibitions, they may later be disallowed during star/diamond/galaxy
application reviews. Similar images are those which are practically equivalent,
as defined on the page available at https://psa-services.org/ES/#entrants . To avoid disappointment, do not enter images
that are practically equivalent. Watermarks, copyright text or any other
visible markings are prohibited.
Titles:
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Each image requires
a unique name that contains
a maximum of 35 characters.
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Each title is to be used consistently across all PSA exhibitions, without
variations introduced by typographic errors or punctuation.
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Nothing in the image title can identify
the photographer.
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A title should be an interpretive or meaningful title that transforms a visual document into a deliberate artistic statement. Titles entered
as file numbers
such as IMG_6608, DSC-76499 or in any other camera
file format are prohibited.
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Meaningful Titles may be followed
by numbers, for example, Ballet
Dancer 34.
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Titles may use Latin1 or Latin2 character
sets which allow diacritical marks
(é, ñ, ü, ą, ę, ś, etc), however
non-Latin writing systems
(العربية, русский, ελληνικά, 中文, カタカナ, देवनागरी ) may cause problems in Catalogs, Galleries and Star
applications.
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Color and Monochrome images from the same capture
that share substantial pictorial content in common will be considered the same
image and must be given the same title.
Protection of Entrants' Personal
information: By entering this exhibition, you agree to comply with PSA rules and policies, and consent to the
exhibition chair and recognized organizations holding and processing your
personal details for exhibition purposes, and accept that your participation
status (name, country, sections/photos entered) and results will be made public
in status lists, galleries, and catalogs.
Target Acceptance Range:
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The acceptance target range will be no more than 30% in each section except 3D, which cannot be more than 45%.
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No image may receive more than one individual award in a section of any salon. In circuits
an image may receive an award in different salon
sections.
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The organizer is required to adjust the number of awards based on the total number
of acceptances.
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For sections with more than 250 images,
no more than 10% of the acceptances can receive awards,
and for sections with 250
images or less the chair will allow a maximum of 7 awards.
SUBJECT MATTER
AND DEFINITIONS
While the following section provides
summaries of PSA definitions, entrants
must refer to the
PSA website for the authoritative definitions for
each Division: https://psaphotoworldwide.org/page/exhibitions
Image Creation
and Authorship
Summary: All submitted images must be entirely the photographer's original
work, including post-processing, with every pictorial
element captured by the submitting photographer. Images must not incorporate or present other
artists’ work as the photographer's own, in whole or in part (clip art, stock
images, replacement skies, photos of others’ artwork, AI-generated content, etc). The term author refers to the person who is the original creator of a
submitted image; photographers may own the rights to use purchased content,
however authorship requires that all visual elements in the submitted
photograph be personally created by the photographer. Photographers must retain
copyright ownership of all visual elements contained within any submitted
image, including composites. A violation of this rule constitutes plagiarism, a
serious PSA ethics offense.
Artificial Intelligence
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