March 2026

The next competition night is 7:30pm, Tuesday 10 March 2026.

This meeting will be in-person at the Lounge Room at the St Luke’s Anglican Church and Community Centre, 3 Russell Road Manurewa (Cnr Russell and Weymouth Rds)

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and online on Google Meet.

Here is the link:MPS Club Night: Patterns in Nature / Judge: Sheryl Williams
Tuesday, 10 March · 7:30 – 10:30pm
Time zone: Pacific/Auckland
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rku-gxxe-fhn

Registration and upload of images is via the MPS website > Competition > Photo Upload 2025 > Monthly Uploaders

If you wish, you can upload images months ahead of time.
After submission, images cannot be changed or removed, so take extra care when selecting the images you want to enter.

You will receive a confirmation email after each submission. If you do not, your submission has not been received.

Please do not leave it to the last minute to enter your images in case you run into problems. 

If you do have problems or have any questions, please contact Bryan; digital.manukauphoto@gmail.com

N.B. You must be a financial member before you can enter any club competitions.
A total of up to three images may be submitted each month. The entered images may be all set subject, all open subject, or a combination of both.

The close off date for the registration of digital images is midnight Sunday 15 February 2026.

N.B. Deadlines for entries are now much earlier than in previous years.

It would be appreciated if entrants ensure their entries are formatted correctly and registered by the close off date.

N.B. LATE ENTRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

The set subject for March is Patterns in Nature  and the judge is Sheryl Williams.

MPS Club Definition: Patterns in Nature

Here, what is sought are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. This includes plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans and human creations. The actual pattern is to be the highlight of the image, so an artistic or creative treatment that showcases a particular pattern is the goal.

Digital Registration

Digital images must be uploaded by midnight on Sunday 15 February 2026.The file name of each entry must be in one of these formats:

Set Subject:      S_MMMYY_Number_Name_Title

Open Subject:  O_MMMYY_Number_Name_Title

E.g., if two images are being entered into the Set Subject competition they must be named in this manner:

S_MAR26_Joe Bloggs_Black Sky

S_MAR26_Joe Bloggs_No Title

Image size: no more than 1920 pixels wide and no more than 1080 pixels high.

Colour Space: sRGB

File Type: JPG

The author must include “COMPETITION USE ONLY” in the file name if he or she does not want the image(s) to be displayed on the MPS website (see “Use of Members’ Images” below).

The author must include “Newcomer”  in the file name if he or she is a Newcomer.

Use of Members’ Images

Entering an image (print or digital) into a MPS competition or into an external competition via MPS grants the club permission to publicly display that image at MPS meetings for the purposes of competition and recognising good work. 

MPS wants to display those images which are awarded Honours and Highly Commended on the MPS website and in the club’s Facebook page. Submitting a digital competition entry or a digital version of a print entry to MPS grants the club permission to display that image on the MPS website and in the club’s Facebook page unless the member opts out by including “COMPETITION USE ONLY” in the file name of the image submitted.

Any other use of a member’s image will only occur with the prior permission of the author, e.g. club representation in external competitions.

Images will remain the property of their author at all times and the author will be acknowledged on the MPS website and in the club’s Facebook page if his or her images appear in those publications.

Contact

Members who have questions should contact digital.manukauphoto@gmail.com

Further information can be found on the club website: https://manukauphoto.org.nz/