AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13397, 28 January 1907, Page 8

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

NINTH PHOTOGRAPHIC COM-

PETITION.

£28 IN PRIZES

LARGEST PRIZE LIST OFFERED IN

AUSTRALASIA.

The proprietors of the Auckland Weekly News have much pleasure in announcing their Ninth Photographic Prize Competition. These competitions are promoted with a view to encouraging photographers, both professional and amateur, to produce pictures suitable for journalistic workPhotography in New Zealand has attained a high standard, and, favoured with unrivalled climatic conditions and an infinite variety of subjects, there is a wide scope and an excellent future for out-door photography. The Weekly News has arranged classes, into which the subjects for competition are divided, to fairly represent the present demands of illustrated journalism. In previous competitions the landscape and seascape pictures have been included in one class, but experience lias shown that in high-class photographs of dissimilar types it is hardly possible to make a fair comparison. It has therefore been decided to encourage both branches individually and make two separate classes with liberal prizes attached to each. The competition is advertised early in order to give intending competitors the benefit of the summer months during which to obtain subjects.

Tho competition will remain open until April 30 next.

The following are the various classes and the amounts of prizes offered : —

I.—A NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE (with or without figure). First prize, £3 ; second prize, £1.

2.—A NEW ZEALAND SEASCAPE (with or without figure). First prize, £3; (second prize, £1.

3,—NEW ZEALAND FIGURE STUDY (European or Maori). First prize, £3 ; second prize, £1.

4.—FARM, STATION. OR BUSH LIFE SCENE- First prize. £3 ; second prize, £1.

SPORTING, HUNTING, RACING, YACHTING, OR BOATING VIFAV First prize, £3; second prize-"^

6.—NEW ZEALAND CO/ Nl j c STUI)^ First prize, £2; ])riz( , £1 '

7.—BEST ERAL COLLECTION °J,y NEW ZEALAND PHOTO--v-ViRAPHS. First prize, £4; second .f' prize, £1.

Exhibits under Class 7 can also be entered in the various classes previously specified, the number of pictures entered by each exhibitor to total at least six. The prizes in Class 7 are open to all except, those who win more than one first prize in the other classes of the competition.

CONDITIONS. No photograph previously published will be allowed to compete. The negatives must in all cases be the work of the competitor.

Competitors should remember that small views, although allowed to compete, are not so suitable for reproduction as large ones.

In awarding the prizes the suitability of the photograph for reproduction will be taken into consideration. Bromide prints are not so suitable for reproduction as those on the ordinary p.o.p. paper.

The proprietors will have the right to reproduce any photographs sent in for competition.

- Good typical pictures of general interest are preferable to those of merely local interest.

In sending in photographs prints should be sent flat, if possible. Particulars should be written on the back .of the print in pencil, without in any way damaging it. All photographs must be addressed to the ■■Competition Editor'' of the Auckland Weekly News, and the class for which it is entered should be clearly marked both on the back of the photograph as well as on the outside of the packet.

Where a nom de plume is used it is advisable to also write the name of the competitor on the print.