Single Picture Categories

1. Spot News - A picture of an unscheduled event for which no advance planning was possible.

2. General News - A picture of a scheduled event for which advance planning was possible.

3. Feature - Usually a found situation with strong human interest.

4. Sports Action - An action photograph that captures the competitive spirit.

5. Sports Feature - A sports-related picture with strong human interest.

6. Portrait - A picture of a person that reveals the essence of the subject's character.

7. Pictorial - A graphic image: composition, tonal and color qualities as important as subject matter. Sometimes of places, but of course may include people.

8. Food Illustration - Often a created picture, showing food in an inventive way. Each entry must have a title.

9. Fashion Illustration - Often a created picture, emphasizing clothes, jewelry, cosmetics or some other aspect of human adornment. Each entry must have a title.

10. Personal Vision - A picture that does not fit into any other category. May be an abstraction or any non-traditional photograph.

Multiple Picture Categories

11. Picture Story - A series of pictures of a subject that when viewed together provide an overall understanding of the subject. May be news, feature or sports. Eight pictures maximum per story.

12. Sports Portfolio - Demonstrate versatility. Submit a maximum of eight action and feature photographs that include at least three different sports. No stories.

13. Documentary - A photographic essay or extended story that addresses social ills. Entries in this category should portray contemporary concerns present in today s society, like rights of the underpriviledged, racism, gender equality, ecological dangers or other topics of similar importance. For this category only: To encourage long-term projects, pictures may be from previous years work. But, more than one-half of the pictures must have been taken, or first published, between March 1, 1998 and February 28, 1999. (Maximum 15 photos.)

14. Portfolio - A portfolio may contain no more than 20 entries, totaling no more than 80 slides. Picture stories, sports portfolios and documentary entries each count as a single entry. A portfolio must include at least one story or sports portfolio or documentary entry and entries in four of the other categories. A portfolio entry must be submitted in a carousel slide tray.

15. Online or Multimedia Photo Story or Essay - A story or essay that is meant to be viewed on the World Wide Web or on a CD-ROM. The content photographs, text, sound, video, design, editing and overall organization for clarity and effectiveness of story-telling will be the guiding criteria for the judges. The photography, sound collection, editing AND the creation of the website or multimedia project MUST be entirely the work of the entering photographer. No more than 1 story per entry. The photographer s name cannot be visible anywhere on the entry. If a WWW entry, please submit the URL and one copy of the website recorded onto CD-ROM, ZIP, JAZ or floppy disk. (The site will be viewed live, but we would like the files as a back-up for viewing.) If a CD-ROM entry, it must be a self-running program or a Quicktime format that can be viewed with a standard player on a Macintosh or Windows OS computer. Each project, whether CD-ROM or Web-based, must include a Read Me which includes information about the optimum viewing (e.g., information regarding browser type, computer, OS, etc.). Entries must have been initiated and completed within the last 18 months (since September 1, 1997.) Web entries may not be modified after the local version is received at CPOY headquarters March 31. This category may not be entered in category #14 - the portfolio.