2025 Topics
Special Project: Shapes - Series of four photos representing the shapes circle, square, triangle, and line. Images should be a cohesive group suitable to display together and can be pictorial or nature. Projects will be displayed at the 2025 Banquet.
Pictorial
First meeting of the month
January
Open
February
Body Parts-Eye, ear, finger, toe, beak, claw, wing, emphasis on any single body part
March
Formal Open
April
Transportation-Focusing on vehicles, trains, boats, or other modes of transportation, in motion or at rest
May
Open
June
Celestial-Day or night, moon, sun, stars, etc.
July
Formal Open
August
Time
September
Open
October
Macro-Mechanical
November
Formal Open
December
Music as Inspiration-Chose your favorite song, artist, or genre, shoot a new album cover, choose a song title and take a photo that fits, illustrate the lyrics of a song, etc.
Nature
Second meeting of the month
January
Reflections and Shadows-Play with reflective surfaces and shadows to create artistic compositions
February
Open
March
H2O-Water in any of its states of matter
April
Formal Open
May
Rock Solid-Rocks, minerals, fossils
June
Open
July
Cold-blooded-Ectotherms include invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians-basically animals that are not mammals or birds
August
Formal Open
September
Macro-Leaves
October
Open
November
Aquatic Creatures-These could be pictures of creatures taken at the zoo or aquarium, or in the wild, not necessarily photographed under water, they just need to spend most of their time in water
December
Open
* Format is informal unless otherwise noted
* Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings may be held virtually. When meetings are virtual, only PDI submissions will be accepted. For the end of year competition, a PDI submitted for a formal topic during a virtual meeting may be submitted as a print. All rules for formal prints will apply.
* Meetings from March 2020-August 2020 were not held due to the COVID-10 pandemic. Since there were no images submitted for many of the topics it has been decided to repeat the 2020 topics in 2022.
More information can by found on the Positive Critique Sessions page and in the Bylaws (Article VIII Section 2 and Article IX).