Competition Rules:

1. Photos submitted must be consistent with the subject A Favourite Portrait, which must be a photograph of one or more human beings. 

2. Your photo(s) can be submitted from 1 June until 30 September 2023.

3. No more than two photos per resident. 

4. Your photograph(s) must be in jpg format and between 2-10 megabytes but the judges may, in exceptional circumstances, allow entries which do not meet these requirements. 

5. All photographs must have been taken on or after 1 June 2023. 

6. If you submit a photograph taken on private property you must have obtained the permission of the property owner. 

7. All photographs submitted must, before being submitted, have the written consent in approved form of the subject(s) or, where applicable, a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 or other vulnerable people. Such consent must, on request, be submitted to the judges, failing which they will not qualify for selection. 

8. The decisions of the judges on all aspects of the competition are final. 

Submission: 

9. When submitting your photograph please confirm that you have read the rules of the competition and please provide the details requested, including: confirming that you took the photograph, your name, address, email address, phone number and age, if you are under 18 years on 1 June 2023.

10. Please also submit a short note (not less than 25 and not more than 250 words) about how your photograph relates to the theme. 

11. If you are submitting a cropped or edited image, please also submit a copy of the original, unedited image at the same time. 

12. If you are under 18 years old on the date of submission, your photograph must be submitted by your parent or guardian, who must also provide their own contact details. 

13. Submission of your photo will constitute confirmation that you are willing for your photograph to be reproduced (with acknowledgement to you) by Suburb News and by the HGS Residents Association, in print, on websites and any public exhibition of competition photos. Judging: 

14. Photos will not be disqualified from the competition merely because they are cropped or the subject of a limited amount of editing, which, in the view of the judges, does not substantially alter the original image. 

15. The best four photographs chosen by the judges will be published in the December 2023 edition of Suburb News. 

16. Photographs submitted by under-18s may be judged separately and the winning photograph(s) may be published in Suburb News. 

17. All submitted entries may be viewable on the HGSRA website after judging. 

18. Some photographs may be offered for inclusion in the HGS Virtual Museum and, if accepted, will be posted by Heritage with permission of the photographer.

Submit Photograph:

To enter the competition submit your photograph here