1. Entries will be accepted from residents of the Commonwealth of Australia and its Territories and from APS member’s resident overseas.

2. An image receiving acceptance or award status in a previous APS Competition is not eligible to be entered in this competition.

3. Entries and entrant details can only be accepted electronically via the entry form on the website. 

4. All Images must have a photographic origin, and the entrant must hold the copyright for the images and not infringe any copyright, moral right or other rights of any person. Where part of an image has been added to the main image, this must have been photographed by the entrant, e.g. If a sky is added, then this must have been taken by the entrant. The entrant cannot add any items, such as clouds, that are provided by a software program. (e.g., AI Generated computer graphic)
   
   For further details, please refer to the APS website relating to Plagiarism: https://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/about-us/plagiarism

5. Judges’ decisions shall be final, and no communication will be entered into regarding such decisions, including feedback.

6. Unless otherwise specified, permission to reproduce entries in the catalogue for publicity and distribution purposes will be assumed, but the author retains the copyright to their images.

7. With APS approval, APS members who received acceptances and awards can use these images when applying for APS honours. 

8. Each entrant will receive a report and details of acceptance or awards. The report and catalogue, as forwarded, will be available on the website in PDF format, and the report details will be forwarded to the email address supplied on the entry form.

9. By submitting images to this competition in digital form, the Entrant agrees to accept without exception or objection the following terms:

1. To ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry, including all relevant definitions. The organising committee reserve the right to call for the original digital image file in RAW format with EXIF data intact if any doubt arises about the authenticity of any submitted photograph. Failure to acknowledge the committee’s request or submit the image by a specified deadline may result in the disqualification of that entry.
2. Images that are submitted as requested may be investigated by any means determined appropriate by the exhibition organisers to establish if the image(s) comply with the conditions of entry.
3. Images that the exhibition organisers deem to breach the Conditions of Entry will be removed from the exhibition. Any acceptances or awards allocated to those images will become void.
4. The exhibition organisers will provide APS with details of all breaches of the Conditions of Entry. APS retains the right to impose sanctions on entrants deemed to have repeatedly breached the Conditions of Entry of any APS Approved exhibition.