Members are invited to submit up to 5 JPEG images (Colour space: sRGB) to exhibition@bishopthorpecc.co.uk using We Transfer between 25th October and 1st November. Your entry must be accompanied by a completed entry form including your name, image titles and order of display preference. There is a £5 fee for entry (covering all your images), which will help the Club to defray costs.
Full instructions and an entry form can be found in the email that was circulated ahead of the 2025 submission deadline.
Images may be monochrome or colour and in any genre as long as the selection panel consider them to be suitable for display in a family friendly, public space. You must not include images that have been previously submitted for any BCC Exhibition.
It is important that your submission complies with the designated aspect ratios, pixel dimensions, file size and image naming set out in the instructions. Please note that due to time constraints, late or incorrectly sized images may not be considered. What follows here is a brief synopsis of the guidance. If you have any queries regarding your images, please contact the Exhibition Team.
Image sizes
Selected images will be printed at the following sizes and aspect ratios (see below). Pixel dimensions are those best suited for printing based on the print sizes that will be used in the Exhibition. Heavily cropped images are unlikely to be of sufficient quality for printing.
18×12 inches: 3:2 ratio (at least 4320 by 2880 pixels, ideal 5400 by 3600 pixels).
16×12 inches: 4:3 ratio (at least 3840 by 2880 pixels, ideal 4800 by 3600 pixels).
12×12 inches: 1:1 ratio (at least 2800 by 2800 pixels, ideal 3600 by 3600 pixels).
Typical file sizes will be in the range of 3-20 Mb. Please do not send larger files as handling becomes problematic. NB Some images that are largely blocks of a single colour with little detail may be much smaller.
Metadata and File Names:
Please provide a file name and also a title. The file name and title should be the same. Please use upper case for the first letter of the first word, then lower case for subsequent words except when upper case is essential (eg as in York).
You should include: order of preference (1, 2, 3 etc), the aspect ratio (32/43/SQ), orientation (L/P), image title, your name. So, for example, an image that is your first choice and has an aspect ratio of 3:2, in portrait orientation, should be named using the following convention: 1, 32P, A big tree, Your Name. A second choice square image should be named: 2, SQ, A big tree, Your Name.
Submissions for the Exhibition must use a comma between the order of preference, aspect ratio/orientation and the title (formatted as above) as this syntax is required for sorting the images. Do not use any other punctuation mark (eg as in Spash! Your Name).