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Nature Group Page

Nature Group

Welcome to the Dublin Camera Club Nature Group’s web page

The DCC Nature Group is a special interest group for members of Dublin Camera Club.  We share a love of Nature and Wildlife photography, and we are at all different levels in the club some very Novice and some very Advanced, most somewhere in between.  Over the year some meetings will have invited speakers on specific nature topics while other meetings will be members discussing issues around Nature & Wildlife (N&W) Photography.  

 

Next Nature Zoom Meetings

There will be no Thursday Zoom meeting in April as the Nature Competition judging will be on the Tuesday night.
 
2025 Nature Competition
 
DCC members will be invited to submit up to four digital images to compete in our DCC Annual Nature Competition. 
 
The Nature Photographer of the Year award, in two categories: Advanced and Non-advanced, will be assigned to the highest aggregate score of best three images from four submitted.  The judge will grade images out of 50 based on merit.
 
Image awards will also be assigned under the following headings
Best Mammal Image
Best Bird Image
Best Close-up / Macro Image
Best Other Nature Image
 
Rules
  • FIAP nature rules (see link below). 
  • To be eligible for Nature Photographer of the Year Award members should submit 4 images. The aggregate of the best 3 scores of the 4 will be used for placings and overall winner.
  • Images that were entered in our previous DCC Annual Nature Competitions cannot be entered in this year’s Nature Competition.
  • Images may be in colour or monochrome.
  • One image may be entered into each of the four categories or multiple images into some categories.
 
Key Dates
Submission: Before midnight on TUESDAY 15th of APRIL  2025
Judging: TUESDAY 29th of APRIL 2025 in Camden Street and on Zoom
 
Submission of images:
Images must be submitted by midnight on 15th of April 2025 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
 
Please size image as per competition sizing requirements (images no larger than 3000 pixels on the long side and a maximum file size of 3MB)
 
Your files should be named as follows: 
Division_ImageCat_ImageNo_NomDePlume_Title
where
Division: A = Advanced and N = non-advanced
Image Category: M = Mammal  and B = Bird and C = Close-up/Macro and O = Other Nature
 
Examples
A_M_1_NdeP_Red Squirrel (Advanced image for Mammal Category, the 1st image by NdeP titled Red Squirrel)
A_B_2_NdeP_Kingfisher (Advanced image for Bird Category, the 2nd image by NdeP titled Kingfisher
N_C_1_POTY_Ladybird (Non-advanced image for Close-up/Macro category, the 1st image from POTY titled Ladybird)
N_O_3_POTY_Rough Seas (Non-advanced image for Other category, the 3rd image from POTY titled Rough Seas)
 
It is recommended that the image title should be a simple descriptive title when entering nature competitions.  
 
Any queries can be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
 

Our Gallery 

Our nature gallery is an opportunity for nature group members to display their images on a chosen nature theme.  Click HERE for our current Gallery which features images submitted by members:

 

What is Nature or Wildlife photography?

Most members just want to enjoy photographing nature and wildlife but there is a precise definition of what is Nature or Wildlife photography (they do differ) and what you can do to an image in post processing to enter it in a competition under either heading. If you are entering competitions in either genre then these definitions are necessary.  These are set out by FIAP/PSA HERE  and endorsed by Dublin Camera Club for any of its competitions under either category.  

 

Nature Photographers' Code of Practice 

Linked HERE is a code of practice from the UK RPS Nature Group.  Basically it is a code of practice that we would subscribe to.  There are references in it to pieces of legislation which are of course UK Acts.  We will in due course identify the Irish equivalents where such exist.  Meanwhile we remember that we are nature lovers first and photographers second so the basic principle is: The welfare of the subject is more important than the photograph. 

 

Nature Links

Competition Websites - Images / Results

Nature Photographer of the Year

Close-up Photographer of the Year

International Garden Photographer of the Year (Not completely nature but some images are of interest to nature photographers)

 

Links to images of Guest Speakers

Kevin Morgans

Tina Claffey

Bill Power

Jamie MacArthur

 

Other links

Some Nature links have been moved to the Useful Links page

 

Contact Us

Please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wish to join the group or if you have ideas, suggestions, tell us what we are doing wrong or even right or any other reason.