This year’s photo show will start from 1st July. We will visit entrant’s ponds over the next eight weeks to take the photographs and video. We will contact the entrants in the coming weeks to arrange a suitable time for this. The video screening and presentation night will then take place at the September club meeting. Every member entering the show will receive a free DVD of the event.
Rules
Members can enter as many koi as they wish.
Members must have attended at least 2 club meetings before the photo show starts to be allowed entry into the show.
Entry cost is £3 per koi.
Entry to the ‘Cod-eye-woofer’ category is free as long as you have entered a koi into the main show.
We have added another extra size category this year, due to large amount of koi expected to be entered. These will be:
Baby 10cm - 35cm
Young 35cm - 45cm
Adult 45cm - 60cm
Mature 60cm and above
In Each size class there will be 2 categories, Go-Sanke and Non-Go-Sanke.
Awards will be given to 1st 2nd and 3rd place in each of these.
The judged ‘Grand champion’ will be removed from any other category, so as not to win more than one trophy, except for best in variety.
Two awards will be given in the ‘Cod-eye-woofer’ category.
This year we will be introducing awards for best in variety –
kohaku, Sanke, Showa, Utsurimono, Bekko, Koromo (including Goshiki), Asagi/Shushui, Tancho, Kin Gin Rin, Kawarimono, Hikari Utsuri, Hikarimuji, Hikarimoyo. Click here to see description of varieties
We can provide a vat for photographing your koi which will be sterilized after each pond visited but you can use your own should you wish, however, we do not recommend using round bowls for photographing koi as they don’t settle enough for taking good pictures.
You must provide your own net and sock for movement of your koi from pond to vat.
It is recommended that you do not feed your koi on the day that your koi are to be photographed.
Koi that have visible infection/wounds/or carp pox will not be allowed entry into the main show. But will be allowed into the ‘code-eye woofer’ championship.
A time limit of 6 minutes will be given for each koi to be photographed. If a koi refuses to be calm in the vat, then the best picture taken will be submitted, or the koi can be withdrawn from the competition.
All koi will be photographed in a head-on manner.
Each pond owner will do a 15 second video introduction to their pond.
Each pond owner will describe every koi entered whilst video is being taken of each koi.
Voting for the members champion, now called the’ Colin Shaw memorial trophy’ will be done on the presentation night by club members only.