Definition for Natural History Images for Competition

APPENDIX THREE DEFINITION OF NATURE TO BE USED IN PAGB COMPETITIONS 

Note that images already meeting the separate FIAP Definition of Nature will satisfy this less restrictive definition.

Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality.

Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the
photographic statement. Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and sharpening, is allowed.

Cloning of image defects and minor distractions, including overlapping elements, are permitted when these do not distort the truth of the photographic statement. Images entered as Nature can have landscape, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent
on man for food. Access to biological subjects may be restricted. By entering a PAGB event,
necessary licences.

To make it easy, it’s basically as follows

The Following are OK
 All wild animals
 Animals in zoos, parks, aquariums etc
 Animals with tags, collars etc.
 Plants, Geology, Weather etc as defined above
 Minor post production work outlined above

The following are not OK
 Domestic animals, Feral animals, Cultivated plants
 Manipulation of image to change the actual truth