• PSA Central Florida Chapter

• PSA Metropolitan Chapter

• PSA Mid-Atlantic Chapter

• PSA Wisconsin Chapter

• General Chair: Gerald H Emmerich Jr., HonFPSA, GMPSA/P, AFIAP (USA)

• E-mail - oakopening@gmail.com

• Entries accepted via Website https://fpcc.fotosalons.in Click on “Register:

Six Sections and Four Salons - All Digital

• OPEN COLOR (PIDC) Color Only

• OPEN MONOCHROME (PIDM) Monochrome Only

• NATURE GENERAL (ND) Color or Greyscale Monochrome

• PHOTOJOURNALISM GENERAL (PJD) Color or Greyscale Monochrome

• PHOTO TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY (PTDD) Color or Greyscale Monochrome

• PHOTO TRAVEL WORLD IN FOCUS (PTDW) Color or Greyscale Monochrome

• One section $15 USD

• Two sections $25 USD

• Three sections $30 USD

• Four sections $35 USD

• Five sections $40 USD

• All six sections $43 USD

• Online PayPal is the only payment method accepted as part of the entry process.

• Circuit entry fees are paid to the PSA PayPal account: admin@psa-photo.org .

• Entries received without the entry fee by the closing date will not be judged.

• Closing Date: 2026-06-29 UTC - 6:00

• All Judging Completed: 2026-07-27

• Score Reports Sent by: 2026-08-03

• EDAS Submitted by 2026-08-28

• Online Galleries Posted by 2026-08-17

• Award/Catalog posted by: 2026-09-27

• Status page and Website available until: 2027-06-29

SALON 1 – CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER:

Exhibition Manager: Jim Mahoney

PIDC, PIDM

• Sharon Prislipsky, APSA, EPSA (Arkansas, USA)

• R. Gary Butler, PPSA (New York, USA)

• Ralph Durham, QPSA, APSA, BPSA (Illinois, USA)

ND, PJD, PTDD, PTDW

• Rosalie Mahoney, APSA, PPSA (Florida, USA)

• Matt Muskovac, APSA, PPSA (Florida, USA)

• John Twiggs, MPSA2 (Florida, USA)

SALON 2 – METROPOLITAN CHAPTER:     

Exhibition Manager: Guo Jiang (John) Ou

PIDC and ND

• Jin Fan. MPSA (New York, USA)

• Jie Fischer, GMPSA/B, BPSA, EFIAP/s (New Jersey, USA)

• Xin Xin Liang, APSA, MPSA, EFIAP (New York, USA)

PIDM

• Jin Fan. MPSA (New York, USA)

• Lingyun Mao, GMPSA, EFIAP (New York, USA)

• Mohammad Ali Salim, APSA, GMPSA, GPSA (New York, USA)

• PJD

• Lingyun Mao, GMPSA, EFIAP (New York, USA)

• Mohammad Ali Salim, APSA, GMPSA, GPSA (New York, USA)

• Xin Xin Liang, APSA, MPSA, EFIAP (New York, USA)

PTDD and PTDW

• Jie Fischer, GMPSA/B, BPSA, EFIAP/s (New Jersey, USA)

• Lingyun Mao, GMPSA, EFIAP (New York, USA)

• Mohammad Ali Salim, APSA, GMPSA, GPSA (New York, USA)

SALON 3 – MID ATLANTIC CHAPTER:            

Exhibition Manager: Henry Ng

Judging All Sections

• Judy Burr, APSA, MPSA2 (Maryland, USA)

• John Davis, Jr., HonFPSA, MPSA (Washington, USA)

• My Phuong Nguyen, APSA, PPSA (Maryland, USA)

SALON 4: WISCONSIN CHAPTER: 

Exhibition Manager: Gerald Emmerich, Jr.

PIDC, PIDM

• Don DeDonato, GMPSA/S, SPSA (Illinois, USA)

• Viki Gaul, FPSA, PPSA, GPSA (Nova Scotia, Canada)

• J.R. Schnelzer, Hon.PSA, GMPSA (Colorado, USA)

ND, PJD, PTDD, and PTWD

Bob Benson, FPSA, EPSA, BPSA (Illinois, USA)

Lin Craft, FPSA (California, USA)

Lillian Roberts, APSA, GMPSA/S (California, USA)

Total Awards – 288

CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER

• Six PSA Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Silver Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Bronze Medals (one per section)

• 18 Judges Choice E-Certificates (three per section)

• 30 Honorable Mention E-Certificates (five per section)

METROPOLITAN CHAPTER

• Six PSA Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Silver Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Bronze Medals (one per section)

• 18 Judges Choice E-Certificates (three per section)

• 30 Honorable Mention E-Certificates (five per section)

MID ATLANTIC CHAPTER Six PSA Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Silver Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Bronze Medals (one per section)

• 18 Judges Choice E-Certificates (three per section)

• 30 Honorable Mention E-Certificates (five per section)

WISCONSIN CHAPTER Six PSA Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Gold Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Silver Medals (one per section)

• Six Chapter Bronze Medals (one per section)

• 18 Judges Choice E-Certificates (three per section)

• 30 Honorable Mention E-Certificates (five per section)

Medals will be posted. E-Certificates will be emailed. The organizer is required to adjust the number of awards based on the total number of acceptances.

• The Catalog will be an electronic PDF file and can be viewed and downloaded from the FC website. https://fpcc.fotosalons.in/

• Results can be downloaded from the website https://fpcc.fotosalons.in/ and individual scorecards will be emailed.

1. Photos must be submitted in JPEG file format and fill out an online entry form on the official website following instructions   https://fpcc.fotosalons.in/ Title of each image cannot exceed 35 characters. Titles do not need to be translated to English but must be given in English characters.

2. Maximum Horizontal width is 1920 pixels. Maximum Vertical height is 1080 pixels at 300 dpi. JPEG Compression 7-12. Maximum file size is 2MB.  Please note, portrait aspect images must be no more than 1080 pixels vertically.

3. Exhibitions are not allowed to resize oversized images. In such cases the entrant is required to resubmit their entry with properly sized images. 

• Judging is to take place remotely (online) by each jury member using their own Color calibrated equipment capable of displaying submitted images at exactly 100% of their resolution (that is, that the images will not be enlarged - at no point zoomed in beyond their native resolution).

• An award session will be held on-line by the judges viewing the images together.

• The target acceptance range will be between 25% and 30% in each section.

• No image may receive more than one individual award in a section, but in circuits an image may receive an award in different salon sections.  Only one award can be given to an entrant in any one section.

• For sections with more than 230 images, no more than 10% of the acceptances can receive medals/awards.