2026 ISAP Image Review & Critique

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ISAP invites members to participate in an exclusive Image Review & Critique, designed to help you refine your work and prepare for PPA’s 2026 International Photographic Competition. This year there are five categories appropriate for animal photographers! (Descriptions are below.)

Each image will be scored using IPC criteria: Impact, Composition, Style, and Technical Excellence. Every image will be critiqued by one of our experienced judges.

This is a members only event and only members will be able to listen to the live audio.

Entry Deadline: August 3, 5:00 p.m. ET

Review & Critique Date: August 4, 11:00 a.m. ET

Entry Fees: $15 per image - Members only

Entry Size: Files must be sized so the longest dimension is 4000 pixels. Each file must contain an embedded color profile of either sRGB or AdobeRGB 1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10.

Please note that mats are not required.

Each image will be scored using IPC criteria: Impact, Composition, Style, and Technical Excellence. One judge will critique each image.

Judging:

Each image will be scored using IPC criteria: Impact, Composition, Style, and Technical Excellence. One judge will critique each image.

Categories (descriptions below)

Pets and Domestic Animals
Sports
Wild Birds
Wildlife - Illustrative
Wildlife - Natural

Questions: Please address any questions to Ellen Zangla and Danica Barreau:

Ellen Zangla, ellen@ellenzanglaphotography.com
Danica Barreau, danica@pouka.com

Email Ellen

Email Danica

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Submission Categories

Featuring the merited images from our members

Pets & Domestic Animals

Portrait of a companion animal or animals, as well as domesticated livestock animals. Wildlife, wild animals, and zoo animals are not allowed in this category. Images that include a subject or subjects other than Pets or Domestic animals are not allowed in this category (no people). Composite and non-composite images and highly manipulated images (Photoshop or similar) are allowed in this category.

Sports

Images that illustrate an actual public or non-public sporting event. ONLY basic color and brightness adjustments, cropping, dodging, and burning in are allowed. Only single-capture images will be accepted. Composite and multiple-exposure, or in-camera, file-stacked images will not be accepted.

Wild Birds

Images must depict actual wild birds in a natural habitat. Cropping, rotating, selective dodge and burn, reducing noise, sharpening, adjusting color/black-and-white, applying grain, and minor retouching is allowed. Photo stitching, focus stacking, and multi-exposure are allowed as long as it is shot at the same time and in the same place as a consecutive sequence, seconds or minutes apart. It is NOT allowed to add or move elements by cloning, healing, patching, content-aware fill, liquefy, or similar tools.

Wildlife - Natural

Images must depict actual wildlife in a natural habitat. Cropping, rotating, selective dodge and burn, reducing noise, sharpening, adjusting color/black-and-white, applying grain, and minor retouching is allowed. Photo stitching, focus stacking, and multi-exposure are allowed as long as it is shot at the same time and in the same place as a consecutive sequence, seconds or minutes apart. It is NOT allowed to add or move elements by cloning, healing, patching, content-aware fill, liquefy, or similar tools.

Wildlife – Illustrative

An Illustrative or graphic depiction of any wildlife subject. Composite and non-composite images and highly manipulated images (Photoshop or similar) are allowed in this category.