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Internal Competitions

Competition Evenings

These are competitions amongst Society members and are judged by a variety of experienced judges or professional photographers. There is a mix of open and themed competitions, and images are marked out of 20. Any member can enter and judging takes place anonymously, so it's a great forum for everyone to have their images constructively critiqued.

The total scores from the print and DPI (digital projected image) competition rounds held each season decide who are our "top" photographers in each category.

To see all future scheduled competition evenings click here. Logged-in members can check the submission deadline dates here.

2023/24 Competition Round 4 Judged!


Round 4 of the 2023/24 season of our internal competition took place on Tuesday 5th March 2024 with an 'Open' theme. The judge was Tom Peck. A report of Tom's general comments is available in the blog (see link below).

Twelve members presented prints in the first half of the evening.

Four images were held back for a second look. The highest scorers, scoring the maximum 20, were 'Radio City NYC' by Colin Page and 'Amongst the Grave Makers' by Chris Murray. Their photos can be seen in the blog (see link below) and the galleries (see link below).

Twenty-seven members entered the DPI competition in the second half of the evening.

Eight images were held back for a second look. The highest scorers, scoring the maximum 20, were 'Battersea Lights' by Chris Murray, 'This Might Hurt!' by Sonny Doonga, 'Day of the Jackal' by Rob Wilkinson, 'Shed' by Alan Larsen & 'Natalie on Sugimoto' by Susi Luard. Again, their photos can be seen in the blog (see link below) and the galleries (see link below).

 
Thanks to Dennis Law & Debbie Smyth for managing the IT and image projection, & to Colin Page and Rob Wilkinson for handling the Prints.

There is a full report on the evening on the Society’s Blog at: 

Blog

and you can see all the images in the latest Galleries and slideshows below:

Print Gallery

DPI Gallery

The results for Round 4 can be found here:

Internal Competition Results Round 4 2023/24 PRINTS

Internal Competition Results Round 4 2023/24 DPI


2023/24 Competition Totals


After this, the fourth & final competition of our Internal Competition Season 2023/24, cumulative totals can be found via these links:

Internal Competition Totals after Round 4 of 2023/24 Season PRINTS

Internal Competition Totals after Round 4 of 2023/24 Season DPI

*PLEASE NOTE before you contact the Competitions' Secretary that the “Ranked Scores” (the lower table in the linked pages above) show the scores for each image for each member from highest to lowest scoring (from left to right), NOT the round scores! 


2023/24 Competition Winners

Round 4, being the final, the results of this year's internal competition are:

In the Print Competition, Dan Waller came third, with 69 points. Nick Bowman came second, with 70 points. The winner, with 75 points and, therefore, the new holder of the Marston Trophy is Debbie Smyth.

In the DPI Competition, Paul Shelley and Susi Luard came second equal, with 70 points. The winner, with 74 points and, therefore, the new holder of the Howe Trophy is Colin Page.

Slideshow
2024-03-Print
Slideshow
2024-03-DPI

Coming Soon! The new 2024/25 Season begins - dates, themes and judges

Round 1: The next Internal Competition evening will be the new Season's first competition, on Tuesday, 4th June (entry deadline is midnight on Saturday 1st June). The genre is 'Landscape', so members may submit photographs on this theme only. The judge will be Slawek Staszczuk, who will be visiting the Society on Tuesday 16th April to speak about and inspire members on the same theme.

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