Competitions 2025 / 2026 TBC
Note - Images for all competitions must have been taken within two years.
Tuesday 14th October 2025 – Digital Competition
Theme: Woodland
Open: Any subject
Deadline: Tuesday 23rd September - please send a digital versions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Janet Miles
Tuesday 9th December 2025 - Digital and Print Competition
Theme: Minimalism - DIGITAL
Open: Any subject - PRINT
Deadline: Tuesday 18th November - please send a digital versions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Simon Caplan
Tuesday 10th February 2026 - Digital and Print Competition
Theme: 'Colour' make colour the hero of your photograph - PRINT
Open: Any subject - DIGITAL
Deadline: Tuesday 20th January - please send digital versions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Lee Spencer Fleet
Tuesday 21st April Graham Treadwell Mono Print Competition - Prints Only
Theme: Still Life In Natural Light - MONO PRINTS ONLY
Deadline: Tuesday March 31st - please also send digital versions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: TBC
Tuesday 2nd June - Annual Panel Challenge
Theme: Any subject in a panel of 3 - 5 images (older images allowed but over half the images to have been taken within 2 years)
Print section and Digital Section
Deadline: Tuesday May 19th - please send digital versions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: TBC
September 2026- Howard Evans Trophy awarded for the "Photograph Of The Year" at the Annual Exhibition
Printed, mounted and framed images for the annual exhibition. Any photograph you like that would have been eligible for entry in club competitions for the 2025/26 club year. Up to 2 images per person.
Mounts - antique white or poster black to fit a 12” x 16” frame
Frames to be purchased from the club
Submission Deadline: July 1st for selected images. Prints ready by 1st August.
More details on how to prepare prints for the exhibition are in the members area of the website.
The detailed competition rules are being updated. Members will be notified when the updated rules have been published.
Please note only members of the club are eligible to enter images to competitions and critiques.
How to Submit your images
Please ask if you would like any help with resizing or mounting your images
Mounted Prints
Please mount your prints in a 400mm x 500mm mount
Prints must be identified only by the Entrant’s Membership Number and the Title of the Print written on the back of the mount.
Each Print entered is to be accompanied by a Digital Projected Image of that Print, to ensure that the Club has a lasting record of all Competition Entries. These should follow the size guidelines for DPIs below.
DIGITAL IMAGES
Digital images must be a JPEG file, within 1920 pixels wide for landscape or 1200 high for portrait or square images. 300 dpi
Please follow the steps below in order that the competition secretary can enter your DPis into our competition software without having to rename all or some of them.
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Create a folder and rename it with your name and the competition i.e. ‘Your name_qtr 1,2,3 or 4’
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Within this folder create two sub-folders and name them ‘your name_Open’ and ‘your name_Themed’
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Insert your images into the correct folders naming them in order of priority i.e.. ‘1_Title......3_Title’
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Email your DPI folders to a1cccompetition@gmail.com by the submission date shown in the programme.
Printing
Recommended professional printers
Harmann Labs Printing
One Vision Printing
Penny Batch fine art printers – Wells
CA Printers – Weston super Mare
Mounting
We run mount cutting sessions in the weeks before competition deadlines and through August at Weston Museum
Weston Super Frames
Printing at Home
Please ask club members for their recommendations for printers and papers to purchase for home printing.