Internal Club Competitions 2026 / 2027
How to Submit your images
1. resize your images to within 1920px wide for landscapes or 1200px high for portrait and square
2. give your image files a title ie. 1_high tides , 2_sunset
3. pop your images in a folder with your name and the competition you are entering i.e Joe Bloggs Winter Landscape
4. send that folder to a1cccompetition@gmail.com with the title of the competition in the subject.
Please ask for help on any club night with resizing or file naming. We're happy to help!
Competitions 2026 / 2027
Please note only members of the club are eligible to enter images to competitions and critiques.
All images should be made after September 2024
September 29th 2026 - 'Anything Goes'
‘Anything goes’ evening – share any image you have created – NO RULES
Friendly internal club competition and critique with a 'winner'
Deadline for Submission: 27th September 2026
How to submit - please respond to club email or bring your image along on the night or add to google drive.
October 27th 2026 - Wide Aperture
Digital Only Competition – 2 sections Themed and Open
Theme: Wide Aperture – f5.6 and under, f1.8 if you can. Try using analogue lenses, macro photography, long lenses and blurring backgrounds. Practical help will be available.
Deadline for submission: October 13th 2026
Submissions to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Rose Atkinson
December 8th 2026 - My Neighbourhood
Digital and Print Competition – 2 sections Themed and Open
Open: Prints
Theme: Digital - My Neighbourhood – Walk / Drive no further than 1 mile and make a photograph about your environment / neighbourhood / community.
Make it something positive. It can be a neighbour, club, nature, architecture, something you admire. Make a photograph and tell us about it.
Deadline for submission: November 24th to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Alistair Richie
February 23rd 2027 - The Winter Landscape
Digital and Print Competition – 2 sections Themed and Open
Open: digital
Themed: Prints – The Winter Landscape – photographs made in the winter months expressing the weather, light and feeling of winter. Can be day or night. City, beach or countryside and can include wildlife.
Submission Deadline: 9th February to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Adam Clutterbuck
April 27th 2027 - Mono Portraits
Graham Treadwell Mono Print Competition – 2 sections Themed and Open
Theme: Prints - Portraits - Portraits of people or animals. These can include classic portraits, family portraits, street portraits, animals should appear posed as if sitting for a portrait.
Open: digital Mono
Submission Deadline: 13th April to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: TBC
June 1st 2027 - Panel Competition
Panel Challenge Competition
Present a panel of 3 – 5 Images
Print or Digital
Any theme, panels can be made in groups, pairs or by individuals
You may present your panels as mounted prints, in a zine or book, in digital format etc.
Submission Deadline: May 18th to a1cccompetition@gmail.com
Judge: Steve Field
September 4th 2027 - Summer Exhibition
Summer Exhibition at Weston Museum
Howard Evans Trophy for Photograph of the Year
Mounted and framed prints only as per instructions
Initial image Submission Deadline: June 13th 2027
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External Club Competitions
For each competition, I’ve noted a Submission Deadline, a Selection evening the submission deadline and judging date and a link to a competition folder on the club’s Google Drive.
WCPF Kingswood Salver
This is a competition for five prints from four or five photographers as a unified panel on a particular theme of the club’s choosing.
Club Submission Deadline: 8th September (digital)
Selection Evening: 22nd September
Submission Deadline: 10 October (prints)
Judging: 14 November
As has previously been mentioned, we’re assembling a panel of the model shoot from Uphill Manor. If you’ve got any images you’d like to be considered, please put them in this folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1agUeNxjlS-yVVjlYqybp9fRuCN9wk1ZE?usp=sharing
Please make sure that images are named Title_Your Name so we know who’s photograph it is!
Prints should be max.500x400mm. DPIs should be 1600x1200 pixels
Tom Crowe Challenge
This is for eight digital images by eight different photographers
8 Images total. Projected digital images. 1600x1200 pixels
Min.1 image each in 4 categories
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Landscape. L_Title_Your Name
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People P_Title_Your Name
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Creative. C_Title_Your Name
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Night. N_Title_Your Name
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Open. O_Title_Your Name
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HMngylK8_B0wA68bhC7XH4kFMd_UTsxB?usp=drive_link
TWO photos each into this folder and name your files as indicated above.
Images should be 1600x1200 pixels
Submission Deadline: 15th September
Selection Evening: 22nd September
Submission Deadline (external): 25th October
Judging: TBC
WCPF Lanes Trophy
This is a competition for individual club members. A panel of three images on a theme of your choosing.
Submission Deadline: 10 October (prints)
Prints should be max.500x400mm. DPIs should be 1600x1200 pixels
Judging: 14 November
How to Submit your images for competitions
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
Entrant’s Membership Number and the Title of the Print written on the back of the mount. No Name!
Each Print entered is to be accompanied by a Digital 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 need to be a JPEG file and 300 dpi
1920 pixels wide for landscape
or
1200 high for portrait or square images.
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. ‘Joe Bloggs_Mono
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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....2_Title’
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Email your folders to a1cccompetition@gmail.com with the competition title as subject by the submission date shown in the programme.
Printing - many members print at home, please ask for advice.
Recommended professional printers
Harmann Labs Printing
One Vision Printing
Pennybatch fine art printers – Wells
CA Printers – Weston super Mare - Meadow Street
Mounting
We run mount cutting sessions in the weeks before competition deadlines and through August at Weston Museum
Weston Super Frames will also mount your images very well for a reasonable price