Internal Club Competitions 2026 / 2027
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: May 24th for selected images.
Please refer to emails from Tom
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 2026 - Summer Exhibition
Annual Exhibition and Howard Evans Photograph of the Year Trophy
Judges: Pete Goodrum and Simon Williams
Deadline 24th May 2026
September 29th 2026 - 'Anything Goes'
‘Anything goes’ evening – share any image you have created – NO RULES
Internal competition and critique with a ‘winner’.
Deadline for Submission: 27th September 2026
October 27th 2026 - Wide Aperture
Digital Only Competition – 2 sections Themed and Open
Theme: Wide Aperture – f5.6 and under, f2.8 if you can. Try using analogue lenses, macro photography 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: Janet Miles
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
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
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 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 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. ‘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
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
Printing at Home
Please ask club members for their recommendations for printers and papers to purchase for home printing.