2023-24 Non-League Competitions
2023-24 Non-League Competitions
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Set of Three/George Walsh
Date: Tuesday 5 December
Location: The Arc
Judge: Chris Hutchinson
Christmas Knockout
Date: Tuesday 19 December
Location: The Arc
Judge: the members
Society Competition Evening
Date:Tuesday 9 April
Location: The Arc
Judge: Steve Kirkby CPAGB/AV
Best of the best
Date: Tuesday 21 May
Location: The Arc
Judge: Caroline Colegate ARPS APAGB
Winning and Held Back Entries By Round
Pending the availability of this year’s results, the galleries below show results from previous years.
Click on any pane to see the winning and held back images in that class
A=Advanced, B=Beginners, G=Gold, I=Intermediate
See also the Internal Competition Image Archive
Set of Three
Set of Three
[from the Handbook – amended to add details of fourth image]Members submit three printed images that have a single theme, subject or concept of their own choice. All three images are viewed and assessed by the judge at the same time.
The images can be mounted on separate boards or one large one, but the mounting will not be judged.
A maximum of one of the images may have been entered in a previous society competition.
How to enter
- Use PhotoEntry to upload your images (not later than the Friday before the competition)
- For the Set of 3 competition you must upload 3 or preferably 4 images
- Please add a suffix to each image name to indicate its position
- -left, -middle, -right OR -L, -M, -R
- -top, -middle, -bottom / -T, -M, -B if arranged vertically
- You should also add a fourth image which is a composite of the first three showing how they should be arranged.
Then
- Make sure your three images are printed, mounted and labelled
- Bring them along on Competition night or
- ask a friend to take them in for you
Last updated: 7 December 2022
The George Walsh Memorial Trophy
This trophy is presented in memory of George Walsh, longstanding member of WPS, who died in May 2017.
During his 60 years of membership he was actively involved in the running of the Society, taking the role of President twice and being appointed Honorary Life President in 1991.
He ran the Society’s annual exhibition for 31 years, and was co-founder of the Audio-Visual Group.
As a tribute to George’s work as a Hampshire Chronicle photographer, the trophy will be awarded to the winner of a new competition on the theme of documentary/photojournalism.
Documentary photography provides a straightforward and accurate representation of people, places, objects and events. It is used to chronicle events or environments that are significant and relevant to history, as well as those that show everyday life.
Photojournalism, closely associated with street photography, employs images that tell a story, usually news-related, in a creative format that is entertaining as well as informative.
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Judge: Chris Hutchinson
About Chris
Chris is a Level 3 judge on the SCPF circuit, a member of Yately Camera Club and a speaker at photography clubs.
Chris attended an art school as a teenager but was unable to complete his studies. He took up photography as a hobby instead but spent most of his career in the transport industry. Just after the Millennium, he found that the cost of printing photographs had fallen. He felt the need to embark on a project and see if he could publish or exhibit some of the results to the public.
He thought he’d try to capture the human body in new ways – after all, he thought, the human form is one of the commonest things around – everybody’s got one!
His project formed part of the Viewpoint travelling exhibition put on by The Photographic Angle
Interests and photography
You can see some of his work, covering his interests in Morris Dancing and in collecting images of pubs with “Bell” in their names on
Last updated 9 April 2024
The Christmas Knockout
This light-hearted competition is part of our Christmas Social evening.
Members may enter up to four PDI images.
The images are projected in pairs in a randomised order, and members vote for their favourite of each pair.
Gradually images are knocked out until just one – the winner – remains.
Images entered in this competition can also be entered into league competitions.
For the display of winning images (when available), the losing quarter-finalists are shown as 5th equal, the losing semifinalists as 3rd equal).
Last updated: 22 December 2022
The Society Competition Evening
This is a light-hearted evening of themed competitions without classes. The entries in each competition must comply with the relevant guidelines described in the first section Advice on Entering. The competitions are:
- Theme (Prints – maximum 1 per member)
- Portrait (Prints – maximum 1 per member)
Awarded for the best portrait of a person, or a number of people, who must be the main feature of the image. - The Creative Cup (Projected Digital Image – maximum 1 per member)
for an innovative image based on one or more of the author’s photographs. It should be original, creative and avant-garde, originating from the camera and the photographer’s imagination. No limits – only your imagination! - Greg’s Egg Cup (Projected Digital Image – maximum 1 per member)
for a visually humorous image, with an appropriate title to add to the fun. Technical quality is only a secondary consideration.
Last updated: 11 August 2022
Theme
The theme for 2024 is In the Swim
Judge: Steve Kirkby CPAGB/AV
About Steve
Steve is a long-standing member and past Chairman of Alton Camera Club.
He was awarded his CPAGB/AV in 2018 and now gives talks on Making a Better AV. You can see some of his images on Flickr
Steve started judging for the SCPF in 2020 and is now an SCPF Level 2+ judge. He writes
Alton CC have suffered me for 15 years and they endure a wide range of my photography. I blundered along for a few years as a part-time local press photographer which often allowed the coveted ‘access all areas’ at events. My images rarely fit in with the typical genres but an unhealthy interest in audio-visuals lets me show off plenty. I’ve had my name against various club posts, including chair, and am proud to continue serving with my friends on the SCPF Council.
(acknowledgements to Southern Counties Photographic Federation for this image)
Last updated 7 March 2024
Pictures of the year
There are two competitions in this evening, previously called “Best of the Best”; one for the best print of the year and one for the best PDI of the year.
Each competition brings together in an open forum all the images from each of the four classes which came first or second in the five League rounds.
From these 40 prints and 40 PDIs the judge awards the coveted titles of Print of the Year and PDI of the Year.
Last updated: 11 August 2022
Judge: Caroline Colegate ARPS, APAGB
Caroline Colegate is a longstanding member of Bracknell Camera Club where she was Programme Secretary for 17 years and President from 2008 until 2019.
Caroline is a senior (Level 3) judge on the SCPF circuit and a member of the Judging Advisory Team. She was awarded an SCPF Roll of Honour in 2013. She writes
I am passionate about the quality of images and play an active role in coaching people to achieve both RPS and PAGB distinctions. In 2002 I became a judge for the Southern Counties Photographic Federation (SCPF) and in 2017 I was accepted onto the PAGB list.
I am currently a member of the SCPF Judging Sub Committee and am involved with the vetting and assessing of applications from potential new judges
She was on the panel of three judges for the 2019 Winchester National Exhibition and for the 2023 Annual Print Exhibition, and was the judge for our Set of Three/George Walsh competition evening in December 2022.
Caroline is a frequent and welcome visitor to Winchester.
Last updated 9 April 2024
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But if you are self-isolating or otherwise unable to attend in person, you can follow the evening online.
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