Non-League Competitions
2026-27 Non-League Competitions
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President’s Safari Evening
Date: Tuesday 22 September
Location: The Tower
Judge: TBD
Set of Three/George Walsh
Date: Tuesday 24 November
Location: TheTower
Judge: Carl Reeve
Christmas Knockout
Date: Tuesday 15 December
Location: The Tower
Judge: the members
Society Competition Evening
Date:Tuesday 6 April
Location: The Tower
Judge: Chris Dixon
Best of the best
Date: Tuesday 4 May
Location: The Tower
Judge: Suzie Kirkby
Winning and Held Back Entries by Competition and Year
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 (where classes apply)
A=Advanced, B=Beginners, G=Gold, I=Intermediate
See also the Internal Competition Image Archive
The President’s Safari
First run in 2024, the Presidentʼs Safari is a blend of fun, social interaction, and friendly competition.
Entrants are teams of four, of whom no more than one may be a Gold member.
For 2026, team members had to take photos during July in the area bounded by the Hamble and Meon rivers and the M3, on each of ten different themes.
The teams had to pick one digital image to submit in each of the ten themes, plus a single print taken in the defined area. The print could be, but did not have to be a print of one of the digital images submitted in an earlier round.
Each team had to include at least two images by each member.
This is an informal competition so images are not disqualified from entering future club competition.
In 2025, nine teams entered the competition. The scoring for each round was 10 points for first place, 9 for second place and so on down to 2 points for 9th place.
President’s Safari 2025 Results
The winners, by a clear margin, were The Bokeh Boys: David McKibbin, Bob Allen, Jon Hawkins and John Tierney.
The team with the longest name, Kings Worthy Klickers + The Money Launderer, won the prize for the best print.
More details in the spreadsheet below. A selection of the best placed images is available under the Best Images tab.
The results are under the Best Images tab
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
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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.
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Judge: Carl Reeve LMPA DipPP
About Carl Reeve
image copyright Onsite Photos
reproduced by permission
Carl Reeve is a member of Locksheath and Sarisbury Camera Club.
Carl is a Level 2+ judge on the SCPF circuit.
He joined the SCPF panel of judges in December 2018 and was upgraded to a Level 2 in September 2019.
In 2012 he achieved his Licentiate of the Master Photographers’ Association in Portrait Photography.
Carl runs his own business, Onsite Photos, covering Wedding, Event, Portrait and Model & Fashion photography.
For more information see:
- Onsite photos
- Master Photographers Association Qualifications
- The MPA is a body for working professional photographers with qualifications at Licentiate, Associate and Fellow level.
Last updated 2026-02-19
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).
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CKO 2025 Results
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 for WPS Competitions. 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.
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Theme
The theme for 2025-26 is Interaction
Judge: Chris Dixon ARPS (lapsed)
About Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon took up photography after retiring in 2010.
He got so involved with his new hobby that he decided it should be self-funding and set up Chris Dixon Photography.
Chris joined Horndean Camera Club in in 2015 and is now (2022) its chairman.
The club claims to have found the right balance between a high standard of photography and a relaxed approach. The Horndean website says
“We take our photography seriously, without taking ourselves seriously at the same time”.
Chris gained his LRPS in November 2015 and his ARPS in May 2017. He is a Level 2+ judge on the SCPF circuit.
For more information, see
Last updated 2026-07-23
Best of the Best
There are two competitions in this evening, also called “Pictures of the Year”; one for the best print of the year and one for the best PDI of the year, selected from the best images in the League competitions..
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.
The image judged best of the (up to) 40 prints is the Print of the Year and its author receives the St. Catherine’s Cup
The image judged best of the 40 PDIs is the PDI of the Year. Its author receives the St. Giles Cup
Last updated: 2026-05-01
Judge: Suzie Kirkby CPAGB/AV
About Suzie
Suzie was awarded her CPAGB/AV in 2018 and has given talks on Making a Better AV. You can see some of her images on Flickr
She started judging for the SCPF in 2020 and is now an SCPF Level 2+ judge.
Suzie is President of the SCPF for the 2026-27 season. She is a member of Basingstoke Camera Club and a past Chairman of Alton Camera Club.
Last updated 2026-07-23
We encourage members to come to the meetings in the Tower.
But if you are self-isolating or otherwise unable to attend in person, you can follow the evening online.
Logon details are published in the weekly email members’ newsletter preceding the meeting, and another email to all members on the day of the meeting.
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Informal Competition
We also run an informal monthly competition for the most liked post in the Members’ Facebook Group.