Print League
2026-27 Print League Results by Round
Print Round 1
Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026
Location: The Tower
Judge: Pietro Rocchicoli
Print Round 2
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026
Location: The Tower
Judge: Jon Mitchell
Print Round 3 (mono)
Date: Tuesday 1 December 2026
Location: The Tower
Judge: Jim Pascoe
Print Round 4
Date: Tuesday 23 February 2027
Location: The Tower
Judge: Paul Moran
Print Round 5
Date: Tuesday 30 March 2027
Location: The Tower
Judge: Ashley Francis
Print League Table for 2026-27
At the end of the season a trophy is awarded to the winner of each league.
This countback system for resolving ties is now implemented in the spreadsheet below for every round.
Distinctions: Many congratulations to members who achieve new distinctions. Please update your profiles in WebCollect and PhotoEntry, and tell the Competition Secretary.
Mono Competition
Print Round 3 is also the Mono Competition. After all the classes have been marked, the judge compares the first placed images from each of the four classes.
The author of the best image from those four is awarded the FB Heathcote-Wride Old Symmetrical trophy.
Last season’s winning image was John Tierney’s “Mind the Step”
Winning and Held Back Entries By Round
In the gallery below, click on any pane to see the winning and held back images in that round and class
A=Advanced, B=Beginners, G=Gold, I=Intermediate
Results are shown as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, C (Highly Commended) or HB (Held Back)
See also the Internal Competition Image Archive
click to show details
Location: TheTower
Judge: Pietro Rocchiccioli BA Hons (Photo) DPAGB EFIAP/s
About Pietro
Peter is a highly experienced Level 3 judge on the SPF circuit. He was one of the judges for the WPS 2020 Annual Exhibition which, because of the pandemic, was held as an exhibition for digital images.
As a mature student Peter obtained an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Photography with First Class Honours, which provided an ideal opportunity to experiment, research & try out new ideas. Subsequently, his photography has been considerably influenced by time at the University of Portsmouth. The overlying aim of his work is to communicate significant facts about the subjects and their surroundings.
He enjoys entering International exhibitions and has had work accepted in the prestigious London Salon and Edinburgh exhibitions as well as other worldwide exhibitions.
Peter was Vice President of the SCPF 2015 – 17 and President 2017 – 19.
Pietro is a member of Chichester Camera Club where he was recently awarded Life Membership in recognition of his many years of service to the club.
Last updated 2026-03-12
Location: The Tower
Unfortunately our Judge for the evening, Ashley Francis, was not able to be with us because of a family emergency.
Luckily former President and Competition Secretary Gordon Brown ARPS, who is a Level 3 SCPF judge, was on hand to save the evening and expertly critique the submitted images.
Judge: Jon Mitchell
About Jon Mitchell
Jon Mitchell has been a member of Gosport Camera Club for many years and is a highly experienced judge on the SCPF circuit.
He has judged our Club competitions several times before, including 2020-21 PDI Round 2 and the Best-of-the-Best competition on 31 May 2022. We look forward to welcoming him again.
Last updated 2026-07-24
Location: The Tower
Judge: Jim Pascoe BA ABIPP ARPS
About Jim
Following a short spell in the Royal Navy, seven years at Standard Life, and five years at Stonehenge Cycles (a passionate cyclist), Jim decided on a career change to follow his love of photography.
In 1998, Jim graduated from Salisbury College – acknowledged as one of the leading photography colleges in the UK – with an HND and a BA(Hons) in Professional Communication(Photography).
Jim is a long-standing member of and a former chairman and vice-chairman of Highcliffe & Infinity Photography Club.
With his wife Nicky, also an experienced photographer, he has been running Jim Pascoe Photography since 1998.
He is a frequent and welcome visitor to WPS, and an experienced SCPF Level 3 judge.
Recent visits include judging 2021-22 Print Round 4, and the Competition Night on 19 January 2021 which included the Set of Three and the George Walsh Trophy awards. He was one of the judges for our 2024 Annual Exhibition.
He was also our guest speaker on 13 April 2021, when we were meeting online because of the pandemic.
He kindly stood in to judge the 2025 President’s Safari after the original judge was badly injured in a traffic incident.
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Last updated 2026-02-19
Location: The Tower
Judge: Paul Moran MA (Photography)
About Paul
Paul (Buzz) Moran is a member of Wokingham Photography Club and Bristol Photographic Society.
He writes
I have over 30 years of photography experience and 40 years of presenting to audiences around the globe. I am a confident speaker and judge with over 5 years club judging experience. I prefer being present at club meetings, but am a Teams and Zoom user.
Paul is a fairly new judge on the SCPF circuit and 23 February 2027 is his first visit to Winchester.
WIth acknowledgements to Paul’s Instagram profile for the image
Last updated:
Paul’s work
You can see Paul’s impressive work on
and read about his photographic journey on the Wokingham PC site:
Location: The Tower
Judge: Ashley Francis CPAGB
About Ashley Francis
A geophysicist and geostatistician by training, Ashley has over 30 years world-wide oil industry experience of exploration, development and production geophysics. He has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, at the University of Reading and at Imperial College.
Ashley is a member of Fordingbridge Camera Club and its treasurer (as at the date of this post).
Having joined the SCPF panel of judges in December 2018, he was upgraded to an SCPF Level 2 judge in February 2020 and is now a senior Level 3 judge.
Ashley gained his CPAGB in 2019 and is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society..
Ashley was the judge for our first online competition after lockdown was imposed: PDI League Round 4 on 31 March 2020
Last updated 2026-02-03
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