Our annual Club photo competition is coming around again. Judging takes place in a few weeks’ time with presentation of the winners on Thursday 20th February 2025.
The deadline for submission of entries is 23:00 on Friday 17th January 2025.
Below, you’ll find all the information you need to submit your entry, EXCEPT for the links for submitting your entries. These are communicated separately in the WhatsApp and Email messages you received.
All members are welcome to submit entries to the competition. We especially encourage photos from newer members and members who may not have entered before.
Photograph(s) must have been taken within the past twelve months. Camera and phone photos are both accepted.
We award small prizes for the best photo in each category and for the best photo overall. Our judge provides feedback on each photo so even if you’re not able to attend the judge’s presentation, please still consider entering. The feedback will be made available afterwards.
If you have questions, please ask the organiser.
Competition rules
1. Photographs must be digital medium (JPEG, .jpg format) with a resolution of at least 72 dpi. Images with a 4:3, 16:9 or 1:1 aspect ratio are accepted.
2. Photographs must have been taken by you and within the past 12 months i.e., between 20th January 2024 and 17th January 2025.
3. There are four competition categories, summarised here: photo competition categories.
4. Members can submit up to 4 photos in total. Members can submit in one or more of the categories (A) – (D) and in as many categories as they wish but they must not submit more than 4 photos in total. Any specific photo must not be submitted in more than one category.
5. If you submit more than one photo in a category, you must indicate your preferred order – first, second, third. This is so that, if necessary, we can control the number of photos in a category by discarding your least important photo(s). If you don’t want to risk having your least preferred photo discarded, we suggest you submit in more than one category.
6. Each photograph must have a title and details of this and your name must be sent alongside your entry.
For each photograph, you must indicate the category (A) – (D) to which you are submitting, and if submitting more than one photo to a category you must also state your order of preference. See rule 5 above.
7. Entries can be submitted by either:
- Adding your photos to a Dropbox folder for competition entries. You don’t need to be a Dropbox subscriber to do this, and you can do it from a PC or a phone.
- Using a free file transfer service, such as WeTransfer.com. You can do this from a PC or a phone.
Hyperlinks / QR Code for submitting your entries have been communicated separately in the WhatsApp and Email messages you received on 23 December.
8. A prize will be awarded to the winner in each category, plus a further prize to the best of the category winners.
9. The judge’s decision is final.
10. By submitting an entry, you give permission for your photograph(s) to be used by the Club for marketing and/or illustrative purposes on the Club’s website and social media pages.