Competitions

The Club has moved away from formal competitions with judges and points, to a more critiqued based approach. These are our ‘Showcase’ evenings held towards the end of the season. Members are invited to submit images from their portfolios into the following various categories-

• Landscape
• The Living world
• Man-made
• Architecture and objects
• Portraiture
• Street
• Abstract and creative

We hold two ‘Showcase’ evenings where we invite one of our visiting speakers to constructively critique these images, give feedback, and then to choose their favourites.  For 2024 Moisés Levy joined us from Mexico. His favourite selections are shown in the galleries  for each category, along with all the images submitted. The galleries for previous years (2021-23) can also be found on this page.

His overall favourite image was ‘Flamingos’ by Charlie Eddington.

We also have a lighthearted ‘It’s a Christmas Knockout’ digital projected image competition, where there is no invited judge, and the winner is decided by members’ votes on a knockout basis.

For guidance on entering any of the competitions see Submitting Images.

Here is the archive of our previous Club competitions.

Results from the 2018-19 season competitions

Full size images can be seen in the 2018-19 gallery.

Print Competitions, May 2019

Colour Prints

1st:   Michele Beverley, Ready…Steady…

2nd:  Trevor Richardson, Società Operaia

3rd:   John Saunders, Splash

Monochrome Prints

1st:   Michele Beverley, Four, Friendly Fishermen

2nd:  Trevor Richardson, Manchester Old and New

3rd:   Chris Sharples, Mine – No Mine

Digital Image Competitions, June 2019

Colour Digital Images

1st:   Helen Jones, Mountain Hare

2nd:  Roger Poyser, Gondolas

3rd:   David Kessel, Archived

Monochrome Digital Images

1st:   Sue Hoggett, Balconies

2nd:  John Saunders, Front Runners

3rd:   David Kessel, Was it in a Dream?

It’s a Christmas Knockout Competition, December 2018

1st:   Martin Holyoak, On the Sidelines

2nd:  Roger Poyser, Buttermere Pines

Most Imagination Points

Sue Hoggett

Overall ‘Best in Show’ 

Sue Hoggett,  Balconies

We also have a lighthearted ‘It’s a Christmas Knockout’ digital projected image competition, where there is no invited judge, and the winner is decided by members’ votes on a knockout basis.

For guidance on entering any of the competitions see Submitting Images.