Competitions Diary

With a theme of 'Winter'

Images for printing to be sent to Tony Marsh  by 7th November.
Prints to be mounted and backed with mounts to be sized to 50cm x 40cm.
Jeremy Malley-Smith has backing boards for sale at £1 each.
Simon Roberts is organising the exhibition and it will run until early January 2027.

This is a UK wide print competition run by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) open to all camera club members, who enter as individuals not as a Club.  60 of the best prints are included in a touring exhibition.  It's a huge honour to be chosen for the MOP Exhibition.

Details, rules and timetable can be found on the PAGB website.
Members may enter up to 5 unmounted prints on A3 paper, in any or all of 3 categories: mono, open colour and nature.
A PDI must accompany each print, measuring 2400 pixels on the longest edge.
Entries must be made via the PAGB CMS system where PDIs are also uploaded.  You will then be given labels to print to go on the back of your prints and given an address to post them to.
There is a fee for entry into the MOP.

Jeremy has kindly offered to take prints and hand them in to the organisers, rather than members having to pay to have them delivered to Dumfries.  If you'd like this, please hand in your entries to Jeremy no later than 11th November.

The closing date for postal entries is 24th November.

Runs until early January 2027.

Maximum of 2 PDIs and 2 Prints per member.
Scored out of 20 points.

Categories:
Open colour
Open monochrome
Nature
Travel
Photojournalism

Scored out of 15 points.

Selection of images for this year's Masters of Print.

The MOP is a UK wide print competition run by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) open to all camera club members, who enter as individuals not as a Club.  60 of the best prints are included in a touring exhibition.  It's a huge honour to be chosen for the MOP Exhibition.

Photographs of any genre or subject.

Maximum of 2 PDIs and 2 Prints per member.

Prints should be mounted and accompanied by a PDI.  Maximum print mount size: 50cm x 40cm
PDI image size:  landscape format images 1600 pixels wide and max 1200 pixels tall.  Portrait format images 1200 pixels high.  Square images 1200 x 1200 pixels

Send to: Anthony Melling, Internal competitions secretary.

Competition between the 5 camera clubs which constitute the Western Area of the Northern Counties Photographic Federation (Keswick, Penrith, Dalston, Carlisle, Workington) plus Dumfries Camera Club from Southern Scotland.

The rules require 8 prints and 8 PDIs
Images must not be more than 3 years old
There are specific requirements for, and restrictions on, the genre of images entered and the number of authors.
Entries are chosen by our competitions sub-committee from those images which scored highly in last year's internal camera club competitions and also from any other images specifically submitted by members.

Maximum of 2 PDIs and 2 Prints per member.
Scored out of 20 points.

The PSA inter-club is a global competition run by the Photographic Society of America open to camera clubs around the world.  We enter as a Club and the rules state there must be 6 images by 6 different authors per competition category.

Categories:
Open colour
Open monochrome
Nature
Travel
Photojournalism

Image size:  landscape format 1920 wide x max 1080 high pixels; portrait format 1080 pixels high; square format 1080 x 1080 pixels.

Send entries to:  Each category is sent to a different Club member.  See the competitions spreadsheet in our member's section for details.

On the theme of 'Book or film title'

Maxiumum of 4 PDIs per member

PDI image size: landscape format 1600 pixels wide and max 1200 pixels tall. Portrait format 1200 pixels high. Square format 1200 x 1200 pixels.

Send to: Anthony Melling, internal competitions secretary

Photographs of any genre or subject.

Maximum of 2 PDIs and 2 Prints per member.

Prints should be mounted and accompanied by a PDI.  Maximum print mount size: 50cm x 40cm
PDI image size:  landscape format images 1600 pixels wide and max 1200 pixels tall.  Portrait format images 1200 pixels high.  Square images 1200 x 1200 pixels

Send to: Anthony Melling, Internal competitions secretary.

A 'friendly' competition between Keswick, Penrith and Carlisle camera clubs.

The rules require 15 PDIs by 15 different authors.

This year hosted by Penrith & District Camera Club in Penrith.

On the theme of 'Book or film title'.

No scores, but some images will be awarded Gold, Silver & Bronze, Commended & Highly Commended.

This is a competition run by the Northern Counties Photographic Federation (NCPF) which is an umbrella organisation covering all the camera clubs in the North of England.  The NCPF is part of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB).

Camera clubs within the NCPF compete against each other and the winners represent the North of England in national competitions run by the PAGB.

There are requirements for, and restrictions on, genre of images and number of authors.

Entries are chosen by our competitions sub-committee from those images which scored highly in last year's internal camera club competitions and also from any other images specifically submitted by members.  Images are scored out of 15 points.

Categories:
Open colour
Open monochrome
Nature
Travel
Photojournalism

Scored out of 15 points.

Maximum of 2 PDIs and 2 Prints per member.
Scored out of 20 points.

The purpose of the POTY is to challenge the photographer's ability across a range of genres.

Up to 3 Prints and/or up to 3 PDIs may be entered but must be spread across different categories.

Categories:
Nature - forna
Nature - flora
Landscapes
The Hand of Man
Transport
Sport
Creative
People
Still Life

Images previously entered in KPS open competitions are ineligible unless they are in a different format, eg print when previously entered as PDI.

Prints should be mounted. Maximum print mount size: 50cm x 40cm
Prints must be accompanied by a PDI.
PDI image size: landscape format images 1600 pixels wide and max 1200 pixels tall. Portrait format images 1200 pixels high. Square images 1200 x 1200 pixels

The PSA inter-club is a global competition run by the Photographic Society of America open to camera clubs around the world.  We enter as a Club and the rules state there must be 6 images by 6 different authors per competition category.

Categories:
Open colour
Open monochrome
Nature
Travel
Photojournalism

Image size:  landscape format 1920 wide x max 1080 high pixels; portrait format 1080 pixels high; square format 1080 x 1080 pixels.

Send entries to:  Each category is sent to a different Club member.  See the competitions spreadsheet in our member's section for details.

This is a yearly competition run by the Northern Counties Photographic Federation (NCPF) which is an umbrella organisation covering all the camera clubs in the North of England. The NCPF is part of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB).

We enter the NCPF Annuals as individuals, though winning scores for clubs are also recognised.

Winners are invited to attend an awards ceremony at Clara Vale in the North East in November.

Scored out of 15 points.

Up to 3 Prints and/or up to 3 PDIs may be entered but must be spread across different categories.

Categories:
Nature - forna
Nature - flora
Landscapes
The Hand of Man
Transport
Sport
Creative
People
Still Life

Categories:
Open colour
Open monochrome
Nature
Travel
Photojournalism

Scored out of 15 points.