30/09/2021 | Open PDI | PDI | Naomi Saul | Images may be of any topic. Images can be either colour or monochrome. Images to be sized to fit within 1920 wide by 1200 deep pixels. |
04/11/2021 | Monochrome Print | Print | Ben Pike | Monochrome photos contain variations of only one colour and nothing else. |
02/12/2021 | Five Elements PDI | PDI | Daphne Hanson | Five Elements Theoryÿis a Chinese philosophy used to describe interactions and relationships between things. The five elements ? wood, fire, earth, metal, and water ? are believed to be the fundamental elements of everything in the universe between which interactions occur. |
| | | | Five Element Theory asserts that the world changes according to the five elements' generating or overcoming relationships. Generating and overcoming are the complementary processes ? the yin and yang ? of Five Element Theory. |
| | | | Generating processes promote development, while overcoming processes control development. By promoting and restraining, systems are harmonised and balance is maintained. |
| | | | It will be interesting to see photographers? interpretations, and it is suggested that the focus should be on harmony and balance |
13/01/2022 | Movement and Motion | Print | Pauline Martindale | Image to portray movement or motion. Whether blurring effects are used are up to the photographer as a fast shutter image capture might equally well infer motion. Subject matter can be man-made or from wildlife action. |
10/02/2022 | Open Print | Print | Johnathan Vaines | Images may be of any topic. Images can be either colour or monochrome. |
17/03/2022 | Dereliction and Decay | PDI | Sue Dobson | Typically this should be buildings, man-made objects, machinery in a state of decay or dereliction. No dead animals please. |
21/04/2022 | Macro and Close Up | PDI | Alison Jenkins | This competition requires you to photograph an object, animal, bird or insect at greater than life-size (which may be achieved by cropping). Therefore am image may be produced using a macro or telephoto lens, provided that the eventual image is greater than life-size. |
19/05/2022 | Open - Print | Print | David Steel | Images may be of any topic. Images can be either colour or monochrome. |