Competitions Guidelines 2026/27 | Tavistock Photography Club

Competition Guidelines 2026/2027

Members may enter up to 2 images onto Photo-Entry for each competition.
Member’s scores achieved throughout the season will be totalled towards the ‘Photographer of the Year’ (POTY) award.
All images for POTY competitions must be entered onto Photo-Entry. This includes a digital copy of entries for PRINT competitions. Images not on Photo-Entry cannot be entered into a competition!
Unless otherwise stated, Images may be in colour, mono or black and white greyscale.
Maximum size of images being entered onto Photo-Entry is 1600 wide x 1200 pixels high in sRGB. Please remember that even in portrait orientation the maximum height is still 1200 pixels!
Images for these competitions may be entered onto Photo-Entry, and deleted, altered or changed by the author at any time up to the closing date. Photo-Entry > Main Menu > POTY Competition Season 2026/2027. Your entered images cannot be seen by other members until the competition.

Competitions for the 2026 – 2027 Season

2 September 26. Opening Shots. Print. Bring on the night. Judged by members.

30 September 26. Open. PDI. Closes 16 September.

28 October 26. Street and Urban. Print. Closes 7 October.

25 November 26. Interclub Competition. Tavistock v Launceston to be held in Tavistock. PDI & Print.

2 December 26. Open. PDI. Closes 18 November.

16 December 26. Scratch & Match. PDI. Closes 9 December.

20 January 27. Memorial Award Panel of 3 or 5. Print. Bring on the night. Judged by members.

17 February 27. Landscape and Nature. PDI. Closes 3 February.

17 March 27. Open. Print. Closes 3 Mar.

14 April 27. Portraits. PDI. Closes 31 March.

28 April 27. Abandoned Places and Spaces. PDI. Closes 14 April.

12 May 27. Black and White Open. Print. Closes 14 April.

2 June 27. Closing Shots. Print. Bring on the night. Judged by members.

Non POTY competitions

Opening Shots, Closing Shots and the Memorial Award will be judged by the TPC members. These must all be images taken within the previous 12 months!
This interclub friendly between Tavistock and Launceston will have an external judge. Our selectors will have chosen, (with the photographer’s permission), images from previous competitions and workshops. Images may also be offered or suggested.
Scratch and Match is the pre-Christmas fun evening where members are split into two groups and compete for marks. All with good humoured derision and disagreement with the judge and other group.

POTY (Photographer of the Year) competitions.

There is no time restriction on when these images were taken.

Unless otherwise stated, images may be in Black and White greyscale, Mono or full Colour.

There are 3 ‘OPEN’ competitions, there is no specific subject set for these competitions and anything goes.
‘Street and Urban’ -: Graffiti, neon lights, street architecture, public transport, bustling markets, candid. Basically anything you see in an urban street environment.
‘Landscape and Nature’ -: Landscape Photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture nature's presence, but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes. Nature photography captures the beauty of natural elements found in the outdoors all within a frame. It typically includes wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures.
‘Portraits’ -: A portrait is a composed image of a person or small group of people such as a family that captures their identity, mood, and personality. If children are included (get permission first). For this competition, animals and pets (with or without owners) may also be included.
‘Abandoned Places and Spaces’ -: Ruins, empty buildings, forgotten corners, rust, and dilapidation etc. The image could include graffiti and social deprivation, it could tell a story of a once loved/used/appreciated place or space that has fallen to neglect.
‘Black and White’ -: As far as subject matter is concerned, this is an open competition. There is no specific subject; however, images must be in Black and White greyscale only.

Notes on entering competitions.

All PDI’s (Projected Digital Images) must be entered onto Photo-Entry to be included in a competition before the closing date. The maximum entry size is 1600 pixels wide X 1200 pixels high. Please note, even in Portrait orientation the maximum height is still 1200px.

All PRINTS must have a digital copy entered onto Photo-Entry. Prints must be mounted on 50cm X 40cm boards and backed to avoid damage to other prints during transport. Please write your club membership number and the title on the back, and ‘top’ if necessary for orientation.

Images on Photo-Entry can be entered, deleted, changed and renamed at any time up to the closing date. Other members will not be able to see your entries.

WCPF guidelines on AI or Generative AI

The Tavistock Photography Club adheres to these rules.

Generative AI uses various algorithms, data and sometimes user prompts to generate new content that is not photographic. Therefore, images or image elements created using Generative AI are not permitted.Increasingly image processing software includes tools which use AI /machine-learning for content fill, scene expansion, patching or object removal (e.g. Photoshop’s “Remove Tool”). Their use needs to be consistent with the General WCPF Competition Rules above.Image enhancement tools (e.g., AI De-noise, AI Scaling, AI Sharpening) are acceptable, so long as they do not introduce image elements that are not present in the original. In general, the images immediately before and after enhancement should look nearly identical when viewed at full-screen.The PAGB Compliance Statement on AI (Oct 2023) states that “It is appreciated that the individual photographer may not be fully aware of exactly how individual processing functions act, whether in-camera or in post-processing, However, the PAGB would expect photographers to be aware of when any significant addition has been made to an image which is not part of an original work by the photographer.”