TAVISTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
Photographer of the Year (POTY)
COMPETITIONS 2025/26
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24th Sept. – Open PDI
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29th Oct. – ‘Conversation’ (Real or Implied) Print
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26th Nov. – Open PDI
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18th Feb. – ‘The Bright Side of Life’ PDI
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18th Mar. – Open PDI
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22nd April – ‘Minimalism’ PDI
OPEN competitions mean that any image of any subject taken at any time are acceptable for entry.
Conversation (real or implied) – The conversation could be between people, animals, any situation where a conversation, discussion, could be taking place. This is also the theme of the Knightshayes competition where these images could also be entered.
The Bright Side of Life – Not necessarily Monty Python, however, images conveying a brighter, lighter, humorous and/or happy emotional side of life.
Minimalism - Minimalism in photography is a style that prioritizes simplicity and clarity, focusing on essential elements to create impactful and uncluttered images. It emphasizes the reduction of visual clutter, using negative space, clean lines, and a limited number of colours or tones to convey a specific message or emotion.
Members may enter up to 2 images onto Photo-Entry for each competition.
Each photographer’s highest 8 scores achieved throughout the season will be totalled towards the POTY award.
All images for competitions must be entered onto Photo-Entry (PE).
This includes a digital copy of prints. Images not on PE cannot be entered into a competition!
Images may be in colour or black and white.
Maximum size of images being entered onto PE is 1600w x 1200h in sRGB. Please remember that even in portrait orientation the maximum height is still 1200 pixels.
Images for these competitions may be entered onto PE at any time up to the closing date. Photo-Entry > Main Menu > POTY Competition Season 2025/2026
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TAVISTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
OTHER COMPETITIONS 2025/26
NOT included in the POTY
These ‘Other Competitions’ will be judged by an external judge; however, the scores are not included in the POTY (Photographer of the Year) totals.
Monochrome - 15th October 2025 (Hand in date 1st October)
This is an OPEN PRINT competition. Images will be assessed by an external judge. Up to two prints may be entered mounted on 50 x 40cm boards and appropriately backed so as not to cause damage to other entries during stacking and travelling. Please enter digital images of your prints onto Photo-Entry as usual.
Scratch and Match – 19 November 2025 (Closing date 12th November)
This is a knockout PDI competition where the members are split into two teams and battle it out with jeers and comments flying everywhere. All in good fun of course. There will be an external judge.
Triptych - 7th January 2026 (The Memorial Award)
This is an Open PDI competition; images will be assessed by an external judge. The Triptych requires 3 separate shots on a single projected image, (see below) and there must be a connection or link between the 3 shots.
Your 3 shots may be set out in any way you choose, they may vary in size and shape, be colour or mono. There has to be a connection between the 3 shots.
However, taking a panorama and cutting it into 3 images, or doing a Warhol with the same shot in 3 different colours is not in the spirit of the competition!
Landscape – 1st April 2026 (Hand in date 18th March)
This is an OPEN PRINT competition. Images will be assessed by an external judge. Up to two prints may be entered mounted on 50 x 40cm boards and appropriately backed so as not to cause damage to other entries during stacking and travelling. Please enter digital images of your prints onto Photo-Entry as usual.
Guidance on the use of image creation and processing tools
(sometimes labelled as “AI”) wcpf guideline.
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.”
