Theme Hand in date Judging date Judge
Off the wall 13th September 2017 27th September 2017 Bill Preston CPAGB ARPS BPE*5
Animals 11th October 2017 25th October 2017 John Bell LRPS, DPAGB, AWPF, BPE*3
'scapes 15th November 2017 29th November 2017 Phil Chadwick DPAGB AFIAP AWPF BPE*4
Open 10th January 2018 24th January 2018 Bob Dennis CPAGB APAGB AFIAP BPE*4
Square monochrome 7th February 2018 21st February 2018 Susan Clarke LRPS, CPAGB, AWPF
Porfolio 14th March 2018 28th March 2018 Kevin Hirst LRPS CPAGB
Off the wall
This subject includes any image taken whilst your feet were on the city walls of Chester. Use your creativity to come up with interesting images, day time, evening, sunrise, sunset… the choice is yours.
This competition is open to both colour and monochrome images.
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member may submit 3 images into each section.
Animals
Images must depict a living animal or animals from the animal kingdom. For the purpose of this competition take it than animals include domestic pets, wild animals, zoo/safari park animals, birds, reptiles, insects, butterflies and arachnids.
This competition is open to both colour and monochrome images.
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member may submit 3 images into each section.
‘Scapes
Landscape, cityscape or seascape. Countryside, seaside or urban the choice is yours.
This competition is open to both colour and monochrome images.
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member may submit 3 images into each section.
Open
The subject for this competition is wide open. The subject can be any subject matter you wish, be as creative as you like, no restrictions to this one!
This competition is open to both colour and monochrome images.
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member may submit 3 images into each section.
Square format monochrome
The subject matter of this competition is wide open, point your camera at any subject you like but throw the rules of composition out of the window as images must be presented to for judging in a square format. All sides of the image to be equal in length and all corners to be 90 degrees.
This competition is open to monochrome images only
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member may submit 3 images into each section.
Portfolio competition (photographer of the year)
All images in this competition will be made up any 5 of your favourite images from the previous 5 competitions this season. Whether you choose to pick your highest scoring images or your favourite images is entirely up to you. They must be presented precisely as they were presented in the previous rounds.
This competition is in 2 sections, digital images and printed images. Each member must submit 5 images into either or both sections.