Competition Guidelines

The TPS season includes internal club competitions for monochrome prints, colour prints,  and projected digital images.

Each competition event is adjudicated by an external judge, and points (out of 10) are awarded within each category, which accumulate towards a final score to decide the overall winner of each class. There are three rounds per season, into which members may submit one entry.

We have three classes for our multi-round competitions. These are:

  • Club Class – general class open to all members, especially new members at the start of their photographic journey
  • Intermediate Class – for members who have won the respective competition in Club Class in a prior year or who have made strong progress beyond the Club Class level and wish to compete with similar photographers
  • Advanced Class – for members who have won the respective competition in Intermediate Class in a prior year, or who hold a photographic qualification such as LRPS, or who have demonstrated a high quality of submissions (possibly at another club) as assessed by the TPS Committee.

In addition, we aim to host several one-off competitions each year, based on specific set themes or subjects. All competition winners are given ownership of the competition award medal or cup, usually presented at our annual end-of-year dinner.

The following documents give more details of the competition requirements:

The society also competes in friendly, external competitions with other local clubs and in the Surrey Photographic Association’s Inter-Club Competitions. For additional details or to find out how to get involved, please contact the  External Competition Secretary.