2023

JANUARY – LANDSCAPE – Includes seascapes and skyscapes and urbanscapes. People are permissible if not the primary subject. Astro allowed if significant terrestrial element. 

FEBRUARY – PORTRAIT – A human person or group. You need not show the whole person or a face. The image will be assessed not only on its technical competence but also on how much it conveys about the person or people, including relationships between people.

MARCH – FAST AND FURIOUS – Capture a sense of movement – a high impact, decisive moment.

APRIL – SIMPLICITY – Show as few elements as possible.

MAY – COLOUR COMBOS – Use one of the following combinations: red/green; blue/orange; purple/yellow; red/blue; sky blue/light brown; pink or mauve/green; orange/grey.

JUNE – SQUARE CROP – An image cropped so that each side is the same length – think about composition and the edges of your image

JULY – 6 WEEKS NOTICE – The subject will be announced at the May Competition – all images need to have been taken from May 10 2023.

AUGUST – EXTREME WEATHER – The viewer would need to use words such as crashing waves, driving rain, threatening clouds, lightning strikes, blazing sun, whirling tornado.  This is about photographing the weather as it is happening, not about capturing the results of a weather event, such as floods, fire or sand dunes. 

SEPTEMBER – ICM – Intentional camera movement – the art of moving a camera to create beautiful blur.

OCTOBER – THE LETTER M IN MONO – An image in which the main subject starts with the letter M. The image must be monochrome.

The definition of monochrome, for the purposes of a monthly competition is: any image containing shades of black, white or a single colour.

If toning is carried out, it must be over the total photograph.

NOVEMBER – ANIMAL PORTRAIT – All creatures great and small. An ant to an elephant – domestic or wild. The best portrait possible. Think about your background and lighting and character and expressions.

DECEMBER – EOY CHRISTMAS COMPETITION