The Society holds five competitions for prints and five for projected digital images during each season.<\/p>\n
The competitions are divided into two classes – Open and Advanced. Any member who holds a distinction, e.g. FRPS, ARPS, APAGB, or who is a professional photographer, must compete in the Advanced class. Members without distinctions may elect to compete in either class.<\/p>\n
Competitions are judged by a member of another club who is accredited as a judge by the SPA or another PAGB Federation. The judge is not required to award marks for pictures; he or she selects around six pictures in each class to go through to finals in June.<\/p>\n
There are also six annual competitions:<\/p>\n
1. The Halliday Portrait Competition for both prints and projected digital images; members from both classes compete on an equal footing.<\/p>\n
2. The Jeff Darken Trophy, is for monochrome prints.<\/p>\n
3. The TEACUP (T<\/strong>rophy for E<\/strong>xperimental, A<\/strong>bstract, C<\/strong>onceptual and U<\/strong>nconventional P<\/strong>hotography)<\/p>\n 4. Members’ Choice, is only for Open Class members who compete for the Evelyn Gibbons Trophy (projected digital images) and the Bob Fergusson Trophy (prints). Entries may be any image that has not received a certificate during the current competition year.<\/p>\n 5. The Jim Cottrill trophy; a genre based competition, e.g. Street, Nature etc.<\/p>\n 6. The Programme Competition; the winning image of this “letterbox” format event will become the cover image on the society’s Programme leaflet for the subsequent season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Society holds five competitions for prints and five for projected digital images during each season. The competitions are divided into two classes – Open and Advanced. Any member who holds a distinction, e.g. FRPS, ARPS, APAGB, or who is …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 10:07:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1742\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wokingps.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}