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Competitions

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MONO LANDSCAPE

January 2025

"Not just black and white" While “monochromatic” and “black and white” are often used interchangeably in photography, they mean different things. All black and white photographs are monochrome, but not all monochrome photos are black and white. Some examples of images that are monochrome but not black and white would be cyanotypes, with their characteristic Prussian blue, or warm sepia photos.
Monochrome photos can be any color, as long as they exclusively use varying tones of that hue.

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Digitals due in on the 14th of January 2025                    

Competition night is the 21st of January 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

ENVIRONMENTAL TRASH

February 2025

Environmental trash encompasses various type of rubbish from construction scraps to demolition debris to oil or chemical spills, to wastewater leaks. What can you find that fit the brief of "Environmental Trash?"

Digitals due in on the 28th January 2025                          

​Competition night is on Tuesday 4th February 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

UNDERNEATH

March 2025

Crouch down and start to look at things from a different angle, for example this can be from underneath a flower or underneath the water.

Digitals due in on the 25th February 2025                             

Competition night is 4th March 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

DOUBLE EXPOSURE

April 2025

In camera or manipulated in post processing. Must be your own images and not using AI

Digitals due in on the 25th March 2025                            

Competition night is 1st April 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

VINTAGE THINGS

May 2025

This can be anything old, vintage but not people.

Digitals due in on the 29th  April 2025                              

Competition night is 6th May 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

SELF PORTRAIT

June 2025

Use the trigger or self timer to create something about yourself. Will you show your inner feelings? Maybe yourself in a flowing dress in a landscape? A dark and moody studio shot?

Digitals due in on the 27th May 2025                  

Competition night is the 3rd June 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

A TOUCH OF RED

July 2025

The colour red being the stand out hero of the image

Digitals due in on the 24th June 2025               

Competition night is 1st July 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

RAIN

August 2025

with a further challenge the image must be less than 60 days old

Digitals due in on the 29th July 2025                          

Competition night is on 5th August 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

MAGAZINE COVER

September 2025

Remember the days of flicking paper through your fingers? Why not create a front page cover of your favourite genre.

This competition theme can include text

Digitals due in on the 26th August 2025           

Competition night is the2nd September 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

TEXTURE

October 2025

Digitals due in on the 30th September 2025        

Competition night is the 7th October 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

November 2025

Look for different shapes and forms to capture something abstract.

Digitals due in on the 28th October 2025                       

Competition night is 4th November 2025

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

Annual Awards Night and Christmas Party

December 2025

Each financial member can submit 2 x digital entries and 2 x print entries providing that they have been entered in any of the 2025 competitions.

The images cannot have been altered in any way.

 

Both prints and digitals need to be submitted to the Competition Director by 18th November 2025.  

This is to gives time to let the judge award our Print and Digital Image of the Year, and to get our awards engraved.

January 2025

Photographs of land, water, groups of buildings, or a combination of these. An image of a single tree or flower is not a landscape. Image may include people, man-made objects, and wildlife, but these should not be the primary subject of the photograph. Cityscapes, skyscapes, and seascapes are acceptablle

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Digitals due in on the 9th of January 2024                    

Competition night is the 16th of January 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

February 2024

The sense of depth or spatial relationship between objects in a photo. By changing perspective, subjects can appear much smaller or larger than normal or help your viewer see the world from a different perspective. Not at eye level!

Digitals due in on the 30th January 2024                          

​Competition night is on Tuesday 6th February 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

March 2024

A photograph of an inanimate object or group of objects arranged as the subject for a picture. It can serve as an exercise in skill and creativity, to show an artist’s understanding of composition, his ability to depict colour harmony, form, texture, and the effects of light upon the objects

Digitals due in on the 27th February 2024                             

Competition night is 5th March 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

April 2024

Transportation of goods, people and/or animals from one place to another. Images of planes, trains, cars, and other modes of transport.

Digitals due in on the 26th March 2024                            

Competition night is 2nd April 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

May 2024

Main subject must be part of a plant - tree or flower. Image could be a macro of the whole subject or just a part of it. Experiment with different angles, perspectives, and framing techniques to create interesting and dynamic images

Digitals due in on the 30th  April 2024                              

Competition night is 7th May 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

June 2024

Photograph where the main subject is an animal in their natural environment, like in a forest or underwater. Domestic pets, animals in a zoo, or on a farm are not allowed. Images includes mammals, insects, reptiles, rodents, birds, fish, and other invertebrates, but not people.

Digitals due in on the 28th May 2024                  

Competition night is the 4th June 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

July 2024

Photos that showcase a slice of regular life containing a certain genuine beauty. There should be natural interaction between subjects. True magic happens when you’re able to capture two people’s true connection.

Digitals due in on the 25th June 2024               

Competition night is 2nd July 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

August 2024

Images captured outdoors at night, between dusk and dawn. Artificial light sources, such as city lights, building lights, fireworks. Amusement rides, and car lights work well to create the mood of a night scene.

Digitals due in on the 30th July 2024                          

Competition night is on 6th August 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

September 2024

A photograph that gives a sense of motion. The subject can be a person, moving man-made object, animal, or moving water.

Digitals due in on the 27th August 2024           

Competition night is the 3rd September 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

October 2024

The subject should be a building, group of related buildings, or other man-made structure such as a bridge or tower or a portion thereof.

Mono includes all forms of black-and-white photography, containing all shades of neutral grey.

Digitals due in on the 24th September 2024        

Competition night is the 1st October 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

November 2024

The decline from a sound or perfect condition; to fall into ruin. Create an image that conveys a sense of abandonment or decline.

Digitals due in on the 29th October 2024                         

Competition night is 5th November 2024

Email:  tagcompetitions@gmail.com

December 2024

Each financial member can submit 2 x digital entries and 2 x print entries providing that they have been entered in any of the 2023 competitions.

The images cannot have been altered in any way.

 

Both prints and digitals need to be submitted to the Competition Director by 19th November 2024.  

This is to gives time to let the judge award our Print and Digital Image of the Year, and to get our awards engraved.

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