General Competition Rules:
No image may be entered more than twice into an internal competition during any twenty four month period.

An image is any digital projected image (DPI), slide, colour or monochrome image and should not bear any resemblance or similarity to previously submitted images during this period.

Digital Projected Images must be JPEG, sRGB colour space and 1024x768 pixels maximum. DPI’s must be labelled in the following format:
TITLE by First name Surname eg IMAGE by John Smith Thy must be placed in a folder bearing your name eg John Smith and burned to a CD or emailed to the competition Secretary.

Prints may be any size, but must be produced on a mount 40 x 50cm. Mounts should be labelled on the reverse using Malling labels available on the website.

Slides (first generation only ie original image must have been taken on slide film, digital slides not eligible) Slides must be in 50mm x 50mm mounts only. Slides should be mounted in standard 2mm glass or glassless mounts, such as GePe. Slides that are too thin or too thick may jam the projector. Slides submitted in any other mount may not be projected.
They must show a title (for identification),name of member, preferably by writing directly on the mount. Stick-on labels are liable to peel off and jam the projector.
The slides must be correctly spotted, i.e. in the bottom left hand corner as viewed in the hand.

All entries must be accompanied by an entry form, indicating the order of preference for your images (in the event of oversubscription the last images on your list will be dropped).

Regardless of the number of entries into each competition, the entry fee will be £1 per entrant (free for Junior members).

Entries must be handed in 2 weeks before the competition.

2010-11 COMPETITIONS


14-09-10 Level Gold Themed Competition – Song Titles:
This is a digital projected image competition, each member may submit a total of three images.
The winner is the member with the highest cumulative score from their three images.
The image title must carry the Song Title and the Artist. Eg Yellow Submarine ‘The Beatles’ by John Smith
Entry Closing date: 31-08-10

21-09-10 Small Print Competition.
This is a colour or monochrome print competition with an image size restriction of 7 x 5 inches. The images must be mounted, the mount may be any size, but no larger than 50 x 40 cm. Each member may submit a total of four images, best image of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 07-09-10

12-10-10 Ladies v Gentlemen Competition:
This is a print competition, with images selected by each team captain, team captains will be David Hall for the Gentlemen and Jane Puncher for the Ladies. Twenty images per team. The winner is the team with the highest cumulative points for their twenty images.
Entry Closing date: 28-09-10

02-11-10 Annual Digital Images Competition.
This is a DPI competition, each member may submit a maximum of four images. Best image of the night wins
Entry Closing date: 19-10-10

16-11-10 Monochrome Print Competition.
 This is a print competition, each member may submit a maximum of four images.
Best print of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 02-11-10

30-11-10 Digital Manipulation Competition.
This is a DPI competition each member may submit a maximum of four images using any combination of the base images supplied - see the "Competition Entry Forms,Images and Labels" link on the menu bar. Only the official base images are allowed and only data from these base images may be used in the final images, these base images may be manipulated in any way you wish, you may use any combination of data from the base images to produce your final images. The best image of the night wins.Entry Closing date: 16-11-10

11-01-11 Camera Gear Novice Competition.
This is a DPI competition only open to members who have never previously won an internal competition of any genre at the closing date. Each eligible member may submit a total of four images. The winner is the entrant with the highest cumulative score from their images on the night
Entry Closing date: 14-12-10

25-01-11 Annual Slide Competition.
This is a First Generation Slide competition i.e. original image must have been taken on slide film, digital slides not eligible. A maximum of six entries per member. Best image of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 11-01-11

15-02-11 Werner Lehman Award.
This is a competition with three categories, DPIs, colour and monochrome prints. Each member may submit a maximum of two images per category. Best image in each category on the night wins. Additional award for the best overall image of the night from the winners of the three individual categories.
Entry Closing date: 01-02-11

08-03-11 Annual Digital Audio Visual Competition.
 This is a competition for digital audio visual sequences. Each member may submit a maximum of three shows. Each sequence must be no longer than six minutes in total. Entries must be submitted in .exe format and burned to a CD only. Best show of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 22-02-11

05-04-11 Annual Colour Print Competition
 This is a print competition each member may submit a maximum of four images. Best print of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 22-03-11

19-04-11 Hazel & Tony Palmer Memorial Portrait Competition.
This is a print competition, Hazel for colour prints, Tony for monochrome prints. Each member may submit a total of six images in any combination. Best colour and best mono print of the night wins.
Entry Closing date: 05-04-11

Chairman’s Cup:
 The Chairman’s Cup is a competition to encourage participation by members throughout the season. The Cup is awarded to the member who has accumulated the most points in the clubs internal competitions.
Points are awarded as follows:
1 point for entry into each competition
1 point for each image scoring either 19 or 20 points
Placed images awarded 5 points for 1st place, 3 points for 2nd place, 2 points for 3rd place, in the event of a drawn position the total number of points will be added together and shared equally.
The exception to this rule will be the Werner Lehman Competition, this will award 5 points to the overall winning image and then 3 points to the winners of the other two categories.

The Cups and Shields for Competition winners.


In the 80s and early 90s there were many photographic shops in Maidstone. The oldest was Sloman & Petit, they had two places, one in the High Street where they specialised in portraiture and one in Pudding Lane. They were later bought out by Ronald White

City Cameras had a shop in Chequers (or Stoneborough ) as it was then and Gifford Boyd in Earl Street also had a place in Hastings.

Level Gold was based on the Broadway and Camera Gear on the corner of Mill Street.

Level Gold and Camera Gear kindly supported our club during these times and so we have trophies named after them. Now it is just Ronald White and of course Jessops, who have shops in Maidstone.

Other shields or cups have been named after past members. The Werner Lehmann and Tony and Hazel Palmer awards together with the Annual Slide Shield named after a past popular chairman, Roy Timothy and the Trevor Burden cup, named after a very keen photographer.

The Safeway cup, the biggest and heaviest was awarded to the best small print and the Ladies V gents cup was donated by Bert Fulcher, a past member.

The oldest and most prestigious silver cup was donated to the Reeds Photographic Club as it was then, by Herbert Watson, a former director of the Paper Mills at Aylesford.