1. Competitions for Members prints will be held from time to time, the details will be published in the Club Annual Programme.

2. Competition entries must be original photographs taken by the Member.

3. Entries may be processed by either conventional or digital methods and may be trade processed.

4. Prints can be entered in Colour or in Monochrome.

5. Prints must be mounted on card and the mount size must be as follows: Maximum size 50cm x 40cm. Minimum size 25cm x 20cm. The picture can be any size within these dimensions.

6. All entries must be clearly marked with the Members name and either a title or a number, to allow future identification. If the orientation of the print is not obvious, some indication of this should be marked on the back, eg ‘This way Up'.

7. Prints should be handed in ONE week before a competition.

8. Where entered photographs include people, it is the Member's responsibility to obtain permission from the subject to exhibit the photograph.

9. When a Trophy is awarded to a Member after a competition, the Trophy will remain the Property of the Woolwich Photographic Society and must be returned by the Member when required by the Committee.

10. The number of prints you may enter will vary depending on the competition. Our competiton secretary will let you know, before the competition, how many prints you may enter.

11. Marks will not usually be awarded to every entry. The Judge will be asked to select the best 4 entries in order of merit. Those entries selected will become eligible for entry in the Print of the Year competition.

12. A visiting Judge will be invited for each competition. Should a Judge not be available then the result will be reached by a vote of Members present.

13. The Member gaining the most places in the Club Competitions will be awarded the All Rounder Trophy.

14. Prints, which were not placed in a Club internal competition, may be entered for one further Club internal competition. There is no limit on the number of external competitions that prints may enter.

15. There is no limit to the age of the original photograph used in competitions.

1. The Bob Forshaw digital projected image competition is in six rounds each year.

2. Members may enter a maximum of 3 images for each round. Images must be in a JPEG format with a maximum horizontal dimension of 1024 pixels with a vertical maximum dimension of 768 pixels. The colour space for your images should be sRGB.

3. The projector used to judge the images will be calibrated to sRGB colour space. Any projected background around the images will be black

4. The filename for each image shall be in the format “N-Title_Author.jpg” where Title is the chosen title of the image, Author your name and N is the order of preference of your image. So for example, filenames of images could be: “01 Sunset view_Fred Smith.jpg”, “02 Boat on lake_Fred Smith.jpg” and so on.

5. Members should submit their images at the club meeting the week before the competition on Memory stick or CDROM, unless other arrangements have been made with the Competition Secretary. If necessary, the number of images may be limited on the evening, at the discretion of the Competition Secretary, in accordance with the member’s preference as in Rule 4.

6. The title of each slide shall be announced at the time of showing.

7. Judging

a) External judge: At each competition the judge shall be asked to mark each entry out of a maximum of ten points. The judge shall be asked to select the four best images, if necessary by the award of one or more plus marks.

b) Internal judging: The attending members will be asked to select the four best images in order of preference on their score sheet, if necessary by the award of one or more plus marks. All images so selected shall be eligible to compete in the final competition.

8. All images selected on the first 5 rounds shall be eligible to compete in the final competition. Images not selected may be resubmitted in not more than ONE subsequent competition.

9. A digital projected image final shall be held each year for all images eligible under Rule 7a above, and the judge will be asked to choose the best image, a runner up and two hon. mentions.