Chesterfield Photographic Society

Advanced notice, for members interested in having a go at entering next seasons competitions, to be held throughout the 2026/27 winter season, these are set out below:-

Oct 2026 Open Digital

Nov 2026 Mono Print

Dec 2026 People Digital

Jan 2027 Open Print

Feb 2027 Scapes Digital

Mar 2027 Open Print

Please notes the 3 themes are “Mono”, “People” and “Scapes”

Actual Dates will be confirmed when the winter Events Programme is published later in the year.

Many thanks to our members for the contribution in making the 2025/26 winter season one of our best ever in terms of the quality of images submitted and presented.

Both the digital and print competitions held throughout the year were of a very high standard making it very challanging for the external judges to pick out the best images on each of our 6 competition nights.

Congratulations go to Simon Beynon (right) for getting a clean sweep of the trophies (best digital photographer, best print photographer and best overall photographer of the year). Simon, also, picking up the trophy for the member with geting the most NEMPF acceptances.

Also, congratulations to David Ward for his image titled “TRANQUIL” getting the members vote for the best digital image of the year.

Best Digital Image of the year (voted by members)

TRANQUIL by David Ward

And, congratulations go to John Rutherford for getting the members vote for the best print of the year.

Best Print Image of the Year (Voted by Members)

WALK IN MISTY WOODS by John Rutherford

Last night’s Open Print Competition results. 30 prints entered with the judge having a tough job of picking out the winners with so many high standard prints on show.

Congratulations go to John Rutherford, Michael Hardwick and Simon Beynon for getting top scores for their images. With the Judges choice of first place going to John Rutherford for his image titled “WALK IN MISTY WOODS”

WALK IN MISTY WOODS by John Rutherford

To see all the entries vist the Archive section of the website.