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Digital Imaging Competition

RPS Digital Imaging

DI Competition 2025

For 2025 our annual competition for members features three separate rounds, this time by class of image rather than subject theme.

We listened to your feedback in our member survey and have changed the way the competition will run. Although the classes are based on broad techniques and there's no time limit on when an image was made, we encourage you to submit recent work rather than mining your back catalogues! The three classes are Open Colour, Open Mono and Altered Reality - see below for more details.

  • Submissions will be via our PollUnit software, with expert selection in each class.
  • The top 10 winners of each class will be featured in DI Online.
  • The 30 finalists will go head to head at an online selection meeting with three selectors. The winner will be awarded the Raymond Wallace Thompson Trophy.

These are the classes:

  1. Open Colour: a straight image using two or more colours (e.g., full or selective colour, split toning etc.).
    Submissions in February. Selection end of March 2025
  2. Altered Reality: non-representational and composite images (e.g., ICM, collage, multiple exposure; can be mono or colour).
    Submissions in May. Selection end of June 2025
  3. Open Mono: a straight image only using a single hue (shades of grey or any other single colour). Submissions in August. Selection end of September 2025.

The final for the RWT Trophy will be held in November 2025.

See the Rules for detailed descriptions of each class, submission requirements and how the competition will be run. (PDF to download.)

Trophy

Selectors for the Altered Reality class

Sally Sallett ARPS

Sally Sallett

I'm a 75 year old Grandma, originally from Kent but living in Yorkshire for over 45 years. 
I became involved in Club photography nearly 15 years ago and, being quite competitive, got on the distinction trail. I achieved ARPS AFIAP CPAGB BPE3 by 2017. 

I enjoy giving talks & judging for the YPU & further afield, in person & via Zoom. 
I really enjoy making creative images (not proper photography.  🤣!) & also dabble in AI creation, from time to time.

Clive Watkins ARPS

Clive Watkins

I have been a keen photographer since I was a child, starting out with a 35mm Pentax SLR gifted to me from my grandfather.  These days I shoot with mainly digital but also some medium format film cameras.  Although I am now an events and wedding photographer, my interests are wide and varied.  I am honorary president of Irvine Camera Club, Secretary of the RPS Scotland Region and Chair of the Creative Eye. 

I spend a lot of my spare time judging and giving talks on the Scottish club circuit.  I think my passion for photography is driven by a love of photographs; in books, exhibitions and online.  I love to look at  what other photographers have created and to see the world through their eyes.

Martin Addison FRPS

Martin Addison

I have been enthusiastic about photography for 60 years or so and I still find it as exciting and engaging as ever. 

I enjoy creating images in a number of genres including landscape and street, but my enduring love is to create images that intrigue and perhaps confuse, often by the use of ICM and multiple exposure.

I still use my camera but I also use my phone which allows me to use some of the very interesting apps which are available. I am a prolific photographer and share my images most days on Facebook and Vero and on my website: https://martinaddison.photography