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Digital Imaging Competition
RPS Digital Imaging
For 2026 our annual competition for members features two separate classes, Open Colour and Open Mono. Entry is free to all members, including our international ones.
Fifteen from each class will be selected and go forward to the final, where the winner will be awarded the Raymond Wallace Thompson Trophy. You'll be able to watch via Zoom and hear the selectors' comments.
The Selectors will be looking for technical and artistic excellence, and especially new work that has not been previously seen in competitions and exhibitions.
Key dates
Open Colour class: Opens 1 May 2026 – closes 1 June 2026.
Open Mono class: Opens 1 July 2026 – closes 1 August 2026.
The Final for the RWT Trophy will be held in September 2026.
Classes
There are two classes, and you may enter a maximum of three images in each one.
- Open Colour
Colour images of any subject and of any style are allowed. The images will be selected on their pictorial merit with the emphasis on interest, visual impact, composition and technical excellence. Entries in May.
- Open Mono
A mono image uses shades of a single hue, commonly black/grey/white, but shades of any single hue are eligible. Entries in July.
See the Competition Rules for full details of the classes, images specifications and T&Cs.
Selectors for the Open Mono class
Robin Price ARPS
Robin started ‘serious’ photography when he retired in 2015, bought a small camera and a couple of lenses and joined his hometown camera club in Wigan. He started to soak up knowledge and soon was doing quite well in club competitions. He started to look farther afield and soon was bitten by the competitive bug and started entering national and international salons and exhibitions. He joined other neighbouring clubs to test his images in different arenas to help in improving his work.
These entries were fuelled by his love of portraiture and a love of wildlife shared with his wife. He loves the interaction with a portraiture subject in getting the ‘feel’ for the subject and has a similar feeling for wildlife. He loves to try to capture the story in an image.
He has satisfied the competition itch and now looks for other things. He’s now mainly driven by what he likes, and loves to capture a different view of a subject, but still searches for the story.
He’s recently gone back to Wigan where he is happy being back amongst photo friends. Robin is a former winner of the Raymond Wallace Thompson Trophy.
Simon Street FRPS
Simon is a Fellow of the RPS (and the Irish Photographic Federation), a former Distinctions Assessor and is perhaps known to Digital Imaging members as the first editor of Accolade. He specialises in monochrome for Street, Documentary, Travel, Abstract and Landscape projects. You will see his work in magazines such as B&W Photography.
In Surrey, he is a regional Photographic Association judge and speaker. His passion is to convert mono projects into a growing collection of 24 eBooks. He has just come back from covering the Makerfield bye-election for a documentary.
Hugh Rooney FRPS
Hugh has been a keen photographer for most of his adult life, and has been a member of his local camera club, Bangor & North Down, for over 30 years. He is a Past President of the Northern Ireland Photographic Association.
His photography is almost all monochrome, his main interest is in producing monochrome prints on the many beautiful fine art papers which are available to us today. The main subjects which he photographs include architecture, landscapes and seascapes. His work has been included in many exhibitions and photographic publications including RPS IPE exhibition, RPS DIG Portfolio, PAGB Masters of Print and US photographic magazine Lenswork.
Hugh obtained a Fellowship of the RPS in November 2022 for a panel of architectural images.