RPS Digital Imaging | Digital Imaging Competition

For 2023/4 we have a newly designed annual digital imaging competition for DI members.

Gone is the old style comp where everyone entered one of the two classes – in comes the opportunity to enter each of the 5 rounds, with a final 6th round to decide the overall winner of the Raymond Wallace Thompson trophy.

The aim of this new format is to encourage new work; to inspire you to shoot specifically for the subject. The topics will be broad enough to allow a lot of scope for interpretation, different techniques and styles. Members will also be invited to vote in Rounds 1 to 5, and the top 5 go through to the final Round 6, when we will invite eminent assessors to select the final awards.

You have the chance to be one of the top 5 winners each round, who will be featured in DI Online.
You do not have to enter each round to ultimately become one of the finalists.
Whatever your style of work you can enter each round. Mono, coloured, toned, ICM, creative - whatever you wish.

The Round topics will be announced 2 months prior to the submission date. Work will need to be no more than 6 months old and must not have been entered into any other DI competition.

We have a new image submission web site, which is easy to use and will also provide the gallery for viewing all images entered into each round. Voting will be hidden during the voting period, but opened up for you to see your score the following month. The links for submission will be added here when submission opens.

Obviously there are new rules and it is essential that you download these to read. They are NOT available on the submission web site. We have also prepared some FAQs. For further questions email our competition secretary Kenneth Ness FRPS on digcompsec@rps.org

Download the rules | Download the FAQs

Round 4 started on 1 February 2024.

Subject is – Scapes
Submission opens 1 April 2024 and closes 29 April 2024.
Voting opens 1 May 2024 and closes 24 May 2024.
Results announced 31 May 2024.
Winners displayed in DI Online June 2024 issue.

Round 5 started on 1 April 2024

Subject is – Architecture
Submission opens 1 June 2024 and closes 30 June 2024.
Voting opens 1 July 2024 and closes 24 July 2024.
Results announced 31 July 2024.
Winners displayed in DI Online August/September 2024 issue.

Past round results

Round 1 started on 1 August 2023 – Flora and/or Fauna

Winners displayed in DI Online December 2023 issue, and you can see all the entries here.

Round 2 started on 1 October 2023 – Water

Winners displayed in DI Online February 2024 issue, and you can see all the entries here.

Round 3 started on 1 December 2023 - People

Results announced 31 March 2024.
Winners will be displayed in DI Online April 2024 issue, and you can see all the entries here.

Finally, here's a link to all the winners of the rounds so far, which will take part in the final selection for the trophy.