Would you like your photograph to be the most prominent image on the RPS website?
Each week there will be a theme. From received entries, a number of members work will be selected to feature as the main image on the home page for a day each the following week.
This page will be updated with new themes until the project closes.
How to enter - please follow the instructions below carefully:
- Images should be jpegs in landscape (rather than portrait or square) format and 2000 pixels wide.
- Do not send images with frames added or watermarks on the image (credits will be added to the page)
- Images should be titled like this: Jan Smith ARPS.jpeg (but with your details obviously!)
- Colour Space: sRGB
- Images should be sent to: webadmin@rps.org
- Please include your membership number
- Specify the theme you're entering in the email subject field
- Think quality rather than quantity
- Enter as many images as you like per theme - good luck!
Things to look out for:
1) Focusing issues are one of the main reasons that images can't be used - please check your work carefully before sending in. Focusing on the eyes is important if you are sending in animal or human portraits.
2) Banding - this can often be found in large blocks of solid colour in photographs and appears as lines. There are many tutorials online on how to avoid it and how to rectify if it is apparent in your work.
3) Dust and other debris covering key areas of your image.
Due to the volume of entries, we will only be notifying successful entrants which day their work will feature. Not getting selected is no reflection on the quality or content of your work. Various things have to be taken into consideration including the page layout, text position and balance of entries throughout the week - so please don't be discouraged and we hope you will enter again!
If you are not a member of the RPS and would like to participate, you can join find out more about joining the Society here.
Themes (your interpretation of the following word):
Bokeh (for tips click here) - Opens: 15 February. Closes: 21 February
"This month, after the Bokeh theme, I will be winding down the weekly website home page competition for now as we prepare for the reopening of RPS House. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all the members who have entered the competition. It has been such a pleasure chatting with you and working my way through the thousands of images that have been entered. We have had entrants from all over the world from Egypt to Madagascar, China to the frozen north of Sweden with many people participating all year. I very much hope to revisit this competition at a later date and wish you well in the interim" Emily Mathisen, Web Content Manager
Previous themes - selected image from all featured that week:
To read a feature on the first 19 weeks of the competition (including images) please click here.


Letters - Closed 13 September
Left: Urs Albrecht LRPS
Sport - Closed: 20 September
Right: Anna Withey LRPS


Urban - Closed: 25 September
Left: Alexey Belov
Transport - Closed: 4 October
Right: Nadia Awad


Autumn - Closed: 11 October
Left: Grahame Soden ARPS
Interior - Closed: 18 October
Right: Paul Edmunds


Weather - Closed: 25 October
Left: John Credland ARPS
Documentary - Closed: 30 October
Right: André Bergmans


Archive - Closed: 8 November
Left: Pabitra Sen Sharma
* The competition was closed from 9-15 November
Work - Closed: 22 November
Right: Sanjoy Sengupta LRPS


Hope - Closed: 29 November
Left: Rob Kershaw ARPS
* The competition was closed from 30 Nov-13 Dec
Winter - Closed: 20 December
Right: Pam Sherren ARPS


Celebration - Closed: 24 December
Left: Hassan Abuzaid
Winter 2 - We had so many wonderful entries for the Winter week we have decided to run images from those entered for a second week.
Right: Tatiana Bogracheva ARPS


Reflection - Closed: 10 January
Left: Lorraine Poole LRPS
Shadow - Closed: 17 January
Right: Pam Sherren ARPS


Hobbies - Closed: 24 January
Left: Lorraine Poole LRPS
ICM (intentional camera movement) - Closed: 31 January
Right: Diana Buzoianu


Love - Closed: 7 February
Left: Emma Solomon
Symmetry - Closed: 14 February
Right: Mark Reeves ARPS
The copyright on all images belongs to the photographer.