LFPS Competitions Submission and Event Dates
2025
* (Open) Colour Round 1 - PDIs (Submit by 9th October 2025.) 23rd October 2025
* (Open) Monochrome Round 1 - PDIs (Submit by 23rd October 2025.) 6th November 2025
Open PDIs [Andrzej Jablonski] (Submit by 6th November 2025.) 20th November 2025
* (Open) Colour Round 2 - Prints (Submit on 13th November 2025.) 27th November 2025
(Open) Festive Evening PDIs - Letterbox and Panels (Submit by 10th December 2025.) 11th December 2025
(Open) Festive Evening Prints - Phone (Submit PDIs by 10th December. Bring prints on the evening.) 11th December 2025
2026
(Open) PDIs on the theme "TO BE ANNOUNCED" [Paul Taylor] (Submit by 1st January 2026.) 15th January 2026
(Traditional) Sport and (Traditional) Street PDIs (Submit by 22nd January 2026.) 5th February 2026
* (Open) Monochrome Round 2 - Prints (Submit on 5th February 2026.) 12th February 2026
(Traditional) Nature and Creative PDIs (Submit by 26th February 2026.) 12th March 2026
(Open) PDI Panels [John Whitby] (Submit by 5th March 2026.) 19th March 2026
(Open) Portrait and (Traditional) Scapes PDIs (Submit on 19th March 2025.) 2nd April 2026
* (Open) Colour Round 3 - Prints (Submit on 2nd April 2026.) 16th April 2026
* (Open) Monochrome Round 3 - Prints (Submit on 16th April 2026.) 30th April 2025
President’s Trophy (Open) Prints on theme "TO BE ANNOUNCED" (Submit PDIs by 20th May. Bring prints on the evening.) 21st May 2025
Points from the events marked * will be used to award trophies for colour and monochrome at the end of the season. Trophies for Groups A and B. You may enter up to three images per competition.
Go to Competitions - Rules, Digital Images and Prints for details of the competition categories, rules, how to size digital images, mounted prints and labels etc.
Competition Labels 2025 to 2026
IMPORTANT - Please also submit matching digital images with Prints
Please note that we ask members to submit matching digital images for submissions to our prints competitions. These are the Colour and Monochrome Prints Competitions. (These are all Open category.) There are two reasons for this.
(a) This will give us digital copies of all the images submitted to print competitions, which will make it much easier to select prints for MCPF, PAGB and other external competitions.
(b) It will make it easier to compile and put on our website the award winning images from the competitions.
Projected Digital Images (PDIs) and PhotoEntry
Images must be JPG format, sRGB colour space with a maximum width of 3840 pixels and maximum height of 2400 pixels. Use the online PhotoEntry system.
https://compent.photoentry.uk/compent
* (Open) Colour Round 1 - PDIs (Submit by 9th October 2025.) 23rd October 2025
* (Open) Monochrome Round 1 - PDIs (Submit by 23rd October 2025.) 6th November 2025
Open PDIs [Andrzej Jablonski] (Submit by 6th November 2025.) 20th November 2025
* (Open) Colour Round 2 - Prints (Submit on 13th November 2025.) 27th November 2025
(Open) Festive Evening PDIs - Letterbox and Panels (Submit by 10th December 2025.) 11th December 2025
(Open) Festive Evening Prints - Phone (Submit PDIs by 10th December. Bring prints on the evening.) 11th December 2025
2026
(Open) PDIs on the theme "TO BE ANNOUNCED" [Paul Taylor] (Submit by 1st January 2026.) 15th January 2026
(Traditional) Sport and (Traditional) Street PDIs (Submit by 22nd January 2026.) 5th February 2026
* (Open) Monochrome Round 2 - Prints (Submit on 5th February 2026.) 12th February 2026
(Traditional) Nature and Creative PDIs (Submit by 26th February 2026.) 12th March 2026
(Open) PDI Panels [John Whitby] (Submit by 5th March 2026.) 19th March 2026
(Open) Portrait and (Traditional) Scapes PDIs (Submit on 19th March 2025.) 2nd April 2026
* (Open) Colour Round 3 - Prints (Submit on 2nd April 2026.) 16th April 2026
* (Open) Monochrome Round 3 - Prints (Submit on 16th April 2026.) 30th April 2025
President’s Trophy (Open) Prints on theme "TO BE ANNOUNCED" (Submit PDIs by 20th May. Bring prints on the evening.) 21st May 2025
Points from the events marked * will be used to award trophies for colour and monochrome at the end of the season. Trophies for Groups A and B. You may enter up to three images per competition.
Go to Competitions - Rules, Digital Images and Prints for details of the competition categories, rules, how to size digital images, mounted prints and labels etc.
Competition Labels 2025 to 2026
IMPORTANT - Please also submit matching digital images with Prints
Please note that we ask members to submit matching digital images for submissions to our prints competitions. These are the Colour and Monochrome Prints Competitions. (These are all Open category.) There are two reasons for this.
(a) This will give us digital copies of all the images submitted to print competitions, which will make it much easier to select prints for MCPF, PAGB and other external competitions.
(b) It will make it easier to compile and put on our website the award winning images from the competitions.
Projected Digital Images (PDIs) and PhotoEntry
Images must be JPG format, sRGB colour space with a maximum width of 3840 pixels and maximum height of 2400 pixels. Use the online PhotoEntry system.
https://compent.photoentry.uk/compent
