Non-League Competitions
2025-26 Non-League Competitions
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President’s Safari Evening
Date: Tuesday 7 October
Location: Hampshire Record Office
Judge: Jim Pascoe BA ABIPP ARPS
Set of Three/George Walsh
Date: Tuesday 25 November
Location: TheTower
Judge: Suzie Kirkby CPAGB / AV
Christmas Knockout
Date: Tuesday 16 December
Location: The Tower
Judge: the members
Society Competition Evening
Date:Tuesday 26 May
Location: The Tower
Pietro Rocchiccioli
BA (HONS) PHOTO, DPAGB EFIAP/s
Best of the best
Date: Tuesday 5 May
Location: The Tower
Judge: Maria Leekblade LRPS AFIAP DPAGB
Winning and Held Back Entries by Competition and Year
Pending the availability of this year’s results, the galleries below show results from previous years.
Click on any pane to see the winning and held back images in that class
A=Advanced, B=Beginners, G=Gold, I=Intermediate
See also the Internal Competition Image Archive
The President’s Safari
First run in 2024, the Presidentʼs Safari is a blend of fun, social interaction, and friendly competition.
Entrants are teams of four, of whom no more than one may be a Gold member.
For 2025, team members had to take photos during July in the area bounded by the Hamble and Meon rivers and the M3, on each of ten different themes.
The teams had to pick one digital image to submit in each of the ten themes, plus a single print taken in the defined area. The print could be, but did not have to be a print of one of the digital images submitted in an earlier round.
Each team had to include at least two images by each member.
This is an informal competition so images are not disqualified from entering future club competition.
In 2025, nine teams entered the competition. The scoring for each round was 10 points for first place, 9 for second place and so on down to 2 points for 9th place.
President’s Safari 2025 Results
The winners, by a clear margin, were The Bokeh Boys: David McKibbin, Bob Allen, Jon Hawkins and John Tierney.
The team with the longest name, Kings Worthy Klickers + The Money Launderer, won the prize for the best print.
More details in the spreadsheet below. A selection of the best placed images is available under the Best Images tab.
Judge: Jim Pascoe BA ABIPP ARPS
About Jim
Following a short spell in the Royal Navy, seven years at Standard Life, and five years at Stonehenge Cycles (a passionate cyclist), Jim decided on a career change to follow his love of photography.
In 1998, Jim graduated from Salisbury College – acknowledged as one of the leading photography colleges in the UK – with an HND and a BA(Hons) in Professional Communication(Photography).
Jim is a long-standing member of and a former chairman and vice-chairman of Highcliffe & Infinity Photography Club.
With his wife Nicky, also an experienced photographer, he has been running Jim Pascoe Photography since 1998.
He is a frequent and welcome visitor to WPS, and an experienced SCPF Level 3 judge.
Recent visits include judging 2021-22 Print Round 4, and the Competition Night on 19 January 2021 which included the Set of Three and the George Walsh Trophy awards. He was one of the judges for our 2024 Annual Exhibition.
He was also our guest speaker on 13 April 2021, when we were meeting online because of the pandemic.
He kindly stood in to judge the 2025 President’s Safari after the original judge was badly injured in a traffic incident.
See
Last updated 2026-01-12
The results are under the Best Images tab
Judge: Suzie Kirkby CPAGB/AV
About Suzie
Suzie was awarded her CPAGB/AV in 2018 and has given talks on Making a Better AV. You can see some of her images on Flickr
She started judging for the SCPF in 2020 and is now an SCPF Level 2+ judge.
Suzie is Vice-President of the SCPF for the 2025-26 season. She is a member of Basingstoke Camera Club and a past Chairman of Alton Camera Club.
Last updated 2025-12-02
CKO 2025 Results
Them
The theme for 2025-26 is Happiness
Judge: Maria Leekblade LRPS AFIAP DPAGB
About Maria
Maria Leekblade is a Level 3 SCPF judge.
She developed her photography skills as an adult learner at Brockenhurst College and by being an active member of Lymington and Southampton Camera Clubs. She also found time to be an active member of Winchester Photographic Society for several years.
In 202-21 we welcomed Maria as our judge for PDI Round 1. She returned in 2021-22 as judge for PDI Round 2 and in 2023 she judged PDI Round 4. She was one of the judges for our 2024 Annual Exhibition.
She was on the committee of Southampton International Exhibition for 8 years.
According to her profile on eventbrite,
Maria has lived in the New Forest for nearly 20 years and her love of photography started with her animals.
However, Maria’s heart lies at home – her animals are always a firm favourite and the local landscape, people, flora & fauna that share our stunning Forest will always be her first love, and being able to capture them remains the motivation and pleasure for picking up the camera.
image ©Lymington Camera Club
Last updated 2025-12-02
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