Entries for our end of year competition are due on Tuesday 27 October 2026. This is a best of images entered throughout the year, members select from their previous entries to enter the end of year competition sections:

• Two images for Open Print
• Two images for Colour EDI
• Two images for Monochrome EDI
• One image for Creative EDI

The entry must have been entered into:

• Open Print images were entered in the Open Print sections of a 2026 monthly competition.
• Colour EDI and Monochrome EDI images were entered in the Open EDI or Set Subject EDI sections of a 2026 monthly competition.
• Creative EDI image is any image featuring creative photo techniques (in-camera or post production, including multiple exposures, composites and highly manipulated images) that was entered into a 2026 monthly competition (EDI or the EDI version of a print). This image cannot also be entered as an Open Print, Colour EDI, or Monochrome EDI.

Select your entries through the Competition upload system. As well as selecting your print entries in the upload system, also ensure that your print entries are placed in the print box on Tuesday 27 October 2026 at our November competition night.

We allow images to be altered prior to entry in the end of year competition (eg to incorporate comments from the judge).

5.c.1. Alterations are limited to ensure that the altered (EOY) version is clearly recognizable as a revision of the same image as entered in the monthly competitions. Conversions from colour to monochrome (or vice versa) are allowed.

To enter an altered image:

1. In the upload system select the image from the monthly competition as normal, then indicate via the dropdown that it will be altered for end of year.
2. Email your altered entry to the competition steward at comp@waverleycameraclub.org.

Judge: Andrea Esposito

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Ingrid Makowski – Seed Burst

Advanced: Ken Gosbell – Spring bloom

Open EDI

Intermediate: Elaine Whitton – Stormy shore

Advanced: Angela McLeod – Ice fishing

Open Print

Intermediate: Alan Mackinlay – A good puddle for a bath

Advanced: Daren Fawkes – Up and down

Set Subject definition:

Single, straight-out-of-camera image of any genre or subject with no post- production off-camera (including cropping, straightening, editing). Only converting to JPG and resizing to competition dimensions are permitted to be done off-camera. This is an opportunity to celebrate and recognise camera craft as well as novel in-camera techniques such as black & white, art filters, multi-exposure or focus stack, but only if your camera exports it as a single image file. Eg. You cannot do a focus stack which is 3 images and combine them later in editing software before submitting.

Judge: Lisa Law

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Belinda Kerr – Steel to the Horizon

Advanced: Kirsten Morton – The Power of Symmetry

Open EDI

Intermediate: Belinda Kerr – Eyes of Shimoni

Advanced: Jenny Hartman – Market carrier

Open Print

Intermediate: Joanne Rowley – Kelp

Advanced: Dianne Doughty – Lone Tree small

Set Subject definition:

Subjects are to be large man-made structures – Bridges, roads, dams, skyscrapers, stadium etc. The subjects should be identifiable as a piece of infrastructure.

Judge: Wade Buchan

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Ross Eddington – Flying Fynn

Advanced: Alan Bennett – Showing some air

Open EDI

Intermediate: Mike Whitton – Lights in the forest

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Loch Leven panorama

Open Print

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Hydrangea Colour Studies 5

Advanced: Kirsten Morton – Emu Intensity

Set Subject definition:

Images that capture the movement in camera. Use of post processing blur effects not allowed.

We recently participated in the Knox Monochrome Interclub. We did not place as high as previous years, but congratulation to those who had their images selected for entry.

Our highest scored images:

Jenny Adams – 5 mins at Flinders St Station

All of our entries can be viewed in our Knox Monochrome 2026 galleries.

Judge: Paul Robinson

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Belinda Kerr – Campbells Soup Cans

Advanced: Tim Keane – Flower Thrower

Open EDI

Intermediate: Ingrid Makowski – Mt Hotham March Fly

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Attention Tram

Open Print

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Hydrangea No 8

Advanced: Russell Lucas – Yachts In the Bohinj Mist

Set Subject definition:

Recreate a well-known artwork such as a painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, art gallery installation, etc. Title of the artwork to be provided in the image title. Painting examples include Modernism, Realism, Impressionism, Cubism etc. No editing restrictions.

Congratulations to our members who had images selected for entry into the 2026 VAPS Interclub competition. We came 5th in prints with 235 points, and 13th in EDI with 220 points.

These are some of our higher scoring entries:

All of our entries can be viewed in our print and EDI galleries.

Judge: Ian Rolfe

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Alan Scott – Beach Sunrise

Advanced: Jenny Adams – Little Beach

Open EDI

Intermediate: Fiona Jones – Middle stump

Advanced: Alan Bennett – On your marks get set go

Open Print

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Hydrangea in black and white

Advanced: Vira Vujovich – Surreal

Set Subject definition:

A panoramic image has a wide format – its ratio width:height must be at least 2:1. This can be achieved by stitching images, or cropping an image. Landscape images celebrate the beauty of the natural environment, showcasing the spaces and scenery of the natural world. Images may include animals, people or manmade elements, provided the primary emphasis is on natural scenery. The image must look natural although elements can be composited to add to the story.