| Members
are encouraged to enter their work for both the members' internal club competitions
or for selection as entrants to represent SPC in inter-club or WCPF competitions.
All competitions are judges by experts who comment on each entry submitted as
well as deciding on the overall winners and runners-up. Members'
internal competitions
In 2009/10 the Club is holding
five internal open subject competitions. Entries must be submitted
on the dates given in the Programme. In addition there is the Print
and Slide of the Year and the Panel Competition which is
held at the Annual General Meeting. Every 3 years the Barber Shield
Slide Competition is held. Prize winners are presented with trophies
which are held for one year. Winning images can be viewed in the Gallery
pages.
External
competitions
Slides
and prints for external competitions are chosen by a selection committee consisting
of the competition secretary and two other committee members. Currently the club
enters the following external competitions:
The
Horseshoe Competition is
between 5 clubs - Sidmouth, Chard, Lyme Regis, Exmouth and Honiton.
Each club submits 5 prints and 5 slides. The name derives from the venue
at which the event used to be held - The Three Horseshoes Inn.
WCPF
Inter-Club Digital Projected Image Competition replaces the WCPF
Inter - Club Slide Championship
due to the decline in slide usage.
Torbay Photographic Society.
This season sees the fifth print and slide battle with Torbay Photographic
Society. | 
