updated January 2026
PhotoEntry
Members wishing to enter images for a competition must do so using the online Photo Entry system. Log in details have been issued to all members. This will be the only method to enter our club competitions.
Print entries also require a JPEG to be uploaded onto the Photo Entry system for each competition.
Details of how to use photo entry are here.
Members wishing to enter images for a competition must do so using the online Photo Entry system. Log in details have been issued to all members. This will be the only method to enter our club competitions.
Print entries also require a JPEG to be uploaded onto the Photo Entry system for each competition.
Details of how to use photo entry are here.
Rules
1. All images for photo entry must be a maximum size of 1600 x 1200 px for landscape and maximum height for portrait images is 1200 px.
2. Prints must be mounted on 40x50cm boards only, prints can be any size within the mount.
3. All entries must be submitted by the closing date, no late entries will be accepted.
4. Only the title should appear on the back of the print and digital image.
5. Images entered into the Stewart Bell Trophy may be re-entered in any subsequent Monthly, Mono Competition & Annual competitions during the current season only.
6. Images entered into the Monthly and Mono competitions may be re-entered into the Annual Competitions only, but not into any further monthly competitions.
7. Prints and Jpegs entered into the Annual Competitions are ineligible to be entered into any future competitions.
8. Alterations to images previously entered into a monthly competition, i.e. cropping, conversion to mono, removal of parts is not deemed as an acceptable change, and therefore these images cannot be re-entered into the monthly competitions.
9. No image can be entered this season if it has been entered in a previous seasonʼs competition, whether at this or any other club, SPF or PAGB Competition. Images have a shelf life of one season.
10. Members with dual club membership must complete the SPF Nomination form to advise the Club and the SPF of their nominated club. Members who do not nominate KCC as their nominated club will not be allowed to enter KCC competitions.
11. New members who have previously been members of another club shall not enter any images into KCC competitions that have previously been entered and used by their previous club. All images entered must be new work or not previously used.
12. The SPF and PAGB rules currently require that all entries to their competitions comply with the following statement –
All elements used within the composite image must be the photographer's work. For the avoidance of doubt, use of images from any source including, but not limited to, royalty-free image banks, textures and clipart are not permitted. The use of AI software is allowed provided all images used have been taken by you, and only your own photographs are used in the processing. No modifications are allowed based on AI generated text input or generated using images or elements not taken by the photographer.
All elements of the image must have been taken by the photographer. We therefore do not allow those ‘AI’ features that ‘Generate’ content using other people’s imagery or text prompts. This is because AI Generate (or Generative AI) has human-like intelligence, and imports new content into the image, so some or all of the pixels in the image will no longer have been taken by the author.
Key features in Photoshop or Lightroom to avoid that ‘generate’ content include - Generate Image’, Generative Fill’, ‘Generative Expand’, ‘Generative Remove’, and Text Prompts or Effects. There isn't an overall switch to disable all ‘AI Generate’ features in Lightroom or Photoshop, it is handled on a tool-by-tool basis as in the following example.
This does not mean that a tool such as the Remove tool cannot be used. In both Lightroom and Photoshop, the remove tool has an option to untick ‘Generative AI’ or turn off ‘Generative AI’ in Photoshop (on the options bar). If ‘Generative AI’ is turned off, the tool still uses the advantages of the new AI Firefly, but it uses it as a Content-Aware removal tool, meaning it is using the information from the photographer’s own picture to replace the area, not imagery from other people’s photographs, so no infringement of our rules.
All elements used within the composite image must be the photographer's work. For the avoidance of doubt, use of images from any source including, but not limited to, royalty-free image banks, textures and clipart are not permitted. The use of AI software is allowed provided all images used have been taken by you, and only your own photographs are used in the processing. No modifications are allowed based on AI generated text input or generated using images or elements not taken by the photographer.
All elements of the image must have been taken by the photographer. We therefore do not allow those ‘AI’ features that ‘Generate’ content using other people’s imagery or text prompts. This is because AI Generate (or Generative AI) has human-like intelligence, and imports new content into the image, so some or all of the pixels in the image will no longer have been taken by the author.
Key features in Photoshop or Lightroom to avoid that ‘generate’ content include - Generate Image’, Generative Fill’, ‘Generative Expand’, ‘Generative Remove’, and Text Prompts or Effects. There isn't an overall switch to disable all ‘AI Generate’ features in Lightroom or Photoshop, it is handled on a tool-by-tool basis as in the following example.
This does not mean that a tool such as the Remove tool cannot be used. In both Lightroom and Photoshop, the remove tool has an option to untick ‘Generative AI’ or turn off ‘Generative AI’ in Photoshop (on the options bar). If ‘Generative AI’ is turned off, the tool still uses the advantages of the new AI Firefly, but it uses it as a Content-Aware removal tool, meaning it is using the information from the photographer’s own picture to replace the area, not imagery from other people’s photographs, so no infringement of our rules.
13. Members on entering KCC club competitions give permission for the club to use their images for external, inter club competitions and external advertising.
14. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in your image being rejected by the club and outside competitions.
Download a PDF copy of these rules
Download the SPF Nomination form