CCP Photo Comp - October - December 2025
Theme and Brief : IN BLOOM
In choosing the next theme we’ve been influenced by the National Portrait Gallery exhibition now showing called ‘In Bloom’.
To make our version slightly different we are asking for entries showing flowers in any fashion not just portraits as the NPG In Bloomversion is, though portraits are welcome.
Flowers are symbolic.
Flowers reflect moods.
Flowers are beautiful, can be spiritual and are certainly the language of love.
Artists have used flowers in their work for centuries and photographers have carried on that tradition.
Baroque and Romantic periods in particular used floral features to show opulence and emotion..
How do photographers of the 21st Century use flowers?
Enter the competition and we will find out.
Take new images or choose from your archive.
All details and upload button can be found using this link:
https://www.charingcrossphoto.com.au/photo-competition
Please make sure you add the title and your name to the file you submit. Without this it makes our job very hard to know whose image is whose. If we can’t work it out we can’t judge it.
Deadline - 30thNovember 2025 [11:59pm]
PLEASE READ & FOLLOW GUIDELINES OF HOW TO NAME YOUR FILES.
Rules: You can shoot new images or choose photos from your archive
Please read details about file size and naming the image to make it a valid entry.
Deadline: Deadline for submissions 11:59pm, on 30th November 2025
Number of entries per person: UNLIMITED
Entry Fee: $15 per entry
[all fees are non-refundable]
Entry file: File type = jpg
File size = 2400 pixels on the longest side
Resolution: 72 dpi
Profile = Adobe RGB
File name = Your name, image name, comp month [eg: jules smith_title_May 2025]
With your submission: Please supply a brief statement [100 words or less]
+ website and/or Instagram address if you have one
Judges:Owner & staff at CCP that includes a professional photographer [+ occasionally a guest judge]
UPLOAD IMAGES: Via our website: www.charingcrossphoto.com.au
Winner Prizes:
$1000 [fixed amount] + an extra amount calculated on number of entries per monthly competition submissions fees.
Entry fees are pooled and allocated as follows:
50% - to winner
30% - CCP will be donating to a verified charity of the winners choice
20% - CCP administration
+ The winning image will be printed on archival paper, framed and hung in the window at Charing Cross Photo lab/shop in Waverly for the duration of 1 month. [approx. value $250] After this, the winner can take home their framed photo. [size, paper and frame style is at the discretion of CCP unless the photographer can come to the lab and discuss this in time]
+ 1 copy of a photo book [title TBC]
+ Gift from Neighbourhood Cellars [Bottle shop across the street from CCP]
+ Tell us your favourite charity and we will make a donation on your behalf
General FAQS:
~ There are one section in each bi-monthly competition:
1. Open [professionals and amateurs]
~Your entry must be your original work
~ Images can be taken on any device or camera
~ Only works submitted electronically will be accepted
~ Your entry can have been taken at any time, there is no limit but please tell us the year taken if you can.
~ All Photographers retain their own copyright
~ By entering the competition you grant CCP the right to use your image in any promotion and marketing campaigns
~ You MUST provide files and information as in our terms & conditions
~ If you are a winner you must confirm that any people sitting purposely for your photograph give their consent, or provide reason why this was not possible.
~ CCP have the right to refuse the original winning image if it is not to a printable standard or the photographer can’t supply their file for print in time with the competition timetable.
~ Please remember that CCP attracts families and young people to our lab, as well as having the general public walk by our shopfront so please be mindful when choosing your subjects. Do not submit content that is unsuitable for under age people. CCP reserves the right to refuse unsuitable images.
~ Images made by AI programs not accepted in this competition.
Please read the full Terms & Conditions
Get clicking… good luck!
Thanks - CCP Team
SHOP/LAB
263 Bronte Rd Waverley