PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 2026
This year's subject: "In prime position''"
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Welcome to the Club’s calendar for 2026.
We have received a bumper number of picture entries for this year’s competition theme, ‘Off the Beaten Track’.
Choosing which pictures to use in this calendar has been a big challenge.
Again, some brilliant pictures have had to be left out.
All entries are available on the link above.
This year the winning picture comes from Lorenz Winkel.
His moody picture is our cover photograph.
For the 2026 competition in the magazine (to be used in the 2027 calendar) we have chosen the theme
“In prime position”. Any interpretation can be used.
Of course, we would like a vehicle of our marques to appear somewhere in the picture.
Full rules are in the magazine and below.
Please remember that the picture may need to be enlarged to make it suitable for use in the calendar so, it is important that the picture quality is as high as possible. Landscape pictures work best but please send some portrait pictures as well as we can always fit some of these in.
Photos should be sent to the Editor – email address in the magazine, uploaded using the form below or could be sent via a file sending programme like WeTransfer, which is free to use.
All the entries for the calendar pictures will be on the DLOC website by about this time next year.
Best of luck.
Matthew Waterhouse, President
DLOC Photographic Competition Rules 2026
1. The subject for the Photographic Competition 2026 is “In prime position''.
2. The theme is open to individual interpretation, though there must be a “car of our marques” in the photograph.
3. Entries can be taken anywhere in the world.
4. The competition is open to all DLOC members and their families and must have been taken by them.
5. Entrants should submit one photo per subject as an electronic image of excellent quality. A maximum of 4 subjects per entrant is allowed.
6. Images may be digitally enhanced to remove spots or scratches or to make it brighter & clearer but must not be manipulated.
7. Each entry should be accompanied with name, address, membership number, contact telephone number (both daytime and evening) and where and when the photo was taken.
8. Each photograph must be titled with the name of sender, model name of the car and location of picture.
9. A fuller description of the vehicle, including year of manufacture and model, must also accompany the entry.
10. Entries should be sent to: the magazine Editor and marked DLOC Photographic Competition 2026. The address and email address are in the magazine. It is the Club’s preference to receive the images in electronic form to the Editor@dloc.co.uk or can be uploaded directly to the Club website www.dloc.org.uk/photo-competition
11. Images should be as high quality as possible and more the 2Mb if possible. The Editor will collect all the pictures and images may be sent to him via WeTransfer which is a free to use file transfer system.
12. Please do not crop the photo. The editor can then optimise the amount of the picture used.
13. The competition closes at midnight on Sunday 13th September 2026.
14. All entries will be judged by a panel of Board members who have NOT entered the competition. The judges will select a shortlist of photographs (the 'Finalists') which, in their opinion, best illustrate the theme of the competition. They will consider a range of factors including composition, technical ability, originality, interpretation of the brief and the visual appeal of the photographs.
15. The winner will be selected from the ‘Finalists’, by the President and the Editor (neither of whom can enter the competition).
16. The winner will receive a prize of Free membership for a year or an equivalent cheque. There are no alternatives.
17. All those entrants that have a picture in the calendar will receive a free calendar.
18. All entrants must:
a) be the sole owner of the copyright in all photographs entered,
b) not infringe the rights of any other party and
c) have obtained permission of any/all people featured in the entries.
19. Entrants will retain copyright in the photographs that they submit. By entering the competition all entrants grant to the DLOC the right to publish and exhibit their photographs without charge.
20. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules.
21. The judges' decisions will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.