The St Albans Camera Club's Steve Ransom Trophy competition for composite photography, combining at least three elements into one image.
St Albans Camera Club are hosting the Steve Ransom Trophy at Jersey Farm Community Centre on Tuesday 27 April 2027. It's a composite photography competition, which means the entries aren't single shots: each image has to combine at least three separate elements into one. Ben Pike is judging the night.
The trophy is part of the club's portfolio competition, and it's named in the spirit of Steve Ransom's interest in taking on new challenges. That's a good way to think about it, because the composite category is a bit of a departure from the usual single-frame approach. Instead of one moment, you're looking at images built from several parts, and the judging will be on how those elements come together.
To give you a sense of how the trophy has worked in the past, the 2025-26 competition was judged on the whole process: the journey from selecting the images to putting the portfolio together, as well as the quality of the final result. Richard Craddock took the win that year. This time, the focus is on the composite category itself, with the three-element minimum as the starting point.
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If you're not already a member, it's worth knowing how the club runs. They meet every Tuesday at Jersey Farm Community Centre in St Albans, and the programme covers talks, competitions, practical sessions and organised visits. They also run a Print League and a Projected Image League, so there's a fair bit going on beyond a single night. The Steve Ransom Trophy is just one part of that wider calendar, and it's the composite category that takes centre stage on 27 April.
