Photographer Of The Year
The CPS Photographer of the Year (POTY) title is awarded to the member who has amassed the greatest number of points in all internal print, slide and digital competitions throughout the year. In 2019 two additional awards were provided, CPS Digital POTY and CPS Print POTY
The new (2020) CPS Photographer of the Year league is Underway
The Digital and Print POTY are awarded to the members with the greatest number of points in each category
Current Leaders are:
Print POTY: Dave Kitson
DPI POTY : Sue Anslow
Overall POTY: Sue Anslow
Points are accumulated in internal competition as follows …
- 1st place – 10 points
- 2nd place – 7 points
- 3rd place – 5 points
- Highly commended images also get 1 bonus point
- Where a competition (single or combined) is judged by a member then they receive 5 points.
2020 POTY Table (current placings after 5 competitions)
| Place | Photographer Name | DPI Points | Print Points | Total Points |
| 1 | Sue Anslow | 61 | 12 | 73 |
| 2 | Chris Roberts | 44 | 0 | 44 |
| 3 | Dave Kitson | 11 | 30 | 41 |
| 4 | Steve Bryant | 26 | 14 | 40 |
| 5 | Bryan Pilot | 30 | 9 | 39 |
| 6 | Nigel Goode | 19 | 19 | 38 |
| 7 | Jill Young | 15 | 18 | 33 |
| 8 | Dave Bennett | 25 | 5 | 30 |
| 9 | Sue Lawler | 13 | 14 | 27 |
| 10 | Bea von der Haar | 17 | 6 | 23 |
| 11 | Anthony Watkins | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Richard McAllister | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 13 | Peter Young | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 14 | Peter James | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 15= | Brian Ringham | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15= | Bob Harding | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15= | Eric Stevens | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Recent POTY winners;
2019 : Dave Kitson
2018 : Bob Wright
2017 : Dave Kitson
2016 : Dave Kitson
2015 : Dave Kitson
2014 : Dave Kitson
2013 : Dave Kitson
2012 : Nigel Goode
2011 : Richard McAllister
2010 : Dave Bennett
Updated by webmaster 25.3.2020