The First Leica Society International Monthly Challenge
April 2026
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Click here to join the LSI Competitions (or open them!)


Here are the results for the first Monthly Challenge at the LSI Competitions - Congratulations if you are included - if not - come to the new website and join in the fun!
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Colour winners

Monochrome winners

It’s been a long road putting together the LSI Competitions module, and this month we are showing the first results from the project, and what results they are!
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The idea of the project was to provide a place for photographers to show their images to great advantage, but also to encourage them to join the LSI. 
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So we devised a model where there would be open Monthly Challenges which anyone can enter using any combination of cameras or lenses. Initially at least there is a Colour Challenge and a Monochrome Challenge. You can enter up to 3 images a day in each challenge, and you can view, like and comment on other people’s images. 
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To enter these challenges you do not need to be an LSI member, However, shortly we will be introducing individual themed competitions with fantastic prizes, which will only be open to LSI members. 
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To make it as inclusive as possible we decided that we would create 36 winning images each month, with only one allowed by each photographer. Little did we imagine how wonderful the standard would be for the first month!
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It has been my privilege to curate these images. It has been a real pleasure to go through 600 or so photographs deciding which ones deserved special mention. The standard has been so much higher than we expected, and we would like to thank everyone who have made the effort to participate in the new project. Hopefully next month we will get even more great images as you all realise the potential of the new platform.
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When looking at the images I first picked a ‘long list’ of the pictures which I liked, without even looking at the photographer’s name. So some of the photographers had a number of images, indeed Victoria Hines had 17 Images in my colour long list, at least a half of which would have been included in the best 36, but the rule is 1 snap per person.

To that end I thought it might be instructive to publish the 'long list' I made of pictures - it's a reflection of how high the standard has been (these are simple Adobe galleries).
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Colour long list

Monochrome long list

Tributes & Acknowledgements


So much work has gone into the development of the LSI Competitions website. It has been through lots of iterations and testing phases.

It was borne of a need to have competitions which William Fagan (the LSI President) was very insistent about. I wrote a paper about how I thought it should be both collaborative and all inclusive.

Amitava Chatterjee is the real hero though, having picked up the idea and made it a reality - he has worked incredibly hard to develop the application.

Hoss Green has been really helpful in identifying technical issues and deserves a special call out, he has a great new website - click here .

Finally all the alpha and beta testers - and the early adopters - thank you all so much, you know who you are and lots of your work is represented in this first month: 

Gratitude to: Adam M. Siegel, Marco Buccelli, Carlos Amaya, Charles Oliva, Colin Fox, Charles Viers, David Mullin, Denise Amon, David Ficencec, David Hananel, Elmar Streyl, John R. Fulton Jr., Gautam Doshi, Roger Glickman, Hamad Al Khalifa, Howie Wong, Herb Sumrall Jr., Harry Hodgkin, Cody Choi, David Schmid, Jacopo Maria Grassi, Bokeh Baddie, Jean-Marie Detcher, Jonathan Varjabedian, Tim Kwok, Kirsten Vignes Martin, Kin Man Hui, Stephen Podrasky, Leonard Golden, Michael Schindler, Michael Umana, Mike Herrmann, Gustavo Monasterios, Mitchell W Yadven, Emmanuel Martinez, Petr Sedivec, Werner Lierz, Stacey Pearson, Steven Dente, Subhash Roy, Adam Czarnowski, James Rice, Henry Berman, Silas Slack, Larry Kerschberg, Victoria Hine.