Our premium 2025 Calendar (and 12th annual edition) is now available online for pre-order to guarantee your copy. As always this is a limited print run and we sell out before Christmas so please be quick to avoid disappointment.
This years calendar was once again quite the challenge, working around a busy lifestyle with family and a jam packed printing schedule. So it’s a good job for me then that the photo submissions are always amazing and in abundance, delivery an awesome photographic representation of Portsmouth & Southsea through the lens.
Our 2025 Calendar features a broad range of professional and amateur photographers, with many of the selected photos being shot on phones. We encourage you all to get out there and tag us online with #SIC2026 for our 2026 Calendar.
Each A4 fold out calendar is ring-bound with antique brass, hole punched for hanging and printed on 300sgm Fedrigoni Arcoprint. This wood-free paper has a high-tech, cool white base guaranteeing excellent printability and is held in very high regard in publishing and printing industries. The guys at RIPE certainly delivered with this paper stock. It not only looks amazing as the print finish is second to none, but it feels really premium. Using an in-house HP Indigo 7800 digital press it sets the standard for premium quality digital print. Using liquid ink rather than dry toner powder, the print quality is on par with traditional lithographic printing with the benefits of less waste, which is of course great news for the environment.
Our calendars come in a Kraft button tie envelope with a hand stamped Strong Island logo so they are ready to pop in the post or give as a gift. You can see some photos of our 2025 Calendar below showing the quality, finish and packaging.
Our 2025 Calendar features photographs from the following people:
Gemma Butterworth - @gemma_butterworth
John Parke - @johnparkephoto
Maddalena Rea - @maddalena.jade
Martin S Ross - @martinseanross
Paul Scott - @oldskoolpaul
Sarah Marston - @sarahmarston13
Matthew Ponsford - @southofalbertroad
Jo Fairwood - @southseascape
Vicky Brown - @viiickb
Jon Tyrrell - @jon_tyrrell
Andrew Malbon - @fivearchitects
Jack Williamson - @williamsons__landscapes
Petulas Perspective - @petulas_perspective
Louis Stacey - @louisstacey
The price is very much reflected in the cost of this premium item. Supplier costs have sadly increased once again this year. We have done our very best to absorb the cost with both the calendar and packaging to keep the same price down. The following images are a visual representation of the final calendar only, but all the photographs are as they will appear in the final physical copies.
