PAGB

This year's event was held in a different format, with a 'virtual' event organised by the PAGB due to Covid rather than this event's regular venue of Warwick University. The 2020 event had not run due to Covid so the PAGB were keen to run some sort of event in 2021.

Three Scottish Clubs  represented the SPF from their pre-qualification in 2019; Carluke CC who made lthe 2019 final, along with Dumfries CC and Ayr PS who qualified in the November 2019 SPF PDI Championship. This year's Judges were Marilyn Roberts (YPU), Gabriel O'Shaugnessy (IPF) and Leo Rich (SCPF)

The 37 Clubs entered this year's competition, from the PAGB Federations, and submitted 16 images online in advance for a place in the final. The competition was keenly fought with 8 Clubs qualifying for the final. After the first two rounds there was a run away Club, Rolls Royce Derby who was 19 points ahead of the 2nd placed Club. 

Marking was a little lower than usual and at the end of the first round, Carluke had finished in 11th place (186pts), while Dumfries CC finished in 12th place (185pts) and Ayr PS in 22nd (178pts). The Plate Trophy didn't run this year due to the logistics of 37 Club selecting their images 'live' so only the Final ran and those Clubs selected their Final round images over the lunch break, The victors were to be Rolls Royce Derby who pretty much lead all the way. 

There were no Individual Awards this year for SPF members, but you can view all of the results on the PAGB website (click here) or view a report in the PAGB e-news newsletter special (click here) 

209 people entered 743 images, all taken in the period February to June 2020. The Top 100 have now been selected by Richard Speirs and Gordon Jenkins, both EC members and PAGB Judges.

The Top 100 now form galleries on the PAGB website - (Click Here to view) 

The images in these galleries have been chosen as standalone pictures, reflecting how you felt and what you did during this time. It is probably fair to say that some very good images were not selected as they did not reflect this strange period and could have been taken at almost any time. The selectors were charged with choosing the most interesting pictures and were not given access to the stories which accompanied many of the photographs although, in many cases, the story was as important as the picture.

A recorded lecture is being prepared to include this Top 100 and many more of your entries, accompanied with the words which add so much to their meaning. So, please enjoy the photographs in our galleries but, when it is available, consider getting your Club to hire the Recorded Lecture. When this pandemic is eventually behind us, the show will form a vivid and emotional record of this strange time.

This year’s event was held again at Westholme School, Blackburn. 3 Scottish Clubs made the trip to represent the SPF; Dumfries CC, Carluke CC, and Dundee PS. The Judges were Phil Charnock (L&CPU), David Lowe (MCPF) and Gabriel O'Shaugnessy (IPF).

37 Clubs competed in the first round for a place in the final. Eight Clubs ended up qualifying for the final, including Carluke CC, which was again a close fought battle.

The result was to see Carluke finish in 5th place (194 pts), the winners were Arden PG on 207 pts. Dumfries and Dundee contested the Plate Trophy which was won by Godalming PC with 69pts; Dumfries and Dundee finished 3rd= on 67pts.

Two of the Individual Awards went to SPF member Rod Wheelans from Dunfries. Best Mono Print for Bad Hair Day, and Phil Charnock's Judge's choice for Fattening for Bayram. Rod's two images can be seen above. For all of Carluke's 5th placed entry (click here)

You can view a PAGB e-news special containing many of the top images and all of the results (click here) or to see many of the entries from the finalists (click here) or to see a copy of the Print Championship Catalogue of Results (click here) 

The PAGB's full Diary of events is available from their website (click here) although we have included many of the popular ones in our own SPF Diary. Check the SPF Diary for the SPF Closing Dates for SPF entries to events such as PAGB Inter-Fed Competitions. SPF held PAGB Awards Workshops will also only be listed on the SPF Diary (click here).

The Masters of Print competition is open to Individual Photographers, who are members of SPF member Clubs. Individual Photographers may enter directly, without any pre-qualification. Some details are available below, more can be found (click here).

This fairly new Masters of Print Competition normally closes around October, and is judged shortly after. The Judging will be followed by a public Exhibition normally around December. Photographers may enter prints to any combination of the Monochrome, Colour and Nature Categories, and awards are made to individual prints. Prints are then selected for the Exhibition. Awards and Selections for the Exhibition will also be published in the Exhibition Catalogue.

Since 2019 a Club competition has been added to this event. Any entry submitted as part of a Club entry is also eligible for any Individual Award.

These distinctions are only available to members of PAGB Affiliated Clubs. As a member of an SPF Club you are eligible to apply.

If you are looking for a challenge, or you would like to see how your photography measures against others throughout the UK, then this is a great way for you to achieve some letters after your name. You do not have to produce work as a panel, just have the required number of photos at the level you are applying for. You can enter in Prints or as Projected Digital Images. You only pay on applying and you don’t have to pay any ongoing membership fee to keep your Award once you have been successful. 

You must Pre-Qualify and apply through the SPF's PAGB Awards Officer. Full details can be found on this website's PAGB Awards distinctions area (click here)

The PAGB run Awards Workshops to aid applicants in through the process. The SPF also runs these, and we have the advantage of having two members of the PAGB's Awards Sub-committee involved in running them - Chairman Rod Wheelans, and SPF's PAGB Awards Officer Libby Smith. Visit our SPF PAGB Awards distinctions area (click here) for more details.

Above are some successful applicants from the August 2015 PAGB Awards Adjudication. More examples of successful candidates can be seen in the SPF's Gallery section of this website as well as on our own SPF Distinctions area.

Your Club can also hire a CD from the PAGB Recorded Lecture Service which contains more examples at the various levels of Awards (click here) for details contained within the Catalogue of the RLS.

The PAGB GB Trophy is an Inter-Club competition for unmounted Prints and every club who is affiliated through a Member Federation (SPF) is eligible to enter. This event was introduced in 2015.  There are two separate competitions – GB Trophy (Open – Mono and Colour), and GB Trophy (Nature). Entry is made online via the PAGB's Central Entry System website. (Click here) to vist the PAGB website for details about this event or visit the SPF Website's NEW dedicated web page for these events which also contains SPF Club results and awards (click here).

The PAGB organise four Inter-Federation competitions annually, for Monochrome Print, Colour Print, Projected Image and Nature Projected Image. These competitions carry PAGB Patronage, and individual medals and ribbons are awarded. All of the member Federations of the PAGB compete in these competitions. Their entries are made up from work submitted by their member clubs or authors. 

The Scottish Photographic Federation enters these events annually.  To find out more about the SPF's entry and results in these events and how you can submit images/prints for selection as part of our entry then please visit the following area of this SPF website (click here) dedicated to these events, and the SPF's Results.

The PAGB Print and Projected Image Exhibitions are selected from these Competitions by Judges appointed by the PAGB. The resulting Exhibitions are made available to the Federations in the form of DVD shows. These are available annually for SPF Clubs to book from the SPF Recorded Lecture Secretary (click here) for details

You can also visit the PAGB website for full details of all of the other PAGB Federation's results (click here)

Each Federation chooses two Clubs annually to represent it at this Championship. The SPF chooses the top Clubs from our own SPF Digital Championship.

These Clubs along with the finalists from the previous year compete to determine the National Projected Champion Club, who receives the Darwin Clayton Trophy.  The Clubs who don’t make the final of the event compete for the Don Morrison Plate.  Visit the PAGB website for details (click here)

Each Federation chooses two Clubs annually to represent it at this Championship. The SPF chooses the top Clubs from our own SPF Print Championship.

These Clubs, along with the finalists, from the previous year compete to determine the National Print Champion Club, who receives the John Robb Quaich, which was donated by the SPF. The Clubs who don’t make the final of the event compete for the Terry Chapman Plate. Visit the PAGB website for details (click here) 

In addition to the above, the PAGB offer a range of services including the PAGB Handbook with complete lists of Judges & Lecturers.  It also offers Patronage of Exhibitions, Service Awards and Advice Documents.

Some of these require to be accessed via the SPF, others the Clubs can go to directly.

See below and PAGB website for further details of the PAGB's services (click here)

The PAGB has an extensive Recorded Lecture Service containing lectures from some of the UK’s best known photographers inc. Phil & Gwen Charnock, Irene Froy and Tim Pile. Also available are shows on the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit, and past years of the PAGB GB Cup.

Some details are contained within the PAGB Handbook, but full details are available on the PAGB website (click here).

To gain access to the PAGB Central Entry System (CES) Website as an SPF Club, and be able to download or order any PAGB Recorded Lectures please see the following news article which contains full details of how to go about this (click here)

Preferencial insurances are available through the PAGB. All members of SPF Clubs can take advantage of these excluse arrangements, which are arranged with the PAGB's broker or the Federation Treasurer dependant on the Insurance required.

The PAGB's brokers are able of offer very competitive Public Liability and other Insurances.

For full details and to see how premiums/Insurances are collection or arranged in the first instance please visit the following area of this SPF website (click here) as some require to be organised by the SPF Treasurer on your Club's behalf. Links to the PAGB Insurance Broker's website and policies are also supplied there.

The PAGB have three Service Awards for service to photography, two of which nominations can be made to the PAGB for consideration; the APAGB and the HonPAGB - JS Lancaster Medal.

The third, the Honorary Vice Life President of the PAGB, can only be nominated by the PAGB Executive, and elected at an PAGB AGM.

More details about the APAGB and JS Lancaster Medal can be found below, or for full details go to the PAGB Website (click here)

This Award was instituted in 1984 to be national recognition of individual club members who have given meritorious service over many years within the PAGB community of member Federations and affiliated Clubs.

A Certificate and Badge are presented upon grant of the Award and holders may use the letters APAGB after their names.

Please visit the SPF's Service Awards area of this website for details of SPF recipients (click here)

The JS Lancaster Medal was instituted in 1998 to recognise exceptional service to the PAGB, and is named after its first Secretary. Award holders may use the designation 'HonPAGB' replacing any previous award of APAGB.

Anyone considering making a nomination should contact the PAGB General Secretary to be put in touch with the Awards Subcommittee Chairman. Further details are available below, and are also supplied in the PAGB Handbook.

The SPF has had two recipients of the JS Lancaster Medal since its introduction in 1998 - Rod Wheelans, Dumfries CC and Libby Smith, Carluke CC.

The 2016 event was held at this event's regular venue of Warwick University. Four Scottish Clubs made the trip to represent the SPF; Dumfries CC and Eastwood PS who made last year's final, along with Dundee PS and Carluke CC who qualified in November's SPF PDI Championship. This year's Judges were Barry Mead (WCPF), Leo Rich (SCPF) and Paul Keene (MCPF).

The 39 Clubs entered this year's competition, from the PAGB Federations, and competed in the first and second rounds for a place in the final. The competition was keenly fought with 8 Clubs qualifying for the final. After the first two rounds there were only 8 points between the 1st and 8th placed Club, Carluke finished in 5th place and qualified for the final. The other SPF Clubs competed for the Plate trophy.

The Final result was to see Carluke finish in 7th= place.

In the Plate competition Dumfries finished 2nd= behind Trophy winners Doncaster, with Dundee PS in 5th= and Eastwood PS 10th=. 

Mick Durham from Dumfries CC also took the Best Individual Image of the day (PAGB Gold Medal & Practical Photography Trophy) with Predator and Prey, and Eddie Cocozza from Carluke CC won a Judge's Choice (PAGB Silver) for Like Whot You See Sir?. Both images can be seen above. 

A copy of the full results is available to download below. 

The 2015 event was held at this event's regular venue of Warwick University. Four Scottish Clubs made the trip to represent the SPF; Dumfries CC and Carluke CC who made last year's final, Dundee PS and Eastwood PS. Eastwood were cometing in this event for the first time. This year's Judges were Gwen Charnock (L&CPU), John Chamberlin (WCPF) and Leigh Preston (MCPF)

The 38 Clubs entered from the PAGB Federations competed in the first and secondrounds for a place in the final. This competition was keenly fought with 9 Clubs qualifying for the final, with 9 points between 1st and 8th=.

Both Dumfries and Eastwood qualified for the final. The result was to see Dumfries finish in 3rd place and Eastwood in 7th. Ken Lindsay from Eastwood PS also took the Best Individual Image of the day with On Jokulsarlon Beach which can be seen below.

Dundee and Carluke contested the plate competition with Dundee finishing in 3rd equal place behind the Plate Trophy winners Chorley PS.

A copy of the full results is available to download below. 

This year's event was held at a new venue Ellesmere Port. Three Scottish Clubs made the trip to represent the SPF; Dumfries CC who were joint winners last year, Carluke CC who also qualified in 2014 and Ayr PS for the first time. This year's Judges were Phillip Charnock (L&CPU), Richard Walton (KCPA) and Gabriel O'Shaugnessy (Eire)

The 37 Clubs entered from the PAGB Federations competed in the first round for a place in the final. This competition was keenly fought with the top 8 Clubs qualifying for the final, and only 5 points between 1st and 8th place.

Both Dumfries and Carluke qualified for the final which was again a close fought battle with only 7 points between 1st and 8th. The result was to see Dumfries victorious as joint winners with Stafford PS and Carluke in 8th. A couple of images from Dumfries CC's winning entry can be seen above.

Ayr contested the plate competition, and finished only 3 points behind the Plate Trophy winners Smethwick PS.

A copy of the full results is available to download below.