This is Lesley's successful MPAGB entry in Prints to the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit Adjudication in Watford, in November 2019. Lesley is a member of Dingwall Camera Club.
What's on
2nd Aug
The Judging of the SPF Portfolios. The results will be available soon after this date. Prints will be returned via the SPF Executive Meeting at the end of August.
Latest news
The SPF are very keen to encourage more SPF Club Members to become SPF Judges, to this end in 2016 we introduced three levels of SPF Judges A, B and C. Since this introduction of the three levels of SPF Judges, there are now two ways of becoming an SPF Judge. Completing our Questionnaire is the first step on that Journey.
This Questionnaire will be used for applications to either the SPF ‘C’ List of Judges or the SPF Judges Assessment Day (‘B’ List) (more details below).
If you’re interested in becoming a Judge, please just submit this questionnaire, don’t worry about how much of it you can complete. We don’t expect many applicants to be able to answer all of the questions at this time, but your answers will allow us to give guidance on ways you may be able to increase your own knowledge/experience, to progress as a Judge.
Initially, we will use your answers to determine if you presently have the required skills to be –
Added to the SPF 'C' List of non-accredited Judges
OR Added to the ‘C’ List and added to the list for the next SPF Judge’s Assessment Day, with a view to going on the SPF 'B' List of Accredited Judges.
OR we may indicate that some further photographic/SPF Club/practical experience is required before you can be added to either list.
A copy of the 'Questionnaire for Prospective SPF Judges' is available to download (click here) . Before submitting, please read the information provided in the following areas on this website.
More details on all levels of Judges, for both Judges and prospective Judges can be found on the dedicated 'All Things Judging' page of this website (click here) and scroll down for more details. Go to 'Booking Forms and Guidance section' for Guidance Notes on Judging.
If you’re not sure you want to go out Judging on your own for the first time; Why not have a word with an SPF Judge in your area? They may be prepared to go out with you, or give you some practical help or advice. Or you may be able to go out with them to one or two of their Judgings, and see things from the Judge’s perspective, and gain some tips.
Given the difficulties we are all facing due to the Coronavirus, and the number of Clubs that have closed their season early, we have reviewed our SPF Annual Portfolios competitions in light of this. We have had a number of enquires in recent days asking if the event was going ahead. It would have been easy perhaps to cancel the SPF Annual Portfolios, but we are aware that a number of Clubs have already either completed their entry online, or have organised a significant part of their entry ready for online completion from your emails. We are also conscious that a number of our SPF Clubs rely on the DVD shows for their syllabuses, and in the coming season this may become even more useful than normal.
We therefore intend to go ahead with the SPF Annual Portfolios competitions in a safer format for everyone, providing that we get a sufficient number of Clubs participating, to enable us to form the varied Portfolio shows. An email has now been sent out to your Club Secretary or Competition Secretary outlining all of the changes.
To aid this process the SPF Website online entry will stay open until 1st July.
- The competition will remain in the three sections i.e. Digital – Mono Print - Colour Print.
- Currently Projected Digital Images (PDI) are uploaded to the SPF website for all three of these sections, this will continue.
- For Prints; We ask Clubs not to send us any prints (by post or via the Drop-off points)
- Instead of Clubs sending us their actual prints we will arrange for the Projected Digital Images of the Prints (as uploaded to the SPF website) to be Judged instead of the actual Prints. This avoids all transmission risks from transportation or handling of prints either at the Club stage or at the SPF collection or processing stage.
- Please don’t send us any Payment or Entry Forms – We will contact you at the start of the new season for details of how to send your payment, once we are sure that we have had sufficient entries to run the event.
- All other Rules re quantities etc and all Awards remain as existing information supplied.
So, if you’ve already entered, no changes require to be made to your entry, other than to remember not to send us your Prints or Entry Form and Payment.
Featured galleries
This gallery contains all of this year's SPF Print Championship Award Winners. Please note that many of the images are from print capture on the day.
If you are the author and would like to give us the PDI original, for inclusion in this gallery instead of the print capture, please contact...
Welcome to the SPF
We are a non-profitmaking network of almost 100 clubs and societies from Orkney in the north to Stranraer in the south and all areas in between. The sizes and involvement of each club within the SPF varies widely.
Founded in 1903, our remit is to promote the art and science of photography through interaction. To this end, the SPF Executive Committee organises a diary of events annually, mainly in the form of competitions and workshops, which our Clubs and their Members can participate in. The SPF also organises or co-ordinates entries to other events nationally or internationally on behalf of our members. We also maintain a mailing list and supply various services, including our e-newsletter the 'e-flash', and SPF Directory which contains all SPF Clubs and our SPF Judge’s & Lecturer’s list.
Through our SPF membership, comes affiliation of the PAGB. This gives access to the Club network throughout the whole of the UK. Through this affiliation comes other benefits including competitive Insurance arrangements for Camera Clubs, exclusive to the PAGB (Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) network, which you can take advantage of as an affiliated SPF club. In addition to this UK membership; as a member Club of the SPF, you and your members also automatically become members of FIAP (Federation Internationale de l'art Photographique) which is a worldwide organisation, currently based in Luxembourg.