This is Graham's successful CPAGB entry in Projected Digital Images to the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit Adjudication in Watford, in November 2019. Graham is a member of Moray Camera Club.
What's on
1st Nov
PAGB Website opens for Entries. Closing Date 24th Jan 2021. The format of these events has changed so please see the details on the relevant page of this website under 'External Events' or visit the NEWS area of this website.
8th Nov
New - Interim Digital Championship running for 2020. We can't hold our usual event at Stirling Court Hotel, so have had to change the format for this year. Full details to appear here and on the SPF Digital Championship page of this website very soon. The Closing Date will be later in the year to allow Clubs to organise their entries. Full details will also be sent to Club Competition Secretaries and Club Main Contacts. We will have a 'virtual awards ceremony to announce the Individual Awards and Club Awards, as well as sharing the top Clubs' and Individual Award winning images. A self executing show will be supplied to the entrant Clubs following this awards presentation.
22nd Nov
A NEW Interim Digital Championship will be run for 2020 as we can't hold our usual event at Stirling Court Hotel, so have had to change the format for this year. Full details to appear here and on the SPF Digital Championship page of this website very soon.
Latest news
CPAGB - DPAGB... The Awards for Photographic Merit (APM) Advice Service is available to members of PAGB Affiliated Clubs.
Before applying for Advice, you need to meet the eligibility criteria for the APM level you request.
You do not need Federation approval of your eligibility: your honest opinion is sufficient.
You can apply for Advice to see whether your photographs might meet the standard.
Information about eligibility is in APM Leaflet One (click here for a copy).
For Information about the Advice Service (click here)
To apply for Advice, complete the form on the PAGB website (Click here) to access the webpage.
Following on from a recent PAGB e-news article the SPF have had a number of enquires from SPF Member Clubs trying to gain access to download PAGB Recorded Lectures for their Clubs.
The PAGB Central Entry System, also known as the PAGB CES Website, amongst other things, allows all PAGB affiliated Club Officials (including all SPF Clubs) access to the PAGB’s Recorded Lecture Service (RLS) More details about the PAGB RLS are available on the download link below.
The enquiries the SPF have received recently from SPF Club Committee Members ask why they can’t gain access to this PAGB site even although they are a PAGB affiliated Club via their SPF membership and have website access.
To clarify, the SPF administers its own SPF website, and that is what every SPF Club is set up to access by the SPF, currently for entry to the SPF Admin area for competition entry (by Libby), this website log-in access is only for this SPF website.
Although all SPF Member Clubs are listed on the PAGB CES website by the SPF, it is up to the main Club Committee Members to make their own registration on the PAGB CES site to gain access for their Club*.
*Your Club may already have this access set up if your Club has entered a PAGB Competition. Check if your Competition Secretary has done so as they may well have access you require. (Does not include individual Competition Entry to e.g. Masters of Print only Club Entries made by a Club Official on behalf of the Club)
For full details of how to make an SPF Club Registration on the PAGB CES to gain access to the PAGB Recorded Lectures, download a PDF copy by (clicking here) together with PAGB Recorded Lecture Service details.
Featured galleries
This gallery contains all of this year's 2020 SPF Portfolios Award Winners.
The lists of all of the 2020 Portfolio Acceptances along with the Final Club Placings and details of the Individual Award Winners can be downloaded from the SPF Portfolios area of this website ...
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.