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
11th Oct
Following on from our August SPF Executive virtual Meeting, this provisional date has been set in case it is required as an extra Meeting of the SPF Executive. If it goes ahead it will be held on Zoom with the meeting starting at 1 pm.
18th Oct
Following the original planned date of the SPF Annual General Meeting in June having to be abandoned due to Covid-19. We are setting this provisional date. Our Annual Report and revised Subscription Proposals will be sent out to Club Main Contacts as soon as the PAGB have held their rescheduled AGM and set their own fees. The PAGB AGM date has been set for 3rd October.
8th Nov
The format of this year's event has not yet been confirmed if it will run in its current format
Latest news
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.
SPF Additional Note - This letter is Covid-19 Guidance as supplied by the PAGB, a copy of which was in the recent PAGB e-news, but it requires an amended statement by the SPF, for SPF Clubs, to update the supplied Covid Government links to those for the Scottish Government. Please note that the details under the UK link for Community centres, village halls, and other multi-use community facilities in particular does not currently apply to Scotland.
The PAGB is aware that several Federations and Clubs are considering the possibility of resuming normal meetings and that some form of guidance has been requested.
This document is designed to provide basic information which is essentially that current Government Guidance MUST be followed.
The Covid-19 situation continues to evolve rapidly, and there are varying rules in different parts of the UK, including down to very localised levels when “spikes” of cases occur. Therefore, the PAGB is unable to issue detailed guidance which could rapidly become superseded and outdated.
Due to the current levels of risk posed by the COVID-19 virus, we are actively encouraging the use of video conferencing technology to carry out meetings and club events.
Any Federation or Club considering holding a face to face meeting should produce an adequate Risk Assessment to ensure the protection of their officers and members as well as those who might also use the premises in which the meeting will be held.
Insurance
The PAGB is also aware that several questions have been raised about Public Liability and Management Liability Insurance regarding Covid-19. Our brokers, Darwin Clayton, have been requested to liaise with our Insurers to produce information which will be circulated to Federations and Clubs shortly.
For more on this article including Risk Assessment Guidance - Goverment Guidance please see the PDF download of this full PAGB letter together with additional Scottish links from this website (click here) or visit the news area of this website.
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.