This FREE zoom event is presented by the FIAP Photo Academy Online Events invites you to a presentation Creative Ways to Photograph Flowers with Mike Moats on Wednesday 29 October 2025 at 7pm London Time. This presentation is by the American Photographer Mike Moates who will speak with us about creative ways to photograph flowers.
During this presentation Mike will discuss the equipment he uses. It will cover soft focus, everything in focus, filling the frame, water drop flower refraction, shooting through subjects, creating and working with backgrounds, natural backgrounds.
In addition, Mike will discuss how to find character in flowers, including flower backsides, backlighting, working with silk flowers and dead flowers.
Mike Moats is an international award-winning full time pro macro photographer from Michigan.
He is a Tamron Image Master, Vanguard Pro, and his articles and images have been published in many photo magazines for over 20 years. He has a Macro Photo Club online with over 2,800 members, from 29 countries.
Mike teaches workshops and speaks at photo conference throughout the US.
See more on Mike’s website (click here)
Register to attend (click here)
Run by Edinburgh Photographic Society, this year this Digital Exhibition will consist of Four (4) Sections with up to Four (4) entries allowed in each: Open Mono, Open Colour, Nature and People.
77 Awards to be won. This exhibition has patronage from FIAP, PSA, GPU and SPF.
Entry Closes 9th November 2025
Entry Fees payable by PayPal are £12 for one section, then £4 for each additional section.
Full Conditions of Entry can be found (click here) To enter go to the following website (click here)
A number of Scottish authors were successful last year, just a few of the Award winners are shown below.
This gallery contains all of this year's 2025 SPF Annual Portfolios Individual Award Winners.
The lists of all of the 2025 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...
The Highland Challenge is a photographic competition for clubs in the Highlands and Islands. It was first run in 1999, and the organisation of the competition rotates between clubs. This year Inverness was the host club. Its aim is to promote photography throughout the Highlands and Islands by...
We are a non-profitmaking network of almost 100 clubs and societies from Thurso in the north to Dumfries 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.
