This gallery contains all of the Individual Awards won on 16th Nov 2025 as part of the 2025 SPF Digital Championship Plate and Bowie Trophy competitions. Full results of these events can be found by going to the following webpage ...
What's on
24th Jan
This is the close for prints being dropped off at remote areas, for delivery to the SPF EC Meeting at Dunblane. Please check the details on the SPF Print Championship page for all options, including direct to Carluke.
25th Jan
At Victoria Hall Dunblane. Collection of Print Championship prints from remote areas.
7th Feb
This is the final date for receipt of prints direct to Carluke. Have a word with your closest drop-off point, they may be able to take your prints for you, but will require them a few days earlier than this. Details of all drop-off points will be available from the SPF print Championship page.
15th Feb
This audience event is once again being held at Victoria Hall, Dunblane.
Latest news
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.
Featured galleries
This gallery contains all of the images that Ayr Photographic Society used to win the 2025 Bowie Trophy competition for the 2nd year in a row at the 2025 SPF Digital Championship held in Victoria Hall, Dundblane on Sunday 16th Nov 2025. To see more on this event together with the other Club...
Welcome to the SPF
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.