Slideshow of the award winning images from the 2024 Exhibition
Click HERE for a link to a PDF document giving full details of each image (Title, Author & Distinctions, Club/Society and Award received)
The East Anglian Federation (EAF) of Photographic Societies was founded in 1910 and has thus been in existence for over 100 years. The EAF is a constituent founder Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB), which is the parent organisation for camera clubs and photographic societies throughout the UK. Having 100 member clubs and societies with about 3500 individual members, the EAF is one of the largest federations in the PAGB covering the area of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and that part of Hertfordshire which lies to the east of the M1 motorway. Following the closure of the Central Federation in 1989 a number of North and East London clubs were welcomed into the East Anglian Federation.
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The Print Championship took place on Saturday 19th October 2024 at Westholme School, Blackburn.
Thirty seven clubs took part. Congratulations to all six EAF Clubs.
The Judges were: Helen Hanafin FIPF EFIAP/p, Ray Brammall ARPS EFIAP/p DPAGB APAGB BPE5* and Richard Speirs DPAGB HonPAGB HonNCPF BPE2*
The Champion club was Catchlight CC: second equal places for Arden PG and Smethwick PS
For the EAF PICO and Beyond Group both reached the final round finishing in equal seventh place.
In the Plate group Colchester PS finished in equal second place, Bury St Edmunds PS and Melbourn & DPS finished in equal seventh place and Norwich & DPS finished in twenty first place.
In the Individual Awards both Gold Medal/Rod Wheelans Trophies went to EAF Club members.
Colour Print: "Last Leaves" by Peter North of Melboun & DPS
Monochrome Print: "The Jewish Museum, Berlin" by Jonathan Dadds of Colchester PS
Images: "Last Leaves" by Peter North and "The Jewish Museum, Berlin" by Jonathan Dadds
The full results document is available HERE and all the Individual winning images and the images from Catchlight CC are available on the PAGB website
A report of the event by Christopher Ward of the Essex AV Group
Judged by Edgar Gibbs FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP and Linda Gibbs MPAGB AV-AFIAP
Click HERE for the full results sheet in PDF format
Image: Edgar & Linda Gibbs judging the AV sequences
This year, again, held at Foxton Village Hall, in Cambridgeshire, a good venue with all the facilities that you could need to host this type of event.
This was my first AV event. I have only been aware of ‘AV’s’ for around 18 months, and have only created 3, 2 of which I entered into this year’s competition. I entered last year’s competition with a Joint entry with Dick Williams on my trip to Chernobyl.
Image: Keith Leedham running the projection desk
Dick Williams ARPS DPAGB-AV is the EAF AV Trophy Secretary who superbly organised (along with theSub-Committee) this year’s event together with a small army of volunteers, both technical, with all the presentation kit needed, and behind the scenes, including refreshments.
Thank you all for a well organised event. There were 41 entries (the same as last year) with 9 prizes on offer, plus any Highly Commended (this year there were 6).
Image: Malcolm Imhoff (2nd from left) receiving the EAF Audio-Visual Trophy & Gold Medal from Nick Akers & Daphne Hanson
As I have mentioned I am very new to the AV world, and have very limited experience of AVs in general, I joined the Essex AV Group in 2023 and have viewed a limited number of AVs in this time, but gained some insight from this group, and in particular from Dick Williams who has shared his wealth of experience with me and the group.
This years EAF AV Trophy competition was a good way for me to see a wide range of AVs and to see the details and effort people put into them, and to try and gain some insight into what makes a good, and winning AV.
The range of subjects and the way the AVs were created was an education for me, some very informative, some perhaps too long, and some with beautiful photography, music and narration.
The researching and the time taken to photograph the locations, some over many seasons, was to me exceptional. It puts my own efforts of pulling my abstract images together, and arranging them to, what I think, is the right piece of music, for me, and so more effort needed from me, I think.
As with all these types of competitions (AV & Photography) it comes down to the opinion of the experienced Judges, who had a hard task and overall, their choices matched most of my favourites, but not necessarily in the same order or category. They gave all the winners great feedback and good learning tips for those of us who need it!
My personal favourites were Dalmatian Pelicans of Lake Kerkini, by Alison Jenkins, which did win the Popular Vote on the day, Visions of Ashdown Forest, by Dave Brooker Winner of the Vic Hainsworth award, and Moments in Time by Brian Harvey, which won Best Photography award. All 3 of these had amazing photography, with good sequencing and dissolves, AVs to learn from.
Images: Alison Jenkins receiving the Trophy for the Popular Vote from Nick Akers: Andrew Pickess receives his Highly Commended certificate from Linda Gibbs: David Ames receives his Highly Commended certificate from Linda Gibbs.
It was great to meet new people, in a comfortable environment, with the focus on enjoying the efforts that all the participants put into their AVs, it was clearly an experienced audience with a lot of it to share, if you are new to AVs this would be a good place to start.
Christopher Ward
The "Invitation to all EAF Clubs" to enter the Championships has now been sent to all EAF Club Secretaries for passing on to the member of the club who deals with club entries for external competitions.
All the other documents relating to the Championships are now available on the Downloadable Documents Page.
This includes the Championship Rules, Club Entry forms, Image List forms, Application Forms for Tickets, an Information Poster and the Schedule for each Championship day.
If you know that your club will be entering one, or both, of the Championships you can submit the Club Entry form(s) immediately. The Image List(s) and the PDI Images and/or the PDI versions of the Prints can then be submitted later, but before the relevant closing date. Earlier the better, don't leave it to the last moment!
The EAF PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit (APM) Advisory Day took place on Sunday 1st September at Foxton Village Hall.
Here are a few photos from the day.
Daphne Hanson opening the Advisory Day
Rod Wheelans explains the APM system
Vic Hainsworth, Richard Spears, Anne Greiner & Rod Wheelans
Richard Spears appraising a print
Gorden Jenkings in action
Richard Spears and Colin Westgate appraising a print
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The Championship was held on the 21st July 2024 in Warwick
The Judges were:
Tilman Kleinhans ARPS DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE5
Libby Smith MPAGB EFIAP HonPAGB HonSPF
Howard Tate MA ARPS AFIAP HonPAGB
The Final winning Club was Chorley Photographic Society
The Plate winning Club was Arden Photo Group
The EAF were represented by Beyond Group and PICO
PICO finished in equal 5th position with Beyond Group just behind them in 7th position
This means that PICO & Beyond Group will have automatic entry into next year's Championship which gives a big opportunity for two other EAF clubs to join them. Just need to be the top two scoring clubs, excluding PICO & Beyond Group, in the 2025 EAF Inter-club Championship.
Click HERE for the full PAGB results document that gives some further details of the result
The 2024 EAF Exhibition Portfolio which shows all the monochrome prints, colour prints and PDI's that were selected to form the 2024 EAF Exhibition is now available. Free if your club is a member of the EAF Federation and you request the downloadable version.
(You may still obtain a physical DVD-based version, if you would prefer, at a cost of just £10.00)
More details on the Portfolio Page.
The slideshow at the top of this page has been updated to display the award winning images from the Exhibition.
The 12 "major" award winning images, "Best Images" & "Judges Awards", can be viewed HERE where there is also a link to a PDF version of the Exhibition Catalogue. The Catalogue can be downloaded from the Downloadable Documents page.
The most recent adjudication took place over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 27th/28th April 2024 at St Mary’s College, Basingstoke, hosted by the Southern Counties Photographic Federation. It was a well-run weekend, although the hall was a little on the cool side, but there was plenty of space.
There were 126 applications nationwide with 25 applicants from our Federation, many of whom attended, and those who were successful were able to collect their respective badges from the President Elect, David Gibbins, ARPS, EFIAP/b, BPE 5*, APAGB, who was deputising for PAGB President, Daphne Hanson.
Of our 25 applicants, 17 have been successful over four levels. Unfortunately, the certificates will not be available until late May, and by then most clubs will have closed for the summer recess so most of the certificates will have to be mailed.
We can now offer our congratulations to the following successful members.
Credit Prints: Lachlan French CPAGB from Saffron Waldon CC, Jan Bond CPAGB from Halstead & DPS, Helen Mackay LRPS, CPAGB, AFIAP from St Neots & DCC, and Hilary Knight CPAGB from Colchester PS.
Credit PDIs: Mark Glenister CPAGB, BPE3* from Biggleswade & DCC, Keith Gypps ARPS, CPAGB from Cambridge CC, Stephen Laws LRPS, CPAGB, from St. Ives PC, Jennifer McDonald CPAGB, from Chelmsford CC, Charles Phillips CPAGB from Bury St. Edmunds PS, and Derek Nimmo CPAGB, BPE 1* from PICO.
Distinction Prints: David Morement DPAGB, BPE 1* from Hoddesdon CC, Peter Baker DPAGB, LRPS from Royston PS and Carol Martin DPAGB, LRPS from Bury St. Edmunds PS.
Distinction PDIs: Chris Pugh DPAGB, BPE 1* from Colchester PS, and Ian McDonald DPAGB from Chelmsford CC.
Excellence Prints: Bob Coote EPAGB from Royston PS and Derek Howes EPAGB from Colchester PS.
Bob and Derek are our first two members in the Federation to achieve the new EPAGB (Excellence) award. To date we have had no applications for the new B (Badge) awards. Also, at this adjudication we had no Masters applications.
Images: (Left/Top) Credit Prints - Hilary Knight (Colchester PS), Jan Bond (Halstead & DPS) and Lachlan French (Saffron Walden CC). (Right/Bottom) Credit PDI's - Jennifer McDonald (Chelmsford CC), Keith Gypps (Cambridge CC) and Derek Nimmo (PICO).
Images: (Left/Top) Distinction Prints - Peter Baker (Royston PS), Carol Martin (Bury St Edmunds PS) and David Morement (Hoddeson CC). (Right/Bottom) Distinction PDI's - Ian McDonald (Chelmsford CC) on the left.
Image: Excellence Prints - Derek Howes (Colchester PS) on the right
(Photographs kindly supplied by Steve Kirkby CPAGB/AV)
The books are open for the November adjudication. It was due to be held in South Wales, but sadly they couldn’t find a suitable venue. However, the PAGB team have now found a suitable venue and will be running the weekend at The Winsford Academy, Grange Lane, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 2BT. Further details will follow. To date we have 6 applications.
We will again be running our annual APM Advisory Day at Foxton on the 1st of September with the assistance of some of the PAGB APM team plus a couple of others. Publicity posters and entry forms are available on the Downloadable Documents Page. To date I have 19 applications. Should there not be enough from the EAF to cover costs, I will open it out to nearby Federations as interest has been shown by some of their members who live near the EAF.
Vic Hainsworth ARPS, DPAGB, APAGB.
Federation Awards Secretary
