N&EMPF Inter-Club Projected Digital Image Championship 2024
After two years of CFH (Competing from Home) we now feel that we able to compete in person, we hope that you agree with this decision and look forward to seeing you all again.
The purpose of the competition is two fold – to find the Champion N&EMPF Club, and the two clubs to represent the federation in the PAGB National PDI Championships at Warwick University on 15th July.
The competition will be held at Arnold Leisure Centre, on Sunday 5th March, starting at 1.45pm and there will be an admission charge of £3 to cover expenses. The AGM is at the same venue in the morning and admission to that is, of course, free.
The judges will be:
The event will run in the same manner as 2020, and the rules are exactly the same as 2020 except that the dates have been changed.
The electronic transfer system which has worked for several years is unchanged, and the operating system introduced in 2019 worked well in 2020 as well, so is also unchanged.
If you have any questions please ask – I am here to help.
To enter just send me an email before 15th February 2023 giving:
All the paperwork can be downloaded below:
The purpose of the competition is two fold – to find the Champion N&EMPF Club, and the two clubs to represent the federation in the PAGB National PDI Championships at Warwick University on 15th July.
The competition will be held at Arnold Leisure Centre, on Sunday 5th March, starting at 1.45pm and there will be an admission charge of £3 to cover expenses. The AGM is at the same venue in the morning and admission to that is, of course, free.
The judges will be:
- Erica Oram CPAGB AFIAP BPE3*
- Sue Hutton ARPS
- Ralph Duckett MPAGB EFIAP/p APAGB
The event will run in the same manner as 2020, and the rules are exactly the same as 2020 except that the dates have been changed.
The electronic transfer system which has worked for several years is unchanged, and the operating system introduced in 2019 worked well in 2020 as well, so is also unchanged.
If you have any questions please ask – I am here to help.
To enter just send me an email before 15th February 2023 giving:
- Your club
- Your name
- Your phone number
- Your email address
All the paperwork can be downloaded below:

Inter-Club PDI 2023 Invite.pdf |
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It will be assumed that if you are successful you will be entering the national competition at Warwick unless you say otherwise.
Best regards
Peter Farnworth LRPS
N&EMPF Club PDI Trophy Competition Co-ordinator
Best regards
Peter Farnworth LRPS
N&EMPF Club PDI Trophy Competition Co-ordinator
Rules
- The competition is open to all clubs affiliated to N&EMPF.
- All clubs wishing to compete must submit an entry by email to the organiser by 15th FEBRUARY 2023.
- All competing clubs must by 23rd FEBRUARY 2023:
a) Provide the organiser with a Folder, clearly labelled containing three sub-folders:
[CLUB NAME] BANK containing 40 images,
[CLUB NAME] ROUND 1 containing the 16 images for the first round, and
[CLUB NAME] ENTRY FORM containing list of all the images with title, author and with the nature ones marked.
The images for round 1 are to be marked with an X.
b) The Folder may be sent by using the website WeTransfer.com OR on a stick in the post.
c) Maximum image size is 1600 pixels horizontal x 1200 pixels vertical. - Images projected in previous N&EMPF Club PDI or Slide Championships are not eligible.
- All images must be labelled in the manner detailed on “File Naming 2023”, failure to comply with the labelling format will result in the software rejecting the image.
- Photographers may only represent one club of which they must be bona fide members and must be able to support that club in the event of the club competing in the national final.
- In both rounds the entry is limited to four images from any one author and a total of four Nature images per club in each round.
- In both rounds the images will be shown sequentially, one from each Club in an order drawn in advance.
- Each image will be marked 2 to 5 by each of three judges, i.e. maximum 15, minimum 6.
- At the end of the first round the top eight clubs, plus any club scoring the same as the eighth club will go forward to the final round.
- In the final round the competing clubs will submit 20 images from their nominated list, a maximum of 10 may be drawn from round 1, a minimum of 10 must be previously unseen.
These images will be submitted within 15 minutes of the declaration of the results of round 1. - The highest scoring club in the final round will be awarded the trophy to hold for one year.
- The two highest scoring clubs will represent N&EMPF in the PAGB DPI Championship. Any club which already has entry to this PAGB competition or whose allegiance to the PAGB is not through N&EMPF is not eligible for this section.
- In the event of a tie for 12 and 13 above the affected clubs will submit a further 5 images previously unseen. If the tie is still unresolved then the number of highest scores will be taken into account, for each round working in reverse order. If there is still no decision the tie will be resolved on the toss of a coin.
- Any club wishing to compete in this competition but not wishing to enter the PAGB competition is requested to inform the organizers before the competition.
- An award will be given to the author of the image judged to be the best image shown in the competition.
Past Championship Winners
changed to Projected Digital Images in 2009
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Past Individual Winners
changed to Projected Digital Images in 2009; Individual awards not awarded until 1995
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