N&EMPF Inter-Club Projected Digital Image Championship 2025
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 in July.
The competition will be held at Arnold Leisure Centre, on Sunday 16th 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 last year, with a few minor changes to simplify things (see Rule 14 in particular).
The competition will be held at Arnold Leisure Centre, on Sunday 16th 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:
- Steve Proctor EPAGB BPE5 PPSS
- Sue O'Connell FIPF MPSA DPAGB EFIAP/d3 ABPE
- Bob Moore MPAGB HonPAGB HonFRPS
The event will run in the same manner as last year, with a few minor changes to simplify things (see Rule 14 in particular).
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Note: N&EMPF has now adopted the PAGB rules regarding who is eligible to represent a club (Rule 6 applies).
The electronic transfer system (WeTransfer) which has worked for several years is unchanged, and the operating system originally introduced in 2019 is also unchanged. If you have any questions please ask—I am here to help. To enter just send me an email before 26th February 2025 giving:
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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.
Regards
Peter Farnworth LRPS
N&EMPF Inter-Club PDI Championship Co-ordinator
Regards
Peter Farnworth LRPS
N&EMPF Inter-Club PDI Championship 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 26th FEBRUARY 2025.
- All competing clubs must by 6th MARCH 2025:
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 a list of all the images with title, author and with the nature ones marked (N) three spaces after the title. The images for round 1 are to be marked with an X.
b) The Folder may be sent by using the website WeTransfer.com.
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.
Be careful of members who have been members of other clubs. - All images must be labelled in the manner detailed on “File Naming 2025”, 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, PAGB rules will apply.
- 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 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.