On Sunday 6th July three members of Keswick Photographic Society attended the PAGB Inter-club PDI Championship in Warwick. Keswick were one of two clubs nominated by the NCPF to enter the Championship on the basis of winning the NCPF PDI Club Championship; second-placed Saltburn Photographic Society were the other nominated club. The PAGB competition is between two clubs from each of their Federations together with finalists from the previous year’s competition. The PDI Championship for 2025 was judged by Barbara Jenkin EFIAP/d3 GMPSA/p SPSA ARPS BPE4, Paul Radden DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE4 and Paul Stanley FIPF EFIAP/p ESFIAP.
The competition is unusual in that two of the three rounds requires entries selected on the day from a previously submitted bank of up to 40 PDIs. The first round involves entering eight images from the bank that have been selected in advance. The conditions on the selections are that there can only be two nature images and only two images from the same author in each round. On the basis of the combined scores of the first two rounds of 16 different images, the competition is then split into the top eight clubs entering a ‘final’ round of twenty images and the remaining clubs entering the ‘Championship Plate’ round of eight images. Keswick missed being in the elite top-eight section by just one mark!
Our top-scoring images from the first two rounds (with scores out of 15) were by Jo Knight – Evacuee (15) and On The Shelf (13); Simon Roberts – Nectar Bat (14); and Alan Walker – Focussed In The Snow (13).
Entering the Plate section, clubs are allowed to select up to four images from the previous rounds and a further four new images; all being newly scored. Our top-scoring images for this round were by Jo Knight – Evacuee (15) and On the Shelf (13); Simon Roberts – Nectar Bat (14) and Bright Blue Streak (14); Alan Walker – Focussed In The Snow (13) and Jeremy Malley-Smith – Ascension (13). The total score for our Plate entry was 105 which placed us top of the 29 clubs in that section.
Keith Snell accepted the presentation of the Championship Plate on behalf of the club from the PAGB President, David Gibbins. Our congratulations in particular go to Jo Knight, Simon Roberts, Alan Walker and Jeremy Mally-Smith for their high-scoring images.
There is an equivalent PAGB Inter-club Championship for Prints and this is held in October in Blackburn. Keswick will again be one of the two NCPF-nominated clubs for this competition
Northern Counties Photographic Federation 