On Thursday 16th April 2026 the annual A45 Competition was hosted by Bury St. Edmunds PS at a new venue at Fornham All Saints Community Centre.

7 prints were submitted by each club.  Cambridge won the competition with Ely coming a very creditable joint second, a great result for the club!

The full results of the competition with individual scores can be viewed here

We look forward to next year’s competition!

The results of our second league competition held on Wednesday 15 April 2026 are now available on the Images and Competitions page, or please Click Here

Congratulations to the high scorers, and our final competition of this year’s league will be on 29 April.

The results of our print league competition for the year are now available here

Congratulations to Kevin Pigney for winning the colour section and to Viv Houghton for winning the mono section, but well done to everyone who entered prints for the league.

On Saturday 28th February 2026 the St. Ives Interprint Competition was held and the result was that Ely came joint 3rd out of 20 clubs, (only two points behind the winning club). Particular credit goes to Kim Jones for winning the PAGB Gold Medal for his image “Camille Prigent – Canoe Slalom World Championships”, and Nick Bowman who was awarded a PAGB Ribbon for “Kingfisher at Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve”. The competition was judged by Clive Tanner. Well done all!  This was a great result for Ely against a strong field. Full results may be seen here: https://stives-photoclub.org.uk/interprint

On Wednesday 11 February 2026, we held our annual friendly PDI competition on Zoom when 30 images from each club were judged and scored by Nick Akers. Last year Kings Lynn won by a single point, but this year’s competition was closer still, with both clubs scoring a total of 539 points. Kings Lynn had three images scoring a maximum 20 points, with Ely scoring two 20’s.

Well done to everyone at both clubs, and we look forward to another close competition next year!

Full scores for all of the images entered are available here. read more

On Wednesday 4 February 2026 we held our print panel competition. 15 panels of between three and six prints each were judged by Penney Reeves, and congratulations go Roger Newark for coming in First place!

More details here

The results of the annual Ken Hitch Trophy competition held on 14 January 2026 are now available – please click here

On 10 December we held our first pdi competition of the 2025/26 season, and a large number of entries were submitted by club members of a very high standard. 78 images were judged by Nick Akers, and the full results are available on our Competitions page, or Click Here

Well done to all of the members who submitted entries for the competition.

On Wednesday 3 December 2025 we hosted the 4-way competition between ourselves, St. Ives, St. Neots and Swavesey photographic clubs at Ely College, and the evening was a great success. In a very closely-fought competition that was judged by Naomi Saul, the results were as follows: Ely won the competition with a score of 295 points, just a single point ahead of St. Ives who scored 294 points. Both Swavesey and St. Neots scored 288 points. This was a great result for the club and well done to everyone who helped to make this event such a successful evening. A  results sheet with individual scores for all of the entries is available here