Ely Photographic Club will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion we are holding an exhibition of our prints at the Babylon Art Gallery by the riverside in Ely during virtually the whole of September 2024, opening on 3rd at midday.
Admission to the gallery is free, and it is open on weekdays (except Mondays) from 12 noon to 4pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 4pm. All prints, both mounted and framed, will be available for sale at very reasonable prices. Do come along and have a look! read more

Ely Photographic Club are thrilled to announce that we have secured a new sponsorship agreement with Muse Fine Art Printing of Witchford.

Their contact details are as follows:

Website: https://www.muse-fineart.co.uk

Address: Unit 4 Sedgeway Business Park Witchford Ely CB6 2HY

Phone: 07547691111

Email: muse.fineart.printing@gmail.com

MUSE Fine Art Printing specialise in producing high-quality fine art archival and giclee prints for artists and photographers. Their expertise and attention to detail ensure that each print captures the essence of the original artwork or photograph, making it a true masterpiece. read more

Just a reminder that the clubs Annual General Meeting will take place at the Adelaide Hall, Ely College, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 22 May 2024.

The AGM will be followed by the presentation of Award Certificates to the members who have won the various club competitions during the season, and then we will hold our annual Members Choice competition, wher all club members present can vote for their favourite print and PDI images of the year.

This will be the final meeting of our regular club season, although we will be organising a number of club outings during the summer. The club will reconvene next September for our 50th Anniversary season! read more

Ten clubs competed in this event that was hosted by Peterborough on 23 April 2024. The event was won by PICO (151 points), with Deepings club second (147 points), Biggleswade third (140 points), and Ely came equal fourth with Wisbech on 133 points. The competition was judged by Diane Seddon.

On Thursday 4 April 2024 Bury St Edmunds Photographic Society hosted the annual inter-club competition. Nine clubs submitted 7 PDI images each, which were judged by Ken Payne.

The event was won by Cambridge Camera Club with 134 points, and Ely were second with 131 points, a great achievement considering that Cambridge have four times as many members as Ely, so this was a brilliant result for us. (We used seven different authors for our seven entries, too.) Third place went to St.Ives, fourth to Stowmarket, and Felixstowe and BSEPS clubs were equal fifth. read more

We held our final PDI Competition of the season on Wednesday 27 March 2024, and the results of that are available on our Competitions page, or can be viewed here.

After aggregating the highest two scores for all of the competitions, the results of this season’s PDI league are as follows:

First Place – Nigel Lucas (113 points)

Second Place – Bruce Liggitt (112 points)

Equal Third Place – Roger Newark, Nick Bowman, and Kim Jones (all 109 points)

Well done to all of the above!

On Thursday 21 March we hosted a friendly competition against Kings Lynn and District Camera Club, which is becoming a regular annual event. Each club submitted 30 PDI images each, which were judged by Jim Bennett. In a thoroughly enjoyable and closely-fought competition, Ely Photographic Club narrowly came out on top with 544 points, only one point ahead of Kings Lynn – near the end of the evening the scores were actually all square at one stage, so it could not have been closer!

Well done to all of the members who contributed to such a great evening, and we look forward to repeating the event next year. For a full list of the individual scores from the evening, please click on the scoresheet link here. read more

On 6 March 2024 our second PDI competition of the season was held and a lot of members entered, resulting in our judge, David Steel, critiquing and scoring 77 images. Full details and a gallery of the highest-scoring images can be viewed on our Competitions page here.

Well done to all of the members entering the competition, and particularly to those who scored highly. The third and final PDI competition of this years season will be held on 27th March.

On 14 February, we held the final print competition of the season, and the results can be viewed on our Competitions page or Click Here

Congratulations to Nick Bowman for winning the Colour Print league, and to Martin Smith for winning the Mono Print league!

On 31 January 2024, we will be holding our annual print panel competition at Ely College, on a theme of the authors choice. The event will be judged by Sarah Kelman, and potential new members are very welcome to come along and watch the event.