A few weeks ago I posted an image of some medals that had arrived in the post

The medals in question were from a photographic competition in Montenego, 

Photo Grafis 2026

As you all know I have achieved a CPAGB award, and was being asked by a number of club members if I was going for the DPAGB award.

I had also noted that a number of fellow photographers have FIAP and/or BPE distinctions.

So I decided to look into these distinctions instead of the DPAGB.

The fourth print competition of the year was held on Thursday 24^th September at St James church Hall the home of the Nottingham Outlaws. The print competition started back in March 2026 and is run on a bi-monthly basis. 

Going into this leg of the print competition Sue Hartley (316pts) was leading Ray Andrews (312pts), followed by Lois Webb (310pts). Tonight’s penultimate competition could give one of the leading group the edge over their close rivals. 

The judge for this round of the competition was Phil Newman of Bolsover Camera Club who has visited the Outlaws on several previous occasions. 

Phil started off the evening complementing the Outlaws on the quality of their images & printing, this comment was re-iterated several times as he critiqued the images one by one.

There were two categories for Phil to judge, the Open category and the Themed category which this evening was “Historical”. In total there were 25entries in the Open and 26 in the Theme.

The month of June’s PDI competition was cancelled due to one of this summer’s heatwaves, and it was rescheduled for September 10^th. 

This means that we have two competitions this month, a busy time for all concerned. On the competition front things are certainly warming up as we are now well into the digital competition year.  

This month has two categories one being an “Open” where members can submit images of their choice across a whole gambit of photographic genres, the other being the “Theme”, which was “Panel”.

August sees the Outlaws undertaking their fourth Projected Digital Image (PDI) competition of the year and things have started to warm up. Prior to this competition the leader was Lester Woodward with 132pts, second was Sue Hartley on 131 and Ray Andrews on 127pts. Which means that this month’s round has everything to play for.

The evenings judge was Sue Wilson, a NEMPF competition judge who some of the Outlaws had met on previous occasions. Sue offered constructive comments, suggestions and lots of detail especially if she thought an image could be improved. Sue is a member of Clay Cross Photographic Society

This summer season has seen the Outlaws make a number of trips out and about and yesterday evening we had a guided tour around Nottingham’s historic Lace Market Area with Graham Woodward the chairman of the Nottingham Civic Society.

The guided tour was very informative and interesting and we all learnt facts about an area that we thought we knew quite well. The tour also gave us the opportunity to take images of some of Nottingham’s oldest, grandest & quirky buildings. Our cameras were never far from hand and it was also a photographic tour on a local theme.