Rolls Royce Camera Club Wins FIAP World Cup

I’m delighted to say that my camera club, Rolls Royce Derby, have just become the FIAP World Cup Champions 2022.

The World Cup for clubs is an international competition organised yearly by FIAP, dedicated to photographic clubs from around the world. Each club submits 20 images, with a maximum of 2 images per author. These images are then scored by a panel of international judges and the club with the top score become the champions.

224 clubs from 48 countries entered, submiting 4,385 images, so to come top of the lot is a very big achievement.

You can see all of the images used by Rolls Royce on the FIAP website here: https://www.fiap.net/en/world-cups/17th-fiap-world-cup-for-clubs-2022

Underwater Article Published in FIAP News

FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, founded in 1946) is an international organisation of national associations of photography. More than 85 countries are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers. So, in the amateur photography world FIAP is a pretty big deal.

Each month they produce a lavish newsletter which is distributed worldwide - and I was asked to write an article on my underwater photography for their November issue.

If you’re interested it’s on Pg62 here or you can read it here

FIAP News Article

FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, founded in 1946) is an international organisation of national associations of photography. More than 85 countries are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers. So, in the amateur photography world FIAP is a pretty big deal.

Each month they produce a lavish newsletter which is distributed worldwide - and I’ve been asked to write an article on my underwater photography for their November issue. I’m pretty chuffed TBH.

My Diving Gannets image took the top award in the FIAP World Cup this year, so in that respect it was crowned top nature image in the world. It made the front cover of the December FIAP news and I thought that would be that.

But those gannets are the gift that just keeps on giving - I’m so very grateful to them and the fact that all the stars aligned to let me capture that photograph. I’ll publish the article here when it goes live.

Great Britain comes 2nd in FIAP Nature World Competition

Honoured to have had an image chosen to represent my country in the FIAP 20th Nature Biennial held in Russia recently. Those Diving Gannets have been so good to me :-) Scores are out of a maximum of 15.

EFIAP Achieved

Very pleased to be told yesterday that my submission for EFIAP was successful.

FIAP is a worldwide body organised to support club photography - EFIAP stands for Excellence FIAP. The criteria involves achieving specified levels of success in FIAP patronised photographic salons (competitions). There are many other detailed requirements, including the submission of a portfolio of the applicant’s more successful work, and the need for salon awards in the case of EFIAP.

I think this will be the last FIAP award I apply for as I find the record keeping quite a chore - but I’m delighted to have achieved the Excellence level.

Diving Gannets takes top spot in FIAP world cup

Diving Gannets has been awarded the top individual award (gold medal) @ the FIAP World Cup for clubs. This is an international competition organised yearly & open to photographic clubs from around the world - 207 clubs from 48 countries entered with a total of 4,118 images. Needless to say I’m pretty chuffed :-)