Jeff Carter has been a professional photographer since 1994 and on leaving the Royal Air Force in 1996 he set up MacLean Photographic, the MacLean taken from his full name Jeffrey Stuart MacLean Carter, specialising in sports photography, becoming the Official Photographer for the British Canoe Slalom team ahead of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. In 1997 he gained a Licentiate to the British Institute of Professional Photographers, one of the first to gain the award with a portfolio of motor sport images.

Since 2009 he has worked for the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the world governing body of motor sport, as the Media Delegate for the FIA GT3 European (2009-2011), FIA GT1 World Championships (2010/2011), since 2012 the FIA World Endurance Championship and in 2019 the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship.

As part of this role he has been able to be hands on with motor sport photography, providing images and videos for the official website and social media feeds, as well as being the main point of contact for the international media and coordinating the work of the official photographic agency for the championship. He has also been the photo delegate for the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2012.  Since 2013 Jeff has also worked on the European Le Mans Series and since 2016 the Michelin Le Mans Cup.

Here's a link to Jeff’s website: https://www.macleanphotographic.com/ .

This is the results of our first print competition of the year. An independent judge will award scores for each image with a maximum of 20 points. There are three categories of entries: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Scores from this competition count towards the annual league table.

Tonight we will be showing videos of the SPF Portfolios. Normally, this would be accompanied by a Christmas fare of mulled wine, mince pies and nibbles but under the present circumstances we'll have to make do with a tipple at home.