Category: Barrian Cup

Barrian Cup 2024 – 8th June 2024

Barry Camera Club are pleased to announce they will be running their Barrian Cup event for 2024. They would like to invite your club to participate and hope that you will join them on Saturday 8th June 2024 where once again clubs can meet to enjoy each other’s photography, friendship and healthy competitiveness!

They are delighted to be able to confirm that Nick Jenkins, AWPF ARPS, will be judging the Barrian Cup this year, so it promises to be another entertaining competition. All the details and application form can be accessed online here.

Closing date for entries is 4th May 2024.

If there are any questions, please email Pat Hollis, Barry Camera Club Competition Secretary on: barrycameraclub.compsec@gmail.com

Barry Camera Club Host Yet Another Very Successful Barrian Cup.

On Saturday 10 June, Barry Camera Club hosted its 25^th Barrian Cup: a prestigious annual event where camera clubs and photographic societies from all over Wales and the West of England come to Barry to compete for this annual competition of printed photographic images.

Continue reading “2023 Barrian Cup Results”

Gwynfa Camera Club has won the 2022 Barrian Cup by one point from Afan Need and Tenby who finished joint second. Hay & Thornbury were joint third on 90 points.

Continue reading “2022 Barrian Cup Won by Gwynfa”

We’ve received this from Roy Carr at Barry.

Congratulations to the ISO Group who won this year’s edition of the Barrian Cup, scoring 90 points out of a possible 100. Gwynfa came second with 87 and Inn Focus third with 86. All the scores can be seen here.

Continue reading “2019 Barrian Cup Results”

The Barrian Cup was won by The Inn Focus Group (95 points) with Tenby second (92 points) and Gwynfa third (88 points).

Angela De Roy Jones of Gwent won the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for Best Landscape/Seascape with Deganwy Winter Walk and Coltrane Koh won the inaugural Mike Lewis Trophy for the Best Print in Competition with Settle Down.

The award winning photos can be seen below together with judge John Tilsley presenting Tom Dee from Inn Focus with the Barrian Cup and Jay, Mike’s daughter, presenting the Mike Lewis Trophy which was accepted on Angela’s behalf by Tom as no one from Gwent Photographic Society was present.

The full score sheet can be seen here.

The 2017 Barrian Cup was won by Inn Focus.

In joint 3rd place were Afan Nedd Camera Club and Barry Camera Club with 80 points, in second place was Thornbury Camera Club with 84 points, and in 1st place was Inn Focus Group with 90 points.

The judge for the day was Leigh Preston FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP.

The scoresheet can be downloaded here.

It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions. Continue reading “Barrian Cup 2016 Results”

It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions.

Competition was close with Cwmbran and The Vale on 90 points with Bridgend and Cymru Mono sharing 3rd place with 92 points, in second place with 93 was Inn Focus but in 1st place with 96 points the winner of the Barrian Cup was Gwynfa CC.

Gareth Martin won the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the best Landscape Seascape print for the second year running. Congratulations to the winners.

We would like to thank all clubs for entering and a big thank you to all the members who turned up on the day and made this years Barrian Cup a great success.
We would like to apologise for the mix up with the Raffle and will be giving a free raffle ticket to members attending next year.

Regards
Mike Lewis Hon. FWPF
Chairman Barry Camera Club

This from Mike Lewis at Barry Camera Club.

The 2014 Barrian Cup on Saturday 14th June was a great success, with a packed Millennium Hall Brian Swinyard judged the 105 prints with constructive and positive comments and made the point that there were a lot of high scores due to the very high quality of work on show.

The Winners of The Barrian Cup were Western Valley C.C. with 97 points, followed by Ebbw Vale C.C. 93, Merthyr Tydfil C.C  93, Gwynfa C.C. 92 and Hanham P.S. from Bristol 92 points. The Winner of the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the best Landscape/Seascape print went to Roger Walding of Dean P.C.with his print Severn Twilight.

Barry Camera Club would like to thank all the Clubs who entered with a special thank you to all the people who attended on the day, we hope you enjoyed the photography and the refreshments at the end. We look forward to seeing you again next year

Thank you for supporting the Barrian Cup.

Mike Lewis
Chairman
Barry Camera Club

A message from Mike Lewis: On behalf of Barry Camera Club I would like to thank all the Clubs who entered and a special thank you for the record number of people attending on the day. A last minute change to the Judge Brian Swinyard, who was unable to make the day but Bob Train LRPS stepped in and did a fantastic job judging the 120 prints entered.

Congratulations to the winners Inn Focus who won the 2013 Barrian Cup and also congratulations to Nick Walton also from Inn Focus on winning the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the Best Landscape/Seascape Print. This is not the first time Inn Focus have done the double they also won both trophies in 2011.

A full list of scores, kindly provided by Alan Coles, can be found here.

Continue reading “2013 Barrian Cup Results”