The Welsh Photographic Federation
Undeb Ffotograffig Cymru
Why not go along and see the best of amateur club photography judged live. All Camera Club members are welcome. Go along to cheer on your club, or just for a great day of photography.
Sunday 6 July 2025 – 10am to 5pm at Warwick Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick, CV34 6PP. Free onsite parking available. Entry Tickets £15 available from https://pagbhost.co.uk (CMS login required – tickets are under the Services tab, then Event Tickets).
The online entry system is now open for the 65th Midland Print & Projected Image Salon.
You can enter here and the the rules can be seen here.
The closing date is 23rd June 2025.
It is organised by the Midland Counties Photographic Federation with FIAP, GPU & PAGB patronage and has over 200 awards.
There are 6 sections: open monochrome prints, open colour prints, open colour projected images, open monochrome projected images, nature projected images and scapes projected images.
Low entry fees – only pay for sections you enter. A4 64 page colour catalogue to all entrants.
The 2025 Masters of Print Exhibition once again visits Wales. It is at Bedwellty House, Tredegar, NP22 3XN from 2nd August to 30th August.
The opening ceremony will be at 2pm on 2nd August.
Below is the story of Susan Rees’ Photo ‘Do Not Tell Mummy’ and its path to a PSA Gold Medal.
Susan tells us “don’t work with Children and animals especially trying to get award winning pictures” this is the general advice given to, and by most photographers. That is unless the child is a wonderful young girl who loves posing and dressing up then you have a photographer’s dream, a delight to photograph.
Some of you will know that I have developed my photographic skills with a great deal of assistance from Paul James. I love taking portraits, and have my own studio lights but owe most of my knowledge and skill to Paul.
This session was however conducted without Paul’s assistance and so between myself, Meg Bhular and this little’s girl’s Mum, we set up the session and took many many photos of this young girl and her equally delightful sister. I used my Canon R6 with 24-105 lens
This photo has received 4 acceptances including the gold, a second photo with 3 acceptances and a third with 5 acceptances- Not bad for 1 morning session!
A massive thank you to both children and their Mum for the help.
Now I only wish I could get my grandsons to pose as willingly as these two did but I have a feeling that that is a pipedream!
Susan Rees
Info provided by Gary Shinner MPSA2 BPSA (PSA CMD for Wales).
PSA Website: https://psa-photo.org/
Click the image for more information…
“Trees of many shapes” – by Ian Ledgard GMPSA/B
Award – Salon Gold – CMYK Circuit – Mono Section – Montenegro – October 2024. Camera Data: Panasonic DMC-G80, 1/100 sec, F13, ISO200
The Story
With my working life having been spent in Forestry Management it is no surprise that many of my images are of trees. This one was taken in late February 2024 whilst walking around the National Botanic Garden of Wales. On the skyline I spotted this group of trees and pressed the shutter.
I always shoot in RAW and the colour image was unremarkable so I turned to Nik Silver Efx Pro 3 seeking for a mono version. After trying various pre-set options I opted for this which after a little tweaking shows a grainy sky reminding me of early days with black and white film.
The image has gained a number of acceptances in International Exhibitions and I was delighted to be awarded a Salon Gold.
Ian Ledgard, GMPSA/b
Here is the list of people whom have had continued successes from December 2024 to the end of March 2025.
Congratulations to all members listed above, who reported back to me with their recent awards, medals and other successes in the PSA affiliated salons. If there are any other members of the PSA have some successes – then please e-mail me directly – gary_shinnerlrps@sky.com (Note the underscore)
Anyone out there wants to find out any more about the PSA, please again contact me, I’ll do my best to help you. However you can go to their website here.
Good luck to everyone with their photographic journeys
Gary Shinner MPSA2 BPSA – CMD for Wales
“And They’re Off!!” – PSA Gold – Rhodri Phillips EPSA – Triumph Circuit – 2024-1397.
I had set myself a goal way back in BC (Before Covid) and that was to get my QPSA. Thanks to the support of Gary and Mike I managed it…. but was bitten by the bug. This meant that I went on, through 4 and 5 Stars to PPSA and finally my EPSA.
Having reached these milestones, and the AFIAP along the way, I fell into a bit of a lull, not entering any Competitions and in truth not taking many photographs at all. However earlier this summer I caught the bug again and started to get out and about again. In August I even started entering Salons and Circuits again, using mostly new images, I had no great hopes but thought that maybe I would eventually enter the rarified atmosphere of the Galaxies!!
One of the competitions I entered was the Triumph Circuit, PSA 2024-1397, finding myself short of recent images for the Journalism section I decided to look back at images I had never used. One such was, “And they’re Off” which was one of a series I took at the Richard Burton 10K event in 2023. I had been taking images at this even regularly and had managed to get many acceptances with some.
The winning image was taken on my Nikon Z6-2 with my Z27-70 Nikkor lens. I shot at 1/1000, f16 with a high ISO, as it was a dull day. This was then processed in LR and resized in PS.
I was looking to capture that first second as the gun went off and they were all setting their watches! I was also trying to capture the two previous race winners, Dewi and Olivia as they set off to defend their titles.
I was pleasantly surprised and very happy for the image to gain a PSA gold, on its first outing! As a side note in that particular Circuit, it gained a PSA Gold in one salon and was not even accepted in another!
Rhodri
Here is the list of people whom have had continued successes from September to the end of November.
Congratulations to all members listed above, who reported back to me with their recent awards, medals and other successes in the PSA affiliated salons. If there are any other members of the PSA have some successes – then please e-mail me directly – gary_shinnerlrps@sky.com (Note the underscore)
Anyone out there wants to find out any more about the PSA, please again contact me, I’ll do my best to help you. However you can go to their website: https://psa-photo.org/
Good luck to everyone with their photographic journeys.
Gary Shinner MPSA2 BPSA
CMD for Wales
“A Sporting Win” (by Kev Robertson PPSA EFIAP BPE1 APWF)
I bought my first camera which was second hand in 1995 and it was it was a Minolta digital and then I started taking the usual holiday snaps, and for the next few years that was all I used the camera for.
