Here are the individual club results of the 2017 GB Cup Competitions.
We’ll let you have further information as soon as it is released.
2016 Celtic Challenge Results
The WPF hosted the annual Celtic Challenge Competition at the Glamorgan Holiday Hotel Porthcawl recently. Visitors from 5 of the Federations who competed enjoyed an abundance of splendid photography, and a masterclass in how to judge a competition by Martin Fry FRPS, APAGB, AFIAP, AV-AFIAP. The Republic of Ireland won the Competition, and won 2 of the “Best in” awards, for colour print and projected image.
It was generally agreed that the event was a great success and well put together. Every print was projected on to a large screen through Live View so everyone could see them in detail, and the projected images were displayed using DiCentra which put titles and scores on screen.
In the evening we enjoyed a splendid 4 course meal at the Hotel and welcomed Madeline Moon MP as a special guest. The Meal was preceded by entertainment by the Morlais Male Choir.
Here are the overall results and here are the individual results for monochrome prints, colour prints and PDI’s.
The photograph below shwos Vittorio Silvestri, President Northern Ireland Photographic Federation, receiving the Celtic Challenge Trophy from Madeline Moon MP on behalf of the Irish Photographic Federation
Martin Nagle (CELO)
PAGB Inter Federation Results 2016
Welsh Photographic Federation Results – Please note, our overall score was taken from our top 10 scoring images. You can see a full list of individual scores here. Note, scores are out of 15.
Colour Print Section / 133 points / 4th Position / 13 accepted in exhibition
Mono Print Section / 122 points / = 8th Position / 2 accepted in exhibition
Open Digital Section / 130 points / = 6th Position / 9 accepted in exhibition
Nature Digital Section / 128 point / 10th Position / 6 accepted in exhibition
Well done to everyone whose images were entered.
Special congratulations to Nick Walton (Inn Focus) who got overall winner in the colour print section with The Numismatist and Coltrane Koh (Inn Focus) who won a Judges Choice Award in the same section with Pride and Joy. Also congratulations to Alan Jenkinson (Bridgend) for winning a PAGB Ribbon with Pen y Fan Resident.
The scores reveal a few interesting points.
We came 4th in the Colour Print section with score of 133 points. There were 3 clubs tied for 1st place with a score of 134. (Blast!!!!!!)
We came 6th in the Open Digital Competition but were only 4 points behind the winning Federation.
We have 30 acceptances in the exhibition compared to 10 last year, so we have really upped our game.
The exhibition will be in Arts Central Barry in October. I will let you have more details later.
As soon as I receive your prints from the organisers, I will get them back to you.
Regards,
Martin Nagle (CELO)
2016 PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships Results
Here are the results from the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick on Saturday 16th July. (Revised on 25th July).
Overall Results and Awards     Final Scores
Congratulations to all three WPF Clubs that took part: –
Inn Focus came 3rd in the final, noth 4th as previously reported. They were moved up one placed when a scoring error with another club was reported.
Tenby and District came joint 5th in the Plate with 99 points and Gwynfa who came 15th with 95 points!
Well done everybody for representing yourselves and the WPF so well – pretty good considering there were 39 Clubs taking part!
IFG & Gwynfa shine in the 2016 GB Cup
Inn Focus Group and Gwynfa have finished 4th and 6th respectively in the GB Cup for large clubs from the 95 clubs that entered.
Inn Focus were top WPF club beating Gwynfa by just three points but both finished above some of the most prestigious clubs in the UK, including Wigan 10, Edinburgh and Dumfries.
Gwynfa also finished 20th (out of 96 clubs) in the GB Cup for Nature.
The final placings can be found here. Well done both!
PAGB APM Successes for WPF Members
The PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit were recently hosted by the WPF in Neath. 116 applications from all over the UK were received and 65 were successful. Ten of those successes were for WPF photographers. Details below:-
Of 29 applications at DISTINCTION (DPAGB) PRINT level 11 were successful.
The sole WPF success was: Leigh Woolford AWPF EFIAP, Gwynfa CC
Of 15 applications at DISTINCTION (DPAGB) PDI level, 5 were successful.
The sole WPF success was: Matthew Jones, Ebbw Vale CC
Of 63 applications at CREDIT (CPAGB) PRINT level, 42 were successful.
The WPF successes were:
Moira Evans LRPS, Swansea CC
Gwynfryn Jones AFIAP, Gwynfa CC
Norman Lemon, Neath & District PS
Anthony Llewellyn, Morriston CC
David Norton AWPF, Rhondda CC
Peter Stickler ARPS AWPF, Swansea CC
Of 9 applications at CREDIT (CPAGB) PDI level, 7 were successful.
The WPF successes were:
Jason Chapman, Swansea CC
Gary Jenkins, Tenby & District CC
Congratulations to everyone who was successul and commiserations to those who were not.
For those interested in pursuing the same awards, full explanations can be found here.
Inn Focus Win 2015 GB Trophy for Prints
Only two clubs represented the WPF in the inaugural GB Trophy for Prints held in Pontefract. They were Swansea and the Inn Focus Group.
It was a decent day for Swansea who finished in the midfield in both the Open and Nature sections of the competition. However, the Inn Focus Group managed to carry off the Open trophy with a convincing win by seven points from Chorley PS with Arden third a further three points back. Also, Ian Munro won the award for Best Colour Print – Humour for ‘The Irony of Ironing‘.
Some 52 Clubs entered the Open Competition and 30 entered the Nature Competition.
Well done to them!
Jenny & Leigh go on the list
The WPF Executive would like to congratulate Leigh Woolford and Jenny Hibbert who have now been officially accepted as PAGB judges. This means the WPF now have seven accredited PAGB judges. Leigh and Jenny will join the other five judges in the next PAGB Handbook.
2015 Celtic Challenge Results
Below are the result sheets for this year’s Celtic Challenge.
WPF Scores
The WPF finished 3rd from six. Out highest score was 19 for ‘The Storm Chase’ by Heidi Stewart of Gwynfa.
Well done Inn Focus
Congratulations on running Wigan 10 so close. It’s great to see a WPF club up there with the top clubs. It won’t be long before a Welsh club is the top of the tree.
Your club has again done us proud and on behalf of myself and the WPF. Many many thanks and I look forward to you and your members reaching the pinnacle of the best of British photography.
Once congratulations on your achievements.
Vince Penticost AWPF,
President of the WPF.