Gwynfa’s summer Print Exhibition will be held at Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre, St. Illtyds Rd, Church Village, Pontypridd CF38 1RQ from 22nd July to 7th August.
Note: it is not open on weekends. Opening hours are as follows:
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 2025 edition of the Barrian Cup was a great success with a good turn-out and some excellent prints. Barry CC have asked us to thank all those clubs who entered and everyone who attended for making it such a great event.
The Barrian Cup Trophy was jointly won by Bridgend and Monmouth with 97 points each, the first ever joint winners in the history of the event. Rhondda finished a close third on 96.
Congratulations to the winners of the Dave Cowdrey Trophy (Tony France of Rhondda) and the Mike Lewis Cup (Emma Woodhouse of RPC). It was a pleasure to have Dave Cowdrey’s daughter Karen ‘Kaz’ Cowdrey present her Dad’s award.
The event was judged by Gareth Martin AWPF CPAGB and his individual scores can be seen here.
Finally in recognition of the contribution from Barry Town Council, a big thank from Barry CC goes to the Barry Town Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor Dennis Clarke and his wife Janet who kindly opened and closed the event.
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 seenhere.
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.
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/
The winning club in the recent ‘Only Mono’ battle organised by Cymru Mono was Britol with 79 points. Second was Hailsham and joint third were Eryri, Maldon & Bridgend.
