The Welsh Photographic Federation
Undeb Ffotograffig Cymru
Tickets are now available through the CES for the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship which will be held in the Croston Theatre at the Westholme School, Blackburn, on Saturday 21 Oct. 2023. The ticket price is only £10 for a day full of excellent prints from the leading clubs in the UK, the opportunity to take part in a raffle with over £2,000 worth of prizes and the chance for bargains from the sponsor trade stands which accompany the competition. Click on the picture for more information.
Congratulations to Neil Holman of Afan Nedd CC who came second in the Country Walking magazine Outdoor Photographer of the Year Competition with the image below.
The WPF Convention Trophy Shield has been reclaimed by Dennis Russ for the fifth time. Dennis also won 4 packs of printing papers donated by Fotospeed.
Dennis’ print was selected by Bill Ward, one of the guest speakers at the Convention. Thanks to Jeff Howe for the photo below.
Aberdare Camera Club are pleased to announce the Stanley Chell 2023 Competition which will be held in the comfortable and spacious Cynon Linc in the centre of Aberdare on the afternoon of Saturday 25th November at 2.00pm.
Your Club is invited to submit an entry of 4 prints in either monochrome, colour or any combination of both, Maximum frame size 50cm x 40cm. Only 1 print per member allowed and must not have been entered in a previous Stanley Chell Competition. Our aim is to encourage new work as much as possible. We will ask an entry fee of £15 to cover our expenses. The closing date for entries is Saturday 4th November.
Here is the entry form: WORD PDF
The judge will be Peter Weaver LRPS, CPAGB, APAGB from Bristol.
This was a very successful competition when we held it last year. I am sure that this year it will be even better, and I look forward to receiving your entry, and meeting you on the day.
Martin Nagle
Competition Secretary,
Aberdare Camera Club.
Watch out for those tired old ‘substitution’ email scams, they are doing the rounds again.
What happens is that you get an email from someone pretending to be an officer of your club or your Federation and they are asking you for some kind of help, financial of course. The latest one targetted our Federation President.
Note, emails are not being hacked. They just pretend to be someone else by covering up the actual send email. The latest emails came from mailing79joo@gmail.com but a name familiar to you is being used to disguise that bit.
Report all such emails by forwarding them to: report@phishing.gov.uk
Ron Lines recently published some advice in the WPF Facebook Group for any WPF members thinking about going for any of the FIAP Distinctions so we thought we’d reproduce it here.
Does anyone have a completed FIAP distinction application? I’ll be closing the books for this year’s applications soon.
The PAGB has produced a discussion document on the use of AI in Club photography. You can read it here.
On-line entry System NOW OPEN
3 Print Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature.
Prints can be forwarded to Southampton International
3 Projected Image Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature,
Over 210 Medals and Ribbons to be won.
Patronage: PSA 2023-543, FIAP 2023-579, GPU L230140, PAGB 2023-031
Low entry Fees. Only pay for each section entered. 68 Page A4 Colour Catalogue to each entrant.
Rules Here Enter at: www.SmethwickInternational.com