WPF Clubs on Twitter

We’ve noticed that a few W.P.F. clubs have Twitter feeds: @PTCamera (Port Talbot), @cardiffcamera, @barrycameraclub and @GwynfaCC. If you are on Twitter, why not give them a follow? Let us know if your club ‘tweets’!

Five made life members of Rhondda C.C.

Rhondda Camera Club have awarded Life Membership to five long serving members in recognition of their services to the Club, and the art of Photography. They are: Neville Cox LRPS, Edwin Gravell AWPF, Gerrard Jones, Jack King and Laurie Saurin. Each has served the Club in exhibitions, competitions and in executive and administrative positions. Between them they have recorded over 150 years of membership.

PAGB Distinctions for Seven

Seven WPF photographers achieved PAGB distinctions last weekend in North Wales. Hearty congratulations to them all.

CPAGBDennis Russ (Swansea), Linda Cowen (Neath & Dist) and Gillian Mackay (Tenby & Dist)
DPAGBJohn Cook (Western Valley), Malcolm Kingswell (Merthyr Tydfil), David Edwards (Neath & Dist) and Alan Jenkinson (Bridgend).

Heidi has a website!

Hot on the heels of husband Alec, Heidi Stewart is the latest Gwynfa member to open a website. It is full of her lovely photographs so why not pop along and have a look (and maybe leave a comment on her blog). Like Alec, Heidi used the free software available from weebly.com to create the site.

Alec Stewart has a new Website

Alec Stewart AWPF of Gwynfa Camera Club has a new website. Alec says “For as long as I can remember, I have had a passion for the natural world. To this day I am constantly amazed at the diversity and beauty that surrounds us every day. A walk along a canal towpath or through woodland becomes an exploration to seek out the fascinating and varied plant and animal life existing in these habitats”. Click on the kingfisher to visit the site and enjoy more of Alec’s photographs.

Congratulations to Ian Ledgard

Ian Ledgard has earned further recognition from the Photographic Society of America with the award of a Second Galaxy in the Colour Projected Image Division. He has also gained more stars from the Pictorial Print Division Monochrome section with First stars for both Large and Small prints.

Eight Join the AWPF Roll of Honour in 2011

Visitors view the panels.

The AWPF adjudications took place on the 13th November with eight of the 19 applicants (42%) achieving the distinction.

The judges (Kevin Thomas MA FRPS (Chair), John Chamberlain FRPS MFIAP APAGB, Roger Parry ARPS AFIAP Hon PAGB, Ann Davies EFIAP DPAGB and Leigh Woolford AWPF AFIAP) were treated to a wide variety of themes including wildlife, portature, documentary, landscape, sport and travel. Hearty congratulations to the succesful applicants and commiserations to those not successful. The distinction event was coordinated by Alan Shepherd APWF ARPS who did an remarkable job of making sure everything ran smoothly, and at his first attempt. Continue reading “Eight Join the AWPF Roll of Honour in 2011”