Undeb Ffotograffig Cymru
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The WPF Memorial Trophies
21st February 2026
80th Bristol Salon open for entries.
Closing date 1st February.
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Entries are now invited for the 2026 Memorial Trophy competitions which will take place at Dingestow Village Hall. Nr Monmouth on Saturday 21st February 2026. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The closing date for your entries is 15 February 2026 and all the information you need can be found in the attachments below.
The 80th Bristol Salon is open for entries, closing date 1st February 2026.Â
Colour, Mono, and Nature sections in both PRINT and PDI. Prints can be forwarded to the Midland Salon. Entry via the Salon website at https://bristolsalon.co.uk
We expect to make 200 + awards, would appreciate your support, and look forward to receiving your entries.
Busy Day Sacre Coeur
Like many of you I have thousands of images stored on a number of external hard drives and yes, even on CD’s ! Recently I have been looking through some of these and discovering that some captures which I have overlooked, but not sent to the recycle bin, that are worthy of further work. This often because over the 20 plus years since I started digital photography with Photoshop 5.5 massive improvements have been made and so many more useful plug-ins and alternative systems are available for us to use.
This image was taken 10 years ago when we spent a few days in Paris. I was using a Nikon V1 camera converted to Infra red with exposure 1/800 sec, f5, ISO 200. Bringing it in to my current version of Photoshop I was able to apply a few tweaks especially to darken the sky. I entered this into the Photo Travel section of a PSA recognised Salon in Bangladesh where it scored top points and was awarded a Gold medal. The image was also accepted in the 2025 PSA International.
So, do you have gold lurking away in folders on your hard drives. I recommend having a look through and see what you can find you may be pleasantly surprised.
Ian Ledgard, GPMSA/b
Below is the list of people who achieved PSA successes from July 2025Â to the end of October 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 also go to their website. Good luck to everyone with their photographic journeys.
I wish ‘everyone’ reading this letter, Compliments of the Festive Season, and also a happy, healthy & prosperous New Year in 2026.
The Grand Opening of the Ninth Masters of Print takes place on Saturday 7 February 2026 at St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham from 1.00pm, with a formal opening at 2.00pm.
WPF Presidents Quarterly Update. As a result of comments received, this is now also available in larger text here.
We have this week received sad news from Rhondda Camera Club of the passing of one of their past president and well respected elder statesmen, Laurence Saurin (known to all as Laurie).
Laurie served Rhondda Camera Club for many years as president and was well known by many for his services as a proud Welsh Guardsman and protector of the Royal family. One of his many claims to fame was that he was the first guardsman to model for Queen Elizabeth 11 the guardsman’s fur hat, commonly known as the Busby, which is still worn with pride.
He was a true gentleman who will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
Laurie’s funeral will take place at Glyntaff Crematorium, Pontypridd at 1:00pm. on Monday 15th December, 2025 for those wishing to pay their respects.
Club registration and data forms have been sent to the Secretaries of all WPF clubs. If you have not received them, lease contact Dave Condon by emailing treasurer@thewpf.co.uk.
Here are copies of the documents:
Congratulations to all those who achieved their AWPF distinction as the recent Assessment day. You can see a list here.
The WPF Executive wish to extend a huge thank you David Lewis who has now stepped down as AWPF distinction Co-ordinator after many years service.