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2026 WPF Convention 26th September
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We’ve received this from Margaret Jones of New Quay Camera Club….
New Quay Camera Club has always supported the WPF to the best of our ability. Distance to any event is always a problem. Some of our members were able to visit the Welsh Salon Exhibition this year and were proud to be able to see our members’ accepted prints on display among all the other superb images.
Four members entered this year and had nine acceptances including two awards. We celebrated their achievements in our club room and invited our long standing, twice past town mayor, Jennifer Davies to present them:
First time entrant Simon Harding won a Judge’s Award for his Pdi “Carreg Ddu Milky Way” and Colin Price AWPF EFIAP PPSA received a WPF Ribbon for for his print “Frosty Boardwalk”
We are a small, very active photographic club and are always proud to play a small part in the WPF events whenever possible.Â
A grateful thanks to all those members who worked so hard to make the Welsh Salon such a success. A special thank you to David Condon who has been my main contact.
At the same time we congratulated ourselves on having an extremely successful 9 day exhibition. We had hundreds of pleasing complimentary comments and an added bonus was the sale of many prints and cards.Â
Margaret Jones EFIAPÂ (Chair)Â
PAGB APM November 2026 Adjudication – Colchester
Both Adjudication days for the APM Awards to be held in Colchester over the weekend of 28/29 November are now full. Future applications will be forwarded to the April 2027 Adjudication to be hosted by Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union on 24/25 April.
A reminder that an Audio Visual Adjudication will be held online on Sunday 20 September 2026 and spaces are still available.
The WPF has received the very sad news that Judith Parry has passed away.
Judith was an extraordinary servant to Smethwick Photographic Society, the PAGB and to photography in general in the United Kingdom. We cannot imagine the UK photography community without her.
Our thoughts and condolences go out to husband Roger and all Judith’s family and friends.
You can see the 2026 Barrian Cup results by clicking here.
Congratulations to Thornbury CC who achieved a clean sweep by taking all three trophies.
2026 PAGB Inter-Federation Competition & Exhibition
Our thanks go to Gareth Martin who, with me, selected 20 prints to be entered in each of three sections, mono, colour and nature, in this event. A list of the prints selected is here. (A corrected file was added on 2nd June 2026).
I have to submit our entry by 14 June and the judging takes place on 20 June. All being well, I shall be present.
There will be a further report following release of the official results.
Peter A Young CPAGB AFIAP HonPAGB
The 77th Midland Salon is now open. Online entries can be made at www.midland-salon.com. The closing date 22nd June 2026.
The Salon has FIAP, GPU & PAGB Patronage and sections for both Prints & Projected Images and has over 200 awards.
The six sections are:
Open monochrome prints
Open colour prints
Nature prints (new for 2026)
Open colour projected images
Open monochrome projected images
Nature projected images
All UK entrants will receive a 64-page colour catalogue and a digital catalogue will be sent to all entrants.
Various email scams seem to be doing the rounds again. They aren’t very sophisticated but some of you may not have seen them and be tempted to comply.
The emails will appear to come from someone you know, perhaps a fellow club member or someone from the WPF. (Note, those people haven’t been hacked. It is just someone emailing you from a random email address and changing it to make it look like it comes from the person you know).
If you reply, you’ll get a message something like the one shown below. This is a copy of an actual message received by a member of a Camera Club.
Report all such messages to report@phishing.gov.uk
Here are the results of the 2026 Welsh Salon of Photography.
All Acceptance by Club
All Awards
Colour Prints
Monochrome Prints
Open PDI
Phone PDI
The selectors were:
Gordon Jenkins Hon PAGB.
Susan Ashford ARPS, AWPF, CPAGB, EFIAP.
Gary Shinner LRPS, EFIAP/s, MPSA2, AWPF, BPSA, GAPU.
Congratulations to everyone who achieved an acceptance. To those who were unlucky, there were a lot of narrow misses so please try again next year.
