Entries Invited for the 2025 Barrian Cup
Barry Camera Club are pleased to announce that they will be running the Barrian Cup event once again in June 2025.
They invite your club to participate and hope that you will join them on Saturday 7th June 2025 where once again clubs can meet to enjoy each other’s photography, friendship and healthy competition.
They are delighted to confirm that Gareth Martin will be the judge this year, so it promises to be another entertaining event.
All the entry details and how to pay can be accessed here and the entry form can be downloaded directly from either of the links below:
The closing date for entries is Saturday 10th May 2025.
Results of the 2024 Barrian Cup
We’ve received this from Barry Camera Club….
Thank you so much for all your entries into the Barrian Cup this year. The feedback I have received has shown it to be another very successful year, which is due to your involvement and support of this event. As a Club we treasure that support and the opportunity to meet with old and new friends, thank you.
2023 Barrian Cup Results
Barry Camera Club Host Yet Another Very Successful Barrian Cup.
On Saturday 10 June, Barry Camera Club hosted its 25th Barrian Cup: a prestigious annual event where camera clubs and photographic societies from all over Wales and the West of England come to Barry to compete for this annual competition of printed photographic images.
2022 Barrian Cup Won by Gwynfa
Gwynfa Camera Club has won the 2022 Barrian Cup by one point from Afan Need and Tenby who finished joint second. Hay & Thornbury were joint third on 90 points.
2019 Barrian Cup Results
We’ve received this from Roy Carr at Barry.
Congratulations to the ISO Group who won this year’s edition of the Barrian Cup, scoring 90 points out of a possible 100. Gwynfa came second with 87 and Inn Focus third with 86. All the scores can be seen here.
2018 Barrian Cup Won by Inn Focus
The Barrian Cup was won by The Inn Focus Group (95 points) with Tenby second (92 points) and Gwynfa third (88 points).
Angela De Roy Jones of Gwent won the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for Best Landscape/Seascape with Deganwy Winter Walk and Coltrane Koh won the inaugural Mike Lewis Trophy for the Best Print in Competition with Settle Down.
The award winning photos can be seen below together with judge John Tilsley presenting Tom Dee from Inn Focus with the Barrian Cup and Jay, Mike’s daughter, presenting the Mike Lewis Trophy which was accepted on Angela’s behalf by Tom as no one from Gwent Photographic Society was present.
The full score sheet can be seen here.
2017 Barrian Cup Club Results
The 2017 Barrian Cup was won by Inn Focus.
In joint 3rd place were Afan Nedd Camera Club and Barry Camera Club with 80 points, in second place was Thornbury Camera Club with 84 points, and in 1st place was Inn Focus Group with 90 points.
The judge for the day was Leigh Preston FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP.
The scoresheet can be downloaded here.
Barrian Cup 2016 Results
It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions. Continue reading “Barrian Cup 2016 Results”
Barrian Cup 2016 Results
It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions.
Competition was close with Cwmbran and The Vale on 90 points with Bridgend and Cymru Mono sharing 3rd place with 92 points, in second place with 93 was Inn Focus but in 1st place with 96 points the winner of the Barrian Cup was Gwynfa CC.
Gareth Martin won the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the best Landscape Seascape print for the second year running. Congratulations to the winners.
We would like to thank all clubs for entering and a big thank you to all the members who turned up on the day and made this years Barrian Cup a great success.
We would like to apologise for the mix up with the Raffle and will be giving a free raffle ticket to members attending next year.
Regards
Mike Lewis Hon. FWPF
Chairman Barry Camera Club