The 2026 Barrian Cup Entry Deadline May 7th
Barry Camera Club cordially invite your club to enter FIVE PRINTS for the 2026 Barrian Cup, together with the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for best Landscape/Seascape and the Mike Lewis Trophy for Best Print in Competition.
If you are going to the Welsh Salon opening on Saturday May 2nd, someone from Barry Camera Club will be there to collect your prints. Alternatively, you can contact Phil Stillman to arrange a drop off.
The event will take place at 2pm on Saturday 6th June 2026 at: St. Francis Millennium Hall, Porth-y-Castell, Barry CF62 6NX
Refreshments will be provided and Raffle tickets will be on sale.
Competition Rules:
1. The Competition shall be open to all invited clubs.
2. The Competition will take place on 6 June 2026 at Barry Camera Club.
3. Each club to submit five (5) PRINTS in monochrome or colour – or a mixture of both. The 5 images must include a minimum of one (1) and maximum of three (3) Landscapes or Seascapes.
4. No author is to be represented by more than one (1) image within the competition.
5. There will be an entry fee and clubs will be expected to arrange for the delivery of their images to the BCC Competition Secretary. Clubs will NOT be allowed to participate unless the entry fees have been paid.
6. The Barrian Cup will be awarded to the club with the highest aggregate score for its 5 images.
7. The Dave Cowdrey Trophy will be awarded to the author of the Best Landscape or Seascape image in the competition.
8. The Mike Lewis Trophy will be awarded for the best image in the show.
9. Trophies to be held for one year and then returned to Barry Camera Club.
10. Whilst every reasonable care will be taken by the organisers to avoid damage to, or loss of any entry, no liability will be accepted.
For further details contact Phil Stillman: barrycameraclub.compsec@gmail.com
Results from the 2025 Barrian Cup
The 2025 edition of the Barrian Cup was a great success with a good turn-out and some excellent prints. Barry CC have asked us to thank all those clubs who entered and everyone who attended for making it such a great event.
The Barrian Cup Trophy was jointly won by Bridgend and Monmouth with 97 points each, the first ever joint winners in the history of the event. Rhondda finished a close third on 96.
Congratulations to the winners of the Dave Cowdrey Trophy (Tony France of Rhondda) and the Mike Lewis Cup (Emma Woodhouse of RPC). It was a pleasure to have Dave Cowdrey’s daughter Karen ‘Kaz’ Cowdrey present her Dad’s award.
The event was judged by Gareth Martin AWPF CPAGB and his individual scores can be seen here.
Finally in recognition of the contribution from Barry Town Council, a big thank from Barry CC goes to the Barry Town Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor Dennis Clarke and his wife Janet who kindly opened and closed the event.
The 2025 Barrian Cup – 7th June
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.