Category: PAGB

The PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit were recently hosted by the WPF in Neath. 116 applications from all over the UK were received and 65 were successful. Ten of those successes were for WPF photographers. Details below:-

Of 29 applications at DISTINCTION (DPAGB) PRINT level 11 were successful.
The sole WPF success was: Leigh Woolford AWPF EFIAP, Gwynfa CC

Of 15 applications at DISTINCTION (DPAGB) PDI level, 5 were successful.
The sole WPF success was: Matthew Jones, Ebbw Vale CC

Of 63 applications at CREDIT (CPAGB) PRINT level, 42 were successful.
The WPF successes were:
Moira Evans LRPS, Swansea CC
Gwynfryn Jones AFIAP, Gwynfa CC
Norman Lemon, Neath & District PS
Anthony Llewellyn, Morriston CC
David Norton AWPF, Rhondda CC
Peter Stickler ARPS AWPF, Swansea CC

Of 9 applications at CREDIT (CPAGB) PDI level, 7 were successful.
The WPF successes were:
Jason Chapman, Swansea CC
Gary Jenkins, Tenby & District CC

Only two clubs represented the WPF in the inaugural GB Trophy for Prints held in Pontefract. They were Swansea and the Inn Focus Group.

It was a decent day for Swansea who finished in the midfield in both the Open and Nature sections of the competition. However, the Inn Focus Group managed to carry off the Open trophy with a convincing win by seven points from Chorley PS with Arden third a further three points back. Also, Ian Munro won the award for Best Colour Print – Humour for ‘The Irony of Ironing‘.

Some 52 Clubs entered the Open Competition and 30 entered the Nature Competition.

Well done to them!

Full results here:  Nature    Open

The WPF Executive would like to congratulate Leigh Woolford and Jenny Hibbert who have now been officially accepted as PAGB judges. This means the WPF now have seven accredited PAGB judges. Leigh and Jenny will join the other five judges in the next PAGB Handbook.

Below are the result sheets for this year’s Celtic Challenge.

Results

WPF Scores

The WPF finished 3rd from six. Out highest score was 19 for ‘The Storm Chase’ by Heidi Stewart of Gwynfa.

Congratulations on running Wigan 10 so close. It’s great to see a WPF club up there with the top clubs. It won’t be long before a Welsh club is the top of the tree.

Your club has again done us proud and on behalf of myself and the WPF. Many many thanks and I look forward to you and your members reaching the pinnacle of the best of British photography.

Once congratulations on your achievements.

Vince Penticost AWPF,
President of the WPF.

The PAGB National PDI Championships at Warwick very nearly saw a first win for a Welsh club with the Inn Focus Group finishing the final round tied on 243 points with Wigan 10, three points ahead of the third placed club, Dumfries.

For a short while we thought they had won but the otherwise flawless team behind the scenes projected one incorrect image from Wigan 10 in the final round. The re-projection of the correct image got one more point than the one it replaced. This saw them move from 242 to 243. All above board or course but tantalising nonetheless.

Locked together the two teams headed in to a nail-biting tie break of five new photographs from five different photographers. The tension built – both clubs scored 13 (from 15) with their first image, then 12 each, then 12 each once more. It was the fourth image that saw Wigan sneak ahead 13 to 12. Ten each in the next round sealed the Wigan 10 win by a single point. Well done to them.

When presenting the Silver medal to Ian Munro of Inn Focus, Roy Thomas, former President of the WPF and now President of the PAGB, expressed his pride at their achievement. They also received quite an ovation for coming so close. Indeed it is probably fair to say that, in the great British underdog tradition, everyone other than Wigan 10 was rooting for Inn Focus. However, the team from up t’North proved to be a tough nut to crack yet again. They are multiple winners of this trophy which makes the Inn Focus effort all the more worthy.

The other WPF club, Gwynfa, had a midfield day but thoroughly enjoyed seeing they fellow WPF friends do so well and the Welsh contingent created quite an atmosphere.

Here are the full results and the awards.

Smethwick Photographic Society (265 points) were resounding winners of the final of the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships in Warwick on 12 July. They beat Wigan 10 (257 points) by a clear 8 points.

The WPF representatives were Tenby and Inn Focus. Inn Focus narrowly missed getting into the final round, finishing in joint 9th after two rounds. Both clubs progressed to the plate competition where Tenby were placed joint 24th and Inn Focus were joint 11th from 30 clubs.

Click the links to see the final results and the awards.

Here are all the results from the PAGB Inter-Federation Competition held at Talbot Green on Sunday, 8th June 2014.

Open Colour Print

Monochrome Print

Nature PDI

Open PDI

WPF Acceptances and Scores

At the recent PAGB Cup, four WPF members received individual recognition. Congratulations to them all.

In the open competition:
Best Imaginative – Mystery at Manor House by Matthew Jones of  Ebbw Vale Camera Club
Best Humour – The Irony Of Ironing by Ian Munro of Inn Focus Group
Chairman’s Award – King of the Islands by Coltrane Koh of Inn Focus Group

In the small clubs competition:
Best Landscape – Winter Tarn by Alan Jenkinson of Bridgend

Very well done to Rhondda who were top Welsh club in the recent PAGB Cup for small clubs. Welsh scores (both WPF and NWPA) were:

Rhondda Camera Club  119  4th=
Llandudno Photographic Society  119  4th=
Dwyfor Camera Club  112  8th=
Clwb Camera Caernarfon  108  16th=
Swansea Camera Club  107  18th=
Mold Camera Club  101  37th=
Conwy Camera Club  101  37th=
Bridgend  99  42nd= ***
Merthyr Tydfil Camera Club  98  48th=

Full results here.

*** Note, Bridgend were docked points and demoted to 42nd due to a member entering the same photograph at two clubs. We do not know how many points they were docked.

Other posts give info about the large club and nature competitions.