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Here are the results from the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick on Saturday 16th July. (Revised on 25th July).

Overall Results and Awards      Final Scores

Congratulations to all three WPF Clubs that took part: –

Inn Focus came 3rd in the final, noth 4th as previously reported. They were moved up one placed when a scoring error with another club was reported.

Tenby and District came joint 5th in the Plate with 99 points and Gwynfa who came 15th with 95 points!

Well done everybody for representing yourselves and the WPF so well – pretty good considering there were 39 Clubs taking part!

Inn Focus Group and Gwynfa have finished 4th and 6th respectively in the GB Cup for large clubs from the 95 clubs that entered.

Inn Focus were top WPF club beating Gwynfa by just three points but both finished above some of the most prestigious clubs in the UK, including Wigan 10, Edinburgh and Dumfries.

Gwynfa also finished 20th (out of 96 clubs) in the GB Cup for Nature.

The final placings can be found here. Well done both!

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.