President of Gwynfa Camera Club and past-President of the WPF, Kevin Thomas features in a You Tube video about the making of the RWAS Charity Calendar 2017.
You can see it here.
Congratulations Megan
Congratulations go to Megan Aherne of Caerphilly CC for achieving her LRPS distinction.
The PAGB Judges List
There have been a couple of queries as to what is required to become a PAGB judge. The first thing to decide is do you want to travel and judge in England and possibly further afield. Much of the judging in England is carried out ‘on-the-night’.
Here are main points taken from the PAGB website:
AWPF Results, 6th November 2016
A huge thank you goes out to all of this year’s judges Nick Jenkins (Chairman), Margaret Collis, Jenny Hibbert, David Lingham and Brian Coleman who were all greatly impressed by the fantastic standard of work presented for assessment this year.
Once again the work presented at Talbot Green Community Centre was amazing, which resulted in an 80% pass rate. There were 26 entries, 25 in prints and 1 DPI which resulted in 21 AWPF awards being achieved, 20 for print panels and 1 for DPI.
Many congratulations to the successful candidates, who were:
In Loving Memory of Jan Williams
It is with deep sadness that Western Valley Camera Club announces the passing of Jan Williams, one of our long standing members and a friend to all. Jan was indeed the backbone of our club and was dedicated to her role as our secretary, a dedication that she carried forward into her position with the Welsh Photographic Federation.
Jan was always there to provide help and support to anyone, she enjoyed nothing more than sharing her experience and knowledge with others but also took great pleasure in learning new skills from her fellow photographers.
Jan was enthusiastic, generous with her time and nothing was ever too much trouble. The space that she has left both in WVCC and the WPF will be very hard to fill but we will all be left with fond, happy memories of a lovely lady and a dear friend.
All of our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.
Jan’s funeral is on Wednesday 9th November, but the time has been changed to 12 o’clock at the Gwent Crematorium Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, NP44 2BZ.
Lampeter Convention – 2016
The Convention took place over the weekend of the 2nd to 4th of September at Trinity College, Lampeter. It was attended by 58 delegates from across South and West Wales who were entertained by 4 incredibly talented Photographers.
Putting this together with a number of trade stands, good company and good food made for a fabulous weekend.
If you didn’t attend you missed something special!
You can see photos from the event and details of the speakers here.
Welsh International 2016 Results
The Welsh International Salon was adjudicated on the 5th/6th/7th August.
A full list of acceptances can be seen as an Excel file here and as a PDF here.
A slideshow of award winning images can be seen below.
The selectors were:
Jan Cawley EFIAP/s Hon.FWPF (Wales)
Ian Ledgard EFIAP/s MPSA LRPS AWPF GPU-Cr4 (Wales)
Bill Hall AFIAP DPAGB ABPE (England)
Barry Mead FRPS EFIAP/p MPAGB APAGB (England)
Paul Keene FRPS EFIAP/p MFIAP MPAGB (England)
Leigh Woolford DPAGB EFIAP AWPF (Wales)
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2016 Welsh Salon Results
Here are the results of the 2016 Welsh Salon of Photography amended as at 30th May, 2016.
The Gwyn & Walter Morgan trophies (club awards) for Best Print Panel and Best PDI Panel both went to Inn Focus Group.
Oakdale becomes Sirhowy Valley PC
Oakdale PS has now changed its name to Sirhowy Valley Photography Club.
Amman Valley club activities on hold
We’ve received this sad news from Jackie Domingo at Amman Valley.
It is with great regret I have to announce that the Amman Valley Camera Club have suspended all Club activities for the remainder of this Season as from 13th January 2016. We dramatically lost most of our Membership and do not feel we can advertise or promote ourselves in order attract new members until we have safe and proper storage facilities on-site for our equipment at the Community Centre.
We have not finished as a Club, but hope this major issue can be resolved and we can start back in early September, picking up where we left off.