Category: News (WPF)

Following on from the Crown Court`s verdict concerning Neil Jones on Friday 25th May, thus bringing to a positive conclusion 12 months of effort, the WPF Exec is thrilled to announce that we have some unexpected and wonderful news. Continue reading “Urgent news for clubs – we got the money back….”

The former treasurer of the Welsh Photographic Society, Mr. Neil Jones, has been sentenced for the theft of monies totalling approximately £16,500 from the society after pleading guilty to all charges brought against him. The honourable judge, justice John Curran said said that this was a serious breach of trust in taking the members subscription money for his own ends and his decision was to sentence Mr. Jones to 12 months, suspended for 2 years including 6 months on probation. He further said that Mr. Jones should not be relieved of his responsibility to repay the funds but realising his situation he was making an order that he should do so at a rate of £20 per week. Consequently, Mr Jones will have repaid the money he stole in around 16 years.

The WPF Exec would like to take this opportunity to thank all the clubs and their members for their generous and sympathetic support during what has been a very difficult couple of years.

If you are on this website looking for up to the minute information on a particular subject, the best place to look is in the ‘News Categories’ (which are listed on the lower right hand side of every page). Each category contains the latest posts on that subject. For example click on Competitions – Ace of Clubs and you will find posts containing dates, scores, photos etc. Continue reading “A Note on Website Navigation”

A dozen photographers have joined together to form a brand new club called Phoenix Imaging which hopes to focus on nurturing members to raise the standard of their individual photography. Meeting on a Wednesday evening, Phoenix intends to provide a programme which includes practical tuition and the sharing of expertise on a variety of photography software. (The society has use of computers at its premises). Also, rather than adopt the traditional ‘committee’ approach, members will be actively encouraged to take part in all discussions and decisions made. Continue reading “Phoenix – A new club”

We’ve noticed that a few W.P.F. clubs have Twitter feeds: @PTCamera (Port Talbot), @cardiffcamera, @barrycameraclub and @GwynfaCC. If you are on Twitter, why not give them a follow? Let us know if your club ‘tweets’!

Rhondda Camera Club have awarded Life Membership to five long serving members in recognition of their services to the Club, and the art of Photography. They are: Neville Cox LRPS, Edwin Gravell AWPF, Gerrard Jones, Jack King and Laurie Saurin. Each has served the Club in exhibitions, competitions and in executive and administrative positions. Between them they have recorded over 150 years of membership.

Nick Jenkins has a new book available. It is called “From Trickle to Torrent” and concentrates on his wonderful waterfall shots.

Hot on the heels of husband Alec, Heidi Stewart is the latest Gwynfa member to open a website. It is full of her lovely photographs so why not pop along and have a look (and maybe leave a comment on her blog). Like Alec, Heidi used the free software available from weebly.com to create the site.