Pembrey & Burry Port Open Day

On Saturday 7 Sept, Pembrey & Burry Port Photographic Society will be holding an open day when you are invited to come along and see what we as a club have to offer.

There will be a small exhibition of prints and a projection of images from 2023/24. Tea and coffee will also be available together with the opportunity to meet and speak to some of the members.

It will be held at our regular meeting venue in Hermon Chapel, Pembrey between 10am and 4pm.

Everyone welcome.

50th Smethwick Golden Jubilee International NOW OPEN

Closing date: 4th November 2024.

3 Print Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome & Nature. (Prints can be forwarded to Southampton International).
3 Projected Image Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome & Nature.

Over 200 Medals and Ribbons to be won with a 68-page A4 Colour Catalogue to each entrant. Patronage: PSA 2024-1416, FIAP 2024-537, GPU l240102, PAGB 2025-009

On-line entry system here. Rules here.
Low entry fees (only pay for each section entered).

Malcolm Downes Exhibition

Malcolm Downes of Barry Camera Club is holding his first ever Exhibition at the Art Central Gallery in Barry. It opens Saturday 17th August and runs until 14th September.

WPF Conference – Book Now

WPF Conference – Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September, 2024, Heronston Hotel, Bridgend. CF35 5AW.

The Convention Brochure can be seen here.

Reserve tickets by emailing convention@thewpf.co.uk and pay by bank transfer to our account:

Name  of Account  Welsh Photographic Federation
Bank Name  HSBC
Sort Code  401323
Account Number  12320800

Other forms of payment available if needed.

Please put your name or initials in the comment box together with ticket type (in BOLD below):

* Weekend  (both Saturday & Sunday) WEND (£35)
* Day ticket  (Saturday) SATD (£20)
* Day Ticket (Sunday) SUND (£20)
* Session Ticket (Saturday Morning) SATM (£15)
* Session Ticket (Saturday Afternoon) SATA (£15)
* Session Ticket (Sunday Morning) SUNM (£15)
* Session Ticket (Sunday Afternoon) SUNA (£15)

On the day / at the door purchase of tickets by cash only. Tickets will be issued on arrival at the Conference.

Vince Penticost AWPF FWPF

We are very sad to report the passing of Vince Penticost who passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of July 10th. He will be sadly missed.

Vince was a well-respected club member who was well known across the camera clubs of South Wales as a presenter and judge.

He served as chairman of Western Valley Camera Club for a total of 23 years (1997-99, 2002-2007, 2009-2021 and 2024).

He also served on the WPF Committee and was President between 2015 and 2017 and as Past President until 2019.

He was particularly known for his sense of fun and good humour. The author of this post particularly remembers him coming to Gwynfa to judge a ‘match-a-slide’ competition dressed in his full referee kit, complete with yellow and red cards.

We’ll let you have the funeral arrangements when we know them.

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.

Continue reading “Results of the 2024 Barrian Cup”

Important Notice about email scams

Watch out for those tired old ‘substitution’ email scams, they are doing the rounds again.

What happens is that you get an email from someone pretending to be an officer of your club or your Federation and they are asking you for some kind of help, financial of course. The latest one targetted our Federation President.

Note, emails are not being hacked. They just pretend to be someone else by covering up the actual send email. The latest emails came from mailing79joo@gmail.com but a name familiar to you is being used to disguise that bit.

Report all such emails by forwarding them to:  report@phishing.gov.uk