Undeb Ffotograffig Cymru
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.
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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It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions. Continue reading “Barrian Cup 2016 Results”
Welsh Photographic Federation Results – Please note, our overall score was taken from our top 10 scoring images. You can see a full list of individual scores here. Note, scores are out of 15.
Colour Print Section / 133 points / 4th Position / 13 accepted in exhibition
Mono Print Section / 122 points / = 8th Position / 2 accepted in exhibition
Open Digital Section / 130 points / = 6th Position / 9 accepted in exhibition
Nature Digital Section / 128 point / 10th Position / 6 accepted in exhibition
Well done to everyone whose images were entered.
Special congratulations to Nick Walton (Inn Focus) who got overall winner in the colour print section with The Numismatist and Coltrane Koh (Inn Focus) who won a Judges Choice Award in the same section with Pride and Joy. Also congratulations to Alan Jenkinson (Bridgend) for winning a PAGB Ribbon with Pen y Fan Resident.
The scores reveal a few interesting points.
We came 4th in the Colour Print section with score of 133 points. There were 3 clubs tied for 1st place with a score of 134. (Blast!!!!!!)
We came 6th in the Open Digital Competition but were only 4 points behind the winning Federation.
We have 30 acceptances in the exhibition compared to 10 last year, so we have really upped our game.
The exhibition will be in Arts Central Barry in October. I will let you have more details later.
As soon as I receive your prints from the organisers, I will get them back to you.
Regards,
Martin Nagle (CELO)
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!
It was an excellent day of photography. The judge for the day was Michael Krier ARPS, MA (photography) from the Cotswolds. He was one of the best judges we have had at the Barrian Cup he was concise and to the point and had something positive to say about all the prints. Having spoken to him during the day he said the photography was of a very high standard and a lot of the prints would gain awards and acceptances in international exhibitions.
Competition was close with Cwmbran and The Vale on 90 points with Bridgend and Cymru Mono sharing 3rd place with 92 points, in second place with 93 was Inn Focus but in 1st place with 96 points the winner of the Barrian Cup was Gwynfa CC.
Gareth Martin won the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the best Landscape Seascape print for the second year running. Congratulations to the winners.
We would like to thank all clubs for entering and a big thank you to all the members who turned up on the day and made this years Barrian Cup a great success.
We would like to apologise for the mix up with the Raffle and will be giving a free raffle ticket to members attending next year.
Regards
Mike Lewis Hon. FWPF
Chairman Barry Camera Club
This from John Campbell at Swansea.
Congratulations to Sue Ashford from Swansea Camera Club who was recommended for her LRPS at the recent RPS Assessment at Barry. Sue was one of only 4 out of 20 who passed.
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 PS has now changed its name to Sirhowy Valley Photography Club.
The judging for the 2016 5 to 8 Competition took place on Monday 14th March. Our judge, Malcolm Imhoff FRPS FACI(M), commented on the excellence of the sequences with a high standard of photography, good choice of music and excellent production. A close fought competition was decided as follows:
Winner
Searching for the Light – A Norwegian Quest by Jane and Stephen Lee (Dorchester)
Joint Runner Up
Reflections – a Feeling of Eternal Longing by Bill Bruce (Norway)
Wiseman’s Wood by Ian Bateman (Exemouth)
Joint Highly Commended
Winter Light at Waddesdon Manor by Ian Bateman (Exemouth)
Under Norfolk Skies by Brian Harvey (Norwich)
Commended
Colours of Spring by Malcolm Moorehead (Antrim)
Alpine Seasons by Malcolm and Jenny Gee (Norwich)
Bridgend CC would like to thank all who supported the evening and in particular the many members of the RPS South Wales AV group who attended.