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.
Inn Focus win 2016 Stanley Chell
Aberdare  Camera club once again provided a warm welcome and a very enjoyable afternoon for the 2016 Stanley Chell competition.
Congratulations go to the Inn Focus Group who came away with a well-deserved win closely followed by Ebbw Vale camera club with Gwynfa in third place.
21 clubs took part with 88 top quality prints being shown. The judge, Rob Mitchell, MA Photography kept everyone entertained providing a thorough and concise critique.
Results        Full Scores
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:
Pixels 2016 Results – The Battle of the Vales
Pixels 2016 took place at Talbot Green Community Centre on Saturday 5th November 2016 and was a tense and exciting but low scoring affair. It was a particularly good day if you have the word ‘Vale’ in your club name. The Vale Photographic Club (69 points) were very narrow winners ahead of Ebbw Vale Camera Club (with 67 points).
The Vale photos were: Cycle Racing by Paul Tromans (15), Aim by Terry Verrinder (20), Male Shelducks Fighting by Nick Craddock (16) and Not Me Ref by Mike Davies (18). Click on the links to see the photographs.
Third place went was shared by three clubs on 65 points, Cwmbran, Tenby & Gwynfa.
The judge was David LOWE ARPS DPAGB from Smethwick PS who gave an excellent critique of all the entries. He was concise, humorous and informative. David also selected Red Fox in Snow by Andy Teesdale of Clwb Camera Caernarfon as Best Monochrome Photograph and Not Giving Up by Huw Fairclough of Ebbw Vale Camera Club as Best Colour Photograph.
Gwynfa Camera Club would like to thank everyone who attended the competition and all the clubs who entered. Without you, this would not be possible.
Click here to see the final Pixels 2016 score sheet.
We also wish to thank everyone from team Gwynfa who helped out on the day and Christine Langford for her help in publicising the even to the NWPA clubs.
Huge thanks also to caterers ‘The Old Bakery, Llantrisant’, and all those who donated raffle prizes including Fotospeed, Permajet and Crystal Vision Locks and Trophies (who donated a lovely tankard presented to David Lowe and provided the beautiful Pixels Trophies).
A slideshow of all the photographs entered can be seen below.
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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.
2016 Celtic Challenge Results
The WPF hosted the annual Celtic Challenge Competition at the Glamorgan Holiday Hotel Porthcawl recently. Visitors from 5 of the Federations who competed enjoyed an abundance of splendid photography, and a masterclass in how to judge a competition by Martin Fry FRPS, APAGB, AFIAP, AV-AFIAP. The Republic of Ireland won the Competition, and won 2 of the “Best in” awards, for colour print and projected image.
It was generally agreed that the event was a great success and well put together. Every print was projected on to a large screen through Live View so everyone could see them in detail, and the projected images were displayed using DiCentra which put titles and scores on screen.
In the evening we enjoyed a splendid 4 course meal at the Hotel and welcomed Madeline Moon MP as a special guest. The Meal was preceded by entertainment by the Morlais Male Choir.
Here are the overall results and here are the individual results for monochrome prints, colour prints and PDI’s.
The photograph below shwos Vittorio Silvestri, President Northern Ireland Photographic Federation, receiving the Celtic Challenge Trophy from Madeline Moon MP on behalf of the Irish Photographic Federation
Martin Nagle (CELO)
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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