The Inn Focus group feature in this month’s PAGB E-news. You can see it here.
Philippa Leaves for the Antipodes
Would all Club Programme and Competition Secretaries please note; Philippa Wood would like to thank everyone for their welcome to their clubs over many years. She is now relocating to South Australia from the beginning of 2013 and will no longer be able to accept bookings.
2012 Welsh International Acceptance List
Here you will find a complete list of acceptances in the 2012 Welsh International Salon. It is formatted by country and photographer so all your acceptances are in one place.
Hornbill Challenge 2012 Results & Acceptances
This just in from Neath P.S. Neath Photographic Society would like to thank everybody who entered the Hornbill Challenge 2012. The competition attracted a high quality of entrants and selecting the winners proved to be a difficult task for our judges. Neath Photographic Society would also like to thank Hornbill for sponsoring the competition and the judges for selecting the winning entries. The results of the 2102 Hornbill Challenge are here.
2012 Porthcawl Summer Competition Results
Alan Mason-Jones, Jenny Hibbert and Richard Craze took the spoils in the Porthcawl Summer Competition. Details were as follows: Continue reading “2012 Porthcawl Summer Competition Results”
Warwick 2012 Results
On Saturday the two clubs representing The WPF made history. Inn Focus scored really well in the first two rounds with a total of 203 for 16 images. To put this in perspective Wigan 10 the eventual trophy winners (again) scored 208. The final Trophy rounds which needed another 20 images (10 could be from the earlier rounds but 10 had to be new) gave them a final score of 246 for these images whereas Wigan 10 scored a total of 267 to take the trophy. Continue reading “Warwick 2012 Results”
Inn Focus & Tenby Fly the Flag at Warwick 2012
Inn Focus finished joint fifth in the final of the National DPI Championships at Warwick, a remarable effort being (we believe) the first ever WPF club to reach the final eight. Also Tenby won the plate final by 2 points. So effectively this means that Inn Focus were 5th and Tenby 9th out of the top 35 or so camera clubs in the UK. What a great day for the WPF clubs. More details to follow when we have them. Wigan 10 returned to winning ways after missing out last year.
2012 Barrian Cup Results
The Barrian Cup took place on Saturday 9th of June with around 100 people attending. It was opened by the Councillor Eric Hacker, Mayor of Glamorgan Council, who also presented the Barrian Cup. Mrs Heather Hacker presented the Dave Cowdrey Trophy. The judge for the day was Margaret Salisbury FRPS,APAGB,MFIAP who did an excellent job and was extremely entertaining. Winners were Gwynfa Camera Club with 87 points from Tenby & District CC and Aberdare CC (both 86) and Rhondda CC, Inn Focus and Barry CC (all on 85). Gwynfa’s winning prints were: ‘Yellow Dung Fly‘ by Bob Beynon (18), ‘Skogafoss Reflected‘ by Leigh Woolford (17), ‘Mug Shot‘ by Terry Donnelly (16), ‘Juvenile Kingfisher‘ by Alec Stewart (17) and ‘Bible Reading‘ by Margot Rowlands (19). The Dave Cowdry Trophy for the best Landscape Seascape print went to Brian Merry of Rhondda CC for his print entitled ‘Raw Power’. Well done to everyone who had a print selected to represent their club.
Mike Lewis wishes to thank the members who helped on the day and also to all the members who supplied the food and contributed to a very successful 2012 Barrian Cup and one that will be remembered for a long time.
Urgent news for clubs – we got the money back….
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….”
Neil Jones Sentenced
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.