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An AWPF distinction workshop is being held on Sunday 28th April at Talbot Green Community Centre starting at 10 am.
This event is open to anyone interested in applying for the distinction of Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation.
There is no need to book just go along and get some valuable advice.
It proved to be a really good evening for Gwynfa at the 2018 RGB battle held at Rhondda Camera Club on 12th March. The final scores were Gwynfa 228, Barry 217 and Rhondda 216.
Judge Roy Thomas awarded no less than five of our photographs the maximum 20 points and none of our entries scored less than 17.
Thanks to all those who attended the evening and special thanks to Rhondda for their warm welcome and to Roy Thomas for his considered and interesting comments..
Also, congratulations to all photographers who were selected.
The winners of the February monthly open competition judged by John Ridgwell were as follows:
1st - Peter Hughes - Light on Brecon Beacons (DPI) – see below
2nd - Steve Littlewood - White Throat (Print)
3rd - Alan Shepherd - Boscastle Evening (Print)
The top three will go forward to our Picture of the Year competition in December.
All the scores can be seen below…..
Here are the results from the 2019 WPF Memorial Trophies. The judge was Martin Fry of Cheltenham who did an excellent job.
Past President’s Memorial Trophy – Colour Prints
1st= Bridgend & District (74)
1st= Inn Focus (74)
3rd Gwynfa (73)
4th Kidwelly (69)
Gwyn Morgan Trophy for a set of four Mono Prints (only three places awarded).
1st Inn Focus
2nd Abergavenny
3rd Swansea
Walter Morgan Trophy for PDI images
1st Inn Focus (75)
2nd Western Valley (71)
3rd Afan Nedd (70)
4th Gwynfa (69)
The winners of the January monthly open competition judged by Keith Sharples of Mounmouth were as follows:
1st – Chris Lawrence – Out of the Shadows (DPI) – see below
2nd – Dave Lingham – Nine Wells Bay (Print)
3rd – Neil West – It’s our ball (DPI)
The top three will go forward to our Picture of the Year competition in December.
Sorry we were unable to run the competition in club due to the adverse weather forecast.
All the scores can be seen below…..
Neath and District PS are again running their popular National Photographic Salon which will open for entries on 01st February 2019 with a closing date of the 21st April 2019.
The salon which is approved by British Photographic Exhibitions (BPE) and also has PAGB Patronage will have four sections. Open Colour, Open Mono, Nature and Creative. The Selectors for the event will be Brian Coleman AFIAP, AWPF, FWPF, Leo Rich ARPS, DPAGB, Hon PAGB, EFIAPg,BPE3* and Brian Swinyard MA (Photography), ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAPb, PSA, BPE3* Minst.M.Mifl
Entry fees for the salon will be £10 for the first section and £2 for each additional section with PAGB and NDPS gold, silver and bronze medals, ribbons and certificates, plus an overall trophy being awarded.
Entries can be made through the club website.
Thanks to Edgar Gibbs for forwarding this link to a company that runs photo experience days. Some of you may be interested in attending.
Full details here.
The 2018 Gwynfa Photographer of the Year is Leigh Wooford with a total of 209 points from his eleven scores.
Alec Stewart was runner up with 200 points. Third was Rob Greenhill (198), fourth was Chris Tidman (193) and fifth was Val Shepherd (191).
The full merit table for 2018 can be seen here.
Below are Leigh’s 2018 entries.
The 2018 Picture of the Year was won by Alec Stewart with his photo entitled ‘Kingfisher Pair‘. This photograph will appear on the front of our 2019 handbook.
The runner up was ‘Velma and the Mystery Case‘ by Rob Greenhill. The photo will appear on the greetings card we present to judges and lecturers.
Below is a list of the top 5 photographs in each section.
Prints
1. Kingfisher Pair by Alec Stewart (8 first place votes/5 second places).
2. Rannoch Morning Light by Leigh Woolford (8 first place votes/3 second places).
3. Dancer in the Moonlight by Gwynfryn Jones (8 first place votes/2 second places).
4. Godafoss Sunset by Leigh Woolford (5 first place votes/5 second places).
5. Meditation by Alan Shepherd (3 first place votes/2 second places).
DPI
1. Velma & the Mystery Case by Rob Greenhill (6 first place votes/7 second places).
2. Jetstream by Mike Jones (5 first place votes/3 second places).
3. Mother & Baby by Alec Stewart (5 first place votes/2 second places).
4. Mirror of the Soul by Mark Ashford (5 first place votes/1 second places).
5. Serenity by Cathy Coombs (4 first place votes/8 second places).
Congratulations to everyone who had a photograph that qualified for our ‘Picture of the Year’ competition.
The following awards were also presented during our ‘Picture of the Year’ evening.
Chris Tidman - Special Merit Award for achieving her EFIAP and CPAGB.
Heidi Stewart - Special Merit Award for achieving her AWPF.
Gary Welsby - Special Merit Award for achieving his AWPF.
Gary Welsby – The Colour Challenge Trophy
Gwynfryn Jones - The Colin Williams Trophy / Monochrome Challenge
Rob Beynon - The Freespirit Images Shield
Leigh Woolford - The President’s Trophy
Alan Shepherd – The Jim Davies Trophy
Dave Lingham - Monthly Trophy – January
Gill Jones - Monthly Trophy – February
Alec Stewart - Monthly Trophy – March
Leigh Woolford - Monthly Trophy – May
Chris Lawrence - Monthly Trophy – September
Gwynfryn Jones - Monthly Trophy – October
Please accept our apologies but due to a technical issue we don’t have any photos to show you.
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