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The Winter Exhibition is currently on at the Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre.
It ends on 15th February but that day may be disrupted by the removal of the prints.
Please note, as Garth Olwg were unable to set up their projector for several days at the start of the exhibition we have arranged for the DPIs to be shown for a further two weeks, ending on 1st March.
If you are unable to attend the exhibition, the results will be announced in our Winter Exhibition evening on April 4th.
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.
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…..
The 2019 Welsh Salon is now open to receive entries. You can enter here.
We have prepared some notes on how to enter and you can read them here. Please read them in conjunction with the official conditions of entry (see below).
You can find the new conditions of entry here. Please read them carefully. Please note, there are new file sizes for digital entries and for digital versions of your prints.
The Salon is open to any member of a WPF or NWPA affiliated club and there are numerous prizes and awards on offer.
Although the official deadline is March 3rd please bring your print entries to Gwynfa on Thursday February, 28th and we will transport them to the WPF on your behalf. (You can deliver them in person to the WPF AGM if you prefer).
The selection dates are the 23rd and 24th March, 2019 at Talbot Green Community Centre and our selectors are Vince Penticost, Mike Cullis and Paul Keene. Detail of the exhibition dates and venue will follow in due course.
We encourage you all to have a go at entering the 2019 Welsh Salon as Gwynfa has a rich history of acceptances and awards. A list of all the awards from last year’s salon can be seen here. Gwynfa did very well.
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.
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.
Gwynfa finished second in the 2018 Rhondda battle which was judged by Tony Byram ARPS AWPF DPAGB EFIAP of Kingswood PS.
The final placings were: Rhondda (109), Gwynfa (105), Pyle & Porthcawl (105), Afan Nedd (103), Bridgend (103), Cyrmu Mono (101), Port Talbot (99), Western Valley (95) and Aberdare (90).
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