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Entries are now being accepted for Pixels 2019 which takes place on Saturday, November 2nd in Talbot Green Community Centre.
The entry deadline is 13th October, 2019 but we would appreciate receiving your entries sooner if possible.
All the information your club needs to enter is contained in the following forms.
September 5th, our first week back after our summer break sees the long awaited visit of award winning photographer Verity Milligan with her talk entitled ‘Light on the Land’. Guests are most welcome to attend (Entry £5 to non members including tea & biscuits).
Verity is an a multi award-winning professional photographer working out of Birmingham. She was commended in Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2015, 2016 and 2017; Commended in Outdoor Photographer of the Year in 2016 and commended in Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2016. She has had various solo exhibitions and has also been featured in numerous publication including Practical Photography, the Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Birmingham Post and has featured on both ITV and the BBC.
Please note, Verity’s talk is one week earlier than your handbook states. Photo harmony is now Sept 12th.
The website for the 41st Welsh International is now open for entries from photographers all over the world. Gwynfa members have achieved great success in our ‘home’ international salon in the past and we urge you to take part.
You may enter both Prints and PDIs and there are six sections and 155 awards up for grabs. Acceptances will count towards distinctions with FIAP, PSA and GPU.
The rules can be viewed HERE and are repeated throughout the entry website which can be reached by clicking HERE.
All entrants will receive a high quality catalogue and there is an opportunity to buy a DVD of every acceptance.
A showing of the awards and best of the Salon acceptances will be held at Gwynfa on 21st November, 2019.
A number of Gwynfa members provide talks to clubs and societies so we thought we’d tell you who they are and what talks they provide. List below. If you are interested in having any of them speak to your club, please contact them directly. More details below….
It was a really close run thing at Jeff’s Quiz yesterday evening. The winning team trailed by one point going into the final round but ‘musicals’ proved to be the nemesis of their nearest challengers, the Stendoncs.
1. Everards 50
2. Stendoncs 46
2. Castilles 46
2. Hales 46
5. Orvals 44
Below, Val collects the trophy from Jeff.
PS. Don’t mention Birds Eye.
A Medieval Fayre will take place on the Castle Green in Llantrisant on the 24th and 25th of August. It celebrates the opening of the Guildhall.
Peter Corbett of Master-Print (also a member of Hay Camera Club) is offering a digital printing workshop on September 21/22.
Master-Print also offers a fine art photo printing service.
Full details can be found on his website.
We have updated our calendar.
Thursday 5th September is now Verity Milligan.
Thursday 12th September is the Member’s Photo Harmony Evening.
Full details will be circulated in due course.
The WPF finished fairly low down in the order but WPF club members we did achieve some individual successes.Leigh Woolford and Gwynfryn Jones both had images chosen for the exhibition (which will be coming to Maesteg Library in October).
The overall results can be seen here. Further details can be found in this edition of PAGB e-news.
Full WPF scores can be seen below:-
Mono Prints Colour Prints PDI Open PDI Nature
Three WPF workers will have mono prints in the exhibition. They are:-
Gillian Mackay (Tenby) – The Last Tram
Leigh Woolford (Gwynfa) – The White Hut
Nick Craddock (The Vale) – London Experience
Three WPF workers will have colour prints in the exhibition. They are:-
Gareth Martin (Afan Nedd) – In Need of a Wash
Gillian Mackay (Tenby) – Looking Out
Jenny Hibbert (Bridgend) – Water Vole About To Enter Water
Two WPF workers will have Open PDIs in the exhibition. They are:-
Dave Lewis (Tenby) – Catch Me If You Can
Gwynfryn Jones (Gwynfa) – Mean Street
Four WPF workers will have Nature PDIs in the exhibition. They are:-
Dave Rees (Western Valley) – Crested Tit
Dave Edwards (Neath) – Lynx on the Skyline
Neil Thomas (Afan Nedd) – Cukoo with Caterpillar
Phil Morgan (Inn Focus) achieved a PDIs Judge’s Award for:- Red Throated Diver.
Congratulations to them all.
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