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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
Leigh Woolford - 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.
Pontypridd Lido are organising a beginners photography course on 9th December. It will be held at the Lido.
It is free of charge but you need to book a place.
Full details here.
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).
Here’s a quick look at Heidi’s AWPF panel.
Pixels 2018, the 14th running of the competition, took place at Talbot Green Community Centre on Saturday 3rd November and was a very well attended and enjoyable competition.
It was a particularly good day for Tenby Camera Club who, with 77 points from a possible 80, were clear winners and became the first club to win the competition three times. They finished four points ahead of Afan Nedd (73 points). Inn Focus were third on 72 points. Top North Wales club were Deeside who finished fourth, tied with Gwynfa on 70 points.
Click here to see the final Pixels 2018 score sheet.
The Tenby photos were: ‘Go’ by Mike Cullis (19), ‘Loving Life’ by Al Rees (20), ‘Water Rail at Sunrise’ by Charlie Kidd (18) and ‘Newly Emerged Four Spot Chaser’ by Gary Jenkins (20). Click here to see them.
The judges were Phil Charnock (FRPS MFIAP) and Gwen Charnock (FRPS MFIAP) who kept the audience entertained with their inciteful critique, humourous comments and a little bit of marital bickering. They made the job of judging 164 images look easy and their entertaining approach meant that time flew.
Gwen & Phil selected ‘The Space Between Us‘ by Dan Muckle-Jones of Ruthin Camera Club as Best Monochrome Photograph and ‘Wild Fox cubs, Early Evening‘ by Jenny Hibbert of Bridgend & District Camera Club as Best Colour Photograph. Click the links to see the photographs. A further nine photos scored twenty points and were in contention for the awards. You can see them here.
Gwynfa Camera Club would like to thank everyone who attended the competition (we counted over 140 people) and all 41 clubs that entered. Without you, this event would not be possible.
We’d also like to thank very much indeed everyone who supported the event by buying raffle tickets as this is a significant part of helping us to finance the event. Huge thanks to all those who donated such amazing raffle prizes especially Fotospeed, Permajet and Carmarthen Cameras. Also special thanks to Crystal Vision Locks and Trophies for providing the Pixels Trophies and to Fun Fillings & Valley Catering for providing such a tasty (and plentiful) buffet.
We also wish to thank everyone from Gwynfa who helped to organise and run Pixels 2018. It was a real team effort.
A slideshow of all the photographs entered can be seen below.
Huge congratulations to Heidi Stewart and Gary Welsby who have gained their AWPF awards.
Heidi’s successful panel of 12 prints was entitled ‘Land & Water’ and Gary’s was ‘British Butterflies’.
Huge congratulations to Chris Tidman who has just achieved here EFIAP Award (Federation Internationale de l’Art Photographic – Excellence).
To achieve this you have to have at least 250 photos accepted in at least 30 photographic salons over 20 countries with at least 50 different photos.
Some of Chris’ Gwynfa images can be seen below.
Congratulations to Gwynfryn Jones who has just had a print accepted in the prestigious PAGB Masters of Print exhibition, which will be showing at the RK Burt Gallery, London, from the 4th to 14th December. His successful print “Not a Good Day for Umbrellas” can be seen below.
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