The winners of the March monthly open competition judged by Gary Shinner LRPS, MFIAP/b, MPSA, AWPF, BPSA were as follows:
1st – Nick ’21′ Jenkins - The Enchanted Forrest (Print) – see below
2nd – Gary Were - Fjiords End (Print)
3rd – Chris Lawrence - Shake It Off (DPI)
Below you can find a copy of the current merit table. Please report any inaccuracies to Geoff Howard.
Here are all the Gwynfa acceptances and awards for the 2019 Welsh Salon of Photography. We achieved 40 acceptances and 9 Awards.
Special mention must go to Lynda Beynon who got nine acceptances and three big awards. Wow!
Full list of Gwynfa acceptances here. All the other salon results can be seen here.
Well done to everyone who took part. It is not easy to get accepted in this event.
The Salon Exhibition this year is in the The Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare, CF44 8DL. It opens on May 1st and closes on May 31st. The official opening and awards presentations are on Saturday 4th May 2.00pm.
It proved to be a really good evening for Gwynfa at the 2019 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…..