Category: External Competitions

2022 Ace of Prints

Friday, 24 June 2022 09:30

The event will take place at Talbot Green Community Centre, Clos Springfield, Talbot Green, Pontyclun CF72 8FE on 3rd July at 10am. The proposed timetable is as follows:

1. Doors Open 10.00am (not 9am as previously suggested).
2. Team to Sequence 5 sets of prints by 10.30am
3. Judging 60 prints start at 10.30am
4. Judging complete by 11.00am
5. Tea, Coffee & Biscuits 11.00am
6. Clubs select their 15 second round prints by 11.30am
7. Team to Sequence second round prints by midday
8. Second round judging start midday
9. Complete before 1.00pm

The clubs taking part are:

Bridgend & Dist. CC
Gwent PS
Monmouth PC
Swansea CC
Tenby & Dist. CC

Gwynfa Wins RGB Battle 2022

Wednesday, 23 March 2022 10:34

Gwynfa won the 2022 RGB Battle hosted online by Rhondda CC on the 22nd March. The final scores were:

270 Gwynfa CC
254 Rhondda CC
232 Barry CC

Full scores can be seen here.

The judge, Roger Force FRPS DPAGB APAGB also chose ‘Freestyle Kyaking’ by Glenn Porter as his favourite image of the battle.

Thanks to Rhondda CC for organising and hosting this year. Barry CC will be next year’s hosts.

Gwynfa Wins the 2022 Ace of Clubs

Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:25

Gwynfa has won the 2022 Ace of Clubs and will be representing the WPF at Warwick in July, all being well.

We had a remarkably consistent set of scores, averaging 12.4 points (out of a maximum 15 points) over our thiry images, seventeen of which scored 13 and above. Fourteen different photographers were represented. Well done to everyone who had a photo selected.

A special mention to the very unlucky Glenn Porter who scored two maximum scores of 15 (two of only five genuine scores of 15 awarded in the entire competition).

Here are all the scores that were given during the competition.

Final scores (excluding the ‘upgraded’ scores) were:
Gwynfa 371
Tenby 361
Bridgend 354
Afan Nedd 353
Rhondda 352

The judges were Carol McNiven Young FRPS DPAGB EFIAP BPE4 (from N&EMPF); Barry Mead FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP/d3 (from WCPF); and Michael Krier ARPS MA(Photography) AFIAP (from MCPF).

Gwynfa does well in 2022 Memorial Trophies

Wednesday, 26 January 2022 09:57

At Sunday’s WPF Memorial Trophy event, 21 Clubs took part and up to 80 members attended the live zoom event. Gwynfa did very well in both the colour and the mono competitions, though our best result was in the colour. We finished 6th in Mono and joint 1st in colour, out of 21 clubs.

The Gwyn Morgan Trophy for Mono PDIs – Gwynfa finished joint sixth. The top places were: Tenby – 73, Rhondda 71, Neath 68, Gwent 67, Afan Nedd, 66, Gwynfa (and 3 other clubs) 66.

The Walter Morgan Trophy for Colour PDIs - Was won jointly by Gwynfa CC & Rhondda CC. The top places were: Gwynfa & Rhondda 77, Bridgend 75 and Cardigan & Cwmbran both on 71. Gwynfryn Jones (Beauty in the Catacombs) and Glenn Porter (Freestyle Kayaking) were both awarded WPF Ribbons for scoring a maximum 20 points.

The full scores can be seen by following the links below.

The Gwyn Morgan Trophy Results
The Walter Morgan Trophy Results

Well done to everyone who had an image selected.

2021 Inter Federation Competition Results

Wednesday, 16 June 2021 09:05

Below are the Results for the Open and Nature 2021 Inter Federation Competition. Congratulations to the Gwynfa members who had images selected.

Open Results Open Individual Scores
The WPF came joint 9^th with an average of 11.533 points out of a maximum of 15.
Gordon Cook of Swansea Camera Club whose image “A Sign of the Times” which earned a PAGB Ribbon and scored 14 points!

Nature Results Nature Individual Scores
The WPF came joint 10^th with an average of 11.867 points out of a maximum of 15.
Emma Woodhouse of RPC whose image “Fighting Gulls” which earned a PAGB Ribbon and score 15 points and
Susan Carter of Monmouth CC whose image “Grizzly Bear with Salmon” which earned a PAGB Ribbon and scored 14 points and
Neville Thomas of Afan Nedd CC whose image “Vietnamese Mossy Frog” which earned a PAGB Ribbon and scored 14 points!

Gwynfryn Jones, Master of Print.

Saturday, 29 May 2021 08:35

Huge congratulations to Gwynfryn Jones who received an acceptance in the 2021 the Master of Print competition with his print “Social Distancing”, see below. We believe Gwynfryn to be the only successful WPF entrant this year.

It is his third acceptance in three years in a competition limited to only 60 acceptances. Well done indeed.

Gwynfa Second in 2021 Ace of Clubs

Monday, 22 February 2021 10:01

Here are the results and award winners from the 2021 Ace of Clubs competition held via zoom on 21st February 2021.

Many congratulations to the winners Tenby who just pipped us into second place. Both clubs are invited to represent the WPF at the ‘virtual Warwick’ National PDI Championships later in the year.

The final results and award winners can be see here and all the individual scores here.

Congratulations go to Lynda Beynon for winning a Ribbon for ‘Newly Emerged Four Spot Chaser’ (see below) and to Leigh Woolford ‘for ‘Isolation No. 2′ being chosen as the favourite image of judge Roger Parry.

The judges were; Colin Harrison FRPS MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/d3; Paul Keene FRPS MPAGB EFIAP/d3 MFIAP and Roger Parry ARPS MPAGB HonPAGB EFIAP EsFIAP.

Vale 7-Way Battle – A Win for Gwynfa

Tuesday, 16 February 2021 10:20

On Friday 5th February, Gwynfa won the 2021 Vale Battle, dropping on 7 points from a possible total of 160. The results were as follows:

Gwynfa (153 points)
Rhondda (150 points)
Pyle & Porthcawl (150 points)
Vale (142 points)
Cwmbran (142 points)
Bridgend (140 points)
Western Valley (140 points)

Thanks to the Vale PS for organising the event and to judge, Harry Gardiner AWPF for his expert critique.

The full scores can be seen here.

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