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!

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.

 

The first PAGB APM online adjudication ran very smoothly, thanks mainly to a lot of hard work by Adrian Lines and Libby Smith. We were determined that we should view the entries at maximum quality and, although we used Zoom for communication, the images worked directly from our website so that we saw them exactly as they were uploaded by the entrant. Our thanks also to the Adjudicators who complied with our technical requirements for remote viewing and who worked hard throughout the day.

Judging on a large monitor at close range is obviously not the same as viewing on a 8’ screen some distance away. Some faults, such as over sharpening, were much more obvious on a monitor, whilst other issues were less obvious than they would be if projected. As a result, some images which had been used in previous submissions scored worse or better than might have been anticipated. This is an unfortunate disadvantage of the different method of viewing but, on this occasion, our Review Team looked at every image submitted, and I am happy to still be able to claim that no-one failed who should have passed. It is of course possible that some failed or passed with a lower total than they might have expected.

You can find more information and lots of images in this edition of PAGB E-news.

Rod Wheelans MPAGB. Chairman of the Awards for Photographic Merit

The WPF is holding a Christmas Competition and entries are invited from members of any WPF club for what each entrant considers to be his/her very best photograph of all time.

The competition judging will be held live on Zoom on 9 January 2021 at 2pm.  There will be three judges of International standard from outside the WPF territory.

Competition Rules

1.  Open to all members of clubs in the WPF
2.  There is NO Entry Fee
3.  You may enter what you consider your very best photograph of all time!
4.  It can be in COLOUR or MONO of ANY SUBJECT and may be only one PDI per entrant
5.  Prints must be sent as PDIs and will be judged as PDIs
6.  PDIs must be Jpegs a maximum of 1600 px wide and 1200 px high.
7.  Files should be named as “Title underscore Photographer+distinctions underscore Club”. E.g. Purple Duck_Joe Bloggs FRPS_Gwynfa CC.jpg
8.  Entries must be sent by email to: peterayoung@outlook.com
9.  Three judges will be appointed by the WPF and the competition will be judged remotely.
10. There will be awards for the top 5 images.

All images will later be available for viewing remotely, together with their scores, on the WPF website.

The Closing Date is 5-Jan-21 (Twelfth Night) at midnight.