The winners of the April monthly ‘Lines’ competition for the Jim Davies Trophy were as follows:
1st – Dave Owens - Dangerous Lines (Print) – see below
2nd – Rob Beynon - Words and Music (DPI)
3rd – Alec Stewart - Jetty at Elgol (DPI)
Below you can find a copy of the current merit table. Please report any inaccuracies to Geoff Howard.
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.
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…..
The winners of the January monthly open competition judged by Keith Sharples of Mounmouth were as follows:
1st – Chris Lawrence – Out of the Shadows (DPI) – see below
2nd – Dave Lingham – Nine Wells Bay (Print)
3rd – Neil West – It’s our ball (DPI)
The top three will go forward to our Picture of the Year competition in December.
Sorry we were unable to run the competition in club due to the adverse weather forecast.
All the scores can be seen below…..
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
Dave Lingham - 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.
The results from November’s Monochrome Challenge competition were as follows:
1st was Gwynfryn Jones with his print ‘The Doctor’ which can be seen below.
2nd was Wayne Rich with his DPI ‘Tower Bridge’.
3rd was 3rd Mark Ashford with his DPI ‘Mirror of the Soul.
The judge was Dave Russell.
