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Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru
Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain
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Welsh Photographic Federation Distincions
Congratulations to Tom Dodd, Robert Prenton Jones & Ralph Pinch who gained their AWPF distinctions. Tom is a member of Blaenau Camera Club, Robert is a member at Conwy Camera Club & Ralph is a member of Deeside Camear Club.
NWPA Exhibition 2021
Please note the Exhibition '21 entry portal will open on the 27th February and close on midnight April 10th. Selection will be online, due to the CORONA virus, and will take place Saturday May 8th. This year we will have only PDI entries, again due to the CORONA virus.
Link to the portal will appear here and in Exhibition rules (found here) on 27th February.
There will be 5 sections:
Open Colour
Open Mono
Photojournalism
Nature
Digital Art
Guidance and Nominations form
The latest guidance and nomination form for HonNWPA has been uploaded and can be downloaded from the documents part of the menu within the web site or click here
Asia Photo Festival has just started
Click here to view the web page
December Newsletter is read for your perusal. click here
RPS Distinction
Congratulations to Phil Tugwell who is a member of both Rhuthin and Mold camera clubs, on his success, in gaining his LRPS.
Andy Polakowski APAGB
Earlier this year the PAGB approved the award of APAGB to our own Andy Polakowski for his 40 plus years of
service to the photographic community of North Wales and beyond. Congratulations Andy a well deserved accolade.
Royal Photographic Society Distinction
We are delighted to report that Iona O’Neill of Blaenau Camera Club was awarded her Licentiate with Royal Photographic Society.
Congratulations are offered to the following who have been succesfull in this year's FIAP Distinctions announcement:
EFIAP/platinum Robert Prenton Jones (Conwy CC)
EFIAP/platinum Sharon Prenton Jones (Conwy CC)
EFIAP/gold Andy Polakowski (Mold CC)
Irish Photographic Federation Distinctions
On Saturday 29 February the Irish Photographic Federation held their Distinctions Assessment Day in Portlaoise. This was a well-organised and well-attended day with very interesting panels at all three levels. We are delighted to report that Iona O’Neill was awarded her Licentiate and Ian O’Neill was awarded his Fellowship. Many congratulations to both of them.
Congratulations to Sian Davies for acheiving the goal of PPSA from the Photographic Society of America, well done.
Congratulations must got to Sharon Prenton-Jones for her success as the Bristol International where she was awared the FIAB Blue Pin Best Author Award.
She had 14 acceptances including 5 awards as follows: Silver for Memories, Silver for Pearl, Judge’s Award for The Secret Diary, HM for Merlin, Judge’s Award for The Olive Branch. The other acceptances were - Fallen Angel, Framed, Guinevere’s Vigil, Penance, Samhain, Oslo Opera House, Broken Doll, Night Hunter, Night Life.
2019 AWPF Distinctions
The Associateship of the Welsh Photographic Federation assessments were held on Sunday 3 November at Talbot
Green, South Wales. There were 21 assessments in total, 20 Print and 1 PDI, resulting in 12 new AWPF awards being
made.
Congratulations to the successful North Wales applicants:
Pammy Sheldon - Mold Camera Club
Iona O’Neill - Clwb Camera Blaenau Ffestiniog
Congratulations to Tony Davies (Conwy CC) for achieving his GPU Aphrodite.
A change to BPE "last call" to enter... and Results, can now be found on separate pages. Last Calls here with the Results available here. Both can be found under " Exibitions and Salons" - BPE on the above menu. Hope this will make things a bit easier.
Vanguard World is trying to help local photography and support the clubs and PAGB. Having said this we as a company strive to support photographers of all levels. We have decided to give the NWPA and any of its members a discount on our website, as well as provide a prize here and there just for sponsorship to have our name in a newsletter and on the sponsor link of the website. We can also provide Demonstration sessions, where members can get a feel for the products and ask whatever questions they may have, try kit in bags to make sure they are fit for purpose. Should they wish to see a range they can visit Cambrian Photography or Jason Wharam email me by clicking here
The voucher code is 30% off entire order at checkout.
This means if it is below the min for delivery there will be a delivery charge.
Code: NWPA30
The NWPA would like to thank Vanguard for their kind offer and sponsorship.
NWPA PDI Challenge 2019
Entry will be via on-line entry only - CLICK HERE
Entries should arrive by 23.59 on Saturday 9th Oct 2019.
Entry form can be downloaded here - Click here
The Challenge is open to all NWPA Clubs
Submitting your entry
- To access the on line entry system go to: www.photocompentries.net?org=NWPA
- As you fill in your entry you will be asked for your last name. For the purposes of this competition this is the NAME OF YOUR CLUB only e.g. Wrexham
- For your First Name you may enter your full name e.g. John Smith
You will need to know;
- The classes you are entering
- The location on your computer of your image files
- The titles
- Clubs may enter one image in any five classes plus a tie break. The sections are:
Class |
Type(s) |
Titles |
Night |
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Required |
Altered Reality |
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Required |
Rivers/Lakes |
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Required |
Nature |
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Required |
Street Scenes |
.jpg |
Required |
Motion |
.jpg |
Required |
Travel |
.jpg |
Required |
Macro/Close Up |
.jpg |
Required |
Wild Card/Anything |
.jpg |
Required |
Tie Break |
.jpg |
Required |
File Requirements
Each image should have a simple filename/ title, maximum 30 characters including spaces. Do not include punctuation (full stops, apostrophies, commas etc.)
Dylai pob delwedd gael enw ffeil / teitl syml, uchafswm 30 nod gan gynnwys bylchau. Peidiwch â chynnwys atalnodi (atalnodau llawn, apostrophies, comas ac ati)
Colour Space sRGB (not Adobe RGB or Pro Photo RGB etc)
File Format : Save images as high quality jpegs.
Maximum horizontal size1600 pixels. Maximum vertical size 1200 pixels
Images that do not conform to these requirements will not be accepted.