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Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru
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NWPA PRINT BATTLE - 12TH APRIL 2025 - Download rules Click here
Important Message from our Prsident - Download here
New NWPA Competition 2025
New for 2025 we have a Print and PDI competition for our club members, for more info click here
PDI Challenge best image by Dafydd Evans of Caernarfon CC, award being presented to him by his Club Chariman Egryn Lloyd.
Winning image - Too close for comfort
Our new President Charles Meadows being handed the Medal of Office by our past President Linda Bell
November Newsletter can be found here
Jan Wilson Chalon, AWPF
Congratulations go now to Jan Wilson Chalon who had not one, but two, successful Panels at the recent AWPF Assessments.
Linda Bell HonNWPA
Our President, Linda Bell, being awarder her HonNWPA by Charles Meadows, Vice President. Congratulations from all of us in the NWPA, a well deserved award that Linda was honoured to receive, which left her speechless.
PAGB CES system info...
An long article regarding the PAGB's CES system, can be found on their latest E-News (358) on pages 10-12. download it by clicking here.
Print Battle Results - Held April 21st at Craig y Don
Our judge for the day was Mike McNamee, the Editor of The Societies' Professional Imagemaker magazine and also a member of the Birkenhead Photographic Association.
The event was opened by the NWPA President, Linda Bell, who welcomed all those attending.
Twelve clubs were taking part in the competition - each entering 8 prints making a total of 96 prints for Mike to judge and comment on.
Results:
1st Mold CC on 145 points
2nd Conwy CC on 143 points
3rd Deeside CC on 142 points
4th Hawarden CC on 141 points
5th Llandundo PS on 139 points
6th Beaumaris & Menai Bridge CC on 138 points
7th = Blaenau CC and Prestatyn CC on 137 points
9th Dwyfor CC on 134 points
10th Rhyl PS on 132 points
11th Ruthin CC on 130 points
12th Dyffryn Ogwen CC on 125
Congratulations go to Mold CC for winning the competition and to Chris Evans of Prestatyn CC who gained the Best Print Medal for 'The Tusk' - a superb monochrome image of the Chung Ku Chinese restaurant which was printed on Permajet Titanium Lustre paper.
PAGB Masters of Print 2019
For many photographers a print is the only true photograph and so to celebrate this the PAGB offer the chance for
individuals to have their best image displayed in an exhibition expressly for this medium.
Although this is a print competition for individuals, in 2019 the PAGB made it possible for individuals to combine their
prints and enter through their club to share entry fee costs; the judging and selection took place on Monday and Tuesday
28/29 October.
The standard was very high and you needed to score well to have a chance of getting into the exhibition, which mostly
scored 14/15 and only includes a few scoring 13. Some very well known photographers did not, unfortunately, achieve
acceptance but they were very grateful for all the entries. Later issues of PAGB e-news will carry more information but, in
the meantime this is what we know NWPA wise. Incidentally Bristol P.S. made a substantial and successful entry (63 prints
by 14 authors) and will become the Hahnemühle “Gold Award Club”.
Entries were made by 96 clubs throughout Great Britain, 5 of them in North Wales:
Mold: 31 prints were entered by a total of 13 authors
Conwy: 10 prints were entered by a total of 2 authors
Blaenau Ffestiniog: 5 prints were entered by 1 author
Llandudno: 5 prints were entered by 1 author
Eryri: 5 prints were entered by 1 author
Only one of these was successful, a print from Llandudno, but the numbers we entered helped to lift the NWPA into 7th
place amongst the 15 Federations.