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2018 Newsletters

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January 26th

NWPA

The Annual General Meeting was held in Llandudno on Sunday 3rd December
and the Executive Committee now consists of the following:

President: AE Dave Jones PAGB Delegate: Christine Langford
Vice President: Andy Polakowski Exhibition Organiser: Sian Davies
General Secretary: Terry Mills Competition Secretary: Amanda Sims
Treasurer: David Smith Awards Officer: Phil Chadwick
Judges & Lecturers Organiser: Phil Chadwick Website Editor: Wynn Owen
Newsletter Editor: Christine Langford

RPS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO EXHIBITION

Aberystwyth Arts Centre - 27 January – 10 March
aberystwythartscentre.co.uk

PAGB GB CUP

Mold Camera Club finished a very creditable 6th (out of 57) in the recent GB Cup, with an award going to Andy Polakowski. They entered the Small Clubs competition.
Conwy and Dwyfor both entered the Open section: Conwy finishing 50 and Dwyfor 64 out of 76 clubs.
They are all to be commended for entering this national competition

WELSH SALON 2018

The Welsh Salon is now open for entries and the closing date is 4th March.
This Salon is for any member of a club which is affiliated to the Welsh Photographic
Federation and also the North Wales Photographic Association.

Members of North Wales clubs have done very well in the past, so give it a go
See: thewpf.co.uk for full details

BRIDGEND 5-8 PHOTOHARMONY COMPETITION

Another annual competition organised in South Wales – closing date 19 February.
Again, North Wales members have done well in the past. thewpf.co.uk

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY ARMED FORCES DAY 2018

https://www.armedforcesday.org.uk/llandudno-to-host-armed-forces-day-2018/

Saturday 30th June

Armed Forces Day 2018 will be held in the historic North Wales seaside town of Llandudno. The event, which will also be the tenth Armed Forces Day, will be supported by the Ministry of Defence, together with the Welsh Government and Conwy Borough Council.

“Conwy County has a deep affiliation with the Armed Forces and a strong historical link. Llandudno will be a great destination to showcase the outstanding work of the Armed Forces past and present.
“The event will be supported by all the North Wales Councils and key colleagues across Wales. Serving personnel and veterans of our Armed Forces Community will be assured of a very warm welcome and an event that thanks them for their commitment to keeping the country safe.”
North Wales has many current and historic links to the Armed Forces, including and many Regular and Reserve army units. Many North Walians are proud to serve in the Royal Welsh and nearby RAF Valley on Anglesey is hometo a fast jet training base. Nearly 10,000 veterans live in Conwy, supported by a number of local and national charities.
More details of the programme of events will be revealed in the coming months

March 8th

CHRIS UPTON ARPS

SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2018 - 2.00 pm
at the Craig-y-Don Community Centre, Queens Road, Llandudno, LL30 1TE

Chris Upton is a Nottinghamshire based, award winning, photographer And educator specialising in Travel, Landscape and Social Documentary Photography.

He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and is also proud to be an official Fujifilm X-Series photographer. He has received awards in national photographic competitions and twice been commissioned to photograph in Thailand on behalf of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

He has also held several solo exhibitions and was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters of Vision Exhibition of Photography at Southwell Minster in 2009, 2011 & 2013.

Chris’ work has been published in many magazines and books. He lectures widely, runs training workshops and is represented by several international stock image libraries.

“Two of my great passions in life are travel and photography. I have been fortunate to travel widely and it is an amazing experience to observe and photograph a variety of cultures, people and landscapes. I hope that through my photographs I can bring a little of this to the viewer and inspire others to enjoy the beauty and diversity of the world for themselves.”

Free entry to NWPA club members

NWPA ANNUAL BATTLE

SATURDAY 21ST APRIL 2018
At Craig-y-Don Community Centre, Llandudno
Print entries to be in by 1.00 pm
Competition starts at 2.00 pm

The Rules & Entry Forms will be sent to all clubs
by the Organiser, John Ranson

NWPA EXHIBITION 2018

Information and Rules for this year’s Exhibition have been sent
to all clubs and are now available on our website:
www.nwpa.co.uk www.cffgc.co.uk

Masters of Print

The PAGB’s very successful print exhibition is due to be shown at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in June (2 – 30)

There will be an Official Opening on Saturday 2nd June at 2.00 pm in the Gallery

The Exhibition was first shown in London in December and is due to be seen in other places around the country. This exhibition at Aberystwyth is primarily for members of the North Wales Photographic Association and of the Welsh Photographic Federation.

The Gallery are happy to provide refreshments for the Opening but will, of course, need to have an idea of numbers.

Would you please notify Terry Mills (imagininterry@yahoo.com)
ASAP if you are able to go along.

March 23rd

NWPA INTER-CLUB BATTLE
Saturday 21st April 2018 - 2.00pm
Craig-y-Don Community Centre, Queens Road, Llandudno, LL30 1TE

Clubs should have received their entry forms from John Ranson.
Please see our website for the on-line entry system for the PDIs.

Please bring along prints for our selection for the PAGB Inter-Federation exhibition

NWPA ENTRY FOR THE
PAGB INTER-FEDERATION EXH8IBITION/COMPETITION - 2018

Its that time in our yearly calendar when we need to be thinking about our entry for the PAGB Inter-Federation Competition 2018 to be judged in June I would like as many images as we can get for the selectors, both prints and PDI’s to select from – see attached for categories and specific information and guidance.
The selectors will be meeting May 13th to select our images so can you please make sure I receive your images by 30th April.
Many of you will be entering the NWPA battle at Craig y Don on Saturday 21st April so any prints and PDIs will be collected then. However if you have additional prints you can send them to me directly at :

Gerlan, Pentrer Efail, Harlech. LL46 2YG

Can you also add an email address on the back of your print so that I can contact you for collection You can email any PDI’s to me at sims.pagb@gmail.com (not the same address as on the original request)

PRINT ENTRIES: Please don’t forget that I need PDIs of ALL your print images for upload to the PAGB site
NATURE ENTRIES: If you are entering the nature section can you please write in capitals “NATURE” on the back top left hand side of the mount. In doing so you are confirming that the image meets the criteria and please bear in mind that some salons are now asking to see the RAW file Can you add “NATURE” to the title of any PDI image (I will delete before uploading the image for judging), again confirming that they meet the criteria AWARDS: I know a lot of our members enter salons and have been gaining awards ie AWPF, DPAGB etc.
Can you update me with your qualifications so that I can update the PAGB website as it is nice for your awards to be recognised and shown in the reports. If you are one of our members who enter salons can I ask you to give me some details as to how well the image(s) has done. Has it been awarded a Gold, Silver, Bronze, HM etc but please don’t think that if your image hasn’t won a gold or that you don’t enter salons etc that it wont be considered for selection as that is not the case. We just want to try some thing a little different this year to see if we can improve our standing in the PAGB. Lets see if we can do better than last year!
RECORDED LECTURE SERVICE: Once the competition has been judged CDs of the selected images will be available for clubs to borrow to show at club meetings.
Thank you for your support and Good Luck!

Amanda Sims AWPF CPAGB BPE2* NWPA Competition Secretary

PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT - AV

The PAGB Awards in AV are being held on 25th to 27th of May at
Wilmslow Guild in Cheshire.
The Friday evening is an advisory session for anyone who may be thinking of applying for a PAGB distinction in AV in the future.

We hope that several members of NWPA clubs will come along to the event to see the standard required for the AV Distinctions.

Tickets are now available at £5 per day for the Saturday & Sunday.
The Friday evening is Free.
Buffet lunches are also available at £5 each.

More details and links to the Booking Form are in the attached PDF advert or can be found on the Events Page of the AV News website www.avnews.org.uk

Further information: jill@avnews.org.uk

Masters of print

The PAGB’s very successful print exhibition is due to be shown at
the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in June (2 – 30)

There will be an Official Opening on Saturday 2nd June at 2.00 pm
in the Gallery

The Exhibition was first shown in London in December and is due to be seen in other places around the country.
This exhibition at Aberystwyth is primarily for members of the North Wales Photographic Association and of the
Welsh Photographic Federation.

The Gallery are happy to provide refreshments for the Opening but will, of course, need to have an idea of numbers.

Would you please notify Terry Mills (imagininterry@yahoo.com)
ASAP if you are able to go along.

April 5th

ARDDANGOSFA NWPA EXHIBITION

Have you entered yet?

Entry closes in a week, so get your images uploaded this week.
Last day is April 15th.
Online entry from the website and pay with Paypal on the ‘buy now’ button.

all information is on our website: nwpa.co.uk or cffgc.co.uk

ONLY MONO 2018 - Closing Date: 26 April

This exhibition which is run in South Wales, is for club entries for only 4 monochrome prints. I have only recently received the Rules& Entry Instructions and hasten to forward them to you - see attachments.

THE WELSH SALON

North Wales Photographers have had acceptances and awards in the Welsh Salon this year:

Gwladys Roberts (1 mono print)
David Evans, Richard Jones, Eryl Jones (1 PDI each)
Sue Parry, Tony Davies, Linda Bell, Richard Walliker (2 PDIs each)
Sian Davies, John Bell (4 PDIs each)
Gwilym Erfyl Jones (4 PDIs inc. a WPF Ribbon)
Sharon Prenton Jones (4 PDIs incl. Best Creative image)

Congratulations to all

May 14th

NWPA EXHIBITION 2018
Selection took place Saturday 5th May and was well-organised by Sian Davies.
All entrants will have been notified
of their results, but below are the Award winners for Prints:

Monochrome Prints

Robert Jones EFIAP/b BPE3*	Honourable Mention	Shallow Grave
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Honourable Mention	Owl Be Darned
Tom Dodd FIPF DPAGB	Honourable Mention	Travellers and Lurchers
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Honourable Mention	Mother and Child
Ian O’Neill LRPS CPAGB AWPF	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	Sweatshop
Sian Davies LRPS BPE2* CPAGB AWPF	Judges Award - Robert Millin	Horse and Rider
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Femme Fatale
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	OK Photography Trophy for best Mono Print	My Life is Pants

Colour Prints

Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Colour Print Trophy for the best Colour Print	Workshouse Master
Philip Chadwick DPAGB BPE4* AWPF AFIAP	Honourable Mention	The Wong Brothers
Ken Lester	Honourable Mention	Street Clown
Linda Bell AFIAP DPAGB BPE4* AWPF	Honourable Mention	Madagascan Ground Geko
Ian O’Neill LRPS CPAGB AWPF	Honourable Mention	Namaste
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	High Flyers
Ian O’Neill LRPS CPAGB AWPF	Judges Award - Robert Millin	Me and My Dad
Jan Wilson-Chalon	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Winston

Tom Dodd FIPF DPAGB Margaret Harding Trophy for Best Landscape Print Glyder Fawr

Projected Digital Images - “Anything Goes”

Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Best 'Anything Goes' PDI	Arya Stark
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Creative Trophy for the most creative image	Sir Francis Drake
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Honourable Mention	Mouse Trap
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Honourable Mention	Sunday Best
Ken Lester	Honourable Mention	Play Time for Oscar
Lynne Morris AFIAP DPAGB BPE5 AWPF	Honourable Mention	Snatch of the Day
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Honourable Mention	Warrior Queen
Robert Jones EFIAP/b BPE3*	Honourable Mention	Arachnophobia
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	Ice Maiden
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Judges Award - Robert Millin	The Escape
Ken Lester	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Cliffhanger

NWPA EXHIBITION 2018 (continued)
Selection took place Saturday 5th May and was well-organised by Sian Davies.
All entrants will have been notified
of their results, but below are the Award winners for PDIs:

Projected Digital Images - Humanity

Robert Jones EFIAP/b BPE3*	Honourable Mention	The Watcher
Andy Polakowski DPAGB EFIAP BPE4* AWPF	Honourable Mention	Me and My Dog
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Honourable Mention	Victorian Bailiff
Philip Chadwick DPAGB BPE4* AWPF AFIAP	Honourable Mention	Some Flowers
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Honourable Mention	Astrid of Kattegat
Aneurin Phillips	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	The Student
Robert Jones EFIAP/b BPE3*	Judges Award - Robert Millin	Things That Go Bump
Sian Davies LRPS BPE2* CPAGB AWPF	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Reaching for the Ball
Aneurin Phillips	MJM Trophy for Best Colour PDI+Best Humanity PDI	Carrying Firewood

Projected Digital Images - Environment

Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/b BPE4*	Best Environment PDI	Oslo Opera House
Richard Walliker LRPS	Eryri Group Trophy for Best Mono PDI	That Tree Again!
Gwilym Erfyl Jones	Honourable Mention	Autumnal Llyn Padarn
Sian Davies LRPS BPE2* CPAGB AWPF	Honourable Mention	Aberafon
Philip Chadwick DPAGB BPE4* AWPF AFIAP	Honourable Mention	Chitwan Morning
Wynn Owen	Honourable Mention	Ponies in CWM Idwal
Glynn Barham	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	The Long Winding Road
Andy Polakowski DPAGB EFIAP BPE4* AWPF	Judges Award - Robert Millin	Ready for Customers
Gwilym Erfyl Jones	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Evening Falls Llandudno
Ken Lester	Ken Worthy Trophy - Best Landscape PDI	Early Morning on the River

Projected Digital Images - Nature

Aneurin Phillips	Best Nature PDI	Hippo
Stephen James Yates	Honourable Mention	Fly on a Rotting Apple
William Furse ARPS DPAGB	Honourable Mention	Pearl-Bordered Fritillary
Andy Polakowski DPAGB EFIAP BPE4* AWPF	Honourable Mention	Protecting the Young
Ken Lester	Honourable Mention	Red Kites
Sian Davies LRPS BPE2* CPAGB AWPF	Honourable Mention	Mine Not Yours
Richard Walliker LRPS	Honourable Mention	Dunnock (Prunella Modularis)
Linda Bell AFIAP DPAGB BPE4* AWPF	Judges Award - Adrian Lines	Common Frog
Richard Walliker LRPS	Judges Award - Robert Millin	Hungry Blackbird
Aneurin Phillips	Judges Award- Jane Lines	Mountain Hare

Beatta Brookes (highest points for accepted images): Sharon Prenton Jones
Best Creative Image: Sir Francis Drake by Lynne Morris

May 14th

Awards Officer's Report June 2018

The last Adjudication for the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit was held in Chorley
I have pleasure to write that the NWPA now have 4 new members who can use
CPAGB or DPAGB after their names:
Anthony Owen Jones CPAGB Dwyfor CC

Jean Chadwick CPAGB Eryri PG

Ian O'Neill DPAGB Blaenau Ffestiniog CC

Sharon Prenton-Jones DPAGB Llandudno PS

I can also say that they passed with good marks. My congratulations to all four.

The next Adjudication is to be hosted by the YPU (Yorkshire) in Pontefract. This is full for the C and looks like the D and M will also be full soon. We will be hosting the APM Adjudication next April and it will be held on the Coleg Llandrillo site at Rhos on Sea. I will be asking members to help with the staffing
and I have had a good response thus far.

If any NWPA member wishes to enter or enquire about this or any other APM issue, please contact me
for guidance to the procedure. I would ask for club secretaries to forward this to their club members.

June 1st

Rhyl Photographic Society
are holding a talk by Photographer and Scientist Victoria Hillman on
Monday 2nd July at 7.00pm at United Church, Tynewydd Road, Rhyl, LL18 3ST

Victoria is an ambassador for Manfrotto, award winning Photographer and National Geographic explorer. She has recently published her first book bringing together creative imagery and science and has contributed both articles
and images to various magazines, books, calendars, TV Series and BBC websites.
Read more at www.vikspics.com
Entry is only £1.50
For more information please contact Jason Burton at progsec@rhylphotosoc.co.uk

FEDERATION DE L’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE

New distinctions for North Wales photographers:

Sian Davies AFIAP
Amanda Sims AFIAP
John Bell, EFIAP
Linda Bell EFIAP
Andy Polakowski EFIAP/bronze
Robert Jones EFIAP/silver
Sharon Prenton Jones EFIAP/silver

Congratulations to all of them - these distinctions represent a lot of hard work

July 9th

PAGB INTER-FEDERATION EXHIBITION/COMPETITION

The selection for this exhibition took place earlier this month and the competitions results were:
Open Mono Prints won by Midland Counties N.Wales came 13th (out of 15)
Open Colour Prints won by Lancashire & Cheshire North Wales =11th
Open PDI won by Midland Counties N. Wales 7th
Nature won by Lancs & Ches/Midland N. Wales 15th

Our acceptances were as follows:

John Bell - Just Waiting (MP) Linda Bell - Three Wise Monkeys (MP)
Phil Chadwick - Aisha (MP) Rob Evans - Storm Child (PDI)
- Just Tired Sir (PDI) Mike Mason - Lord of the Long White
Tony Davies - The Winter is Archibold (CP) Cloud (PDI)
Ian O’Neill - Sweatshop (PDI)
Tony Jones - Shetland Pony Grand National (PDI)
Andy Polakowski - Protecting the Young (CP)
- Baby gets a Kick from Dad (N)
- Getting Off (PDI)
Sharon Prenton Jones - Workhouse Master (PDI)

Probably our best ever results, so congratulations to all of you and thanks to
Amanda Sims for organising our entry.

DOROTHEA LANGE EXHIBITION

Barbican Art Gallery, London EC1 (020 7638 4141) until 2nd September.
For anyone visiting London over the summer, it would be worth going along to see the famous images from Depression-era America

WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON
This Salon is now open for entries - see www.thewpf.co.uk
There will be a showing of accepted images at Craig-y-Don on Saturday 17 November.
Enter now

PDI CHALLENGE

This is due to be held at Craig-y-Don on Saturday 20 October.
Rules and entry forms will be sent to all clubs at the beginning of September.
The 9 categories will be the same as last year:

Night Altered Reality Rivers and/or Lakes
Nature Street Scenes (incl. People & crowd scenes)
Motion (incl. Sport) Travel (incl. Environmental portraits)
Macro/ close-up Wild card (anything)

And a final Open section in case of a tie-break

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Some of you are already keen and prolific entrants to exhibitions organised
by FIAP and BPE and may like a new challenge:

Ian Ledgard of Towy Valley CC can help you with PSA accreditation. He writes:-
I have recently been appointed to a volunteer role within the Photographic Society of America
as Country Membership Director for Wales. I have been a member since 2005,
but there are only a handful of PSA members in Wales. My task will be to support
existing members and encourage others to join this worldwide organisation.

Those who enter International Salons should be aware that PSA offers awards
for photographic achievement based upon acceptances gained. From the autumn
onward I will be available to give detailed presentations to clubs within Wales or to
meet with individuals who may be considering joining PSA.

Please contact me on ian.ledgard@talk21.com or by telephone on 01558 823953.

September 9th

PDI CHALLENGE

The Guidance Notes sent out recently omitted to give the required specifications for your images and these are:

They should be maximum 1600 pixels wide x maximum 1200 high Smaller images will be smaller on the screen or you could re-size them. They should be JPGs and sRGB Copies of Entry Forms to Christine Langford by 13th October please.

GWYNFA PIXELS 2018 - ENTRIES INVITED - Please forward this email to your External Competition Secretary.

Gwynfa Camera Club invites your club to take part in Pixels 2018.

As in previous years we are looking for an entry of four digital photographs from each participating club.

The club with the highest aggregate score will win the Pixels 2018 Trophy and awards will also be made for Best Colour Photograph and Best Monochrome Photograph and the trophies do not have to be returned..

Pixels 2018 takes place at 2.30 pm on Saturday, 3rd November 2018. As usual, the venue is Talbot Green Community Centre, Llantrisant.

The entry deadline is 14th October, 2018 and entries may be made by post or by email.
The entry fee is unchanged at £10.

See the website www.thewpf.co.uk for entry details

We very much hope your club will decide to take part and look forward both to receiving your entry and seeing on the day.

Meanwhile, should you have any questions please contact Leigh Woolford on 01443 491333 / 07800 878782 or email leigh@coform.com

An evening with Des Clinton, FIPF, FRPS, MFIAP
Wednesday 19th September at 7.30

BLAENAU FFESTINIOG CAMERA CLUB
Y Canolfan, Wynne Road, Blaenau Ffestiniog. LL41 3UF

Des, holder of the RPS Fenton Medal, is a very experienced and entertaining lecturer from the Republic of Ireland and his talk will be in two parts: ‘The Best of Irish’ and ‘Towards an MFIAP – the Peoples of Romania’
Visitors welcome (£2.00)

Beaumaris & Menai Bridge Camera Club

will be holding it’s annual 6-Way Battle at 19:30 on Friday 16th of November in Lecture Room A12 in the Brambell Building, Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2UW. Once again we hope that BMBCC along with Caernarfon, Conwy, Dwyfor, Dyffryn Ogwen and Llandudno clubs will battle it out with their Prints and PDI’s judged by Andy Polalowski AFIAP AWPF BPE3 with the winners taking home the prestigious Whale Trophy!

As with previous years we’ll be holding a prize raffle with some super prizes with all proceeds of the raffle going to BBC Children in Need.

Further information from: progsec.bmbcc@gmail.com

November 10th

CONGRATULATIONS

After last weekend’s Adjudication in South Wales for the AWPF we can add three
more names to the list of successful candidates from North Wales:

Margaret Barber Frank Barber Tony Davies

Well done to all three.

PIXELS 2018

The Pixels competition was judged in South Wales last Saturday by Phil & Gwen Charnock
Out of a total entry of 41 clubs, nine were from North Wales - an impressive entry.
Deeside with 70 points finished =4th
Our other clubs were: Llandudno (69), Blaenau (67) Dwyfor (65), Ruthin (65)
Mold (54), Rhyl (61), Deudraeth (59) & Conwy (59)

AND we had a award winner - Dan Muckle-Jones of Ruthin won the Best Monochrome trophy with is image “The Space Between Us”

Well done to all of you

WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON 2018

On Saturday 17 November there will be a showing of some of the
acceptances in the Salon at Craig-y-Don starting at 2.00pm

This show will be presented by the Chairman of the Salon, Peter Young, LRPS, CPAGB, APAGB, AFIAP

14 North Wales members had acceptances in this year’s Salon.

Come along and see some superb photography
Another FREE event

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Hello PSA members in Wales:

I have been asked to publicise the PSA Individual Portrait Competition; it would be good to
have a few Welsh members taking part.

Here is the link https://psa-photo.org/index.php?divisions-pid-individual-portrait-competition

There is no fee. Two entries each at 1024 x 768. Just another opportunity to put up your work for judging. Why not have a go?

Best wishes,
Ian Ledgard, GMPSA, PSA Membership Director Wales

WELSH PHOTOGRAPHIC FEDERATION

The WPF have announced the dates for their next Carmarthen Conference

Friday 30 August – Sunday 1 September 2019

North Wales Photographic Association

Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru

Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

July 9th