North Wales Photographic Association

Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru

Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

NWPA EXHIBITION - 2022

Our Exhibition for 2022 will open for on-line entries onSunday 20th Februaryand will close on Saturday 2nd April.
This will be for both Prints and Projected Digital Imagesand the categories will be Open Colour and Open Monochrome.You will be able to enter up to 6 images in each section andthere will be a single entry fee of £10.00
Full details are published on our website and there will bereminders in future in future Newsletters.

WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

On Sunday 20th February at 7.00pm Peter Young, the Chairman of the Salon will show,via Zoom, acceptances from the Salon together with a commentary.
This will be available to all NWPA club members and the link will behttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85020451960
Several NWPA club members had acceptances and even awardsand it will be good to see the standards and variety of images.

Nigel Beidas has informed us of his available lecture, it is a 40 minutetalk available to do either on Zoom or in person (circumstances allowing) entitledSheepfolds of the Carneddau. The talk includes drone pictures andcovers the use and history of sheepfolds in the area.
If interested you may contact Nigel direct via his email Click here

Here are a few Exhibitions/Salons to enter:
Bristol closing date 30 January
Southampton 18 February
Vale of Evesham 28 February

PAGB GB Trophy 2022 ( Prints) and PAGB GB Cup (PDIs)
The results are out for these national competitions for camera clubs (no prequalification required). Scoring was by 3 judges voting out of 5 (2 = no, 4 = yes, 3 = somewhere in between, 5 = worthy of an award), clubs' best 12 scores making their total.

GB Trophy for unmounted A4 prints.
There were two sections, Open and Nature, with up to 24 enties allowed in each; 833 prints were submitted by 27 clubs.

OPEN result:
1st Rolls Royce Derby PS 162 points
13th CC Blaenau Ffestiniog 133
18th= Mold CC 124
18th= Conwy CC 124

NATURE result:
1st Rolls Royce Derby PS 158 points
13th Mold CC 121
19th CC Blaenau Ffestiniog 71*
20th Conwy CC 56*
* Probably fewer than 12 PDIs entered

GB Cup for PDIs
There were two sections, Open and Nature, with up to 24 enties allowed in each; 3449 PDIs were submitted by 90 clubs.

OPEN result:
1st Nottingham and Notts PS 149 points
20th= Mold CC 133
45th= Deeside PS 127
51st= CC Blaenau Ffestiniog 125
55th= Conwy CC 124
81st= Dwyfor CC 113

NATURE result:
1st Rolls Royce Derby PS 144 points
20th= Mold CC 134
65th= Conwy CC 114
68th= Dwyfor CC 109
74th CC Blaenau Ffestiniog 68*
* Probably fewer than 12 prints entered

"Sea Eagles in Combat" by Gary Jones, Mold CC was awarded a Bronze Medal (Best Combat in Nature).

February

WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY

On Sunday 20th February at 7.00pm Peter Young, the Chairman of the Salon will show, via Zoom, acceptances from the Salon together with a commentary. This will be available to all NWPA club members and the link will be

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85020451960

Several NWPA club members had acceptances and even awards and it will be good to see the standards and variety of images.

PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE

Darwin Clayton, the PAGB Insurance Brokers, have informed us that,with the deadline approaching, 487 clubs have renewed with around345 previously insured Clubs still outstanding. They issuedreminders to these clubs in early January and are awaitingresponses.
Although renewal date is the 1 February 2022, Darwin Clayton have also informed us that they can accept clubs onto the scheme up until 30 April 2022, but no later. After that, the Insurer (RSA) will
not allow any new or returning clubs to be bound onto the facility.

Please bear in mind that the Premiums paid within the scheme cover theperiod from 01 February each year to 31 January the followingyear. Therefore, if your Club is currently not meeting physically but plansto resume meeting later in the year, it should renew now in order to securecover for “member to member” next season and for activities outside yourclubroom. We believe these to be unique to the PAGB’s PLI policy

NEWS OF MEMBERS
Gary Jones (Mold CC) won the People's Choice Award for his image "Romeo the Puffin" in the recent North Wales Open exhibition at Theatr Clwyd, resulting in a goodly number of sales.

Andy Polakowski (Mold CC) has been awarded GPU-VIP1 status by the Global Photographic Union for gaining Gold Medals with 5 different images in International Salons and GPU-Crown3 for further International Acceptances.

NWPA EXHIBITION - 2022

Our Exhibition for 2022 will open for on-line entries on Sunday 20th February and will close on Saturday 2nd April.

This will be for both Prints and Projected Digital Images and the categories will be Open Colour and Open Monochrome.
You will be able to enter up to 6 images in each section and there will be a single entry fee of £10.00

Full details are published on our website and there will be reminders in future in future Newsletters.

PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT
ADJUDICATION, APRIL 2022 – REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM

Extract from a Report to the February Executive Committee meeting:Numbers are down for this Adjudication due to take place over the weekend of 23/24 April, hosted by the Midland Counties Photographic Federation at Hillscourt Education Centre, Rose Hill, Rednal, Birmingham B45 8RS.

Both days may finish quite early.
At the time of writing there are 24 Credit Print, 26 Credit PDI, 11 Distinction Print and 12 Distinction PDI.
The Master sections will not run. This is less than half the number we can accommodate. The official closing Date has passed, but we are still accepting late applications.

Daphne Hanson - APM Secretary

March

PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT
ADJUDICATION, APRIL 2022 – REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM

Extract from a Report to the February Executive Committee meeting:
Numbers are down for this Adjudication due to take place over the
weekend of 23/24 April, hosted by the Midland Counties Photographic
Federation at Hillscourt Education Centre, Rose Hill, Rednal,
Birmingham B45 8RS.

Both days may finish quite early.
At the time of writing there are 24 Credit Print, 26 Credit PDI,
11 Distinction Print and 12 Distinction PDI.
The Master sections will not run. This is less than half the number we can
accommodate. The official closing Date has passed, but we are still
accepting late applications.
Daphne Hanson - APM Secretary.

For further information, consult Phil Chadwick the NWPA Awards Officer

Chadwick484@btinternet.com

CLAY CROSS - NWPA members results

Awards:
Robert Prenton Jones: Selector’s Medal (Creative)
Linda Bell: Commended (Mono)
Bryan Griffiths: Commended (Nature)

Other Acceptances
Andy Polakowski Mold Matt Morrow Mold Dave Jowitt Mold
Julia Hodson Mold Bryan Griffiths Mold Linda Bell Mold
Peter Williams Deeside Ken Lester Deeside Sharon Prenton Jones Conwy
Robert Prenton Jones Conwy Peter Jepson Blaenau

KEVIN HIRST, LRPS, CPAGB, Hon.NWPA, APAGB

Kevin Hirst is a long-standing member of Mold Camera Club and the Eryri Photo Group in North Wales. He has been on our Judges and Lecturers list for many years and is always welcomed across the federation for his friendly judgements and helpful hints.

He has served as NWPA Secretary and President and is currently Chairman of Mold CC. Recently he has been very involved with the digital side of N.Wales exhibitions and competitions, but has always been willing to give his time
to help others, whether beginners groups or participating in club and
federation events.

The NWPA is proud that Kevin’s contribution to photography has been
recognised with this award of APAGB.

Ian O’Neill, President, NWPA

We now have a Facebook group page for the NWPA, the page is open
for all affiliated clubs and their members to use. We also hope to use this
page to keep you informed of any relevant news items, invite you to any upcoming events, as well as promote discussion between clubs and members.

Could all NWPA delegates please inform their members and furnish
them with group the link below
Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/groups/304807048308339

Any issues please e mail chris_v_evans@outlook.com
Or message via Facebook messenger Chris V Evans

April

The NWPA Inter Club Print Battle

The NWPA Inter Club Print Battle took place at Craig y Don Community Centre in
Llandudno on Saturday 2nd April and the judge was Mike McNamee FRPS from
Birkenhead on the Wirral Mike didn’t only judge the competition and read out the titles, but gave detailed insights into what he sawin each print and positive feedback on how any flaws
might be resolved. My grateful thanks goes to him.
11 clubs took part and in a close fought contest the results were as follows:
1st Place Mold CC 150 points.
2nd Place Conwy CC 149 points
3rd Place = Blaenau Ffestiniog CC 143 points
3rd Place = Deeside PS 143 points
5th Place Prestatyn CC 139 points
6th Place Rhyl PS 138 points
7th Place = Dyffryn Ogwen CC 135 points
7th Place = Ruthin CC 135 points
9th Place Dwyfor CC 134 points
10th Place Hawarden P 133 points
11th Place Beaumaris & Menai Bridge CC 131 points
The Best Print went to ‘Pulsatilla’ by Penny Dewhurst of Conwy CC
Congratulations go to Mold CC and Conwy CC who will be invited to represent the NWPA at the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Print Championships later in the year.
My thanks go to Phil Abbott for his technical expertise in designing the score sheets, running the scoring and projecting synchronised images of the prints for the audience to watch.
Our two excellent print handlers in Tony Davies (Conwy) and Dave Jones (Deeside).
The Mold ‘Raffle Team’ for their organisation and financial support of the event.
Barrie Hill & Ron Hobley from Rhyl PS for organising the interval refreshments.
Ian O’Neill for acting as MC along with his Presidential duties.
Iona O’Neill for looking after the financial arrangements.
Kevin Hirst for coming to the rescue with NWPA Medals for the presentations(What trophies/medals we present at future events needs to be discussed by the EC) Finally, my thanks must go to the clubs who took part and especially to their Competition Secretaries for providing the PDI’s of the prints on time, preparing the prints with the required codes and delivering the prints to CyD on time for us to easily place into the competition order for the judge to be able to view.

John Smith APAGB, CPAGB, Hon LCPU
Organiser of the 2022 NWPA Inter Club Print Competition

Presentation of the Print Battle Medal
to Kevin Hirst of Mold CC
by
Mike McNamee

Saturday 9th April saw a return to the Community Centre in Craig-y-Donfor the Selection of this year’s Exhibition.

The Selectors were:
David Butler, ARPS, MFIAP, EFIAP, EPSA
Diana Magor LRPS, CPAGB, EFIAP/b, MPSA
Gareth Martin CPAGB, AWPF

	NWPA EXHIBITION AWARDS 2022

	TITLE	AUTHOR	CLUB
OPEN MONO PRINT
BEST MONO PRINT: OK PHOTOGRAPHY TROPHY	WHITE HORSES	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
HM	FRENCH LIETENANT'S WOMAN	ROBERT PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
HM	WHITE TULIPS	LINDA BELL	MOLD
OPEN COLOUR PRINT
BEST COLOUR PRINT: NWPA BEST COLOUR TROPHY	SILVER BIRCH	KEVIN HIRST	MOLD
HM	SURF FREESTYLE	JOHN BELL	MOLD
HM	GYPSY MAIDEN	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
LANDSCAPE PRINT
BEST LANDSCAPE PRINT: MARGARET HARDING TROPHY	DERWENT WATER	IONA O'NEILL	BLAENAU
HM	WINTER ON DERWENT	CHRISTINE LANGFORD	ERYRI PS
HM	CWM IDWAL	TOM DODD	BLAENAU
SELECTORS CHOICES PRINTS
DIANA MAGOR	REED BED	CHRISTINE LANGFORD	ERYRI PS
GARETH MARTIN	DAY DREAMING	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
DAVE BUTLER	SPANISH TRACK CYCLIST	TONY DAVIES	CONWY





OPEN MONO PDI
BEST MONOCHROME : ERYRI GROUP TROPHY	TEMPLE WORSHIP	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
HM	WAIT FOR ME	DEWI WILLIAMS	BLAENAU
HM	A WET WALK HOME	PHIL CHADWICK	ERYRI PS
OPEN COLOUR PDI
BEST COLOUR PDI: MJM PHOTOGRAPHY TROPHY	WINTER SQUABBLE	MATT MORROW	MOLD
HM	WELL OILED MACHINE	MATT MORROW	MOLD
HM	TYLWYTH TEG	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
LANDSCAPE PDI
BEST LANDCSAPE PDI: KEN WORTHY TROPHY	EBB & FLOW	GWILYM ERFYL JONES	WREXHAM
HM	DEAD CALM	GWILYM ERFYL JONES	WREXHAM
HM	WINTER MORNING	KEN LESTER	DEESIDE
SELECTORS CHOICES PDI
DIANA MAGOR	HUNTING IN THE RAIN	KEVIN HIRST	MOLD
GARETH MARTIN	THEY CALL IT ART	JOHN BELL	MOLD
DAVE BUTLER	BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS	JULIA HODSON	MOLD



NATURE
BEST NATURE: CONWY CAMERA CLUB NATURE TROPHY	KINGFISHER EMERGING WITH CATCH	PAULA POTTER	DEESIDE
HM	LITTLE OWLS	JAN WILSON-CHALON	MOLD
HM	FROSTY FUNGUS	LOUISA CROSSLEY	PRESTATYN
DIGITAL ART
BEST DIGITAL ART: CREATIVE TROPHY	THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
HM	HELTER SKELTER	SHARON PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
HM	THE DEMONS HOARD	ROBERT PRENTON-JONES	CONWY
PHOTOJOURNALISM
BEST PHOTOJOURNALISM: O Tudur Owen TROPHY	IT COULDN'T GET MUCH MUDDIER	KEN LESTER	DEESIDE
HM	NUMBER 8	TONY GRUBB	DEESIDE
HM	ONE NIL	MIKE DYMENT	HAWARDEN
HIGHEST OVERALL SCORE
BEST OVERALL SCORE: BEATA BROOKS TROPHY	299 POINTS	SHARON PERNTON JONES	CONWY

A few images from the Exhibition Selection day

Awards on display during the event..

Gareth Martin, Diana Magor and Dave Butler

Kevin Hirst, our technical wizard

Andy Polakowski our Title caller, and Terry Mills the manual scorer.

Jean Chadwick, Jan Wilson Chalon and Linda Bell

Janet Davies selling raffle tickets

Our President speaks....

Phil Chadwich and Rolf Kraehenbuehl

A lovely spread for lunch....thank you all who helped out during the day.

May

June

July

PAGB INTER-CLUB PDI CHAMPIONSHIP

See the latest PAGB e-news for the results of the PDI Championship held recently at Warwick. The NWPA were represented by Mold & Rhyl.
Mold are old hands at competing in this Championship and finished =25 out of 35, but for Rhyl, this was a new experience and they were not last.
Congratulations to all involved.

Also in the PAGB e-news you will find an offer by Permajet on a new Canon printer.

Presentation by Linda Bell, NWPA Vice-President, to Jan Wilson-Chalon of her Certificate on achieving
her CPAGB in the recent PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit.

THE WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Is now open for entries.
There are two PRINT sections - Open Colour & Open Monochrome

And four DIGITAL sections – Open Colour, Open Monochrome,
Nature & Photo Travel

Peter Young, the Salon Chairman, will bring some accepted images to North Wales on Sunday 19th February

Get your entries in soon. Go to www.mywpf.org

It is sad to report that Brian Cook died on the 27th July.

Brian & Elizabeth were members of Conwy Camera Club from 1999 Until they moved to Cumbria in 2017.

Brian served tirelessly as NWPA Treasurer for 8 years from 2006 – 2013.

An obituary can be found on Conwy’s website https://conwycameraclub.com/brian-cook/

Brian Cook
Having just heard the news that Brian Cook has died I would just like to add my condolences to his family and friends.
I knew Brian mainly through his role as treasurer for the NWPA, a position he held when I came to be President of the Federation.
His wife, Liz, was also the Conwy delegate on the Executive at that time. Both were dedicated in their work for their club and the Federation. Brian was meticulous in his bookwork and spurned modern technology in favour of pen and pencil. Very old-fashioned in his approach with a somewhat conservative outlook he was none the less very loyal and extremely supportive of me. Even though he wished to retire from his position as treasurer, he volunteered to stay on during my term
when he realised there was no obvious candidate to replace him.

I was extremely grateful to him and will always remember both Brian and Liz with affection.

Shortly after giving up as treasurer, they sold up and moved away.
We often meet people and interact only briefly with some, but they can effectively be a positive influence on our life’s journey – for me, Brian was one such person.

Terry Mills, CPAGB, AWPF, Hon NWPA.
NWPA General Secretary.

August

September

THE WELSH INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Is now open for entries.

There are two PRINT sections - Open Colour & Open Monochrome
And four DIGITAL sections – Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature & Photo Travel
Peter Young, the Salon Chairman, will bring some accepted images to North Wales on Sunday 19th February
Get your entries in soon. Go to www.mywpf.org

PAGB - MASTERS OF PRINTS

The Master of Prints is now open and the closing date is 20 November.

See the PAGB website for full details

http://www.thepagb.org.uk/competitions/pagb-masters-of-print/

NWPA PDI CHALLENGE

A Big Day of Images plus the judging of The NWPA PDI Challenge Competition Craig-y-Don Community Centre, Queens Road, Llandudno, LL30 1TE SATURDAY 5th NOVEMBER 2022 Commencing at 10.30am It is FREE to Enter and Attend

● 10.15am NWPA Exhibition Award Winning Prints will be on show

● 10.30am Welcome by the NWPA President, Ian O’Neill, followed by a Showing of the NWPA Exhibition PDI’s

● 12 - 1pm Lunch Break

● 1pm Roger Parry ARPS MPAGB Hon.PAGB EFIAP President of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain will give a talk entitled ‘Parry’s Pictures’

● 2.30pm Judging of the NWPA PDI Challenge Competition 2022

● 5.45pm Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Awards

SUCCESS AT UPP

The UPP is the United Postal Portfolios consisting of “Circles” which is a number of people (usually about 12) in any or more than one Group submitting images as Prints or PDIs, which other Members of the Group comment or even vote on for best pictures in that group each month. There are, I believe, just over 30 Circles of various types (mono, colour prints, small, medium size or A4 prints, even one for Darkroom Prints, Infrared and now PDIs sent by email).

It's an excellent scheme to join as it enables you to get to see the work, at all levels, of photographers from all over the country, comment on and read other people’s opinion of the images and get comments on your work as well as encouragement, help and ideas of how to improve your photography. Certificates are awarded for the best images which also give members something to aim for.

Once a year there is a convention/AGM weekend where members can actually meet each other and I have been privileged to be asked as a Speaker to attend quite a few of these “weekend events”. A major feature is an exhibition of the Circle Members’ work and shows the winning pictures from each Group.

I was impressed and really enjoyed seeing these images and was pleased to see Christine Langford had won a “Circle Certificate” for a beautiful print of Reeds by the water. But even more pleased when the result of the “Members vote” was announced. Christine had won this award by gaining the most Votes from the Members who attended the convention. I have always rated these awards which are chosen by a lot of Photographers to be the most difficult to gain and most enjoyable to win. Instead of being given an award, for example by three exhibition judges or one individual judge Christine’s image had received more votes than of the other many images in the exhibition. Congratulations Christine for this “well deserved achievement”.

Margaret Salisbury

Reed Bed - Christine Langford

For more information on thisorganisation go to: www.uppofgb.com

I my capacity as the Global Photographic Union UK Representative and Governing Board member, I was pleased to present GPU awards to Sharon Prenton Jones and Andy Polakowski.

Sharon received a GPU Gold Medal for her image Gypsy Maiden in the 158th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography 2022.

Andy has achieved VIP 2 status with the Global Photographic Union. V.I.P stands for very important photo. To reach VIP 2 Andy had to have 10 different photos that had been awarded a gold medal in international exhibitions.

Tony Davies

October

November

CONGRATULATIONS

To Chris Evans of the Prestatyn club who has recently gained his AWPF

PAGB - MASTERS OF PRINTS

The Master of Prints is now open and the closing date is 20 November.
See the PAGB website for full details

http://www.thepagb.org.uk/competitions/pagb-masters-of-print/

SATURDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

A great day of photography was enjoyed at Craig-y-Don on Saturday 5th November.
First of all we were shown acceptances from the recent NWPA Exhibition, and we were then treated to a talk on portrait and fine art photography by Roger Parry (with a little help from his wife, Judith).
Roger is currently the PAGB President.

In the afternoon Roger judged our PDI Challenge in his usual competent fashion.

After judging the eight categories Mold emerged the winning club with Blaenau Ffestiniog in second place.
These two clubs will be invited to represent North Wales
In next year’s PAGB Interclub PDI Championship in July.

RESULTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED CLICK HERE

And we are grateful to John Smith and Phil Abbott of Rhyl, who organised the whole day.

President of the NWPA Presenting the Winning Club award to Kevin Hirst, Chairman of Mold CC.

An award to Andy Polakowski for his Best Picture ‘Himalayan Hotel’

our judge, Roger Parry, with Andy, Kevin & Ian.