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Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru
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Sue Clark HonNWPA
Congratulations to Sue Clark on receiving and HonNWPA award for exceptional services , Here's Sue receiving her award from president Charles Meadows at Conwy camera Club
Nomination for Susan Clark for NWPA Hons:
Sue has made a rich and varied contribution to amateur photography in North Wales since she joined Conwy Camera Club in 2010. She is always in great demand as a speaker and a judge across North Wales and further afield. She is a highly competent photographer and has a passion for the history of photography and photographic techniques having embraced Photoshop since its infancy.
Despite being one of the largest clubs in North Wales over the last 20 years, Conwy has produced relatively few competition judges. Sue is a very well respected judge throughout North Wales and beyond and is known to be scrupulously fair, always well prepared and highly professional. Feedback from clubs where she has judged is always positive! The Club is grateful to Sue for her tireless work as a judge and proud of her experience and expertise and is proud of the high esteem in which she is held.
John Smith HonNWPA
Well done and congratulations to John Smith Hon NWPA! here's the man himself receiving an Honourable NWPA award for exceptional service, from President Charles meadows at the NWPA exec meeting this afternoon, for or all the work he does behind the scenes and his tireless work for the NWPA print and PDI battles including pre and post show involvement as well as on the actual day ! this includes creating an AV slideshows for clubs to present to their members to view at their leisure.
John visits many other clubs affiliated to the NWPA by going along and sharing his knowledge and giving various presentations, John is also an NWPA judge and gladly gives his time and evenings ,sharing his skills and knowledge for the benefit of others, he is also the delegate for Rhyl Photographic Society at the NWPA meetings, the secretary for Rhyl Photographic Society and is the webmaster for an AV group he belongs to in Cheshire and is extremely involved in.
John is a great asset for the NWPA, Rhyl Photographic Society and the North Wales photography scene and deserves this award as recognition for all his hard work over the years!
Christine Langford HonPAGB
A huge, and well deserved, Congratulations to Christine Langford, who has been awarded the prestigious JS Lancaster Medal by the PAGB, the highest honour they hand out to individuals, for all the years of hard work, not only to the PAGB … but also the NWPA, Eryri PS and Dwyfor CC. She was awarded the honour by Peter Young, Vice president of the PAGB, in front of friends at the Eryri PS meeting. She was taken aback at being awarded this honour, and a few tears were shed.
Christine has been the Oracle within the NWPA, always willing to help and hand out advice. Always working in the background at most of the events NWPA run, and always at hand on the day of the events…..this also reflects within the Eryri PS, she runs it….all by herself.
Info: The J S Lancaster Medal was instituted in 1998 to recognise exceptional service to the PAGB, and is named after its first Secretary. Award holders may use the designation ‘HonPAGB’, replacing any previous award of APAGB.
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.
Selectors
Andy Polakowski
Andy was still in shorts when he started printing in his father's darkroom and
photography, photographs, photographica have been a major part of his life ever
since.
A past winner of The British Photography Competition it wasn't until moving to North
Wales that he joined his one and only camera club, Mold Camera Club, 40 years ago
where he is currently Vice-Chairman and External Competitions Secretary.
As a keen believer in getting photographic images seen, he is a prolific exhibitor both
Nationally and Internationally gaining over 100 Awards not only with single images
but also Audio-Visuals. Using one of the current crop of book self-publishers is
another outlet that Andy is also pursuing and encouraging to others.
He maintains that clubs now have a greater than ever role to play in bringing out the
best in everyone's photographic ambitions and to this end, for over 30 years, he has
been lecturing and judging in photography clubs throughout North Wales and the
North West and Midlands of England.
"Take pictures, show pictures, look at pictures" could be his motto.
Sharon Prenton Jones
I picked up a camera for the first time in 2012 and quickly became obsessed with photography. I purchased a Nikon D3100, moved to a Nikon D7100 and then to an Olympus Pen-F. In December 2017 I sold everything and purchased a Sony A7Riii. Happy to say I have now found the perfect camera for me.
I joined Llandudno Photographic Society in 2012 and then moved to Conwy Camera Club in 2018. I started entering Club competitions and National and International Salons very quickly without a clue what I was doing. However, I kept an open mind, listened to criticism, tried lots of different forms of photography, and most importantly had fun.
Having tried various aspects of photography over the last 6 years I think I have now found my niche which is Portraiture, Fine Art Photography and Composite work. I use Photoshop as my main processing tool.
I look forward to many more years of fun in a Photography World that has room for every genre.
Linda Bell
I am a local photographer who lives just outside Mold in North Wales.
I enjoy all types of photography but particularly enjoy doing Nature and still life.
I started entering exhibitions and photographic salons in 2012, and have received
much pleasure from this, gaining some awards along the way. We live in a beautiful
part of the world and it inspires me on a regular basis to get the camera out and go exploring.