Oldest Camera Club in Wales – est 1891.
On the 29th May we held the third Ken Jones Trophy to celebrate one of our past members, again Mark Mathias (nephew) was in attendance to watch the proceedings and award the trophy to the winner. We had a very good entry of approx 48 prints all on the theme of Monochrome/B&W. Our judge for the night was Rob Mitchell who gave a sterling critique and the outstanding winner was John Ellis with a wonderful shot from the Himalayas.
Recently a couple of members entered the annual Photomarathon in Cardiff, this is an event where you have to take 12 images over a 12 hour period based on 12 themes issued in groups of 4 at 10am, 2pm and 6pm. Then return before 10pm to download your 12 images, which must be in the right order on your card (12 only).
The themes were
1.Entry number/Who am I
2. Poetry
3. Asymmetric
4. Space
5. Out and about
6. Behind the Scenes
7. Animated
8. A bit on the Side
9. Shadow
10. Mixed Message
11. Elegant
12. Another Perspective
Needless to say this taxed the brain considerably, but the weather was great and just over 400 entrants were busy trawling Cardiff and its surrounding area for inspirational images. The exhibition in Cardiff starts on 22nd June at the old library building opposite St Davids Hall and runs until 7th July.
Photomarathon has a Flickr site where some of the entrants have posted there photo’s “http://www.flickr.com/groups/2228338@N23/“.
Maybe next year some more members might like to try it, its tiring but worth the effort.
Last Bank Holiday was the latest club outing and attended by about 15 members in 4 cars. First we went to Britton Ferry and walked along the estuary to the end where the old pipelines are, then it was back to McDonalds for a quick refreshment before moving on to the old lighthouse ship in the river near Neath, what a sight and lovely textures for HDR imaging as can already be seen on the Facebook page. But for those who have not seen them hear are a few to ponder over.
Oh and by the way we nearly lost our President when he was about to be locked behind bars when the security closed the gates behind us at Neath.
Today was the annual awards dinner this year held at Alitalia and organised by Roy Watkins. There was a reasonable turn out of approx 35 members and guests.
After the meal the main event of the evening was the presentation of the trophies for 2012. Peter Francis and Joyce Mollet both walked away with 3 awards each, Arthur Lees walked away with 2 and Graham, Alun, Netley, Jennifer, Tony, Clive and Gary all got one.
The presentations ended with the prestigious Beginner of the Year award, which this time went to Jo Seaward (well done Jo).
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Competition
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2012 Winners
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Monthly Print overall points scorer
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Pete Francis
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Monthly Digital overall points scorer
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Alun Lewis
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Print of the Year
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Netley Davies
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Digital Projected of the year
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Graham Harries
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Five Prints Panel
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Joyce Mollet
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Five Projected Images Panel
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Joyce Mollet
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Audio-Visual Presentation
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Pete Francis
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Special Effects
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Jennifer Williams
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Nautical Challenge
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Arthur Mallett
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Clive Martin
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Best Exhibition Print
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Arthur Lees
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Best Exhibition Monochrome
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Arthur Lees
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Best Exhibition Colour (George Shaw Rose Bowl)
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Tony Collis
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Beginner of the Year
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Jo Seaward
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Photographer of the Year
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Peter Francis
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Ivor Russell Trophy
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Joyce Mollet
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Ken Jones Memorial Trophy
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Gary Martin
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Update of a few minutes ago, we only won the ‘Gwyn Morgan Trophy’ for the best panel of prints, also Best colour print with Steve Milton and I myself won a judges choice award. Fantastic well done everybody. Full details can be seen on The WPF.
We had the prints back from the Salon selection, which took place over the weekend and after collating the returns I can report subject to confirmation the following acceptances for prints, These are all now confirmed.
A total of 30 colour and 12 monochrome were submitted and 12 were accepted, which represents a 28.5% acceptance the best result since 2007 when I began organising the club entry.
In the colour section we had the following (Gwyn Morgan Trophy Winners)
Clive Martin 2
Steve Milton 2 (Best Colour Print)
Arthur Mallett 2 (Judges Award)
Graham Harries 2
Jennifer Williams 1
Alun Lewis 1
In the Monochrome section we had
Peter Francis 2
Digital 16 entered 4 acceptances 25% well done again
Arthur Mallett 2
Clive Martin 1
Graham Harries 1
Well done to all who entered and especially the members who were successful, I will update this blog once we have the full results including the digital section.
One last report is that it is rumoured that Steve Milton has won a special award for his ‘Material Girl’ image, however we await confirmation of this. Fingers crossed Steve. I can now confirm that indeed he did win the ‘Best Colour Print’ – Well done Steve!
This is a copy of the entry just posted on The WPF! WOW WOW WOW. Massive congratulations to the Llanelli PS.
The results of the 2013 Welsh Salon of Photography have been collated and the judges (Graeme Webb EFIAP, EPSA. Kate Webb EFIAP, EPSA and Phil Davies EFIAP, Hon FWPF, UPI 1crown) have accepted a total of 141 prints (92 colour and 49 monochrome) and 131 digital images. (Note, Phil Davies replaced Ann Davies who was unwell on the weekend that the adjudication took place).
The Gwyn Morgan Trophy for the best panel of six prints was won by Llanelli Photographic Society and the Walter Morgan Trophy for the best panel of six digital images was won by Inn Focus Group.
The seventeen headline awards and thirteen highly commended awards were shared among 25 different photographers, they being: Arthur Mallett, Barry Hill, Brian Sewell, Chris Powell, Coltrane Koh, David Norton, Ed Cloutman, Gareth Martin, Gary Howells, Gerwyn Williams, Gwynfryn Jones, Ian Munro, Jenny Hibbert, John Cooke, Leigh Woolford, Matthew Jones, Neville Thomas, Nick Walton, Norman Cahill, Ron Lines, Roy Peters, Sam Warr, Siddhesh Ghag, Steve Milton and Tom Dee.
A special mention must go to to Sam Warr of Ebbw Vale who won the Under 25 Award for his photograph entitled ‘The Victorian Gentleman’. Sam is 16.
The opening ceremony and presentation of awards will take place at Pontypridd Museum on 7th May at 6.30pm and the exhibition will run until the end of May.
Last week we had the annual Ivor Russell trophy, which represents prints taken in Carmarthenshire in honour of Ivor Russell. In attendance was Mrs Russell together with her son and daughter. After an introduction by our president Ray Rees the judge Nick Jenkins began his critique of the 16 prints submitted, this was a slightly reduced number based on the previous 3 years we have been running this competition, however the quality of the entries made up for this.
After a very good critique by Nick we had an excellent buffet supplied by the members after which the winners were announced. As this is a special one of trophy only the winner is given recognition, however the top six were indicated on the night and it was a close run thing as Nick pointed out.
The eventual winner was Jason Dale with his ‘Machyns Sunset’. Above is a picture of the presentation to Jason with Nick Jenkins on the left and Mrs Russell presenting the trophy on the right.
On the 7th July the WPF held an inaugural print competition to choose the two clubs who would represent the WPF in the National finals at Connaughs Quay in October, this choice would normally be made from the Salon entry, which we won this year but the WPF chose to create this new event for the selection process.
As I was on holiday Graham and Jay attended and made the necessary selections for the second round after the selection committee had chosen the 1st round entry prior to the competition. The club entry had to be 12 prints for round 1 consisting of at least 5 B&W (Monochrome) and 5 colour with no more than 3 Natural History. In round 2 it was 15 prints with the same criteria although images from round 1 could be used again dependant on there 1st round score.
After round 1 we were in =7th position from the 11 clubs that took part, after the final round 2 we ended up in =5th place, with Inn Focus on top and Tenby second. Both these clubs go forward to represent the WPF in October.
Round 1 Entry: Night Bus Graham 12pts, Village Girl Joyce 12pts, Holy Island Clive 12pts, Village Matron Peter F 12pts, Morning Mist Arthur 11pts, Material Girl Steve 11pts, Mr Calford Graham 10pts, Captured by her Eyes Joyce 10pts, All that Jazz Jo 10pts, Welder David R 10pts, Blue Green Yellow Clive 10pts and Shepherd in Rajastan Joyce 10pts
Round 2 Entry: Old Chapel Clive 13pts, Night Bus Graham 12pts, Three Wise Men Steve 12pts, Morning Chores Joyce 12pts, Holy Island Clive 12pts, The Crow Steve 11pts, Village Matron Peter F 11pts, Camp in Gujarat Joyce 11pts, Matterhorn Arthur 11pts, Wanna Balloon Jennifer 11pts, Cwmorthin Graham 11pts, Morning Mist Arthur 11pts, Sadhus Gary 10pts, Glacier Express Arthur 10pts and Village Girl Joyce 10pts
Before the club closed for the summer we held our annual ‘Sospan Trophy’ event. A battle between ourselves, Amman Valley, Carmarthen, Pembrey, Tenby and Trostre.
All the clubs entered 6 projected images and the judge was Liegh Woolford, after the first 3 rounds we were 2pts clear of Tenby in. We then had a break and as usual a good spread was provided by the members. Once all the images were shown we came out triumphant with 113pts
Full Result
Llanelli 113pts, Tenby 109pts, Pembrey 102pts, Carmarthen 102pts, Amman valley 99pts, Trostre 95pts
Later this month 26th June we will hold the annual Sosban Trophy, we are the current holders and hope to retain the trophy. However several clubs will be trying to take it from us they are, Amman Valley, Carmarthen, Pembrey, Tenby and Trostre. Our entry has been chosen and they are:
A buffet will be provided on the night and all offers will be appreciated, please make sure you comply with the agreed packaging options relating to this from previous events. Look forward to seeing you all there.
Following last Sunday judging of the Memorial Trophy, I can now reveal the full results. It ended up with another win for Inn Focus, closely followed by Cardiff CC. Our entry was 4 prints by Arthur, John, Steve and Jennifer with ‘Double Header’ 16pts, ‘Amphu Labsta Pass’ 15pts, ‘Soul Taker’ 18pts and ‘Grounded’ 19pts respectively. That left us in 5th place points wise and =8th overall on count back with several other clubs. The total number of clubs entered was 24, the judge was Tony Dudley from the West Mids a current member of the prestigious club Smethwick.
The scoring was difficult as the judge had not seen the images beforehand even though they were delivered before Christmas. He initially did the critique on them all then scored them after the break holding back 25 images for final scoring, which were then done in no particular order so keeping the score sheet up to date was a bit of a nightmare. Only one image ended up with 20pts and that was a Kingfisher print from Inn Focus.
Final positions were, Inn Focus 74pts, Cardiff’ 72pts, Cymbran, Ebbw Vale and The Vale 71pts, Tenby and Towy Valley 69pts and then 6 clubs on 68pts inc Llanelli
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This coming Sunday 26th January Rhondda CC are hosting the annual Memorial Trophy on behalf of the WPF, the venue is Maes y Haf, Trealaw, Rhondda, CF40 2UB. It starts at 2.00pm. The judge is Tony Dudley from Midland Counties Photographic Federation.
How to get to Maes y Haf Community Hall from Junction 34 of the M4 at Miskin
Take the A4119 at Talbot Green towards Tonyrefail/Rhondda. Continue through 7 roundabouts.
At 8th roundabout take 3rd exit on B4278 towards Penygraig At next roundabout take 2nd exit, still on B4278.
Continue approx 1 mile to T-junction, then right on B4058 towards Porth.
After about 200 yards, turn left over railway bridge and bear left to top of hill.
The Royal pub should be in front of you. Turn right onto the main road.
Maes y Haf is the building next to the pub