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Almost half-way through 2017, and we already have some trophy winner, but some, I actually mean two. Peter Francis and Joyce Mollet, with Joyce winning three of them, nothing surprising really, not with the quality she come out with!

Chris Warren on left, and Mrs Russell presenting Andrew Lloyd with the Ifor Russell trophy.

The winning image by Andrew below.

Congratulations once again to Alun for winning last night’s Open Print Competition as well as to those of you who managed to get into the top six.  The standard of entry was very high and I thought Leigh Woolford was excellent, as usual.

Here is Alun’s winning image, view his gallery here.

On 25th June 2016, a number of camera clubs from across South Wales came together to celebrate Llanelli Photographic Society’s 125th Anniversary. LPS’ annual Sosban Trophy usually involves six clubs but for 2016 only the competition was opened up to sixteen clubs and a special one off trophy was put up as the prize.

A good crowd was treated to an entertaining and excellent critique by Rob Mitchell. Rob managed to provide comments and advice on all 80 images – and still give everyone time to get back home in time for the Wales v Northern Ireland kick off.

There was a high standard among the entries and after three rounds LPS were in first place alongside Tenby. Could LPS hold on and win their own 125th Anniversary trophy? Sadly not! At the end of the competition Tenby were in first place, Bridgend second and Llanelli third.

Our congratulations to Tenby who have now won the Sosban Trophy for three years on the trot. They get to keep the special glass trophy as a memento of the 2016 competition. The scoresheet for the competition is below.

As well as scoring all the images, Rob was also asked to select his favourite image from the competition. This time it was good news for LPS with Steve Milton’s Anti-Social Butterfly taking home the prize. Well done Steve and a big thank you to Rob Mitchell for being the perfect judge for our celebration.

The day however wasn’t just about the prizes. It was an opportunity for LPS to celebrate a milestone and display images from glass photographic slides, taken by the founders of the club, that have recently been processed by current members. It was a successful event and we hope all who attended enjoyed the day.

Our thanks goes go to all the clubs who got involved in our competition – Abertawe, Bridgend, Carmarthen, Cymru Mono, Gwynfa, Kidwelly, Morriston, Neath, Porthcawl, Pyle & Pembrey, Tenby, Towy Valley, Trostre, Swansea – and of course a massive thank you to everyone who attended on the day.

Events like these don’t run themselves and LPS would like to thank everyone who has sponsored, helped and/or supported the event. We had a beautiful cake supplied by Jenkins Bakery and wonderful raffle prizes supplied by a number of companies including DS Colour Labs, Fotospeed, Carmarthen Cameras, Pure Creations and Llanelly House. We’d also like to thank Fotospeed for taking the time to visit us and show off some of their products.

Thanks also goes to Llanelli Library, National Library Of Wales, Mrs Barbara Willis, Llanelli Town Council, Llanelli Rural Council, Dafen Welfare, Selwyn Samuel Centre and Signs Express of Llansamlet.

Finally thanks to all at LPS who worked hard to ensure that the day ran so well. The good news is that we now have 25 years to plan the next milestone event.

Event day photography by Jennifer Williams and Graham Harries.

On 25th June Wales will be playing either Northern Ireland or Turkey in the first knockout stage of Euro 2016. However before the big match there’s another huge event taking place. The Selwyn Samuel Centre, Llanelli, will be hosting a special one off version of Llanelli Photographic Society’s Sosban Trophy competition to celebrate the club’s 125th Anniversary. The competition usually takes place on a Wednesday evening with six clubs involved, but for this year only 16 clubs will battle it out for a one off trophy.

Details of the event can be found above, but the key points are that the doors are open from 12.30pm with the competition getting underway at 1.30pm. Early visitors will be able to view exhibited printed images created from scans of glass photographic plates that were taken by founding members of LPS. In addition we hope to have small stands from Fotospeed and Carmarthen Cameras.

Our judge for the day is Rob Mitchell MA Photography and he has the unenviable task of scoring the images as well selecting one stand out image from the entries. There will be refreshments at half time and we aim to have wrapped up proceedings by 4.30pm which hopefully will give everyone who wants to watch the football sufficient time to get home and ready for the game.

Note also that we will be holding a raffle on the day. There are prizes donated by DS Colour Labs, Carmarthen Cameras, Llanelly House, Fotospeed and members of LPS. Finally a thank you to everyone who has supported, helped and sponsored LPS – good luck to all the clubs involved – and we hope to see you on Saturday.

The LPS Sosban Trophy will be at The Selwyn Samuel Centre (Lliedi Suite), Llanelli. There’s free car parking at the site and hopefully plenty of space. Visitors who are looking for lunch beforehand may like to try Wetherspoons or any of the cafes, such as Avos, in town. You’ll also find Nandos, Costa and Burger King.

Our annual AV competition gives members the chance to show off more images by putting together a slideshow of photographs accompanied with a musical soundtrack. It also allows members to show a bit of creativity and humour with their photography. This year there were a number of strong entries however the stand out entry was from Roy Watkins with his entry called “Mess”.

The image shows Roy collecting the AV Trophy (kindly donated to LPS by In The Frame) from Ray Rees.

Well done Roy.

On 25th June, LPS will be holding a special one off competition to celebrate 125 Years of Llanelli Photographic Society. Sixteen clubs will be taking part in the competition which is being held at The Selwyn Samuel Centre. Doors will be open from 12.30pm with the competition starting at 1.30pm.

We will be holding a raffle and are grateful to Carmarthen Cameras, DS Colour Labs, Fotospeed and Llanelly House for donating prizes.

Fotospeed & Carmarthen Cameras we hope will be joining us on the day.

As it’s a celebration we will have a cake – which has been kindly donated by Jenkins Bakery.

In addition to the competition we will also be showing a few images from our forthcoming 125th Anniversary Exhibition which will be on display in Llanelli Library from the 27th June and also in Llanelly House in August.

LPS would like to thank everyone who has donated prizes and/or sponsored the event.

We hope to see you there!