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Towy Valley Battle Success For LPS

Towy Valley Camera Club hosted a three way battle between themselves, Llanelli and Kidwelly on the 6th October. The battle involved showing eight prints and eight digital images from all three clubs – Harry Gardiner AWPF as judge had the honour of deciding which club would come out on top.

After the prints round, Llanelli were narrowly ahead of Towy Valley so there was all to play for when it came to the digitals. The good news for LPS is that we managed to hold our lead and came out on top.

The final scores were:

Llanelli Photographic Society – 299
Towy Valley CC – 292
Kidwelly CC – 285

The individual scores for LPS members were as follows:

Prints

1. A Touch Of Class – 18
2. Feeding The Idea – 19
3. Beautiful Demoiselle – 18
4. A Drink From Grandma – 20
5. A Mourning – 20
6. The Old Chapel – 17
7. Roses Are Red – 20
8. Shepherd in Rajasthan – 20

Digital Images

1. Cave Explorers – 18
2. Cwmorthin – 19
3. Holy Island – 18
4. Nephilim – 18
5. PC 49 – 18
6. Sun Voyager – 17
7. Urban Rock – 18
8. When Duty Calls – 20

Congratulations to all involved, thanks to Jackie, Ray, Carole, Alun and Arthur for flying the flag for LPS at the battle, and big thanks also to our hosts at Towy Valley for a fabulous event.

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Macro DPI Competition – September 2014

Llanelli Photographic Society held their fourth DPI (digital image) competition of 2014 this week and the subject was macro. This resulted in a mixture of entries including bugs, flowers, water droplets and kitchenware. After a critique by Ray Rees the top six, as judged by members, was revealed.

The winner was Jennifer Williams with “The Stare”, a fabulous shot showing a damselfly.

In second place was Jackie Davies with Insey Winsey whilst third place went to Alun Lewis “With Love”. Jason Dale had two images in equal fourth place, both showing water droplet images, whilst Dave Rees took sixth place with his shot of a fly.

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Sports DPI Competition – May 2014

Our third DPI competition of 2014 was for sports photography. This attracted a number of entries featuring a wide range of sports including canoe slalom, cricket, golf, rugby and football. The top six for this competition were selected by an external judge rather than by members scores.

Sports DPI Winner - Edmund Shum

After a critique by Ray Rees, the winner was announced as Edmund Shum with “Back Of The Net”. This was Ed’s first win since joining the club this year.

The top six were as follows:

1. Edmund Shum
2. Roy Watkins
3. Ian Lewis
4. Jackie Davies
5. Jason Dale
6. Peter Francis

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Ken Jones Trophy Winner – 2014

On May 7th, Llanelli Photographic Society held it’s annual Ken Jones Trophy competition. There were over 40 prints entered in to this special monochrome themed competition. The winner was Richard Johnson, who has notched up yet another success and continues his rich vein of form in LPS competitions during 2014.

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The winning image is shown above along with Richard receiving The Ken Jones Trophy from sponsor Mark Mathias (image by Alison Warren).

LPS Winners 2014

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Open Print 2 Winner – Richard Johnson

Narnia

Richard Johnson was chosen as the winner of the second open print competition of 2014. Leigh Woolford was the judge and he chose his top six as follows:

1. Richard Johnson – Narnia
2. Steve Milton – Ambivalent
3. Richard Johnson – Eye of The Beholder
4. Graham Harries – Urban Rock
5. Jennifer Williams – Flowers In Her Hair
6. Netley Davies – Abandoned

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WPF Memorial Trophy 2014 Result

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

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Brian Jennings Result

Monday night was the annual Brian Jennings Trophy hosted by Trostre CC. Our entry was ‘Ashes to Ashes’ by Jennifer Williams (20pts), ‘Misty Morning’ by Arthur Mallett (17pts), ‘Severn Sunset’ by Clive Martin (19pts), ‘A Drink from Grandma’ by Joyce Mollet (20pts) and ‘Blue Tit’ by David Rees (19pts).
As usual Trostre provided an excellent night with the usual superb buffet, it was well attended by all the clubs entered (8) and to cap it all we came away with our first WIN of the year beating Tenby by just 1 point. The judge was Roy Thomas and each club entered 5 prints. Interestingly Tenby beat us by 1pt last year!

The final results were

Llanelli 95pts, Tenby 94pts, Carmarthen 89pts, Towy Valley 89pts, Abertawe 87pts, Trostre 86pts, Pembrey/Bury Port 85pts and Amman Valley 82pts

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Trophy being presented to Ray Rees (President) by Roy Thomas (Judge)
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Ray topping up with one of the Raffle Prizes

Well done to all that were selected and thanks go to all the members who attended from Llanelli making it a very enjoyable night.

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Stanley Chell Results

Last Saturday was the last of the 2013 external competitions entered by LPS. There were a total of 27 clubs entered again from across the WPF area. It was judged over 4 rounds (prints) by Martin Fry from Cheltenham. After the first two rounds we were =3rd, after 3 rounds we were =2nd and at the end came away with a very credible =3rd position behind Gwynfa and Inn Focus Group.

Our entry consisted of 4 prints, ‘Holy Island’ by Clive Martin 18pts, ‘Paper Chase’ by Jennifer Williams 16pts, ‘A Drink from Grandma’ by Joyce Mollet 17pts and ‘The Bird Cage’ by Steve Milton 16pts. These scores may seem a little low but the overall judging was very fair and went from as low as 11pts to the max of 20pts, although there were only two 20pts scored in the whole competition.

Tredegar walked away with the best B&W, Swansea with best Colour, Bridgened with best Landscape and Inn Focus with best image overall. There were trophies for all these categories.

The winning club for the actual ‘Stanley Chell Trophy’ was Gwynfa 69pts, second was Inn Focus with 68pts and Llanelli/Towey Valley =3rd with 67pts. So again we came in the top three of 27 clubs

Well done to all those who were selected

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Amman Valley 3 Way Battle Result

This is one of the two annual events held by Amman Valley CC. The other in June is a 6way Battle. The clubs entered were Amman Valley, Carmarthen and ourselves. The competition is split into two halves the first being 8 prints and the second half 8 dpi images. At the end of round 1 we were in the lead by 3pts from Carmarthen, after the second round, which we also won by 4pts again from Carmarthen. We came out victors with a total of 287pts from Carmarthen 280pts and AV 262pts. The competition was judged by Roy Thomas from Neath.

Our entry was as follows

Prints, ‘End of a Dream’ by Peter Francis 17pts, ‘Glacier Express’ by Arthur Mallett 17pts, ‘Amphu Labtsa Pass’ by John Ellis 20pts, ‘Pure’ by Jennifer Williams 16pts, ‘Green Eyes’ by Steve Milton 18pts, ‘Cwmorthin’ by Graham Harries 18pts, ‘Ashes to Ashes’ by Jennifer Williams 18pts and ‘Beautiful Demoiselle’ by David Rees 19pts

Digital, ‘California Dreaming’ by Steve Milton 16pts, ‘Going to Morning Prayer’ by Peter Francis 19pts, ‘Severn Sunset’ by Clive Martin 20pts, ‘Stroke’ by John Ellis 17pts, ‘Egret’ by Jason Dale 18pts, ‘Grounded’ by Jennifer Williams 19pts, ‘Silhouette’ by Arthur Mallett 17pts and ‘The Apprentice’ by Joyce Mollet 18pts.

Special congratulations to both Clive and John for scoring 20pts

Llanelli Photographic Society