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Swansea Battle 2012

On the 28th May we were entered in the Swansea Battle, unfortunately I was on holiday so Mandi kindly stood in for me.
I understand we ended up 5th overall, the full details will follow once I have a copy of the score sheet.
Now I have the full score sheet the individual entries and scores are as follows.
‘Todays News’ by Joyce Mollet 17pts, ‘Cathys Biscuits’ by Arthur Mallett 16pts, ‘The Sadhus’ by Gary Martin 19pts, ‘Rain Rain go Away’ by Alun Lewis 15pts, ‘Stranded’ by David Rees 19pts.
Overall Scores:
1st Abertawe 91pts
2nd Tenby 89pts
3rd Merthyr Tydfil 88pts
4th Swansea 87pts
5th Llanelli 86pts
=6th Phoenix 84pts
=6th The Vale
8th Rhondda 83pts
9th Trostre 82pts
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Gwynfa Piccadilly Albums 2012 Report

Last night was the Gwynfa Piccadilly Albums competition, which we have won for the last two years. There were 4 clubs entered, Gwynfa, Merthyr, Inn Focus and Llanelli, the comp consisted of two rounds of 6 images one print section and one digital section.
Unfortunately we did not do great we were last in both sections and therefore last overall. The final result was a tie between Merthyr and Inn Focus, who shared the trophy 6 months each.
Our individual results were as follows
Print Section
Bambi Killer by Graham Harries 14pts
Taking a Break by Tony Collis 14pts
Railway Sidings by Arthur Mallett 16pts
Indigo Dye Worker by Joyce Mollet 17pts
Twighlight Years by Joyce Mollet 16pts
No Pallette by Jennifer Williams 17pts
Digital Section
Clowning Around by Steve Milton 19pts
Hear no, See no, Speak no by Graham Harries 17pts
Rain Rain Go Away by Alun Lewis 17pts
Selling Marigolds by Tony Collis 15pts
Shoemaker and his Helper by Joyce Mollet 17pts
Stranded by David Rees 18pts
Interestingly there were a total of 10 natural history images all scoring between 17-20pts and as we don’t do those sort of images, it left us rather short as well as the fact that when our entry was chosen the overall selection available was limited.
So congratulations to all those who were chosen especially to Steve for the highest individual score of 19pts (well deserved)
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Ken Jones Trophy Results

Last night was the second running of the ‘Ken Jones’ Trophy and we were pleased to welcome again Mark Mathias the nephew of Ken who sponsored the trophy.
The judge was one of our longtime members Andrew Richards who gave a very interesting and worthy appraisal of the 36 images entered.
Yet again Gary Martin came out on top with a simple portrait of a local gentleman called ‘John’ this can be seen in our winners gallery on the right.



Mark Mathias presenting the trophy to Gary Martin



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LPS Awards Dinner 2012

Another year over for trophies and awards and we all met up on the 9th March at EJ’s for our annual dinner and wards ceremony. here are a few of the images from the night.



Don’t they look Happy!




Our Hosts for the night





Even Tony got in on the game



Another trophy to her name



Well deserved Carole



My Carmarthenshire yet again



Surprise Surprise



The Happy Couple

Even one for me

Some of the Trophies for Gary



Well done Alun



Proud of his glass Bauble
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WPF Salon 2012 Entry

The results are in and can be seen on the WPF web site. It would seem that we have redeemed ourselves from previous years and this year we have an acceptance of 17.5% more in line with our results of several years ago..
The 11 accepted in the print section are as follows
Alun Lewis 2 x Colour
Clive Martin 1 x Colour
Graham Harries 2 x Colour
Joyce Mollet 4 x Colour and 2 x B&W with one image gaining a HC
In the Digital section we had 3 images accepted
Gary Martin
Joyce Mollet
Tony Collis
So overall a total of 14 out of 80 entries
Well done to all those who gained acceptances and hard luck to those who did not, better luck next year
Llanelli Photographic Society