Oldest Camera Club in Wales – est 1891.
Other forthcoming comps to look out for are:
Amman Valley 3 way battle, where 8 prints and 8dpi are entered. The date for this is 20th November
Stanley Chell comp approx 20-25 clubs enter annually, where 4 prints are entered with at least 1 Landscape. This takes place on 23rd November
The entry for this years Gwnfa Pixels has now been submitted and congratulations to the following members who will be representing the club. the competition takes place on Saturday 2nd November and will be judged by Phil Charnock FRPS, MFIAP of Wigan 10 fame. For those members who are not familiar with this judge he was a member of ‘Wigan 10’ club who have won the World Digital Image Comp twice in the last 3 years. You can visit his web site at http://www.charnockphotography.co.uk
The location for this event is Talbot Green Community Centre, Cowbridge Rd, Talbot Green, CF72 8HS and it starts at 2.30pm, doors open at 1.45pm. Refreshments & buffet provided. I will be attending to represent the club and I will have 3 seats available first come first served. So lets try and show good support for the club and especially those who represent us! This is your opportunity to see the standard throughout the WPF
Joyce Mollet with ‘A Drink from Grandma’
Steve Milton with ‘Green Eyes
Jennifer Williams with ‘Ashes to Ashes’
David Rees with ‘Male Agrion’
Results will be posted once the comp has finished, in the past few years our best score has been =10th and that was in 2010, usually around 25 clubs are entered.
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.
We are now on 5th June and the 5 way battle at Amman Valley, Ray and myself were there to fly the flag for LPS and it was a successful night coming away with a win. The judge was Kevin Thomas who gave a very fair and detailed critique. The entry was as follows
That gave us a total of 134pts in 1st place with Neath in 2nd with 130pts and Amman Valley in 3rd with 128pts. Well done to Clive for his 20pts score and thanks to all who were selected to represent LPS
On the 3rd of June we had the Swansea Battle between 10 clubs, our entry was from
That left us with 87pts total and =6th place. The winners were Abertawe with 94pts, 2nd were Barry with 92pts and 3rd Tenby with 91pts. Abertawe also won the best print trophy. The judge was Martin Pinches.
Well done to all who were selected to represent the club and thanks to the numerous members who were there to cheer the club on
1st June was the annual Barrian Cup run by Barry CC, unfortunately I was unable to attend but Dave Paskin was there to represent the Club. We had 5 prints entered.
‘Morning Mist’ by Arthur Mallett 17pts
‘Holy Island’ by Clive Martin 17pts
‘Firestarter’ by Graham Harries 17pts
‘Amphu Labsta Pass Himalayas’ by John Ellis 18pts
‘Boy Monk’ by Peter Francis 15pts
This gave us 84 pts and left us in 15th= position, the comp was won by Inn Focus with 96pts, 2nd was Gwynfa 92pts and 3rd Thornbury 91pts.
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.
