NWPA Competition 2025

 

A date for the Diary
NWPA Competition June 7th 2025
As many of you are aware due to running costs, our annual Exhibition was not held last year, this year we are running a competition for individual club members to enter and receive a little feed back from the Judge on their images.
The competition will take place in Llandudno Craig y don community centre on the 7th June 2025.
Our Judge will be Ian Whiston DPAGB,EFIAP/p,FBPE,EPSA a well known and respected Photographer and Judge. He will endeavour to comment on all the images received. Images will be scored out of 20 and we will have a Trophy for the best image in
each section.


If you received a Trophy at the NWPA Exhibition could you arrange to have it returned to us by March. You can do this via your club representative if they are attending the next Exec meeting which is on Sunday the 2nd of March 2025
Due to the Judge being asked to comment on the Images we are proposing that you as an entrant can enter 6 images in total over 3 sections. Mono, Colour and Nature.
You can choose to enter as PDI or Print or a mixture of the two. A maximum of 4 per section out
of your 6 images.


The Competition is a single Event in three Categories
• Monochrome
• Colour
• Nature
• Rules for entering the above competition
• The General Conditions for NWPA Competition Events are as
follows
• Eligibility
• The ENTRANT must be a paid up member of a photographic club or society affiliated to the NWPA.
Individual members of all clubs affiliated with the NWPA may enter any or all Categories of the Competition.


Images
Each Entrant is responsible for ensuring the eligibility of their Images.Images previously entered into the NWPA Exhibition cannot be reused. All images forming part of an entry must be originated by photographic means by the author, who must hold the original copyright of all such constituent parts,By entering the exhibition you give consent to the NWPA to keep your email address and club details in our files. This is so you can receive updates and results. The Competition is Free to enter


The selection date is Saturday June 7th at Craig y Don. Llandudno, doors will open at 10am, A £3 entry fee on the door which includes Tea/coffee and biscuits, and there will be our usual raffle.
The exhibition entry portal opening date will be sent out nearer the time with instructions of how to use it. The rules for Mono, Nature and colour sections are below

With the new additions of AI to software used to process our images please be aware
that generative fill using stock images is not allowed all parts of the image must be
your own.

Nature: You may crop, dodge, burn sharpen saturate or convert to mono. You may clone out but you may NOT clone anything in. You may not add any part of any other image into the finished image.
Open Colour: As it says OPEN but must show colour.
Open Mono: As it says OPEN, but must follow mono rules as follows:
Definition of a MONOCHROME image – ‘A Monochrome image is one which has only a single tone e.g. cool, warm, sepia etc. A monochrome image which has been modified by the addition of another colour/partial tone is a colour image’... for eg Colour popping or adding a partial coloured filter

 

PRINT DELIVERY
Prints can be brought along to the NWPA print battle (Date to be confirmed} in Llandudno orally Eryri meeting held monthly also in Llandudno They can also be Dropped of to Jan Wilson Chalon Nr Ruthin or Linda Bell in Northop Hall Addresses will be provided nearer the time
Feel free to get in touch with any queries
Event organiser Jan Wilson Chalon Email Jan click here