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Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru
Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain
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Latest News
NWPA PRINT BATTLE - 12TH APRIL 2025 - Download rules Click here
Important Message from our Prsident - Download here
New NWPA Competition 2025
New for 2025 we have a Print and PDI competition for our club members, for more info click here
PDI Challenge best image by Dafydd Evans of Caernarfon CC, award being presented to him by his Club Chariman Egryn Lloyd.
Winning image - Too close for comfort
Our new President Charles Meadows being handed the Medal of Office by our past President Linda Bell
November Newsletter can be found here
Jan Wilson Chalon, AWPF
Congratulations go now to Jan Wilson Chalon who had not one, but two, successful Panels at the recent AWPF Assessments.
Linda Bell HonNWPA
Our President, Linda Bell, being awarder her HonNWPA by Charles Meadows, Vice President. Congratulations from all of us in the NWPA, a well deserved award that Linda was honoured to receive, which left her speechless.
PAGB CES system info...
An long article regarding the PAGB's CES system, can be found on their latest E-News (358) on pages 10-12. download it by clicking here.
Print Battle Results - Held April 21st at Craig y Don
Our judge for the day was Mike McNamee, the Editor of The Societies' Professional Imagemaker magazine and also a member of the Birkenhead Photographic Association.
The event was opened by the NWPA President, Linda Bell, who welcomed all those attending.
Twelve clubs were taking part in the competition - each entering 8 prints making a total of 96 prints for Mike to judge and comment on.
Results:
1st Mold CC on 145 points
2nd Conwy CC on 143 points
3rd Deeside CC on 142 points
4th Hawarden CC on 141 points
5th Llandundo PS on 139 points
6th Beaumaris & Menai Bridge CC on 138 points
7th = Blaenau CC and Prestatyn CC on 137 points
9th Dwyfor CC on 134 points
10th Rhyl PS on 132 points
11th Ruthin CC on 130 points
12th Dyffryn Ogwen CC on 125
Congratulations go to Mold CC for winning the competition and to Chris Evans of Prestatyn CC who gained the Best Print Medal for 'The Tusk' - a superb monochrome image of the Chung Ku Chinese restaurant which was printed on Permajet Titanium Lustre paper.
NWPA PDI Challenge 2019
Entry will be via on-line entry only - CLICK HERE
Entries should arrive by 23.59 on Saturday 9th Oct 2019.
Entry form can be downloaded here - Click here
The Challenge is open to all NWPA Clubs
Submitting your entry
- To access the on line entry system go to: www.photocompentries.net?org=NWPA
- As you fill in your entry you will be asked for your last name. For the purposes of this competition this is the NAME OF YOUR CLUB only e.g. Wrexham
- For your First Name you may enter your full name e.g. John Smith
You will need to know;
- The classes you are entering
- The location on your computer of your image files
- The titles
- Clubs may enter one image in any five classes plus a tie break. The sections are:
Class |
Type(s) |
Titles |
Night |
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Required |
Altered Reality |
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Required |
Rivers/Lakes |
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Required |
Nature |
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Required |
Street Scenes |
.jpg |
Required |
Motion |
.jpg |
Required |
Travel |
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Required |
Macro/Close Up |
.jpg |
Required |
Wild Card/Anything |
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Required |
Tie Break |
.jpg |
Required |
File Requirements
Each image should have a simple filename/ title, maximum 30 characters including spaces. Do not include punctuation (full stops, apostrophies, commas etc.)
Dylai pob delwedd gael enw ffeil / teitl syml, uchafswm 30 nod gan gynnwys bylchau. Peidiwch â chynnwys atalnodi (atalnodau llawn, apostrophies, comas ac ati)
Colour Space sRGB (not Adobe RGB or Pro Photo RGB etc)
File Format : Save images as high quality jpegs.
Maximum horizontal size1600 pixels. Maximum vertical size 1200 pixels
Images that do not conform to these requirements will not be accepted.