North Wales Photographic Association

Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru

Member of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

NWPA - AGM
At the Annual General Meeting last month the following Officers and Postholders
were elected
President: Charles Meadows Past President: Linda Bell
Vice President: Robert Prenton Jones
Treasurer: Jan Wilson Chalon Secretary: Jason Wharam
PAGB Representative: Tony Davies
PAGB Awards Officer: Linda Bell
Data Manager: Jason Wharam Web Master: Ian O’Neill
Exhibition Secretaries: Jan Wilson Chalon & Linda Bell
Newsletter Editor: Christine Langford
Competition Secretary: Vacant

PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT
Congratulations go to Sonia Jones of Llandudno, who has been
Awarded the new distinction of BPAGB.

The NWPA are going to hold a new competition this summer and all
the details are on the attached document.
It will be held on Saturday 7th June at Craig-y-Don and you are all
encouraged to give this your support.

CALENDAR 2025
Jan
Feb
MAR. Sun. 2 1.30 8-11	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno Photography & Video Show London Excel
Apr Sat 12	NWPA Print Battle - Craig y Don
May
JUNE Sun. 1 1.30 Sat. 7	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno NWPA Competition Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
JULY Sun.6	PAGB Inter-club PDI Championship Warwick
Aug
SEPT. Sun. 7 1.30	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
OCT. Sat. 18	PAGB Inter-club Print Championship Blackburn
Nov
DEC. Sun. 7 1.30	NWPA AGM + Exec. Meeting Craig-y-Don. Llandudno

The above are just a few dates to put into your clubs’ diaries.
Please let me have any more to be included.

The following exhibitions are open for entries:
Bristol closing date 31 January
Southampton c/d 2 February
Welsh Salon 2 March
Cheltenham Int. 30 March
Neath 20 April

February

March

I am sad to report that two well-respected North Wales photographers have died recently:

Matt Morrow was, from the moment he arrived in Mold Camera Club in about 2012/2013, a strong photographer with a keen appreciation of the outdoors, from Alpine and Snowdonia scenes to action sports, from Moto-Cross to Slalom Canoeing, and was
capable of quietly tackling almost any genre to great effect.
A very modest man, if pushed, he would talk with authority on any of his subjects and his dedication to his own photography and to the Club is evidenced by his distinctions in International Exhibitions, AFIAP (Artiste FIAP), National Exhibitions, (BPE4*), and CPAGB (Credit PAGB).
It will never be the same without Matt in Mold Camera Club and the Eryri Photo Group - his sudden passing has shocked everyone who knew him and our sympathies go out to Sylvia and his family.
Andy Polakowski, Mold CC

Tudur Owen Passed away peacefully at his home LLYS HELEN Croesor on February 18th aged 93 years.
Tudur was a life member of CLWB CAMERA BLAENAU FFESTINIOG He produced some amazing images and was a fantastic asset to the club Public funeral at Bangor crematorium on Thursday March 6th at 9am An event to celebrate Tudur's life to be held at Croesor Gallery on Saturday June 7th at 11am
Dewi Wiliams
Club chairman, Blaenau Ffestiniog CC

Tudur was one of the most respected Photographers in North Wales, working mostly in Black and White prints, with his work being exhibited around the world and published in numerous magazines and books. A member of Deudrath Camera club for a number of years, he then joined Blaenau over 30 years ago. Always willing to talk about photography, especially his favourite genres: nudes and Landscapes.
Ian O’Neill

WANTED - URGENTLY - COMPETITION SECRETARY
The Competition Secretary shall arrange collection, selection and return of NWPA entries for the PAGB Inter-Federation Exhibitions and Competitions and any other events as may be required by the Executive Committee.
In the first instance, this year’s Competition will be selected by the PAGB during the first week of June, with our entries sent in a week or two beforehand.
The NWPA are holding our own Print Battle on the 12th April when the best prints from the clubs can be seen.
Please give this your serious attention. Could you take on this important role for us? Do you know anyone else who could?
Please contact Jason Wharam if you can help (wharamj@gmail.com

April

NWPA PRINT BATTLE

The annual Print Battle was held on Saturday 12th April at the Craig-y-Don Community Centre in Llandudno.
The day began with clubs exhibiting some of their prints on stands for Members to walk around and enjoy. Thanks go to all the clubs which brought stands and prints This was followed by an excellent talk by our Judge for the day -
Christine Widdall MPAGB, EFIAP, FBPE from Oldham

FINAL SCORES FROM THE PRINT BATTLE
1st with 140 Mold
2nd 139 Eryri
3rd 136 Deeside
4th 133 Blaenau Ffestiniog
= 5th 131 Caernarfon
= 5th 131 Conwy
6th 130 Dwyfor
= 7th 129 Hawarden
= 7th 129 Prestatyn
8th 128 Cefni
9th 127 Llandudno
10th 125 Beaumaris
11th 124 Ruthin
12th 119 Rhyl
The Best Print was declared to be “Thomas Cromwell” by Sharon Prenton Jones of Conwy
The top two clubs are invited to represent the NWPA at the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship in October.
It was an excellent day, well organised and well attended.
Very grateful thanks go to:
John Smith who master-minded the event, with his scorer Kath the three Llandudno Ladies who provided the refreshments
Peter Carlyon in charge of the projector John Weller, putter-upper of prints Janet Davies, raffle organiser & chief photographer
And, of course, Christine Widdall for her wisdom and judgements

Andy Polakowski receives the Clubs winning tophy from Christine Widdall

Best picture was from Sharon Prenton-Jones - "Thomas Cromwell"

May

NWPA COMPETITION 7TH JUNE 2025

I do hope you will enter the June competition and come along to the event being held at Craig -y-Don, Queens Road, Llandudno, LL30 1TE on the 7th June 2025 doors open at 10am.

A £3 entry fee on the door which includes Tea/coffee and biscuits, and there will be our usual raffle.

We have a fantastic draw, suppliers have been very generous with sponsoring us with prizes.

We are also holding a BRING AND BUY SALE details at the end.

The competition entry portal will open on 14th May to 28th May. Details will be announced on 14th May along with details of how to enter your images.

These details will be sent to your NWPA representatives, they will be posted on the NWPA web site and the NWPA Facebook.

Please contact Jan or Linda if you need any help. (contact details below)

Thank you to Richard Hainsworth who has volunteered to run the computer program and to those of you who are helping out on the day.

COMPETITION RULES

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 e.g. Colour popping or adding a partial coloured filter

You can enter 6 images in pdi or print a maximum of 4 in any one category.

The categories are OPEN COLOUR, OPEN MONO and NATURE.

Your pdi’s for both prints and pdi at 1600 x 1200 pixels need to be loaded into the portal site from 14th May to 28th May 2025.

Any Prints you want to enter can be dropped off or posted to the people below. Remember the pdi of your print needs to be entered into the portal from 14th May.

Jan Wilson - Chalon, Lletty Cottage, Hendrerwydd, LL16 4LL Email: Click here

Linda Bell, 6 Bryn Gwyn Lane, Northop Hall Flintshire CH7 6JT Email: Click here

Congratulations to Jan Wilson-Chalon, of Mold Camera club, who was succesful in obtaining her DPAGB at Dunblane.

(bottom right of this image...with all the succesful candidates on the day)

June

The new NWPA COMPETITION was held at Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
On Saturday 7th June and was judged by Ian Whiston, DPAGB, EFIAP/g, ABPE

There were 6 sections and the winners of each sections were as follows:

             Mono Prints           John Bell            with     A Portrait of Resillience
Mono PDIs            Chris Evans                   Crossing the Severn
Colour Prints         Linda Bell                      The Best of Friends
Colour PDIs           Rory Trappe                  Cwmorthin Terrace
Nature Prints         Jan Wilson Chalon         The 3 Bears
Nature PDIs          Andy Polakowski            Bufo Bufo Travelling in Amplexus

The Overall Winners with 112 points each were Carl Senior & Chris Evans

Many congratulations to all the above.

Thanks go to all those involved in the organisation of this event:

Linda Bell & Jan Wilson Chalon (the organisers)
Rich Hainsworth on the computer Peter Carlyon set up the sound system
Janet Davies on the door & the raffle
Charles Meadows, Sarah Horrocks & Peter Jepson on the Bring & Buy
Andy Polakowski – Title calling Ian’Neill – manual scorer
Print Handlers: Sharon Prenton Jones, John Weller, Phil Cadwick
Jean Chadwick & Iona O’Neill
Refreshments: Iona O’Neill & the ladies from Llandudno
Robert Prenton Jones who took our photos

And the audience of course for coming and everyone who entered.

“I would like to say a personal thank you to all who came on the day and made it so successful. It was great to see so many new names on the entry list and the judge thought the overall selection of images was outstanding.
We had 393 images from 68 entrants which were viewed and commented on and the judge Ian Whiston did a fantastic job on the day.”
Linda Bell

The NWPA PDI Challenge will be held on Saturday 8th November
with the hall booked from 13.30 to 17.30
so the competition will commence at 2pm.

The Judge for the event is Linda Haney MPAGB FBPE EFIAP who will be travelling in from Frodsham.

AWPF Distinction Applications Invited

The Welsh Photographic Federation is delighted to invite applications for the 2025 Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation (AWPF) distinction.

This prestigious award is open to a maximum of 25 applicants annually and welcomes photographers from around the world. Achieving the AWPF requires submitting a cohesive panel of 12 images that will be assessed by five highly regarded, experienced photographers. The WPF is one of the few Federations within the PAGB to offer this highly sought-after distinction.
Successful candidates earn the lifelong privilege of using the letters AWPF after their name, a testament to their photographic excellence.

The assessment will be held on the 16th November at Talbot Green Community Centre.

For more information, please visit the WPF website: AWPF Distinction Award Rules Guidelines for Applicants Additional nformation – Preparation AWPF Application Form For a chronological listing of all latest news and information on the AWPF assessments, workshops etc., please visit.
http://mywpf.org/category/awpf-assessments

Calendar - 2025

JAN.
FEB.
MAR. Sun. 2 1.30 8-11	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno Photography & Video Show London Excel
APR. Sat. 12	NWPA Print Battle Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
MAY
JUNE Sun. 1 1.30 Sat. 7	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno NWPA Competition Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
JULY Sun.6	PAGB Inter-club PDI Championship Warwick
AUG.
SEPT. Sun. 7 1.30	NWPA Executive Meeting Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
OCT. Sat. 18	PAGB Inter-club Print Championship Blackburn
NOV. Sat. 8	NWPA PDI Challenge Craig-y-Don, Llandudno
DEC. Sun. 7 1.30	NWPA AGM + Exec. Meeting Craig-y-Don. Llandudno

An overview of the Portrait Masterclass run by Sharon and Robert Prenton Jones can be read here