North Wales Photographic Association

Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru

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NWPA Competiton 2026 - Saturday 11th July, 2026 - click here for mor info

NWPA Print Battle - Saturday 11th April, 2026 for more info Click here

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Sue Clark HonNWPA

Congratulations to Sue Clark on receiving and HonNWPA award for exceptional services , Here's Sue receiving her award from president Charles Meadows at Conwy camera Club
Nomination for Susan Clark for NWPA Hons:
Sue has made a rich and varied contribution to amateur photography in North Wales since she joined Conwy Camera Club in 2010. She is always in great demand as a speaker and a judge across North Wales and further afield. She is a highly competent photographer and has a passion for the history of photography and photographic techniques having embraced Photoshop since its infancy.
Despite being one of the largest clubs in North Wales over the last 20 years, Conwy has produced relatively few competition judges. Sue is a very well respected judge throughout North Wales and beyond and is known to be scrupulously fair, always well prepared and highly professional. Feedback from clubs where she has judged is always positive! The Club is grateful to Sue for her tireless work as a judge and proud of her experience and expertise and is proud of the high esteem in which she is held.

John Smith HonNWPA

Well done and congratulations to John Smith Hon NWPA! here's the man himself receiving an Honourable NWPA award for exceptional service, from President Charles meadows at the NWPA exec meeting this afternoon, for or all the work he does behind the scenes and his tireless work for the NWPA print and PDI battles including pre and post show involvement as well as on the actual day ! this includes creating an AV slideshows for clubs to present to their members to view at their leisure.

John visits many other clubs affiliated to the NWPA by going along and sharing his knowledge and giving various presentations, John is also an NWPA judge and gladly gives his time and evenings ,sharing his skills and knowledge for the benefit of others, he is also the delegate for Rhyl Photographic Society at the NWPA meetings, the secretary for Rhyl Photographic Society and is the webmaster for an AV group he belongs to in Cheshire and is extremely involved in.

John is a great asset for the NWPA, Rhyl Photographic Society and the North Wales photography scene and deserves this award as recognition for all his hard work over the years!

Christine Langford HonPAGB

A huge, and well deserved, Congratulations to Christine Langford, who has been awarded the prestigious JS Lancaster Medal by the PAGB, the highest honour they hand out to individuals, for all the years of hard work, not only to the PAGB … but also the NWPA, Eryri PS and Dwyfor CC. She was awarded the honour by Peter Young, Vice president of the PAGB, in front of friends at the Eryri PS meeting. She was taken aback at being awarded this honour, and a few tears were shed.

Christine has been the Oracle within the NWPA, always willing to help and hand out advice. Always working in the background at most of the events NWPA run, and always at hand on the day of the events…..this also reflects within the Eryri PS, she runs it….all by herself.

Info: The J S Lancaster Medal was instituted in 1998 to recognise exceptional service to the PAGB, and is named after its first Secretary. Award holders may use the designation ‘HonPAGB’, replacing any previous award of APAGB.

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.

NWPA Print Battle 2026

This year's NWPA Print Battle which is taking place on Saturday 11th April at the Craig y Don Community Centre, Queens Road, Llandudno.
To make your journey up to Llandudno worthwhile, this is planned to be a full day event with clubs exhibiting their members' work for us to enjoy, possibly a 'Bring & Buy Sale' where you can purchase or sell all your goodies, an interesting talk by our visiting judge and of course the Print Battle competition itself!.

To whet your appetite, here are the provisional timings:
9.00 am - the hall opens for setting up a mini exhibition of clubs prints etc and the acceptance of each club’s print entry.
9.30 am - The NWPA President officially opens the event, and attendees will then have the opportunity to socialise, look at the prints on show and possibly the photographic Bring and Buy sale will be taking place.
10.30 am - Exhibition is pulled down and there is a refreshment break.
11.15am Talk by our Judge, Steve Proctor MPAGB, BPE5*, PPSA, A.APS, UKICPG-3 who is travelling down from Clitheroe.
12.45pm - 1.45pm Lunch break
1.45pm to 4.30pm Judging of the NWPA Print Battle.
5pm - the competition is over and we have to be out of the hall The format of the Print Battle is the usual one:

To enter your club needs just 8 prints with at least 3 colour prints, at least 3 monochrome prints and with no more than 2 nature prints.
The prints must not have been entered into any previous NWPA Battle or as a PDI in the NWPA PDI Challenge.
To encourage our smaller clubs to take part there is no restriction on the number of prints per entrant – however we would hope that if possible, more members are used …..and if a club with a limited number of entrants comes first or second – they will not be invited to represent the NWPA at the PAGB Print Championships as many more prints are required and from a greater number of authors.
Those clubs who are taking part will be sent out an individual entry form/score sheet which will need to be completed and returned to myself and Phil by the 28th March On the competition day, the prints will be handed in by the clubs before 9.30am in numbered
order with the reference letter/number on the back top right hand corner.
So what do I want from you now seeing as though the competition is not taking place until April?
Well I need to know as soon as possible (after you have discussed things at your club) - which NWPA clubs are taking part and which are definitely not!
This information is important as we need to know which clubs are taking part to be able to design the score sheet
Once advised of a club’s decision to take part or definitely not taking part - that decision will be final!
So what do you have to do now??
Firstly, just let me know that you are taking part before the 14th March.
clubsec@rhylphotosoc.co.uk
Start sorting out your entry.
Those clubs that are taking part will be sent an individual entry form, fill it in with the titles and authors - keep a copy and email the completed sheets to myself and Phil by the 28th March phils.dpi@gmail.com
So over to you! Any problems – please email me John Smith Print Battle Organiser