North Wales Photographic Association
Cymdeithas Ffotograffig Gogledd Cymru
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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.
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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!
High Speed Workshop report click here for a full review.
FIAP 3 Diamonds
awarded to 3 North Wales Photographers click here to download the full article
Congratulations go out to - Robert and Sharon Prenton Jones of Conwy Camera Club & Eryri Photo Group & Andy Polakowski of Mold Camera Club & Eryri Photo Group
August Newsletter is now available click here
NWPA High Speed Flash Photography Workshop
A Flash workshop will be held on the 14th August at Canolfan Tregarth (community Centre). If you are interested more info can be found on this downloadable PDF CLICK HERE
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.
NWPA Competition 7th June, 2025 Results
The results can be found by clicking here or under the Menu above, under Competitions.
June Newsletter is now available click here
A new post within the NWPA
Publicity Officer advert Click here to download
NWPA are looking for new Judges and Assessors
Click here to download the information
Portrait Masterclass article
The Portrait Masterclass run by Sharon and Robert Prenton Jones was run on the 28th of May, what was done on the day can be found in this article click here to download
Landscape Workshop in Snowdonia on the 25th June
Introduction to Landscape Photography Workshop - Lead by Peter Jepson DPAGB, BPE3*
Click here to download the full information on how to book and full itinerary.
Tudur Owen Exhibition
An event to celebrate Tudur's life to be held at Croesor Gallery on Saturday June 7th at 11am, to comemorate the life and work of our friend Tudur Owen. An exhibition of his work will be on show at the cafe's gallery in the village, who he helped build and run, for two weeks from this date.
Congratulations to Jan Wilson-Chalon, of Mold Camear Club, on receiving her DPAGB at Dunblane over the weekend.
NWPA Print Battle Results
Results of the Print battle can be found in the April Newsletter click here
Best picture was awarded to Sharon Prenton-Jones - "Thomas Cromwell"
Important Message from our Prsident - Download 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
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.
Selectors
Andy Polakowski
Andy was still in shorts when he started printing in his father's darkroom and
photography, photographs, photographica have been a major part of his life ever
since.
A past winner of The British Photography Competition it wasn't until moving to North
Wales that he joined his one and only camera club, Mold Camera Club, 40 years ago
where he is currently Vice-Chairman and External Competitions Secretary.
As a keen believer in getting photographic images seen, he is a prolific exhibitor both
Nationally and Internationally gaining over 100 Awards not only with single images
but also Audio-Visuals. Using one of the current crop of book self-publishers is
another outlet that Andy is also pursuing and encouraging to others.
He maintains that clubs now have a greater than ever role to play in bringing out the
best in everyone's photographic ambitions and to this end, for over 30 years, he has
been lecturing and judging in photography clubs throughout North Wales and the
North West and Midlands of England.
"Take pictures, show pictures, look at pictures" could be his motto.
Sue Clark
My interest in photography changed from a pastime to a passion when I discovered Photoshop in the late 1990s. I found that I was much more at home with digital technology than I had been with darkroom processing. It was an opportunity that I didn’t realise I was waiting for!
Over the years I have developed my knowledge of the programme and although my images almost always look as if they are straight from the camera, they are invariably heavily edited, whether they are single images or a composite of several.
My work has been selected for national and international exhibitions and salons.
I have been a member of Conwy Camera Club since 2010.
I judge camera club competitions.
My lectures on composition and photo editing have been led by my interest in art and art history.
Phil Chadwick
Now I am a member of Eryri Photo Group. I have belonged to other photo clubs over many years; back in the 1970s I joined Wigan PS for 4 years then Crewe CC in the 1980s for about 3 years. Again moving I joined Cefni CC. When I retired in 2004 and decided to get back into club photography and turned digital! As I was now living in the Conwy area I joined Conwy CC before joining Llandudno, I have enjoyed success at club level, not been out of the top 3 photographers in any club.
Type of photography, I would say that I enjoy taking people in their environment i.e. street photography, a bit of landscape & animals as well.
Over the past eight years I have enjoyed entering national & international salons gaining my BPE5 & AFIAP, also gaining my CPAGB & DPAGB back to back 7 years ago in prints and PDIs, and about 2 years ago a panel of prints for my AWPF.
Sharon Prenton Jones
I picked up a camera for the first time in 2012 and quickly became obsessed with photography. I purchased a Nikon D3100, moved to a Nikon D7100 and then to an Olympus Pen-F. In December 2017 I sold everything and purchased a Sony A7Riii. Happy to say I have now found the perfect camera for me.
I joined Llandudno Photographic Society in 2012 and then moved to Conwy Camera Club in 2018. I started entering Club competitions and National and International Salons very quickly without a clue what I was doing. However, I kept an open mind, listened to criticism, tried lots of different forms of photography, and most importantly had fun.
Having tried various aspects of photography over the last 6 years I think I have now found my niche which is Portraiture, Fine Art Photography and Composite work. I use Photoshop as my main processing tool.
I look forward to many more years of fun in a Photography World that has room for every genre.
John Bell
I have always had a camera and a somewhat naive interest in photography from my teens.
I stayed with film until 2009, that’s when I bought my first digital camera. With little experience, no training, but a lot of heart, I set out to become a photographe.
I joined my first Camera club in 2010 in Mold and later on became a member of the Eryri Photography group.
I very quickly came to realize that photography is a never ending learning process, from the technical side of it to the art and storytelling. However, I have to say that the journey is all part of the fun!
I gained my Licentiate with the Royal Photographic Society in 2012,
Then went on to exhibit in international salons around the world.
In 2017, I had work accepted for the prestigious ‘ Masters of Print’ exhibition that was on display in London at the RK Burt Gallery.
I would describes my photography as both a hobby and an obsession!
Linda Bell
I am a local photographer who lives just outside Mold in North Wales.
I enjoy all types of photography but particularly enjoy doing Nature and still life.
I started entering exhibitions and photographic salons in 2012, and have received
much pleasure from this, gaining some awards along the way. We live in a beautiful
part of the world and it inspires me on a regular basis to get the camera out and go exploring.
Ian O'Neill
Ian has been interested in photography from an early age thanks to his brother, who used to develop his own pictures in a makeshift darkroom (their bathroom!), and for a six year old it was magic. A camera was the first thing he ever purchased with his first salary when starting work and he has never been without one since.
At the moment he uses the Olympus system which is light and gives excellent results; after 25 years with Canon, Olympus gives him what he wants in a small package. The genres he's most interested in photography-wise are People, Environmental, Landscapes and Macro . . . but he does turn his hand to other subjects when the urge is there. But his main interest is people photography and he enjoys the rapport to get the perfect shot ("yet to get it . . . still striving for it!").
He is a member of Blaenau Ffestiniog camera club and is their Competition Secretary, as well as webmaster. It is a small club with some really impressive photographers across so many genres.
He feels it has been privilege to be asked to judge and lecture in numerous clubs in the NWPA and has enjoyed every minute of it; he says "the enthusiasm of the members in photography is simply wonderful to behold, may it continue".
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