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Hornbill Challenge 2012

Neath Photographic Society is proud to host The Hornbill Challenge 2012. This popular photographic competition is open to residents of the United Kingdom. The competition is for projected images only so if you are new to photographic competitions there is no fiddly printing involved.

Whether you are a seasoned campaigner or fresh to photography, this is your opportunity to show off your images and win a useful cash prize.

‘Whether you are a seasoned campaigner or fresh to photography, this is your opportunity to show off your images and win a useful cash prize.’

A total prize pot of £350 is up for grabs. £200 will be awarded to the photographer with the overall winning image with a further £50 being awarded to the best ‘Industrial Landscape’, ‘Natural History’ and ’Monochrome’ image selected by the Judges from the entries.  Click on the advert below to find out more:

Link to Hornbill Challenge Website

Print and Projected Image of the Year 2012

Last night saw the climax of our Competition Year with the Print and PI of the Year.  All the Prints and PI’s must have been the originals used in any of the Clubs Internal Competitions throughout the Year.  Re-mounting and re-touching was not allowed.  The Judge for the evening was Mr Gareth Martin AWPF form Cymru Monochrome and the newly formed Phoenix CC.  Gareth contacted me prior to the competition because he was so impressed by the standard of the work he wanted to award top marks to more than one.  Eventually winners were decided and the winning images can be seen in our on-line gallery.  Congratulations to Arfon John for his winning Print ‘Slam Junk’ and also to Dave Merchant for his winning PI ‘Christian Clifford Up Close’.  Just a tip to the shy of you Dave is a relatively new member (less than 12 months).  Well done to you both.

Competition 6 ‘Candid’ Results

Last night saw the last of our 6 monthly competitions ‘Candid’.  Our judge, Leigh Woolford, did express his concern at some of the images not fitting the ‘Candid’ criteria ( taking a photo of someone without their knowledge, i.e unposed) and he did mark them accordingly.  There was a fairly poor entry of prints (19) but a better selection of PI’s (32).

Congratulations to Graham Cull for his winning PI – ‘Alone’ , and to Roy Edwards for his winning Print ‘ Solo’,  both scoring 20 points.

The rest of the results can be viewed by following the links -

Prints

PI’s

Well done to all who entered.  Winning images will be posted on the Club Gallery soon.

Welsh Salon Of Photography

Well done to the following NPS members on their Acceptances for the Welsh Salon of Photography 2012:

  • Linda Cowen 3 Prints & 3 PI’s
  • Dave Edwards 3 Prints & 2 PI’s
  • Haydn Thomas 2 Prints & 1 PI
  • Denice Evans 1 PI
  • Ken Linnard 1 PI

A list of their images is available here

Victory for Neath by Denice Evans

Tonight we had our six way battle Judged by Mr Les Loosemore.  The other five clubs were Abertawe, Amman Valley, Mumbles & West Cross, Port Talbot and Trostre & Velindre. The images this evening were of a very high standard and the final scores were very close. Before I give the scores I would like to thank Linda for the lovely buffet she prepared for us all to enjoy. 

The scores for the clubs are as followed:

  • Abertawe                               102
  • Amman Valley                      100
  • Mumbles & West Cross       105
  • Neath                                     112
  • Port Talbot                            107
  • Trostre & Velindre               106

Thank you to all the clubs that entered.  As you can see Neath were the victors this year by a small margin.

The PI’s selected to represent our club this time were:

  • Battle Between The Elements by  Bill Howells               18
  • Sea Horses by  Dave Edwards DPAGB EFIAP                20
  • Lulu by Roy Edwards                                                           17
  • Polecat by Haydn Thomas DPAGB AFIAP                      20
  • Puma Stalking by Linda Cowen   CPAGB AFIAP            17
  • Sir Edward Elgar And his Bicycle by Graham Cull         20 

A big thank you to all that entered.

Denice.