WCPF AV Bulletin
AV Competition
The AV Competition will be held via Zoom on 10th April. Malcolm Imhoff (MCPF) will be the judge. There is no charge to enter the competition this year, and no charge to be an observer. Please download an Entry Form
here
PAGB AV Adjudication
Exmouth Photo Group are hosting this on behalf of the WCPF. It will be conducted as a Zoom event on Sunday 14th February. There has been a fantastic response, and we have seven CPAGB applications, six ‘D’s and four ‘M’s. Nine of the applicants are from WCPF clubs. The panel will be Rod Wheelans, Robert Albright, Howard Bagshaw, Richard Speirs, Martin Fry and Gordon Jenkins. Howard Tate (PAGB President) will introduce the event.
This event is free of charge to observe – to get a Zoom link please email
av.wcpf@gmail.com
New AV Competition – the Jurassic Coast AV Salon
Exmouth Photo Group have taken over the running of the previous Bridgend 5-8 AV Competition. The event has been extended into two categories, Photo Harmony and Open, and has patronage from the PAGB and the PSSA. This is an international high-profile event, so a great initiative by a WCPF club.
Ian Bateman
FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP APAGB
AV Secretary, WCPF
WCPF Members' Exhibition
The 2021 WCPF Members' Exhibition (MX) is now open for entries it will close on Saturday 6 March.
Terms and Conditions
The entry classes are restricted to 4 PDI classes (Open, Nature, Creative, Photo Travel) due to social distancing restrictions. If it becomes possible to judge prints, the 2020 print entry will be used. The class definitions will be available on the entry website.
Carry-over from the 2020 Entry
As the 2020 exhibition did not take place, by default all entries and entry fees will be carried forward to the 2021 exhibition. Once the entry system opens, entries in the PDI classes can be changed with no further entry fee. Additional PDI images and/or classes can be entered with the payment of the appropriate entry fee.
Awards
The exhibition has PAGB Patronage and PAGB Gold, Silver and Bronze medals plus Selector Ribbons will be awarded in each class. Highly commended certificates will also be awarded in each class.
The ‘Margaret Aven’ trophy for the entrant who gains the most acceptances across all 4 classes, and ‘Best Wildlife’ trophy in the Nature classe will also be awarded again this year.
Selectors
- Richard Spiers DPAGB APGAB BPE2
- Mike Sharples MPAGB ARPS EFIAP ABPE
- David Gibbins ARPS APAGB EFIAP/g BPE5
We hope that members of WCPF clubs will continue to support the exhibition and submit their entries in good time.
For full details, click
here.
If anything is unclear or there are any questions then please get in touch with the Exhibition Secretary by email at
mpix.wcpf@gmail.com
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Zoom Council Meeting, Knightshayes Trophy and Afternoon Lecture
Saturday 6 March, 2021
Schedule for the Day
10.00 am Council Meeting open to all WCPF Club Members followed by the
Knightshayes Trophy Competition judged by Nick Bodle, President of the WCPF Set subject “Togetherness” to win the Superb Knightshayes Trophy for a year
2.00 pm Chris Palmer FRPS DPAGB APAGB EFIAP
Talk “The Eloquent Landscape”
Zoom Meeting Admission
Full login instructions will be sent to all Club Reps and competition entrants two weeks
before the event. There will be no charge for the Judging or the Afternoon Lecture
Competition Entry requirements for Knightshayes Trophy
WCPF Club members, may enter up to TWO DIGITAL IMAGES on “Togetherness”
JPEG format, up to 1200 x 1600 pixels, files to be titled as follows –
1_Title up to 30 characters_Photographers Name inc distinctions_Club
2_Title up to 30 characters_Photographers Name inc distinctions_Club
by closing date Saturday 13th February 2021. NO FEE FOR ENTERING IMAGES
Queries - Contact Pam and Eddy Lane Knightshayes Trophy Competition Secretaries
2.00 pm Chris Palmer FRPS EFIAP DPAGB APAGB Afternoon Speaker
Talk “The Eloquent Landscape”
The title indicates that I’ll be talking about my pictures, but in addition I like to think that my images ‘talk’, or communicate with the viewer. Emphasising my own philosophy of getting an image right when I shoot it, I’ll discuss camera craft, the importance of light, and the way I photograph when out on location - I will be relating the actual taking experiences. Although predominantly landscape, I will also include urban, and monochrome photography, mostly captured in the UK and Ireland, although not entirely.
I take pictures for me, (not any judge), and to satisfy my own creative desires, increasingly shooting thematically in sets of images, rather than gathering individual competition images.
Chris’s Background
Chris confesses to being a “photo-holic”, embracing all aspects of photography, but regards himself primarily as a pictorialist, and loves working in the landscape. He particularly enjoys the thrill of discovery out on location, whether in the countryside, on a beach, in a town, or city. A busy national PAGB judge and popular lecturer, Chris has visited many different Camera Clubs, and judged regional, national and international exhibitions. He is a Fellow of the RPS and serves on the Visual Art Panel as Deputy Chair, and also provides advice at RPS distinction advisory days.
He holds a Distinction of the PAGB and has received an APAGB award for his services to photography. Chris has had success and gained awards in international exhibitions when working for his AFIAP & subsequent EFIAP qualifications. Chris is a member of Amersham Photographic Society, and is delighted to be a member of the prestigious London Salon.
