Rhondda Camera Club

Welcome to Rhondda Camera Club

The Rhondda Camera Club was founded 1943 and aims to encourage and promote the art of photography by means of lectures, workshops field trips and exhibitions.
Members are encouraged to enter their photography in Club Competitions and friendly Battles with other Camera Clubs.
Special digital evenings are arranged throughout the club year, using the Club’s own equipment.
All levels of experience are welcome at the Club, from beginners to most experienced, friendly support and skilled advice is available to all newcomers.

Notes Board Information updates for club nights will appear here

Club Night Doors open at 7:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start.

Dates To Look Out For

Friday 6th March 2020.
RGB Battle with Barry and Gwynfa at Barry Camera Club.
March/April 2020.
Prolected Image Battle @ Pyle and Porthcawl, Date to be announced.
Saturday early June 2020.
Barrian Cup Competition, Date to be announced.
Monday early June 2020.
Swansea 10 battle, Date to be announced.

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Members are reminded that images that have been used in previous club "monthly" competitions cannot be submitted and any future club "monthly" competitions and that your images can be retained by the selection committee for external battles/ competitions.
If you have any images that you would like the selection committee to consider please bring them along and place them in the appropriate box. Without your images we cannot participate.

Links

Programme And Event Last update 08/09/2019

External battles Battle Reports

External Events

The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain NEW LINK

http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/ pagb news

WPF – AWPF Distinctions

www.thewpf.co.uk

Rhondda Camera club Facebook Page

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Ace of Clubs Report
The Ace of Clubs Competition. organised by the WPF, was held on Sunday 16th February at Talbot Green. Despite Storm Dennis doing its worst, 11 Clubs took part, and over 60 people attended on the day.
The competition involves each club submitting 12 projected images for appraisal by 3judges in each of 2 heats, followed by 20 in a final round. Rhondda had an excellent showing in both heats, coming top in both cases, but unfortunately were narrowly beaten in the final, coming in at a very commendable third place. While it was a great result for the Club, we were disappointed because the winning Club and runners up will go forward to represent the WPF in the national competition in Warwick in July. ISO won the Competition, with Gwynfa in second place.

Each of the 3 judges made a personal choice of Best Image, followed by a joint choice of Overall Best Image in the Competition. This was won by Brian Merry with " I Nailed It". Congratulations to him, and thanks to him and David Norton for attending and making the choices from the bank of images on our computer. Also, a special thank you to all members who submitted images to the Selection Committee for consideration.

Regards
Martin.

The Vale Cub 7 Way Battle

scores in for the Vale Print battle last night. We came a very respectable 2nd!

1st Bridgend 152
2nd Rhondda Camera Club 146
3rd The Vale 145
4th Porthcawl &Pyle 144
5th Barry C.C. 141
6th Morriston C.C. 140 Individual scores...
I nailed it 19
Flying High 18
Streaking Tornado 19
Glory Days 19
Penultimate Fence 18
Gloucestershire Steeplechaser 19
Gathering Dust 17
Waiting 17
Well done to the photographers of these prints!

GB Cups (Projected)

The GB Cups for Projected Images are held each January. Clubs enter directly, without any pre-qualification. Awards are made to the winning Clubs. A number of awards are declared for individual images and groups of images.

Detailed results http://www.thepagb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/gbcup_2020.pdf

Rhondda Camera Club came 4th. out of 40 clubs who entered the British Small Clubs Competition.
There are 3 sections to this competition.
1..The GB Cup ( for all clubs in GB )
2..The GB Small Clubs Competition ( for all clubs in GB with smaller workforce )
3..The GB Nature Competition. ( for all clubs in GB )

Well done to everyone ( especially the selection committee )

Rhondda Camera Club

individual scores for the GB Small Clubs Competition.

BRIAN MERRY
275 Clears the Bar 12
Dipping at the Line 11
Safely over the Bar 13
The Last Hurdle 13

DAVID EVANS
Flying High 13

DAVID NORTON
Gathering Dust 11
Glory Days 10
The Assassin 10
The Interrogator 11

MAL DURBIN
Streaking Tornado 12

TOTAL SCORE 116 out of 150.
That is great. Well done to you all.

Well done to Dawn Latcham and Mal Durbin on gained their AWPF

The distinction is awarded annually and is open to all photographers throughout the world.
The award was initiated in 1994.

Dawns Latcham Panel

Mal Durbin Panel

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Rhondda Rotary Annual Community Raffle 2019

Rhondda Rotary Annual Community Raffle 2019

which was drawn on Friday 13th December 2019
Winning numbers:

• First prize of £500 won by Lynda Edwards, Tonypandy (ticket no: 07575)

• Second prize of £200 was won by James Bailey, Penygraig (ticket no: 11239)

• Third prize of a drinks hamper was won by Ann Davies, Tonyrefail (ticket no: 17323)

And a total of £16,023 was raised by the groups in the Rhondda.

A total of 47 local groups & organisations took part
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Thank you for entering our Inter Club Projected Images Battle last night. We had a splendid entry from 12 WPF Clubs with some very fine images submitted. Thank you if you attended last night. We had an excellent turnout with over 60 people at our Clubhouse on the night. ( And thanks to you if you didn't turn up last night, as we ran out of chairs!!!!!!!).
Our thanks are due to the 2 excellent judges Peter Brisley and Sue O'Connell who gave a perceptive and entertaining appraisal of all 72 images.
Congratulations to Gwynfa Camera Club who won the Battle and to Bargoed Camera Club who were runners up.
I attach a results sheet for your information

Results sheet
for your information

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