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NDPS UK Salon 2021 – Results

Our 2021 Salon has now been judged and all the results published.

Neath CC was well represented by entrants but unfortunately only 3 people gained acceptances.  These were – 

Tim Kavanagh – with 3 Acceptances and 3 Medals

David Edwards – with 3 Acceptances

Colin Kelly – with 1 acceptance and Medal

Commiserations to all other members of NDPS who entered but didn’t gain any acceptances, keep trying and i’m sure your time will come.

The Salon this year was our most successful to date with over 500 entrants submitting over 5000 images.

Because of the Covid restrictions we had to do the selections remotely and a big thanks goes out to Steve Bright of Brightimaging who leases us the software and once again hosted the Salon on our behalf.

Thanks also go to our 3 selectors – Eddy Lane ARPS DPAGB EFIAP APAGB, Leigh Woolford Hon.FWPF DPAGB EFIAP AWPF BPE3* and Ross McKelvey MFIAP MPAGB FBPE FIPF EFIAP/p who gave up their weekend to view and judge the images, a job well done.

Thanks to the PAGB and the BPE for their patronage.

I also want to say thanks to Denice Evans, Linda Cowen  and David Edwards for their invaluable assistance.  This Salon would not run without you.

To view the results gallery click here

The 2022 Salon will be open for entries on the 1st February 2022, hopefully we will see you then.

Colin Kelly

 

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NDPS UK Salon 2020 Results.

After months of delays the Salon has finally been Judged and Results are out.  A big thanks to our Selectors Garry Shinner LRPS,EFIAP/b, AWPF EPSA.,  Ray Brammall, ARPS, EFIAP/s, DPAGB, APAGB BPE3*, and Richard Spurdens, EFIAP/p, DPAGB, BPE5* for giving their time also a big thanks to Steve Bright, of BrightImaging, who’s software we use and this year Steve hosted the Salon for us remotely.

Thanks also go out to Denice Evans and Linda Cowen without who’s help the Salon wouldn’t go ahead.

Congratulations go to –

Owen Blackmore, Arfon John, Dave Edwards, Tim Kavanah, James Hansen-MacGillivray and Steve Rees for gaining Acceptances.

Commiserations to the other members of NDPS who supported the Salon and didn’t get any acceptances.  Keep trying.

Full Results can be viewed here

Well done all.

Colin Kelly

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Welsh Salon Success

Well done to the following for their acceptances in the 2015 Welsh Salon of Photography

Name Colour Print Projected Image Total Awards
 Haydn Thomas  4  3  7  Best Nature
 Linda Cowen  2  3  5
 Dave Edwards 3  1  4
 Norman Lemon  2  2

 

 

Competitions

Ace of Clubs 2015

Sunday 15th Feb Tenby CC hosted the 2015 Ace of Clubs at the Regency Hall in Saundersfoot.  NDPS was well represented, with 7 members being present.

Armed with 40 images we were competing against 12 other clubs for this years trophy, a bit disappointing for the organisers as this competition normally attracts upward of 18 clubs.

Round 1 was a tester, this is where we have pre-selected 8 images and see how the judges are scoring, their likes and dislikes.  At the end of round 1 we were in 3rd place.

Round 2 – we had to select 8 more images from the 32 unused ‘bank’ and try our luck with these, no more than 2/photographer or 2 Nature images, end of round 2 and we had dropped to 7th place.

Due to the small amount of clubs there was no Plate Round this year so all 13 clubs were in the final.  This was the real test of our members images.  We had to select 20 images, no more than 10 previously used,  no more than 4/photographer and no more than 4 Nature images.  The top 2 clubs would go on to represent the WPF at Warwick, against the best clubs in the UK.  Fortunately (whew) at the end of the Final we finished in 3rd place.  Our best finish ever in the Ace of Clubs.  I have put a printable PDF file of all the members images and scores here.  Obviously all the image we took couldn’t be used and adjusting our selection to suit the 3 judges is hard.  Any images selected will get 3 points toward Photographer of the Year regardless of them being used in the Competition.

Final Scores were – Inn Focus 246, Gwynfa 232, Neath 229 so we were 17 points behind the winners, as you can see we have a lot of work to do with our images.  At the end the Judges couldn’t understand how David Edward’s “Snow Leopard” had only scored 13, it seemed every judge had tried to score it with a 5 which should have given it 15 – that score and Neath’s total have been adjusted – still left Neath a few points short of going to Warwick mind you – but nice for David to know that it was an honest mistake and not a down mark.