10th June 2017 - Newport photographic Club took part in the Barrian Cup. This is competition hosted by Barry Camera Club every year and is attended by 20+ Clubs.
5 images from each club compete for the Barrian Cup. Also a sepearte Prize called the Dave Cowdrey Cup is awarded for the best Landscape or Seescape Image. - Visit Barry CC Website for more details
Our Entries
Contemplation by Jan Carter
Score 14 points
Going For Gold By Paul Hubbard
Score 15 points
Holiday Snap by George Small
Score 13 points
The Holyman by Annette O'Connell
Score 14 points
With a total of 72 points Newport Photographic Club came a Joint 1oth overall drawing with Cwmbran & Western Valley.
A well organised day of entertainment and a big thankyou to Barry CC for organising this event
Well Done to the Winners In Focus Group for the well deserved win on the day.
Well Done to Tony Gainson of EbbwVale CC for picking up the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for Best Landscape
Longstone Tyres Support No12 by David Jones
Score 16 points
By James and Rita
We love this vacation more than anything. We sure will come back
Recent News
18th December 2020
Newport Photographic Club sadly report the passing of Past President and Honorary Member Peter Ekin Wood.
A professional Photo-journalist before an Editorial appointment with the Newport Argus. One of his last talks was to Cymru Mono in 2019 when he brought cameras from his collection together with B&W images from interviewing and photographing celebrities. Peter was an active member of NPC and a supporter of the WPF; competing and presenting until his retirement to the Gower. We shall miss his wry view and insights into the world of commercial (news) photography – our thoughts go out to his family.
11th August 2018 - Photographing Classic Bike Racing at Pembrey.
3 members decided to attend the Classic Bike Racing at Pembrey. After a fabulous Summer it was dissapointing that it was raining on the day. Not put off by the rain we soldiered on in difficult conditions and achieved some of the images below.
Images by Kevin Parker.
Images by Paul Hubbard
20th July 2018 - Photgraphing the Second Severn Bridge.
7 Club members set ou on a changeable evening to capture some imges of the second Severn Bridge. Evening started well with some moody clouds but sadly we were soon rained off. Anumber of images were captured and we retired to the pub to discussthe evening.
A little selfie of the group
From left to right - DavidJones, Kevin Parker, Kevin Doyle, Paul Hubbard, Annette O'Connell, Cath Bamford & Ian Blackbird.
Some Shots from the evening
Panoramic Shot of the second Severn Bridge.
This image consisted 0f 10 individual images stitched together using Adobe Lightroom. For best reults use manual exposure and ensure the same settings are used for each individual image. This captures the light evenly and alows lightroom o seamlesly produce a panoramic image.
Panoramic Shot from a closer position
After picking a path on the grass it was possible to get a little closer alowing a shot of the low tide of the River Severn.
