Competitions & Winners

For information on club competitions and rules please refer to the Policy section above.

Battles: Barry pit their photographic skills against other clubs.

Cardiff v Barry: 16th October 2025

The winning Club was CARDIFF Camera Club.

Congratulations to Cardiff Camera Club.

Rhiwbina v Merthyr v Barry: 15th October 2025

The winning Club was Merthyr Camera Club.

Well done Merthyr

13th March 2026 – RGB Battle (Rhondda, Gwynfa and Barry) At Barry

The Barrian Cup

The next Barrian Cup is to be held on 6th June 2026

2025 Barrian Cup Competition Winners:

The 2025 Barrian Cup competition resulted as a Tie for Bridgend Camera Club and Monmouth. This is the first time ever for a draw.

The Dave Cowdrey trophy for best Landscape was awarded to A. France of Rhondda Camera Club.

The Mike Lewis Trophy for best image in the competition went to Emma Woodhouse of RPC (Rhondda Photographic Club).

Images for 2025

The Barrian Cup – 5th June 2026

Barry Camera Club is pleased to announce that it will be running the Barrian Cup Competition again this year (2026).

Barrian Cup Invite

The invite docs for 2026 will be available soon

To View the invite doc click on the Barrian Cup Invite button above and then click on the file name (blue writing) the associated word file should open

To obtain an application form click, on the Download box below. A copy of the form will appear on your screen – then select download to have it in your download folder of your computer

application-for-entry-2026 Download

Prints entered into the competition MUST be accompanied by the following information:

Club Name, a list of Print Titles and Authors Names. This should be passed on to the comp sec of Barry Camera Club along with the prints.

INTERNAL COMPETITIONS – Where members enter their best images to be judged against other members images.

Dave Hunt Natural History Competition

20th Feb 2026 – Dave Hunt Natural History Competition – is to be Judged once again by Julie Morgan

last years results are shown below.

The winning Print for 2025 is Eurasian Eagle Owl – by Frank Learner

The winning Digital image is Little Egret – by Neil Latham

The Winner of the Competition, receiving the Dave Hunt Trophy is Neil Latham

20th March 2026 – Creative Image competition Judge – Gary Shinner

Last Years Winner of the John and Jean Harvey trophy for best Mono printed Image is

Kath Edwards – with ANGEL of the NORTH

Winner of the Malcolm Downes trophy for best Colour Printed Image is:

Neil Latham – with ARISE KING ARTHUR

1st May 2026 – Annual Competition – This competition is for prints and digital images and has two categories to be judged by Dennis Russ

The Biggest Event in the clubs Diary is THE BARRIAN CUP

Previous years winners were:-

Some images from these competitions are shown below:

First Place
Wreck and Ben Nevis
Philippa Evans

Portrait – Cliff Diamond Trophy

Miscellaneous – Dan Evans Trophy

29th April – Monthly Competition

First Place
Red Crested Pochard – Tina Haydon

22nd April – Natural History competition – Dave Hunt Trophy

11th March – Creative Monochrome Competition – John and Jean Harvey Plaque

First Place – Night Passage –
Malcolm Downes

Snowdrop Bride Procession – Joint 3rd Frank Learner

February Monthly Competition Winners:

1st place
“Sgwd-yr-Eira” by Roger harrison

Judge – Brian Coleman

November Monthly Competition – Judge – Dave Russell

Winner “Feeding Time” by Phil Stillman

Date: 25th February 2022

February Monthly: Judge – Brian Coleman