[2006-2012] Photography: A. Credits, Prizes and Projects

 

Credits

2016

Photograph used in information holiday pack by Wales Holiday Cottages. 
 
'Oxwich Hide + Marsh' [3911]  


2015 

My photograph was DigVentures Photo of the Day on 10 May 2015

'A Marsh Harrier flies over the remains of Minsmere Chapel' [103] 

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On Display in British Home Stores Restaurant, Swansea, Wales, UK. Displayed in conjunction with @equality_print.

'Hoverfly Moment' 

2014

Waveney Bird Club website header

'Carlton Marshes' [CG/z  ]

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Attended day course on Photography and Heritage by Line and Light at Audley End.

2012

Golau Cancer Foundation, Wales

'Mumbles in the Snow' [CG/002] on homepage, Winter 2012 

 

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Dunvant Male Choir 'Christmas Carol Concert' CD sleeve

'Swansea, looking towards Mumbles, and across the Severn Estuary to the snowy hills of Exmoor' [CG/0422] (forthcoming, produced in conjunction with Media Studies, Swansea Metropolitan University)

 

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 UCS / IpArt Short Story Competition Award Event

• 'Awards Ceremony', Spiegel Tent, Christchurch Park, Ipswich

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Swansea Vale 2012 Calendar, resulting from the Life through a Lens project ... my featured photographs:

'Hoverfly Moment' [CG/4] and two other photographs   

 

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2010

Featured Photographer (with Sharmagne Leland-St. John), Quill and Parchment online magazine and literary journal, Vol. 108, June 2010, editor Sharmagne Leland-St. John)

• 'Laugharne Waterfront, Wales' (Cover, Quill and Parchment online magazine and literary journal, Vol. 108, June 2010, editor Sharmagne Leland-St. John) [CG/120]
• 'Sunset: Saundersfoot, near Tenby, Wales' (Cover, Quill and Parchment online magazine and literary journal, Vol. 108, June 2010, editor Sharmagne Leland-St. John) [CG/086]
• 'Cwm-yr-Eglwys, Pembrokeshire, Wales' (Cover, Quill and Parchment online magazine and literary journal, Vol. 108, June 2010, editor Sharmagne Leland-St. John) [CG/371]
• 'Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea: childhood haunt of Dylan Thomas' (Cover, Quill and Parchment online magazine and literary journal, Vol. 108, June 2010, editor Sharmagne Leland-St. John) [CG/010]

Prizes

• Second Prize: the 'Garden Shot' National Botanic Garden of Wales Photographic Competition (2006)

Projects and Exhibitions 

2011 

Participant in Life through a Lens project at Swansea Vale Resource Centre, funded by COASTAL (Creating Opportunities And Skills Teams ALliance). Seven of my photographs of wildlife and Gower have been selected for the project. These will be enlarged and displayed:

• 'Follow the Leader' (a case of sheep on road!) [CG/1]
• 'Ebb and Flow, Llangennith' [CG/3]
• 'Hoverfly Moment' [CG/4]     
• 'Serene Seal Days' [CG/5]
• 'Swan-King of Oxwich' [CG/6] 
• 'Who is watching who?' (a huge seal stares out of the frame) [CG/7]  
• 'Signs of Sunset' [CG/8]  

Qualifications . . .


IT | Image Manipulation | Design Skills in Arts and Crafts

• National Open College Network, 3 Credits at Level One for Information Technology, taken at Swansea (Business) College [2008]. Course title: Introduction to Image Editing Using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Each Credit represents 10 hours of 'notional learning time'. Level One is comparable to working at NVQ1 and Foundation GNVQ.
• National Open College Network, 3 Credits at Level Two for Information Technology, taken at Swansea Vale Resource Centre [2009]. Course title: Using Adobe Photoshop [CQ5/2/WE/003]. Each Credit represents 10 hours of 'notional learning time'. Level Two is comparable to working at NVQ2, Intermediate GNVQ and GCSE. 
• National Open College Network, 3 Credits at Level One for Design in Arts and Crafts, taken at Swansea Vale Resource Centre [2009]. Course title: Arts and Crafts: developing basic design skills. Each Credit represents 10 hours of 'notional learning time'. Level One is comparable to working at NVQ1 and Foundation GNVQ. 

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[pre 2009] Section 1: Publications

Section 1: Publications on (website) list (pre 2009)

Also:

• David Gill and Caroline Gill, 'Leaving Town' and 'Swedes': Edward Thomas and Amen-Hotep, Notes and Queries 50 (2003), 325-327. [On-line from Oxford University Press]

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[2009] Section 1: Poetry in Magazines (Recent/Current, 2008-2009)

WALES/CYMRU

‘Mah-jong: Clattering Sparrow’ The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, 2008)

‘Blue Monkeys of Thera’ The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, publication forthcoming)

'Paths of Righteousness' Sketty Beacon (ed. Dr P. Steane, April/May 2009)

'1st May: Red Kite at Strata Florida' The Seventh Quarry issue 10 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, Summer 2009)

‘Noel, Noel' Sketty Beacon (ed. Dr P. Steane, December 2009)

ENGLAND

‘The Figure at the Phoenix Mine’ Writing Magazine (Competitions Supplement) 2008 (See: Petra Kenney Prize & Petra Kenney Competition)

Haiku for MMG (‘Painted Lady ...') Tips #67 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, July/August 2008)

'Cargo of Memories' The Poetry Church (ed. John Waddington-Feather, Summer 2008)

‘Mount Grace: heads and Tails’ Tips #68 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, September/October 2008).
Joint 1st in readers' vote. (See: blog about Mount Grace stoats in winter)


'Eye Shine' Reach Poetry #127 (ed. Ronnie Goodyer)

'Aberglasney' [H] Tips for Writers #71 summer 2009 p.14 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers)

'Sea Scribe' Reach Poetry (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, Reach Poetry 128, Indigo Dreams Press, May 2009)
3rd prize from readers' votes.

'Shell Keeper' The Dawntreader (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, #007, Indigo Dreams Press, Summer 2009)

'Gold' The Dawntreader (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, #008, Indigo Dreams Press, Autumn 2009, p.27)

'Dusk at Dozmary Pool' Reach Poetry (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, Reach Poetry 133, Indigo Dreams Press, October 2009)

'Poltesco' Tips for Writers Winter 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers, #74 Xmas Special)

'The Messiah and the Magi' Tips for Writers Winter 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, Norfolk Poets and Writers, #74 Xmas Special)

CORNWALL/KERNOW

'Marazion' Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow #25 (ed. Les Merton, 2009)

'Echo from the West' Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow #26 (ed. Les Merton, 2009)

INDIA

‘On Emily's Moor' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009 p.112).
First published in The Seventh Quarry #1 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, 2004/2005)

'Velvet Shadows in Venice' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009, p.112)
First published in Writing Magazine (ed. Hilary Gray, November 2004)


'Manifesto for the Red Kite' Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Silver Jubilee Issue, March 2009 p.112)
First published in Panda, 2002

ROMANIA
My thanks to Alina-Olimpia Miron
for translating the following poems into Romanian.

'A Stone Romance' / 'O idilă pietroasă' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Reach Poetry (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press) Oct 2007
• eTIPS 2 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books) Feb 2009
• Norfolk Poets & Writers blog (ed. Wendy Webb) Feb 2009
  

'Boat House Cat' / 'Pisica din hangar' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Poetry Monthly special edition, ‘Seaside Towns’, dedicated to Tsunami victims (ed. Martin Holroyd) Feb 2005
  

'Manifesto for the Red Kite' / 'Manifest pentru Zmeul Roşu' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously published in:

• Panda Magazine (ed. Esmond Jones) Oct 2002
• Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, India) March 2009
  

'Preseli Blue' / 'Albastru de Preseli' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). Previously featured in:

• 'The Lie of the Land' (ed. Jan Fortune-Wood) Cinnamon Press, 2006
• BBC Poetry Please from the Guardian Hay Festival, 2008
  

'Show me the Colour of Pain' / 'Arată-mi culorea durerii' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9). A previous version was published in:

• Reach Poetry (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press) March 2004
  

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[2009] Section 2: Poetry in Anthologies (2008-2009)

UK

‘A Tale of Two Brothers’ Feather Books Summer Collection 2008 (ed. John Waddington-Feather, 2008)

‘Echo on the Nile’ Norfolk Poets & Writers Anthology 2008 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, 2008)

‘Master of Arts' Indigo Poets: Poets' Choice of 2008 (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press, 2009)

'A Streak of Galilee Blue' The Poetry Church Winter and Spring Collection 18, 2009 (ed. Tony Reavill, 2009)

'Tycoch, Swansea' Paradise Lost, incorporating Paradise Regained by Wendy Webb (Wendy Webb Books, 2009)

'The Ceilidh House' By the Winter Fires, Reach Poetry Winter Anthology, Indigo Dreams Press (editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, 2009)

INDIA

'Hardy's Cottage' Metverse Muse, p.92 (ed. Dr Tulsi, India, April 2009 - March 2010).

• Won 3rd prize in the Sonnet Competition, Wendy Webb Books, 2005
• Previously published in TIPS for Writers (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, 2005)
• Also in ‘NORFOLK POETS & WRITERS TIPS Pamphlet 21, (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, 2006)

'Egret on the Loughor Estuary' Metverse Muse, p.92 (ed. Dr Tulsi, India, April 2009 - March 2010).

• Previously published in The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, issue 3, Winter 2006)
  

USA

'Stranger' Empty Shoes: On the Hungry and the Homeless (ed. Patrick T. Randolph, Popcorn Press 2009 'in aid of Wisconsin based food and homeless shelters' USA).

• Previous publication: The Seventh Quarry, #2 (ed. Peter Thabit Jones, 2005)

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[2009] Section 3: Poetry in eBooks (2008-2009)

'Tycoch, Swansea' Paradise Lost (ed. Wendy Webb, December 2008).
Previous publication: Places within Reach (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press 2006)

'One flew over a Cornish Hedge' to be published in 'Summer Fun', Norfolk Poets and Writers, June 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb)
2nd prize for narrative rhyming verse, February 2007, Norfolk Poets & Writers Competition.
Previous publication: ‘One flew over a Cornish Hedge’ anthology (ed. Wendy Webb, December 2008).

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[2009] Section 4: Poetry accepted for publication in Magazines (2009)

These poems have now been published, and appear in other sections.

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[2009] Section 5: Poetry accepted for publication in Anthologies (2009)

• Poems accepted for Metverse Muse, 2010 (ed. Dr Tulsi, India)
  

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[2009] Section 6: Poetry accepted for Publication in Ezines (2009)

• 'A Flicker, a Flash' accepted for publication in 'Quill and Parchment', November 2010 (ed. Sharmagne Leland-St. John, USA)

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[2009] Section 7: Poetry - media (CDs, DVDs etc.) and exhibitions

‘Mount Grace: heads and Tails’ Fun Spring CD, 309 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, 2009)
Previous publication: Tips #68 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, September/October 2008)

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[2009] Section 8: Poetry in Ezines and Blogs (2009)

'A Stone Romance' Norfolk Poets and Writers Blog, February 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, December 2008)
Previous publication: Reach (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, Indigo Dreams Press 2007)
eTips February 2009 (ed. Wendy Webb, December 2008)

'Thalatta, Thalatta' ('The sea! The sea!) Folding Mirror Poetry Blog (ed. Dr Marc Latham, 1 May 2009)

'2009: a Gleam of Hope' Jigsaw poem on Poets Who Blog

'Seeing Stars at Sunset' Folding Mirror Poetry Blog (ed. Dr Marc Latham, 16 June 2009). A concrete poem.

'Palmyra' Chapter & Verse (issue 1 of student community Ezine of The Writers' Bureau, June 2009)

'Waves' Tercet Ghazal challenge edition of The Ghazal Page (ed. Gino Peregrino, August 2009). Poem here.

'Boat House Cat' eTIPS, Wendy Webb Books (ed. Wendy Webb, Autumn Issue (July-Sep 7-9) Number 9, August 2009).

• Previously published bilingually as 'Pisica din hangar' Contemporan Orizont Literar/Contemporary & Literary Horizon [C&LH] (Director, Mihai Cantuniari; Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Dragomirescu, No.5 (10) June 2009 p.6-9).
  
• Poetry Monthly special edition, ‘Seaside Towns’, dedicated to Tsunami victims (ed. Martin Holroyd) Feb 2005

'The Poet in Winter' Quill and Parchment, December 2009 (ed. Sharmagne Leland-St. John, USA)

• Previously published in the Reach Poetry Winter Anthology, 'In Country Heaven' (ed. Ronnie Goodyer, 2007).
  

‘A Splash of Memories’ Quill and Parchment, December 2009 (ed. Sharmagne Leland-St. John, USA)

• Winner of Wendy Webb's Norfolk/East Anglia competition, 2002 and previously published in her 'Davidian' publication.
  
• Previously published in 'Tips for Travellers' October 2002, Wendy Webb Books

'Ocean Blue' The Ghazal Page 'Color Radif Challenge' (ed. Gino Peregrini, USA)

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[2009] Section 9: Poetry in pamphlets, leaflets and sheets (2009)

'Blue Skies' Maxi-Tips 1 (ed. Wendy Webb, Wendy Webb Books, Norfolk Poets & Writers 2009)

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[2009] Section 10: Poetry Readings

2009

The Haddon Library [Cambridge University 2009] Poetry Prizegiving, 25 September: (read on my behalf)

• Sleepover at the Museum (Third Prize in the competition)
• A Stone Romance
• 1st May: Red Kite at Strata Florida

The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea

• Preseli Blue (Open Mic)

South Wales Writers' Day, Porthcawl

• Stranger

Gower

• Christmas Praise

2008

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, Petra Kenney Prizegiving

• The Figure at the Phoenix Mine (First Prize in the General Section)

... continued under [2010] Poetry Readings... here


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[2008-2016] Section i: Prizes and Commendations

Prizes and Commendations
include the following:


2014

•  1st Prize, Overall Winner in the inaugural Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Poetry Competition, judged by a panel including Ruth Padel. My winning poem was 'Raft Race', about IUCN Red Listed Fen Raft Spiders. 

2012

• Awarded title of Best Fixed Form Poet 2011 by Metverse Muse (ed. Dr. H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India, Founder-Leader of the World Renaissance for Classical Poetry). My winning poems were a Terzanelle, 'King of the Kilt Rock Cloud' [28/2010] (about Kilt Rock on Skye) and a Rubai, 'Life's Silken Thread' [27/2010].  

2011

• 'Puffin Brothers' [8/2008] was voted 4th (just making 'The Box') in Reach Poetry issue 158 (ed. Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, IDP).  
  

• Joint 2nd Prize (with Claire Knight) Fixed Form Poet of the Year Awards (Category A), Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, Visakhapatnam, India)  
  
  
• 2nd Prize in Writelink Spring Fever Poetry Competition (judge: Jay Smedley) for my Terza Rima, 'Observations from the Hide' [11/2011]. The poem will be published in the competition anthology.

2010

• 'Elegy for Idris Davies' - voted Poem of the Month (December 2010) by Anne Stewart on the SecondLightLiveThe Seventh Quarry. You can read it here. This poem was published by Peter Thabit Jones in The Seventh Quarry. You can read it here. 

• Writelink Writer of the Month, November 2010

•  'The Wishing Woman of Seal Bay' (a Lilibonelle) has been awarded 1st Prize (£40) in the Writelink 'Grape and Grain' Poetry Competition. October 2010. [30/2010]

• 'Nursery Nocturne' (a Pantoum), 2nd Prize in the Writelink Quarterly Challenge on the theme of 'Generations'. [9/2010]
  

• 'A Chink in the Sky' (a puffin poem, Rondeau Redoubled) for publication in the Writelink anthology. This poem was shortlisted by judge, Magdalena (Maggie) Ball, in the Writelink 'Spring Fever' competition. [3/2010]

• 'Undercurrents': 4th place in the 2010 Writelink Monthly Poetry Challenge Contest on the subject of 'Whispers'. Judge: Daffni Percival. [2/2010]

• 'Turner's Loch Coruisk, Skye', Reach Poetry, issue 141, June 2010 (Indigo Dreams Publishing, editors Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling). 2nd Prize in Readers' Votes for issue 141. [24/2009].

• 'William Burges Wallpaper, Knightshayes Court', 2nd Prize in the latest Writelink poetry competition on the theme of 'Rivals'. My poem is about the creatures on the Burges wallpaper at Knightshayes Court, a National Trust property near Tiverton. [22/2010].

• 'The Winding Way', a Kyrielle, has taken Joint Second Position in the Metverse Muse Fixed Form Poetry Competition 2010. As of August 2010. [10/2010]
  

2009

• The Haddon Library Poetry Competition (Cambridge University 800): 'Sleepover at the Museum', Third Prize.
• Reach Poetry: I am delighted (and surprised) to find my name listed as one of six poets with the most 2009 appearances in 'The Box' of readers' votes.
• Reach Poetry, October 2009, 'Dusk at Dozmary Pool' voted Joint Third in Readers' Votes.
  
• Reach Poetry, issue 128: 'Sea Scribe' voted Third in Readers' Votes.

2008

• TIPS 68, September issue: ‘Mount Grace: Heads and Tails’ voted Joint First in Readers' Votes.
  

Up to 2016 (inclusive)

First Prize Wins
include the following:

• 2014 Inaugural ZSL Poetry Competition, Adult Section and Overall Winner
• 2007 Petra Kenney Poetry Competition, General Section
• 2007 St Fagan's E-steddfod, English Language Section, category: Haiku
• 2006 St Fagan's E-steddfod, English Language Section, category: Haiku
• 2005 Helford River Poetry Competition, adult section
• 2005 Ottakar/Faber Carmarthen store, adult section
• 2005 Writing Magazine Ottava Rima Competition
• 2003 Davidian Poetry Competition, Wendy Webb Books, Norfolk Poets & Writers
• 1972 Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival Grove Poetry First Prize, when aged 11

Other Prizes and Commendations up to 2007
These are not listed on the web at the present time.


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