Cartrefi Conwy’s Focus photographic group - Eddie Bradley, Colin Matthews, Phil Batty Snr, John Roberts and Renee Williams

digital camera. So, as well as learning a few photographic skills participants learned how to store, retrieve, manipulate and file their images on a computer. We also looked at how to share images on social media.

“The group went out taking photographs on Llandudno promenade, the Happy Valley Gardens on the Great Orme and at a 1940s festival in Colwyn Bay. It gave me the opportunity to teach a few things about photography.”

Some of the most memorable images in the project were taken by 77-year-old Renee Williams, of Old Colwyn.

She admitted: “I paid just £20 for a small digital camera from the local supermarket, so I’m surprised and delighted our work is shortlisted for such a big award.”

Renee, who has 11 grandchildren and one great-grandson, came up with a trio of powerful pictures showing a young boy holding a red balloon and an authentically dressed air-raid warden, both from the Colwyn Bay 40s festival, and a shot of smiling Cartrefi Conwy staff at Happy Valley.

Also thrilled to see the project shortlisted for the award was Renee’s fellow group member, 67-year-old Eddie Bradley, of Llandudno Junction.

He said: “Hearing that we’re in the running for such an honour is fantastic news.

“The camera I used to take the pictures isn’t an expensive one but this shows that whatever sort of equipment you use you can still make it count.”

Eddie’s most striking images include atmospheric shots of a vintage military motorcycle and a group of re-enacters from the Colwyn Bay 40s festival and a steam wagon from the Llandudno Transport Festival.