Peter Paterson FRPS MPAGB MFIAP - Photography My Way. Peter is a Fotospeed lecturer  Peter who has been taking photographs for over 40 years, starting mostly in monochrome which he processed in the darkroom. During this time he has gained the Fellowship distinction from the Royal Photographic Society and also the MFIAP award and the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Distinction DPAGB. He sits on the RPS Licentiate Panel and is Deputy Chair of the Creative Panel and Chair of the Pictorial Panel.
Peter's main interests are Landscape, Still Life and Abstract, both in colour and mono using Nikon Digital Cameras. He exhibits his photographs nationally and internationally in various Photo Salons around the world and has also had images published in numerous magazines and books.

This month's DI Group meeting has been put back by a week owing to ongoing works at the clubrooms. The next meeting will now be on Monday 20 July at 7.30pm. As usual all members are welcome, especially if they bring along images (either printed or projected) for discussion, advice or just to show off. 

The Print Group quarterly meeting, run by Pete McCloskey and Graham Reeves will now be held on Monday 27 July. As with the DI Group meeting, it has been put back a week due to necessary work to be carried out on the new clubrooms. The group is open to all members, but its aim is to give advice and prepare members ahead of applying for the photographic distinctions of the RPS and PAGB.

If you'd like further information, please email Pete at pmccloskey11@btinternet.com, and I'm sure he'll be pleased to help
 

At last week's AGM several members claimed that they had not received the agenda and other paperwork for the AGM, in particular the financial report. These were sent to all members attached to issue 144 (17 June) of the newsletter, I have attached another copy of these for those who didn't read their newsletter properly. In future I plan to ask questions to randomly selected members just to check that my words of wisdom haven't gone unread!  

The highlight of the year, the AGM, was somewhat eclipsed by the fun of the Studio Competition which occupied the second half of the evening last Wednesday. It took the form of a knockout competition, with images being projected in pairs and the audience voting on which one they preferred. This process was repeated until only three images were left, at which point the audience voted for their favourite image of the three, the winner being the one with the highest number of votes. The results were as follows:
1st - Shadow Writing by Ann Mead
2nd - Circus by Keith Wood
3rd - Good to Talk by Kathryn Armitstead

 

   

             Shadow Writing                                Circus                                 Good to Talk                            

Last week I promised that the winning images would be published this week, so here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the hanging order:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the hanging order:

 

Work is now well advanced in installing the new studio lighting system. The suspended ceiling in the studio area has been removed to allow for the installation of the main support metalwork above which will support the lighting rig below the ceiling. As can be seen from the picture below of yours truly wielding a spanner, there is quite a "spaghetti work" of pipes, tubes and wires above the ceiling through which the new system had to be threaded. Hopefully all the work will be completed by Tuesday after which we will have a clubroooms which is second to none and will be the only club in the country with such a professional studio set up.

There is an exhibition of traditional photography by James Ravilious at the RWA until 20th Sept. Details from this link to the exhibition, with more information on his work here.

 

 

The club has a quantity of Fotospeed paper for sale that was received as payment for Salon catalogue advertising. It is Fotospeed PF Lustre A3 size 275 gram in boxes of 50 sheets.  We are asking £35 per box, which is a reduction of 12.5 % from list price.  Would anyone interested please contact Keith Wood or Pete Howell.

Black Country Museum – 1940’s Weekend 18th & 19th July. Details
Great Dorset Steam Fair – Wed 2nd to Sun 6th Sept. Details

Derwood Pamphilon has emailed to say that he has had success in India with 6 acceptances and a PSA Gold in the 1st Impressions Salon. I understand that Sue O'Connell also had a number of acceptances in the same exhibition - well done to both.

 

 

Greg Duncan has an Intuos 5 medium size professional pen tablet. Hardly ever used. RRP £299 - no reasonable offer refused. He will have it with him at the next meeting

 

 

 

If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 9241338.