Issue 411 - Zoom Reminder                     

                                              17 November 2020
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Wednesday 18 November
 
 
Tomorrow, 18 November, we are pleased to welcome Ashley Franklin ARPS ABPPA APAGB BPE1* to our screens when he will present his talk: From Pursuit to Passion to Profession.
Many of you may recognise Ashley as the voice behind the annual NEMPF presentation that we have at BPS.
How did Ashley the amateur snapper become Ashley Franklin Photography offering a wide spectrum of professional services? In Part 1, see how the pursuit quickly became a passion as Ashley made his way through the camera club world and, in Part
2, how he ventured into the commercial sphere. Ashley would not have become a pro without the stimulation and inspiration he picked up as a member of Derby City Photographic, so this presentation is a celebration of the camera club ideal as well as a journey into the world of a professional practitioner with all its perils, pitfalls, triumphs and rewards. 
Some examples of Ashley's commercial work
To see more, please visit his website - www.ashleyfranklin.co.uk.
The talk starts at 19:30hrs but will be open from 19:15hrs.
Zoom meeting details;
  • Join Zoom Meeting, follow this LINK     
  • Meeting ID:  817 3699 3087
  • Passcode: 454302 
 
Closing Date - Final Notice
Not-the-Print Projected Image Competition Round 2 
The deadline for entries for this competition is tomorrow, 18 November. It is being run as if it were a PI competition. 
 
It may be worth a reminder that the prescribed subject for Advanced entrants is A Line From A Poem
 
You may want to use your image directly to illustrate the line.  So, “Zebra crossing puddles in dips of the dark stripes” from Adrian Mitchell’s poem “Watch Your Step – I’m Drenched” may well be a picture of puddles on a zebra crossing. 
 
Alternatively, your chosen line may invite a less literal image. “Life, what is it but a dream?” from Lewis Carroll’s “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky” doesn’t have to include either a boat or a sunny sky. 
 
Indeed, it’s quite permissible to take a line quite out of its context. As your photo title, it doesn’t have to refer back to the whole poem it’s from. If, say, you use Wordsworth’s “Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!” as your title, it needn’t have anything to do with Westminster Bridge or a river. It could be used for a picture of a sweetly sleeping elephant. 
 
Whatever you choose, when you send in your image, please title it in this format, including the poet’s name: 03_Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! William Wordsworth_666Z.
 
Photographic Acronyms
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