There will be no newsletter next week - this issue covers the meetings for the next TWO weeks:
Main Meetings 5 & 12 July and DI Group 10 July
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Next Wednesday we will be holding the Garmston Bowl and President's Cup competitions, which are being judged this year by our own Sue O'Connell FIPF ARPS EFIAP/d3 DPAGB ABPE and Peter Brisley ARPS DPAGB BPE 2* EFIAP.
These are competitions for sets of prints or projected images, the Garmston Bowl being for a panel of five related prints and the President's Cup for a set of three related projected digital images.
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RESULTS: As there will be no newsletter next week, these will be published in two weeks' time. |
- Wednesday 5 July @ 19:30hrs
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- Meeting ID: 816 4311 9206
- Password: 359088
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On 12 July, we welcome Tracey Lund to Unit 13, when she will be presenting her talk Wildlife Photography - Part 1.
This talk covers the following - Japan, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Camargue, Captive and UK - In each talk Tracey will show a selection of images from the areas mentioned as well as some stories/experiences she have encountered. Tracey will answer any questions during/after the presentation.
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A little bit about Tracey:
Tracey is an International award-winning photographer from England who specialises in Wildlife. Her passion for wildlife has taken her to magical places and this passion is easy to see in her images. She’s had exceptional international success too, including:
- Sony World Photography Awards
Natural World & Wildlife Winner
- FEP Wildlife Photographer of the
Year
- World Photographic Cup – ‘Silver’
& ‘Best in Nation’
- SINWP Wildlife Photographer of
the Year
- MPA Wildlife Photographer of the
Year
- Cosmos Awards Wildlife &
Animal Photographer of the Year
and many more too!
Tracey regularly hosts talks within the photography community, either in-person or via zoom, around her vast experience with Wildlife Photography.
Why not visit Tracey's website to see more about her and her photography:
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A couple of images from the evening's presentation.
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- Wednesday 12 July @ 19:30hrs
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- Meeting ID: 899 8656 9196
- Password: 990261
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DI Group (zoom) Meeting – Monday 10 July, 7.30 pm
Last month we had another full evening of presentations with a variety of images.
Allan Jones revisited some of his old images edited with the new version of Pure Raw 5 software which has been upgraded significantly. As an example, he showed the power of Raw Editor to remove noise almost completely and therefore effectively increasing the ability to take photos in even lower light conditions.
Derwood Pamphilon’s presentation again had a variety of images from models underwater to dance images which he does so well. A short video of how the underwater shots are taken gave a fascinating glimpse of how it is all done in the ‘underwater studio’ in a specially designed tank. Another short video of his portraits of models in action showed the coordination of the photographer, model and members of the supporting group in creating dynamic images. His dance images taken in Sadler's Wells theatre have the artistic quality achieved with a lot of experience. Two images which stayed in my mind were one of unusual composition and another where the dancers seemed to defy gravity. |
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A couple of images by Derwood
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Robin Mudge who has joined BPS recently and is a well accomplished photographer, showed a few of his images from his self-published book of industrial landscapes taken on a train journey from Washington to New York. He made the point that these books are exhibitions in your hands and that images should be printed and published rather than left on the hard drives of our computers and perhaps forgotten.
David Alderson had visited the ‘Dig for Victory’ re-enactment which has returned after being suspended for a couple of years. I am sure we will be seeing more of those images in the club over next year.
Anita Fullerton had been experimenting further with ICM (intentional camera movement) and again I am sure we will see more of her images, a few competition winners perhaps.
The next DI group meeting is on Monday 10 July. The meeting is open to all BPS members. Please feel free to share your images with fellow members. It’s an opportunity to get a second opinion at the DI meeting from your fellow members or you might just enjoy showing off your work and experiments in an informal atmosphere. You are free to ask questions on digital imaging.
When you are ready, please email your images for presentation to reach me by 6pm-ish Sunday 9 July. Images: JPG format, sRGB colour space, 1600 x 1200 pixels (same as competitions but not strict). If you wish to show them in a specific order, please prefix filenames with 01, 02, 03 etc. Email attachment size - max 20Mb per email, as many as necessary. You may also use WeTransfer or Dropbox if convenient, but I am not equipped to receive by direct transfers from Google or Apple Mac systems.
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- Monday 10 July @ 19:30hrs
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- Meeting ID: 836 1227 7782
- Password: 141568
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The programme for 2 August shows a single word - Outing. Jay (Programme Secretary) is trying to sort something out for the evening and has put together a very short questionnaire which he'd like you to complete so that he can come up with a suitable plan for the evening.
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Warwick - PAGB Interclub PDI Competition - 15 July |
The 2023 PAGB Interclub PDI Competition is being held at Warwick University on July 15 and BPS will be representing the WCPF. This competition is one of the most keenly fought events in the calendar, with the TOP TWO clubs from each regional federation competition having the right to represent themselves, their members and their region in this annual national battle.
Tickets for this year’s battle are available now via the PAGB website – costing £15:00.
Come and join us in the audience and lend us your support. We’ve earned our place, let’s see if we can even do better than last year.
Irrespective of where we finish, it will be a great day out, filled with the very best images from the very best photographers in the Country.
Tickets have to be purchased on-line through the PAGB CES system:
Select Services on the menu bar then Event tickets.
Select 2023 PDI Championship and follow the instructions.
This is a great day out and a chance to support your club, see some of the best images in the Country and to meet photographers from around the rest of Great Britain - so come on, get your wallet out of the safe and buy your tickets now!
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Cotswold Show at Cirencester Park on 1st & 2nd July. Provided the weather is good, this should provide plenty of top rate photo oportunities.
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From Mike Martin, External Competitions Secretary:
Still waiting on the PSA end of Year results for the Nature competition but the results for the Open Colour section are in.
Huge congratulations to Barry and Andrew and well done to Jay for getting as far as the End of Year individual awards. No doubt the winning images will appear on line in due course.
PSA PDI – End of Year - Colour
| Twin Sisters, Glencoe |
Andrew Whettam |
9 |
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| St Mary's Lighthouse |
Andrew Whettam |
11 |
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| Last Look Back |
Barry Mead |
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| Boarding Now |
Barry Mead |
12 |
Bronze
Medal |
| Odin |
Jay Hallsworth |
10 |
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| The Girl in the Shawl |
Jay Hallsworth |
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I’ve also been promised the PRINT competition individual awards, by the end of the week, so fingers crossed.
Mike
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Email Spam Warning - Update |
The warning sent out on Saturday about spam emails coming from Pete McCloskey has been resloved and it is now safe to send emails to and receive emails from Pete |
NEW PAGB eNews - download Issue 335 of PAGB eNews HERE - This edition contains, among other things, links to PAGB Interclub PDI Championship and tickets.
Download the latest edition of Photography News (Issue 108) HERE |
Well done to Jay Hallsworth on recently gaining a couple of distinctions, EFIAP and EPSA distinctions from FIAP and PSA respectively. |
Salon acceptances: Contrary to popular belief, I do not possess psychic powers and need you to tell me if you've had successes. If you want to blow your own trumpet (or someone else's), then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include details in a future issue.
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