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Date	Speaker	Subject
29 October	Peter Brisley	Travel and Travail
5 November	Peter Gennard	Street & Environmental Portraits
10 November	DI Group	Practical Evening
12 November	Members' Evening + Ladies v Gents
19 November	PDI Competition	Round 2
26 November	Tim Pile	Figure

 

 

Just a quick note to ask members to make sure that they turn off the taps after washing their hands when using the toilets. This is not just a random request - recently a tap was left running in the Ladies WC.

 

 

Judging under way during last weekend's GWPE Judging.

 

Last weekend saw the culmination of many months' hard work, when the 2025 Great Western Photographic Exhibition judging was held at the clubrooms. The exhibition had attracted getting on for 4000 entries, which was whittled down to around a thousand images and prints that will form the basis of this year's exhibition. BPS members did pretty well, with 53 images & prints being accepted. The full list of BPS acceptances is shown below:

 

Mike Bews	Nature Prints	Male Brindled Beauty
Peter Brisley	Open Monochrome Prints	Awe and Wonder
Simon Caplan	Open Monochrome PDIs	Still Life with Quaking Grass
Simon Caplan	Open Monochrome PDIs	War Museum of the North
Simon Caplan	Open Colour Prints	Leaving Home
Simon Caplan	Open Colour Prints	Working Late at the Garage
Margaret Chambers	Nature PDIs	Elephant Playfight   *
Margaret Chambers	Nature Prints	Reddish Egret Caught a Fish   *
Margaret Chambers	Nature Prints	Thomson's Gazelle and Newborn Faun
Ashwin Chauhan	Open Colour PDIs	Fantasyland
Ashwin Chauhan	Open Colour PDIs	Labouring Nights Till Dawn
Ashwin Chauhan	Open Colour PDIs	Street Kitchen
Sandie Cox	Open Colour PDIs	Caught a Good Wave
Sandie Cox	Open Colour PDIs	Shepherd
Sandie Cox	Open Colour PDIs	The Chemist
Sandie Cox	Open Monochrome PDIs	Stallions Sparring 2   *
Sandie Cox	Nature PDIs	Female Polar Bear with Cubs
Sandie Cox	Nature PDIs	Polar Bear Reflection
Sandie Cox	Nature PDIs	Rabbit Washing Face
Rachel Domleo	Open Colour PDIs	Shaping the Shoe
Rachel Domleo	Open Monochrome PDIs	Sky High
Rachel Domleo	Open Monochrome PDIs	Strangers in the Mist
Rachel Domleo	Open Colour Prints	End of the Day   *
Rachel Domleo	Open Colour Prints	Storm over the Severn
Rachel Domleo	Open Monochrome Prints	Waiting and Dreaming
Richard Kay	Nature PDIs	Female Blue Morph Arctic Fox Chasing Her Male Partner
Richard Kay	Nature PDIs	Female Blue Morph Arctic Fox on Seeing a Rival
Mike Martin	Open Colour PDIs	Avant Garde Suffragette
Mike Martin	Open Colour PDIs	Do I Follow
Mike Martin	Open Colour PDIs	Saint or Sinner
Mike Martin	Open Monochrome PDIs	Life Sciences Building
Mike Martin	Open Monochrome Prints	Vertigo
Mike Martin	Nature Prints	Dew Covered Common Grass Bug
Mike Martin	Nature Prints	Hiding
Peter McCloskey	Open Colour PDIs	Mumbai Street
Peter McCloskey	Open Monochrome PDIs	Deadvlei 3
Peter McCloskey	Nature PDIs	Eebra at Waterhole
Peter McCloskey	Nature PDIs	Magellanic Penguins
Barry Mead	Open Colour PDIs	Foreboding
Barry Mead	Open Colour PDIs	Snow White and the Seven   *
Barry Mead	Open Colour PDIs	Undertaker and the Widow
Barry Mead	Open Colour Prints	Graveyard Crone
Barry Mead	Open Colour Prints	Tune for Disappointment
Paul Moran	Open Monochrome Prints	Sophistication and Style
Sue O'Connell	Open Colour PDIs	Tinsmith Workshop
Sue O'Connell	Open Colour PDIs	Watchful Ovakuvale Woman
Sue O'Connell	Nature PDIs	First to Make the Crossing
Sue O'Connell	Open Monochrome Prints	Girls of the Mir Tribe   *
Sue O'Connell	Open Monochrome Prints	Smoking Break
Sue O'Connell	Nature Prints	A Confusion of Giraffes   **
Joanne Searle	Open Monochrome PDIs	Peeping
Ralph Snook	Open Monochrome PDIs	Bison in Snow Storm
Ralph Snook	Open Monochrome PDIs	The Outcast
		* Club Award
		** Highly Commended

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget that 12 November sees the return to the BPS programme, of the Ladies vs Gents Battle. This is not a "handbags at dawn" type battle, but a friendly, light-hearted Open projected image competition with the two sides battling it out on the night. (The subject is Open and is changed from what was previously announced, to make it less restrictive.)

 

The judge is John Chamberlin, who will mark each entry out of 10, live on the night, and the victorious side will be crowned at the end of the evening.

 

Entry closes Friday, 7 Nov at mid-night.

 

Each entrant can enter 2 images, please name the images as follows:

Example: 01_My Dog_296.jpeg

Your BPS membership number can be found at top of this newsletter.

 

Image size 1600 x 1200 pixels. Colour space sRGB

 

 

The Ladies captain will be Carole Brown and the Gents Barry Mead

 

Any questions to - chairman@bristolphoto.org.uk

 

 

 

Treble session special!   

Michelle will be returning, joined by Anna, a fantastic make-up artist, for the whole day.  Some of you may recognise Michelle from the fake underwater shoot in August and Anna from large number of Mike’s photos including when she had paint poured over her! Anna now focuses on make-up for film and TV so Mike is excited to see what she can add to the party. This is your opportunity to see how working on a planned styled shoot with a collaborative team can elevate your photography, at a fraction of the cost of other workshops.

10am – 1pm 

Theme to be determined.  Session open to all. No booking required. Cost £10

Building upon the morning, this session is limited to 6 people - Booking essential. Cost £25 - Fully booked, contact Mike to go on reserve list.

Halloween special, corpse bride meets fashion, maybe some prosthetics, a bit of blood, etc. this session is limited to 5 people. Booking essential. Cost £30 - Fully booked, contact Mike to go on reserve list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

smethwickinternational.com Closing: 27 October 3 PDI Sections  Open Colour Open Mono Nature 3 Print Sections  Open Colour Open Mono Nature

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