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Next week is split into several parts. To begin the evening, we will be holding the 2025 BPS Annual General Meeting; this will be followed by a presentation of all the trophies and medals awarded to members throughout the 2024-25 BPS Competition year - please see list of recipients further down this newsletter.
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PARTY TIME
After the AGM & presentations, we will be having a celebration of 10 years since we moved from our previous clubrooms in a Clifton basement to the wonderful, purpose-built clubrooms we now occupy. To help us celebrate, please bring a bottle/something to eat which will help create a bit of a party atmosphere. You only need to bring enough for one person as it will all be put onto one big feast table for all to graze. As this is a special celebration, it might be worth remembering our new Chairman's impassioned plea at the end of our last meeting, when he asked that we should try to avoid "brown food", for example the ubiquitous sausage rolls.
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ZOOM
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- Wednesday 30 July @ 19.30hrs
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- Meeting ID: 876 8033 1153
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Speaker |
Subject |
| 30 July |
AGM + "10yrs at Unit 13" Party |
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| 6 August |
Andy Page |
ZOOM meeting - Talk TBA |
| 11 August |
DI Group |
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| 13 August |
Pete McCloskey |
BPS Archive |
| 20 August |
Andrew Marker |
2025 Bristol Salon |
| 27 August |
Sue Brown |
ZOOM meeting - Talk TBA |
| 3 September |
Jeff Hargreaves |
Chairman's Evening |
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At a meeting of the Council this month the question of subscription rates was discussed in light of the finalised accounts for the year ended March 2025. At the ‘Extraordinary General Meeting’ of members (EGM) held in April 2024, it was agreed that subscriptions would increase by £20 annually for the ensuing four years; but that this was subject to annual review by the Council who could decide on a lesser increase for any of those years.
This year the Council has decided that the increase should be limited to £5 instead of the maximum £20. This will be applied to renewals starting on or after 01 August 2025.
It should be emphasised and understood that the option to increase subs again by £20 on 01 August 2026 and again by a further £20 in 2027 is still the default position, but that Council may decide on lower increases.
(By way of reminder, the Society’s financial position is laid out in the annual accounts within the Report of Council of Management for 2025 which has been circulated to all members (06 July Newsletter), and the ‘Financial Review’ within that.)
The new subscription rates are detailed below:
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Applicable to all subscriptions due on or after 01 August 2025)
- Normal subscription for each member - Current £85, new £90
- If the member is
the spouse or partner of a member living at the same address the normal
rate for the second member is - Current £67, new £72
- Member living more
than 50 miles from Bristol - Current £41, new £46
- Member aged 70
years and over with 20 years continuous membership - Current £41, new £46
- New member for one
three-month period only - Current £31, new £36
Would members aged 70 years and over and with 20 years continuous service, but who do not currently pay the reduced subscription rate (see above), please contact the Membership Secretary membership@bristolphoto.org.uk, who will be able to adjust your furure subscriptions.
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After next week's AGM, medals and trophies won by members throughout the year will be presented. Below is a list of what is to be presented and to whom:
Medal allocation for various competitions 2024-25
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Competition
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Name
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PDI Bi-
Monthly Competition
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PDI League
winner Club Class
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Sian Jones
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PDI League
winner Intermediate
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Ramesh
Chauhan
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PDI League
winner Advanced
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Simon Caplan
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PDI League
winner Prescribed Subject Class
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Simon Caplan
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Print Bi-
Monthly Competition
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Print League
winner Club Class
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Rhys Gillard
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Print League
winner Intermediate
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Jenny Wood
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Print League
winner Advanced
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Derwood
Pamphilon
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Print League
winner Prescribed Subject class
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Simon Caplan
& Rachel Domleo
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PDI
Annual Competition
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Annual PDI
Competition Club Class
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Simon Jones
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Annual PDI
Competition Intermediate
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Gari Jenkins
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Annual PDI
Competition Advanced
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Derwood
Pamphilon
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Annual PDI
Competition Best People
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Sue
O’Connell
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Annual PDI
Competition Best Travel
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Sue Pearmain
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Annual PDI
Competition Nature
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Steve Taylor
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Annual PDI
Competition Best Action
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Steve Taylor
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Annual PDI
Competition Best Mono
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Rachel
Domleo
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Annual PDI
Competition Best Landscape
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Simon Jones
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Print Annual
Competition
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Annual Print
Competition Club
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Ibrahim
Gitteh Massiah
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Annual Print
Competition Intermediate
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Jenny Wood
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Annual Print
Competition Advanced
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Rachel
Domleo
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Annual Print
Competition Nature
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Graham Pears
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Annual Print
Competition Best Overall
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Graham Pears
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Annual Print
Competition Mono
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Sue
O’Connell
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Annual Print
Competition Best People
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Sue
O’Connell
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Annual Print
Competition Travel
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Sue
O’Connell
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Annual Print
Competition Best Action
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Mary Pears
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Annual Print
Competition Best Landscape
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Pam Sherren
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Presidents
Cup
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Presidents
Cup (PDI Panel)
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Ken Clarke
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Garmston
Bowl
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Garmston
Bowl (Print Panel)
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Derwood
Pamphilon
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Creative
Competition
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Creative
Competition PDI
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Colin Dixon
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Creative
Competition
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Creative
Competition Print
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Simon Caplan
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BPS Trophy Winners 2024/25
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Trophy
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Competition
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Winner
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The Hewitt Cup
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Bi-month PDI Competition
Club Class
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Sian Jones
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Avonia Trophy
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Bi-month PDI Competition
Intermediate
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Ramesh Chauhan
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BPS R J R Fry Comp.
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Bi- month Print Competition
Club Class
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Rhys Gillard
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BPS Print Competition
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Bi-month Print Competition
Intermediate
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Jenny Wood
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H Salanson Trophy
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Best PDI Annual
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Derwood Pamphilon
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Annual Slide Comp.
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Annual PDI Nature
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Steve Taylor
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Roderick J Fry trophy
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Best Image Annual Print (All levels)
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Graham Pears
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E G Watts Memorial
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Best Print Annual
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Rachel Domleo
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R J Fry comp. (Animal
Studies)
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Annual Print Nature
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Graham Pears
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Garmston Bowl
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Panel five Prints
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Derwood Pamphilon
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President’s Cup (Limited entry)
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Panel of three PDI’s
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Ken Clarke
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Bob Faris Creative Trophy
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Overall best image
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Simon Caplan
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Exciting Club Competition News |
The current method for submitting images for both projected and print images is now obsolete and is often error prone. Because of this, the Council took the decision in May to change the software used for submitting digital images for both print and projected image competitions to become one consistent process.
In time for next season’s competitions, we will be rolling out a new Web based system called PhotoEntry. This has many benefits including:
- Members can upload their images directly into currently running competitions instead of emailing images to the PDI competition secretary or uploading digital copies of Print images to a different folder.
- No more complicated PDI file naming conventions.
- Members receive instant feedback as to whether their image meets the technical requirements (such as image dimensions).
- Members will be able to upload and organise their entries for competitions throughout the season (as long as the competition is open to accept entries)
PhotoEntry is used by many other clubs and has a very good track record.
To implement this system, the competition rules will be reviewed and made clearer. In due course, the updated rules as well as instructions for submitting competition entries will be available on the BPS website and also from a link in PhotoEntry.
Please keep an eye out next week for further information on this.
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Upcoming Studio Sessions:
Monday 28 July – David Alderson will be leading the session: he is going to focus on photographing gadgets, tools, macro – bring anything you’d like to photograph, along with torches, small lights and any interesting backdrops. David will also be bringing his droplet equipment.
Mike Martin
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Amateur Photographer - APOY - Round 4 |
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NEW ROUND - LANDSCAPES
Now is the time to get your entry in for Round 4 of the APOY competition, the subject this round is LANDSCAPES. The closing date is 18 August, where the free entry code is APOY75857944
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NEW - Download Issue 385 PAGB eNews HERE
NEW - Download Issue 385 Extra (CPAGB Special) HERE
Download Issue 121 of Photography News HERE.
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GREAT WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION*
Closing: 28 September
3 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Nature
3 Print Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Nature
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* Free entry for BPS members (Not available to distance members)
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CLOSING SOON - 3 August
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Pictorial Mono
Scapes
Nature
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Closing: 31 August
4 Monochrome Print Sections
Open Mono
Portraits & Figure Studies
Scapes
Sport
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Closing: 5 October
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Nature
Scapes
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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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LAST CHANCE!!!!
Your chance to set yourself up to put into practice what our last speaker told us all about when having "fun at home"
Flashgun Sale
Canon Speedlite 270EX ll, virtually unused, boxed, as new, original cost £139 at Wex. £Sensible Offers - to go club funds. GN 27. Tested and free set of new 2XAA batteries included! Does TTL, Manual & Slave mode, compact fast recycle unit, swivel up only head.
Canon Speedlite 270 ll.
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Canon compatible Speed light Calumet SP692 GN 50, little used, more powerful unit, original cost at Wex £139 Boxed. £Sensible Offers - to go club funds. Tested and free set of new 4XAA batteries included! Does TTL & Manual Mode. Fast recycle unit, head swivels up down, and left/right & complete with an attachable diffuser.
Calumet SP692 Canon compatible.
Regards, Kevin James
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The following from Jenny Wood:
I have an Epson Stylus Pro 3880 for sale, which prints up to A2 size, for a nominal cost of just £50. It is in very good condition with 5 out of 9 ink tanks more than half full (I’m a positive kind of person!}. See photo of levels below. The Epson Photo Black, Cyan and Vivid Magenta will need refills before it will work. It did have the usual switching blacks problem, which is why I stopped using it, but if you only print matte or have the skills to replace the diverter valve, it should be fine.
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If you have any photographic items for sale, drop me a line and I'll include them in the next newsletter. Please make sure that you provide contact details, price and full description of the sale items (pictures always help).
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IMPORTANT: Personal Detail Changes |
Please don't forget that if you change your
address (home or email), or gain additional photographic distinctions,
it would be appreciated if you could let the Membership Secretary know
so that she can keep her records up to date, this will also ensure that
you continue to receive your newsletters - please email all changes to membership@bristolphoto.org.uk.
The distinctions we have on record are those
shown at the top of this newsletter, please remember, if you don't tell
us we can't possibly know!
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