BPS Newsletter - Issue 154 26 August 2015 |
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Next Wednesday is the annual club outing, which this year will be in the Bedminster area of Bristol when the subjects to be photographed will be the recent graffiti that was painted during the Upfest festival of street art held during July. The plan is for members to meet in the Aldi carpark (BS3 1JA) near the Tobacco Factory at 7.05 and then head along towards the Hungry Caterpillar where there's some decent stuff, especially just past the Sally Army and the Baths, where a school has some great artwork. Then we could meet at the Hen & Chicken at 9.00 pm to chat about what wonderful images everyone has taken during the evening.
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Photography News - Word of our move goes national!
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To download Issue 23 of Photography News, please follow this link. This edition is particularly interesting as P13 carries an article wot i rote on the BPS move.
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Photographic Distinctions & Acronyms
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Several members have asked me what the various letters that photographers seem to append to the end of their names mean. I have put together (with the help of Pete McCloskey) a list of the most common, together with some of the other acronyms you may see bandied about. To download this list, please follow this link.
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For those of you who haven't already picked up yours yet, you can find copies just inside the door to the clubroom. Please pick up yours (and tick your name off the list); this will save postage costs when Derwood comes to sending out any which have not been collected by the end of September.
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We have heard from a past BPS member, John Gray who left Bristol many years ago to move to Cardiff that he has sadly been
diagnosed with an aggressive form of liver cancer for which there is no
treatment. There will be a number of BPS members who remember John who might
like to contact him, he can be reached on 02920 755872 and would love to hear
from his old friends.
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Peter Gennard at Sodbury & Yate PC
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The Annual Guest Speaker at Sodbury & Yate Photographic Club is Peter Gennard, who will be giving a talk in Chipping Sodbury Town Hall on the evening of September 14th at 7.30pm. His talk will be a Retrospective Print Show. Tickets for this event are £5.00 each and can be booked via the dedicated email address – tickets@sypc.org.uk or by phoning Eileen on 01454 778882
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Bristol Kite Festival is taking place on the Downs this weekend. Entry is free and there is a full programme of events over Saturday and Sunday. Full details here.
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Photographers' Gallery (London) : Shirley Baker: Women, Children and Loitering Men. The exhibition presents the work of pioneering British photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014) in working class communities in Manchester which were gradually dispersed as a result of the slum clearance programmes of the 1960s and 70s. For further details, click here. Until 20 September.
National Portrait Gallery : Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon. For further details, click here. Until 18 October.
ExtraordinaryOrdinary 2 – Hidden Beauty in the Urban Environment - an exhibition by Simon Caplan LRPS at the Create Centre, Smeaton Road, BS1 6XN; entry to the exhibition is free and runs from 5 to 18 September (Monday to Fridays, 9am to 5pm). You can find out more about Simon by visiting his website.
Karl Blossfeldt - Art Forms in Nature. This is another (free) exhibition which might be of interest to BPS members which is currently showing at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol until 13th September. The exhibition comprises 40 exquisite original photogravures from 1932 of Karl Blossfeldt’s close-up photographic images of plants and flora. For further details, please click here.
Travel Photographer of the Year, July 24 - September 5, at the
Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road, London SW7. Details at http://www.tpoty.com/exhibitions/rgs.
First showing of the latest award winning images. This year's exhibition
includes BPS member Sue O'Connell's portrait from a Java festival which was
runner up in the monochrome section.
Anyone interested in entering this year's TPOTY competition has until 1st
October. Details at: http://www.tpoty.com.
James Ravilious - 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.
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John Hudson has just got his DPAGB (Distinction PAGB) - Well done.
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. |
If you have something photographic that you want to sell, let me have the details and I will circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address.
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If you have anything you think other members would like to know about, such as exhibitions, special events etc. please let me know at newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
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