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Next Wednesday is the much-awaited Chairman's Evening. The evening is going to be about Myanmar, which four of members visited earlier this year. This illustrious band comprised Ken Clarke, Pete McCloskey, Derwood Pamphilon & Jeff Hargreaves.
The first half will be spilt into two parts, and will be mostly people pictures by Pete McCloskey and Derwood Pamphilon. The second half will be images by the Chairman and will feature the landscape and pagodas of the Country. There will be a surprise item to finish the evening. Below is a taster of what we can expect, an image by jeff of Golden Rock.
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Next Monday is the monthly meeting of the DI Group, all club members are welcome, especially if accompanied by images (either prints or jpegs on USB sticks); these can be just to show off what you have been doing recently of to seek advice from the assembled masses on a specific problem. And don't forget, there's always the chance to savour Ashwin's Hobnobs! |
20 September - Print Competition Closing Date
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Print Competition Labels
Labels
for this year's series of print competitions will be available on
Wednesday from the table by the stage. You need just one sheet for all
the year's competitions!
Closing Date
The closing date for Round 1, judged by our own Graham Reeves EFIAP, is 20 September.
Please indicate your level of entry by clearly writing Cl, Int or Adv
on the label. Do not use the letter code required for online DPI
entries. The prescribed category for Advanced print 3 is MONOCHROME.
Advanced entrants, please remember to number your prints accordingly.
You can find full details of the competitions in your handbook, Pages
21-28. If you have any queries not resolvable by the handbook, please
contact David Alderson at printcompetitions@bristolphoto.org.uk or text/telephone 07873 231413. A copy of the new rules is reproduced below:
Bimonthly Print and Projected Image Competitions
Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4
These competitions consist of 4 rounds, at roughly two monthly intervals. Each member may submit a maximum of 3 PI images or prints in each round of the applicable competition. First, second and third places, along with highly commended entries are awarded certificates in each level and points are allocated to these awards. Across the four rounds these points are accumulated. Trophies are presented in each of the 3 levels (Club, Intermediate, and Advanced) to the holders of the highest number of points at the end of the four rounds. The trophies will be presented at the club AGM.
For DPI and Print rounds at Advanced Level
For the advanced level only, the competitions will be subdivided into an ‘open’ category and a ‘prescribed’ category. In each round, two submitted images can be in the 'open' category, the subject and style being the free choice of the entrant. The third image submitted must be in the genre/subject/style category specified for each competition, as shown below.
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PI COMP 2017-18
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PRINT COMP 2017-18
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Round 1
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Transport
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Monochrome
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Round 2
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Street/Candid
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Work
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Round 3
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Close-up/Macro
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Blue
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Round 4
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Sport
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Architecture
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Images submitted to the 'prescribed' category must show the number 3 as the image identifying number. See ‘rules for entry’ on Pages 26 to 28 of your handbook.
A member who chooses to submit a ‘prescribed’ category image may also enter one or two images in the same genre/subject/style for the 'open' category submissions. A member may submit an 'Image 3' to the ‘prescribed’ category only, and nothing to the ‘open’ category, if desired.
In each round, the ‘genre’ category Image 3s will be judged together, with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and HCs being awarded, in addition to the awards for the 'open' images. The appropriate points for accumulation across the rounds will also accrue.
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BPS has agreed to be one of the two clubs to represent the WCPF at this year’s PAGB Inter-club Print Championship, full details can be found here. The event takes place on 29 October at Blackburn and two clubs from each Federation plus last year’s top eight will take part. For the first round we have to submit 12 pictures. These must include a minimum of five monochrome, five colour, but not more than three Natural History prints. They must be from a minimum of five photographers with no member having more than four prints in the entry. The top eight clubs in the first round will go through to the final, which will require 15 pictures. We are therefore asking members for prints so that we can form an image bank, from which our final entry can be selected. If you would like to submit work, please hand to Peter McCloskey or Danny Heaton. |
Many members will have known local photographer Denzil Ellis. Sadly, Denzil passed away peacefully on 13 July, aged 71 years. He was a long-standing member of Backwell Camera Club and was on the WCPF Executive for five years. Some members will have known Denzil from their previous membership of Backwell CC, whilst others may well remember his visits to BPS to present talks. |
PAGB Masters of Print Competition
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The PAGB Masters of Print Competition is held each October, followed by a public Exhibition. Individual Photographers who are members of affiliated Clubs may enter directly, without any pre-qualification. Photographers may enter prints in any combination of the Monochrome, Colour and Nature Categories and awards are made to individual prints. Prints are then selected for the Exhibition. There are a large number of big prizes to be won, so if you do prints, now is your chance for glory! For full entry details and a list of the magnificent prizes on offer, please follow this link. |
Mike Bigger has reminded me that this is Bristol Doors Open Days weekend. This is Bristol’s annual celebration of architecture, history and culture. Explore fascinating buildings, join guided tours, listen to inspiring talks, and enjoy a range of creative events and activities, completely free of charge.
The 2017 Bristol Doors Open Days programme includes more than 120 events at more than 100 venues, encompassing almost every ward in the city. Whatever your interest, you should find something to spark your curiosity.
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Sue O’Connell has passed on this plea for support from the Chairperson of the Ozone Zone Salon based in hurricane-hit Dominica, West Indies (This is an international salon with which our own Bristol Salon has close ties). http://internationalphotocompetition.com Dear Friends - Photographers,
The Hurricane Irma is approaching us, and will roll very close to us. It has winds up to 300 km/h (185 miles/h) and is the strongest hurricane Caribbean islands have seen in last 10 years.
We won't get a direct hit here in Dominica, but we will experience extreme weather conditions. Strong winds and thunderstorms are just starting as we write. We pray for neighbouring islands which will get the direct, devastating impact.
However, we want to assure you that if you plan to enter your photos to our 5th Salon, our servers are located in USA and will function normally. You should not experience any problems with your entries. If you have any questions and message us - we may be slow to respond as it is expected that our power will go soon, possibly also internet. But rest assured - we will get back to you as soon as connections are restored. Dominica is a tiny, but very resilient nation.
It may take us some days, because another hurricane - Jose - is just forming mere 4 or 5 days behind Irma, possibly prolonging the deluge and extreme weather we are about to experience. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
If you want to show us your support - simply enter your best images now, like everything is as it should. Let's show all of us that photographers are a single global community.
Let's make this 5th anniversary edition of Ozone Zone International Photo Salon a real success. Better than before! With more images from all around the world - a real celebration of life with its ups and downs. |
Exeter University Natural History Society
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We have received the following from Exeter University Natural History Society:
I am writing to you on behalf of the newly established Exeter University Natural History Society, with an invitation to your members.
In the coming academic year our society will be hosting a range of academic talks, with award winning wildlife cameramen and photographers visiting to speak of their industry/careers at either our St Lukes or Streatham Campus. Many of these people have worked on projects such as Planet Earth and Blue Planet, with producers and directors from these documentaries also visiting to discuss the production of such shows. Many of the people we have visiting our university work for, or have previously worked for, the BBC Natural History Unit on Whiteladies Road, a local connection that may be of particular interest to your members. We will also be visited by academics, TV personalities, journalists, and artists, but primarily thought the former would be of interest. These talks will be primarily attended by our society members and students, but we would also like to open them up to your members. Attendance to these talks will be ticketed and will cost proximately five pounds a ticket. If you are interested in having your members attend, I will be sure to write to you in advance of any event so that we can obtain an estimate of how many of your members will hopefully be attending. If these talks are not interest to you or your members, however, we fully understand, but hope this is not the case as we would love to engage with the wider South West community. Hope to hear from you soon, kind regards,
Richard Bray
President and founder of the Exeter University Natural History Society (and fellow Bristolian)
rmbray@virginmedia.com
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Download Issue 190 of the PAGB e-News here.
Click here to download issue 47 of Photography News
Click here to download latest issue of Pixel Magazine
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Tonight (Friday)
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At Kingswood Photographic Society this Friday - Steve Dury ARPS, DPAGB, FBDP (Dury & Tippett) and Dean Wood & Bob Rocca (Smart Computers). Steve will talk about how our vision plays its part in a variety
of different ways in the life of a photographer and how eyesight
translates in the use of and adjustments in camera optics. Dean & Bob will tell us about the latest developments at Smart
Computers and what the most popular purchases are amongst the discerning
photographic community.
KPS meet at 7.30pm at St Barnabas Church Hall, Warmley, Bristol BS30 5JJ. Visitors are most welcome, although a small charge of £3 is made.
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23 Sept
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RPS Digital Imaging Group is holding a special event - DI
Expo 2017 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport (near the NEC) from 9am
to 5pm on Saturday 23 September. This event is open to all, but you will
need to book a ticket. For full information and tickets, please visit their website.
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will
premiere at the M Shed at the same time as the national opening at the
Natural History Museum in London, it will run from 21 October 2017-
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April 2018. |
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11 Nov
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Devizes Camera Club is holding An Evening With
Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world's leading landscape
photographers. The event is at Wiltshire Music Centre at Bradford on Avon.
Full details can be found by following this link.
I'm told that tickets are selling fast, so you are advised to book now if
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ITS NOT PARTICULARLY EASY FINDING "DATES FOR YOUR DIARY", SO I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF MEMBERS COULD LET ME KNOW OF ANY EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS OR PICTURE LOCATIONS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE OF INTEREST. DATES AND WEB LINKS WOULD HELP
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2017 Welsh International
BPS were well represented among the acceptances in this year's Welsh International. The following all gained acceptances:
Ann Mead (2), Barry Mead (6), David Alderson (3), David Cooke (2), Derwood Pamphilon (3), Mike Bews (5), John Chamberlin (8) and Sue O'Connell (4). Well done to all.
Salon acceptances: BPS photographers are now achieving large numbers of salon acceptances and constraints on time and space mean we can't include them all. So please only advise of awards or other milestones.
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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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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Would all members please note: before you plan your shoot and book your model, you should check whether the studio/clubroom will be free. This can be done easily and at any time by viewing the Clubroom Bookings calendar in the Members' Area of the BPS Website. Bookings can (and must) be made by contacting Mike Bigger at bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Log in details to the Members' Area are at the end of this newsletter.
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For those of you who aren't sure what MPAGB, EFIAP/s and many more such seemingly random collections of letters mean, just click here to download the list.
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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, if they are wrong, please let Carol
know.
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If you have anything you think other members would like to know about, such as special events, exhibitions, photographic hints and tricks, etc. please let me know at newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
PLEASE NOTE: ALL COPY TO BE WITH THE EDITOR BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO ALLOW FOR PUBLICTAION (HOPEFULLY) ON FRIDAY MORNING
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If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 924 1338 |
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