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Your BPS Membership No:
Hello Firstname
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Next week we are getting extra value, in fact we are getting what is commonly known as BOGOF. We are being treated to a BPS double act when Sue O'Connell ARPS EFIAP/p DPAGB BPE5*and Peter Brisley ARPS DPAGB will present their talk More Travels Towards The Edge featuring more out-of-the-way people and places - from camel herders in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia to the nomadic Rabari people of Gujarat, with a visit to the world’s largest wetland,
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the Pantanal of Brazil. It will be a colour and monochrome dpi presentation plus a display of prints. Peter & Sue are long-standing members of BPS and keen travellers with a taste for less visited destinations. Their (photographic) similarities end in Lightroom, however, where each tends to produce very different results. And while Peter's first love is the monochrome print, Sue is a happy digital "salonista" with many awards to her name. She is also a four-times award winner in Travel Photographer of the Year. Peter & Sue are Fotospeed Ambassadors.
Examples of Peter and Sue's work can be seen on their websites:
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Annual Projected Image Competition |
Next Wednesday, 1 May, is the closing date for the Annual Projected Image Competition. This year's competition will be judged by Martin Fry FRPS APAGB EFIAP/b AV-FIAP.
The competition consists of the usual Club, Intermediate and Advanced levels and in addition, there is a Nature section, which does not distinguish between Club, Intermediate and Advanced entrants but is open to all. Anyone wishing to enter the Nature section must indicate the entries with the appropriate identification (see rules in your BPS Handbook p24-28).
Members may submit a maximum of 5 PI images or prints into each competition. These must be numbered in the entrant’s preferred order, as all image 5s may be excluded if the total entry in a competition exceeds 120 images.
In addition to the usual awards at each level, the judge is asked to select the Best Travel, People, Action, Landscape, Monochrome and Creative pictures from the whole entry (i.e. all levels). One or more of the Best Travel etc awards may well go to an image that gains a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place. A trophy will be presented for the best image in each competition at the AGM. The trophy will be awarded for one of the 1st place images.
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The first set of creative workshops which took place over the past month has been completed, in my opinion, successfully. Most of those who attended discovered how layers and tools in Photoshop work together to create new images, all with generous the help from the experts in their field Barry Mead and Mike Martin with help from Gerry Gill. I am indebted to them for helping, coaxing and stimulating members to understand their techniques. Whereas they cannot teach imagination it did not stop Joanne to let her imagination run wild to create a simple but wonderful image shown here, all from scratch. All it needs is an equally creative title and the best one in the editor’s opinion will win delicious chocolate biscuits at the DI meeting. Send in your suggestions to me or the editor. Watch this space for further workshops in future.
Ashwin Chauhan
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Print Competition - League Table |
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The print Competition League table published last week contained a few errors, these have now been corrected by our distinguished Print Competition Secretary and the revised table is shown below:
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R 2 |
R 3 |
R 4 |
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| Errol Campbell |
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9 |
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| INTERMEDIATE |
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| Bruce Gibbs |
5 |
5 |
7 |
6 |
23 |
| Peter Humby |
2 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
12 |
| Gill Peeke |
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2 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
| Vicky Harrison |
5 |
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5 |
| Howard Thomas |
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2 |
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1 |
3 |
| Joan Symes |
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| ADVANCED |
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| Mike Martin |
4 |
8 |
5 |
5 |
22 |
| Barry Mead |
7 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
14 |
| Mike Hall |
5 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
| Joanne Searle |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
| Kevin James |
1 |
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6 |
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7 |
| David Alderson |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
| Ann Mead |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
| Derwood Pamphilon |
1 |
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4 |
1 |
6 |
| Jeff Hargreaves |
2 |
1 |
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2 |
5 |
| Allan Jones |
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1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
| Richard Kay |
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5 |
5 |
| Bob Micklethwaite |
1 |
3 |
1 |
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5 |
| John Hudson |
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1 |
3 |
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4 |
| Mike Bigger |
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2 |
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1 |
3 |
| Jason Eastham |
2 |
1 |
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3 |
| Steve Field |
1 |
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1 |
1 |
3 |
| Gerry Gill |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
3 |
| Beryl Heaton |
1 |
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2 |
3 |
| Carol Sykes |
2 |
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1 |
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3 |
| Tony Gill |
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1 |
1 |
2 |
| Brian McBride |
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1 |
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1 |
2 |
| Gordon Stirratt |
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2 |
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| Mike Bews |
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1 |
1 |
| Margaret Collis |
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| Mike Dales |
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| Pete Howell |
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Point to Point
Berkeley Hunt at Woodford tomorrow Saturday 27 April. Woodford is on the A38 near Stone, north of Bristol (GL13 9JU). More details here. |
Read the latest edition of Photography News here.
Download the latest edition (228) of PAGB eNews by clicking here
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Well done to Graham Pears who was recently awarded a PSA Silver medal in the Scottish International for the Best Wildlife image in the exhibition with his image of Brown Hares Boxing, which is reproduced below:
Well done also to Sue O’Connell who received 4 awards in the recent Photo Art Monte Circuit including a Gold medal.
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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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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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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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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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 bpsnewsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
PLEASE NOTE: ALL COPY TO BE WITH THE EDITOR BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO ALLOW FOR PUBLICATION (HOPEFULLY) ON FRIDAY MORNING
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To view past editions of this Newsletter, please click on the following link and then select the date(s) you are looking for - BPS Newsletter Archive
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BPS Website - Members' Area "Log in"
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To enter the Members' Area of the BPS website you will need the following:
User Name - chatroom Password - pixels
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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Bristol Photographic Society,
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