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Issue 620
 
   13 Feb 2025
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Wednesday 19 February
 
Round 3 of the Print Competition is being held next Wednesday, when the judge will be Roger Creber EFIAP ARPS DPAGB.
 
Roger is a successful freelance photographer from Hampshire and has had much competition and exhibition success on the organised club, regional, national and international amateur scenes.

 
Visit his website at www.rwcimages.co.uk
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Future Dates
 
Date Speaker Subject
17 Feb Various Distinctions Advice
19 Feb Print Comp R3 Judge - Roger Creber
26 Feb Jonathan Génevaux Landscapes
5 Mar David Grierson  Parasports
10 Mar DI Group Practical Evening
12 Mar Barry Mead Anything but creative!
 
 
Salon Judging
The 2025 Bristol Salon judging was held at the clubrooms last weekend. It was a tough couple of days for the six judges, who included two BPS members among their number, John Hudson and Jay Hallsworth. All told, it was a successful weekend for BPS members who amassed 100 acceptances between them (including 14 awards).
 
PDI judging
 
BPS Results:
 
PDI PRINT
Name Open Mono Nature   Open Mono Nature Total Awards
David Alderson         1     1  
Mike Bews         1     1  
Peter Brisley           1   1 1
Carole Brown 2         1   3  
Simon Caplan 2 1           3 1
John Chamberlin     3       2 5  
Margaret Chambers 1   1     1 3 6 1
Ashwin Chauhan 1             1  
Ramesh Chauhan           1 1 2  
Sandie Cox 1   2       2 5  
Colin Dixon   1     1 1   3  
Rachel Domleo   1     3 4   8 1
Steve Field     1       2 3  
Gerry Gill             2 2  
Jeff Hargreaves 1       1 1   3  
Joe Jancar   1           1  
Yealand Kalfayan     3         3  
Richard Kay     2       1 3 1
Mike Martin 2 1 1   1 2 3 10 2
Peter McCloskey 3 1 1         5 1
Paul Moran   2     1     3 1
Sue O'Connell 2       1 3 1 7 1
Derwood Pamphilon 4 3     3     10 2
Mary Pears     3         3 1
Melissa Seal             1 1  
Pam Sherren 2 1     4     7 1
 
Print judging
 
 
Distinctions Advisory Evening - Next Monday
7.30pm, Monday 17 February.
 
All members welcome. The aim of the Group is to provide advice and to offer guidance as to how to prepare a submission to the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and Photographic Alliance (PAGB) distinctions. For both organisations, entries are assessed by a panel of 5.
 
We will review panels ready for submission, those that are in the early stages of preparation and general advice on printing and DPIs.
 
RPS
There are 3 levels
 
Licentiate
This is for Projected Images (PDIs) only these days and requires a submission of 12 images. There is one category only.
Entries will be judged using Zoom and entries must be submitted using a template from the RPS website. The most popular format is 2 rows of 6.
 
Associate
This is for 15 prints or DPIs
There are 9 categories and the most popular are Visual Art, Nature, Applied and Travel,
Prints must form a cohesive panel of usually 2 or 3 rows.
DPIs are judged as a sequence and must flow naturally from one picture to the next.
 
Fellowship
This we do not normally cover but it requires a submission of 20 or 21 pictures.
Details, as for Associateship.
 
PAGB
 
There are 5 levels which are held for life.
Pictures are judged sequentially and do not have to form a panel.
Pictures are given a score between 2 and 5.
There are no categories, so pictures do not need to have a theme,
DPI need to be 1600 by 1200 format,
Areas smaller must be filled with black.
Prints must be on 50 by 40 cm mounts.
 
Badge (BPAGB) for prints only,
7 prints - 125 points required.
 
Credit (CPAGB)
10 prints or DPI - 200 points required.
 
Distinction (DPAGB)
15 prints or DPI - 300 points required. 
 
Excellence (EPAGB)
Only open to DPAG holders.
Must have held a DPAG for 11 months and new work is required.
15 prints - 330 points required.
 
Master (MPAGB)
20 prints or DPI - 450 points required.
Entrants must have held DPAGB for 11 months.
Advice is given by Andrew Marker, Ralph Snook and Peter McCloskey.
 
The websites contain useful information and show successful panels:
If you require further details, please contact one of the panel directly:
 
 
Studio Group
Advanced notice – the next Studio portrait sessions will be held on SUNDAY 23 and MONDAY 24 February.  Lena will be returning with two different looks.
 
Sunday 23 Feb 
Theme – very loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts/jester cross, with a modern avant-garde  twist.... 
11am onwards.   
Numbers limited to 5 photographers – Booking essential 
  • Cost: £25 each, priority will be given to working members who cannot normally make the Monday sessions.
 
Monday 24 Feb
Theme: Baroque style. Think candelabra, chandeliers (anyone got one we can borrow?), corsets, etc.
10am – 1pm: Normal Studio group shoot open to any member, booking not required (obviously the larger the number in attendance the less time you’ll each have) 
  •  Cost £10 each.
1.30pm – 4/4.30pm ish: Numbers limited to 5 photographers – Booking essential
  •  Cost £25 each.   
 
Booking - Please book a place with mike_martin@blueyonder.co.uk stating which session you would like to attend – Mike will confirm allocated spaces to the lucky few.
 
Mike Martin
 
 
PSA Live Judging - Print Round 2 - This Saturday
PSA Inter-Club Print Competition – Watch the judging live on Zoom

You’ve all seen references to the Photographic Society of America (PSA) Inter-Club Competitions. If you’ve ever wondered how our images are judged, this is your opportunity. The print competitions, for Round 2 are being judged in Dubai – and the judging will be screened live via Zoom. Anyone can dial in and watch the proceedings and perhaps cheer along as our images come up – and there'll be lots of them as we have a double entry having missed Round 1 when we were the judges.

Here are the Zoom details:

Topic: PSA PPD - Round 2:  Five categories – Large & Small Colour, Large & Small Mono, Creative or Altered Reality
 
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  • Saturday 15 February @ 14.00hrs
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Martin Parr
If you are interested in "documentary" photography, you can't get much better than Martin Parr. Martin is one of the most controversial photographers of his time, his images often have the power to both amuse and leave us ever so slightly uncomfortable, caught between laughter and the uneasy recognition of ourselves in his uncompromising portrait of consumer society. Though he’s now celebrated, collected and exhibited worldwide, Parr’s early work did not find an easy public and was highly criticized for trivializing the working class.
 
I Am Martin Parr is the definitive portrait of an extraordinary photographer who revolutionized contemporary photography by inventing a political, humanist and accessible photographic language.
 
There is a new film out this month about Martin's photographic life, and it will be showing at the Watershed from 20 - 27 February. Full details and tickets can be found at boxoffice.watershed.co.uk/ticketbooth/shows/
 
 
Downloads
Download Issue 373 PAGB eNews HERE. 
Download Issue 119 of Photography News HERE.
 
 
Exhibitions To Enter
                                    INTERNATIONAL SALONS
 
Closing - 30 March
5 PDI Sections
 Open Colour, Open Mono, Creative, Nature, Scapes
 
BPE EXHIBITIONS
Basingstoke Camera Club
National Open Photography Exhibition
 
Closing: 9 March
 
6 PDI Sections 
Nature
Creative
People
Scapes
Monochrome
Open
Neath Salon 2025
Closing: 20 March
 
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Monochrome
Creative
Nature
 
Closing: 20 April
 
5 PDI Sections
Colour
Scapes
Creative
Monochrome
Nature 
 
 
Closing: 4 May
 
6 PDI Sections 
Scapes
Open Mono
Open Colour
Nature
People
Creative
 
 
Trumpet Blowers' Corner
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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Marketplace
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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Photographic Acronyms
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 see the list.
 
 
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