Next Wednesday is your chance to do something very few club members do - take pictures. It is the Annual BPS Outing, which this year takes place in the centre of Bristol. Members should meet outside the Hole in the Wall pub in Queen Square at 7.30pm. These evenings are always good fun and involve so much that is good for you: walking, gossiping to fellow members, taking pictures etc. Oh - and there's also the small matter of a pint (or two) at the end of the evening (some may even partake before the evening is over!).

For some time now we, along with other residents of Clifton, have lived under the threat of draconian parking restrictions being introduced. These restrictions threatened to make life almost impossible for local traders and would have meant that members attending club meetings would have been faced with parking charges (that is, assuming they could find a parking space to start with). It now appears that this threat has been lifted until next March; however, we should be long gone by then and well ensconced in our new premises at Montpelier, so thankfully it looks like we won't be affected at all.

The new programme & handbook has now been published and is available to members from Mike Bews on the next few Wednesday evenings. If you have not already received yours from Mike, you can see the new programme by visiting the BPS website (please click here).

Having a quick flick through the book, a couple of meetings jump out as being particularly worth putting in your diary:

3 September, Chairman's Evening - Rikki O'Neill. Rikki is from Scotland and is what might be called "creative". He is an extremely successful exhibitor in internationals. Its well worth arriving early to make sure of a good seat.

October 8 - Viveca Koh. This is a return visit by Viveca who gave us a wonderful evening last time she came to Bristol.

February 18 - John Hooton. John is coming over from Ireland to judge the Bristol Salon and also to give us his presentation called Gathering Light. If he's anything like the last few speakers we have had from the Emerald Isle, it will be another evening not to miss.

Mike Bews has been laying down the law to the solicitors dealing with the sale of 12 West Mall and purchase of Montpelier, the result of which is that we anticipate exchanging contracts within the next couple of weeks with a hoped for completion at the beginning of December.

 

 

 

 

If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 9241338.