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Next week, 1 August, we welcome Roger Evans MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/p, who will be presenting his talk: Shooting the Commonwealth Games 2018.
This is the full story behind photographing an 11 day multi-sport event held over 10,000 miles from home. From gaining accreditation, overcoming the logistical obstacles, shooting over 22,000 images and surviving (and enjoying) the experience.
Below are a couple of examples of Roger's work:
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Zoom details:
- Meeting link - click LINK
- Meeting ID: 862 8341 1335
- Passcode: 098035
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Digital Group Meeting – Monday 9 August
All members are invited to join DI group meeting on 9 August. I look forward to seeing your images of whatever projects you have been working on. If you have been experimenting after being inspired by recent speakers in the club please share your images and experience in an informal atmosphere. If you would like comments on your images or just show them off we would like to see your presentation.
Please send your images to me by Sunday 8 August, 6 pm. Images: JPG format, sRGB colour space, 1600 x 1200 pixels (same as competitions but not strict), prefix filenames with 01, 02, 03 etc. if you wish to show them in that order. Email attachment size - max 20Mb per email.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday.
- Meeting Link - click
- Meeting ID: 834 7609 2031
- Password: 953980
Ashwin Chauhan
Digital Imaging Group
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Photography Show Back At NEC |
Photography & Video Show is back this year at the NEC in Birmingham between 18 and 21 September 2021.
Registrations are now being taken. Full details here.
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Unit 13 - Important Update |
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Returning to Unit 13
for our Weekly Meetings
We (The BPS Council) have been looking again at when and how we should
begin to hold our weekly meetings at Unit 13. Although there are now very few
legal restrictions to prevent us returning, we of course want take suitable
precautions to make our members feel confident that it will be a safe
environment for them to return to.
This week a number of the Council members met at Unit 13 to
consider the various options we could adopt to achieve that level of safety
and confidence. As a result of the meeting, and some follow up discussions we can
confirm that we intend to return to Unit 13 from 1 September 2021.
The following precautions/changes will be in place at Unit 13
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The maximum number of members that can attend a meeting will be limited to 40. Of these there will be the people required to run the evening such as Speaker/Judge, Chairman, Projectionist, Programme Secretary and possibly Competition Secretary. We will review these numbers on an ongoing basis as we gain more experience each week.
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The seating arrangements have been changed to ensure adequate distancing between chairs. Images of the seating arrangements are attached. As you will see there are a number of places where chairs are not separated, these are to cater for couples or friends in regular contact. These can of course be separated on a evening to accommodate the situation where we have more individuals than there are single chairs.
- We will not provide a drinks service. This is
to limit the gathering of members that invariably occur at the start of
the evening break and to avoid too much congestion.
- It will be a requirement for everyone to wear a
mask when moving about the hall. We also recommend that masks are worn
during the talks/judging sessions.
- The cleaning service will recommence before the first meeting. They will be using Anti-bacterial supplies and all chairs, surfaces, switches, handles etc will be cleaned on each of their visits
- Hand sanitisers will be positioned near the
entry point and we would ask members to please use them when they enter.
- It is intended to provide ventilation by opening the front and rear doors thus creating air movement. This may of course be affected by weather conditions during the evening
- There is a QR code image in the rear of the
main hall where the badges are placed. We recommend that members with
the NHS App use the code to register on entry.
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We will not make use of the name badges in order to minimise handling concerns and to avoid a pinch point on entry to the main room.
- In the breaks we expect a level of social
contact to occur, it is one of the major benefits of returning to Unit
13. We ask members to avoid congregating in the corridors, and to
maintain a level of social distancing if going to the rear of the hall.
Of course we would not expect any member to attend if they suspect they have any of the Covid-19 symptoms, or any other infectious ailment.
One of the benefits of
returning to Unit 13 is that we can run the print competitions as intended
rather that the pdi versions we have used over the past months, and also
allow our speakers to show their prints if required. We are still considering
how we can display prints for members to view. It is likely that only the
area at the rear of the hall will be used for general display. Print
competitions will of course use the area above the stage as always.
Clearly limiting the
attendance requires that we have a means for members to ‘book’ a place for an
evening to avoid any situations where members arrive after the limit has been reached. We will be trialling such a
system in the near future and full details will be supplied as soon as this
has been done.
It is the intention
that meetings from 1 September will also be available via Zoom. The
infrastructure at Unit 13 has been upgraded and we will be trialling this in
the coming weeks. Although at this time we cannot guarantee this will happen
it is highly likely.
The overriding consideration in
preparing our plans to return to Unit 13 has been to balance the desire to
achieve a degree of ‘normality’ and social interaction in the way we meet,
with an appropriate level of safety and protection for our members. We
believe that what is set out above will enable us to do that, and we very much
look forward to meeting many of you at Unit 13.
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Seating layout on LHS - viewed from stage.
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Seating layout on RHS - viewed from stage.
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I'm sorry to have to report the death of BPS member, Peter Holbrook this week. Peter joined BPS in 2016 and was a regular entrant in club competitions, he was what is often described as a larger than life character and will be sadly missed, especially by his "back row gang".
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I have received the following from club member, Suzanne Johnson, who is Regional Organiser for the RPS Western Region:
You are requested to “Capture a moment for Cobalt”
Medical imaging charity Cobalt work in partnership with the NHS to conduct over 100,000 scans each year. Like most charities they have suffered with a drop in fundraising during the pandemic, so the Western Region of The Royal Photographic Society have helped them to organise a national photography competition specifically to finance the cost of a dedicated cancer nurse to support young adults with cancer in their own homes.
With the generosity of sponsors there are fantastic prize packages (Camera, books, membership +++) to be won by the twelve photographers whose images will be selected for a 2022 calendar, and will receive a framed print of their images. There is a further prize specifically for entrants under 16 years of age.
There are three themed categories:
• Nature in all its forms
• Happiness is…
• Caring and Sharing
A donation of £2 per image is required and everybody can enter as many images and categories as they wish.
The competition closes at midnight on 31st August 2021. Prizes will be awarded by the judging panel before the end of September.
Please consider helping with this very worthy cause. Best of luck with your entry and thank you in advance for your support.
Suzanne Allen,
Regional Organiser,
Western Region, RPS
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NEW - Download issue 288 of PAGB eNews here. This includes details of Masters of Print 2021.
NEW - For Issue 288 Extra click here. This has the images contains detailed results from this year's PAGB Interclub Competition. Includes Sue O'Connell's prize winning image.
NEW - Download issue 90 of Photography News here.
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We have received the following, which is self explanatory:
My name is Sarah, and I am the Side by Side Coordinator for Alzheimer’s Society in Bristol. I run a volunteer companionship service which matches people living with dementia in Bristol, to volunteers who have a shared interest.
I hope you do not mind me contacting you. Recently, I met with a gentleman living with dementia who has a keen interest in photography, and I am looking to recruit a volunteer befriender for him.
I wondered if a message could be passed on to your members to ask if anyone would be interested in volunteering with Alzheimer’s Society in this role?
The aim of the service is to support people living with dementia to retain hobbies and stay connected with their community.
I am hoping to recruit a volunteer with an interest in photography, who would be happy to support this gentleman with taking photos on his camera and then uploading them to his computer.
If you would like any more information, please get in touch with me at: sarah.swift@alzheimers.org.uk or 07821824630
If you would like to help, please contact Sarah direct.
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I've received the following from Mike Martin - the figures are amazing!
Chuffed to get an image into the Chinese exhibition you promoted via the Newsletter.
I hadn’t realised this was such a big deal – looking at their website and possibly allowing for the vagaries of Google Translate it appears they had a selection panel of 18 Chinese and international judges, reviewing potentially 400k images if I read correctly, collected over 7 months from 17,000 photographers across 120 countries. From this it looks like a shortlist (!) of 10,000 (2.4%) were selected for phase 2 of the judging before getting to a final selection of about 300! Interestingly, in order to assure fairness (or perhaps to identify miscreants should they select something not to the government’s liking) the entire judging was filmed and judges had to hand in their mobile phones before commencement of the session!
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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In Great Working Order!
iMac 21.5 inch (mid 2011) desktop computer, Keyboard and trackpad
Processor 2.5ghz Intel Core i5
Memory 12GB(RAM)
Storage - 500 gb HD .
With regional box and packing
Restored to factory settings.(i.e. no software other than that which came with the machine).
One careful owner from new!
£275.00 to caring home.
A Chance to upgrade to Apple Mac systems at a very reasonable price!
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If you have any photographic items for sale, drop me a line and I'll include it 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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IMPORTANT: Personal Detail Changes |
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, please remember, if you don't tell us we can't possibly know!
DO NOT REPLY TO THE NEWSLETTER.
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Make Money For BPS Every Time You Shop On Amazon! |
With the thought of on-line shopping still looming large in many members' minds. It's worth remembering that if you so wish, each and every one of you can support BPS with every purchase you make on Amazon by using Amazon Smile. Click on the link below – then it’s self-explanatory.
Shopping using Smile is no different to your normal Amazon shopping and costs you nothing, it's just that you need to tell it that you wish to use Smile and then we get some pennies!
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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 see the list.
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Missed a Copy of the Newsletter?
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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' Portal "Log in" |
To enter the Members' Portal of the BPS website you will need the following:
Username - Your Membership Number Password - Created by you
If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Matt by email: webmaster@bristolphoto.org.uk
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