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BPS Newsletter - Issue 81 19 March 2014
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To: Firstname Lastname
Your BPS Membership No:
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Round 4 of the Projected Image Competition will be held next Wednesday when the judge will be our own Pete McCloskey FRPS, APAGB. Pete is a well known national and international judge and also sits on RPS distinctions panels. We should be in for an interesting and informative evening.
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PSA Interclub Creative PDI Competition
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Following on from our success in Round 1 of the PSA Interclub Creative PDI Competition comes another victory, stretching our lead to 20 points. The full results are shown below:
| Club Name |
Round 1 |
Round 2 |
Total |
Position
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| Bristol Photographic Society |
73 |
68 |
141 |
1st |
| Huntington Camera Club |
55 |
66 |
121 |
2nd |
| West Cumbria Photo Group |
62 |
56 |
118 |
3rd |
| South Shields Photographic Society |
55 |
51 |
106 |
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| Digital Darkroom |
53 |
53 |
106 |
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| Nevada Camera Club |
54 |
50 |
104 |
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| Teaneck Camera Club |
49 |
53 |
102 |
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| Charlotte Camera Club |
54 |
35 |
89 |
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| Lincoln Camera Club |
34 |
49 |
83 |
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| Hillcrest Camera Club |
45 |
33 |
78 |
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| Monticello Camera Club |
34 |
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34 |
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| Tri-County Camera Club |
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34 |
34 |
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Several members distinguished themselves by being given individual awards, they are:
| Photographer |
Image Title |
Award |
| Barry Mead |
Apparitions |
Award of Merit |
| Jim Marsden |
The Sacred Tree |
Award of Merit |
| Val Duncan |
Nereid |
Award of Merit |
| Val Duncan |
Cybergeneis |
Honourable Mention |
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Print Competition - League Table
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Following Round 3 of the print Competition, the League table now looks like this:
| Photographer |
Round-1 |
Round-2 |
Round-3 |
Round-4 |
Total
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| INTERMEDIATE |
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| Mike Bigger |
7 |
6 |
5 |
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18 |
| Paul Smith |
4 |
3 |
6 |
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13 |
| Joan Symes |
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1 |
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1 |
Gill Peeke
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1 |
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1 |
| Mike Fox |
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1 |
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1 |
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| ADVANCED |
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| Barry Mead |
9 |
2 |
4 |
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15 |
| Derwood Pamphilon |
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5 |
2 |
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7 |
| Andrew Wood |
1 |
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6 |
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7 |
| John Hudson |
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4 |
1 |
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5 |
Gordon Thomas
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1 |
1 |
3 |
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5 |
| Ron Harrison |
3 |
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3 |
| Beryl Heaton |
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2 |
1 |
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3 |
| Mike Bews |
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2 |
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2 |
| Gordon Stirrat |
1 |
1 |
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2 |
| Gordon Bunney |
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1 |
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1 |
| Margaret Collis |
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1 |
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1 |
| Patsy Southwell |
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1 |
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1 |
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Print Competition Round 3
Intermediate
1st Place
Tranquil Sunset
by
Paul Smith
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I have received the following from Ashwin following his setting of "homework" at the last DI meeting:
DI Challenge
At the last DI meeting on Monday (8 March) I presented four images badly in need of improvement and set up a challenge to improve any one or more of it. You can see them by clicking on the following Dropbox link.
The jpg version of four images should show as icons and the Raw versions as filenames. Right click on the image you wish to download, click Open Link, Download. Please read the notes in the text file.
I am new to Dropbox and if you have problems please contact me:
Ashwin a.chauhan@blueyonder.co.uk
Tel: 01275 833568
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Carol is doing her annual update of members' details; would you please check that the details of any Photo Honours you may have are shown correctly at the head of this newsletter. If they are wrong or need updating, please email Carol at secretary@bristolphoto.org.uk. Additionally, if any of your contact details (phone number, address etc) have changed, please also email these changes to Carol. |
A Date For Your Diary - Bristol Salon
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This is advanced warning that there will be no meeting at the clubrooms on 26 March, instead the meeting will be at the QEH Theatre in Jacob Wells Rd, Clifton for the presentation of the 2014 Bristol Salon of International Photography. Entry for members will be free but you are invited to bring guests along (there will be a small charge of £4 for guests). This is one of the premier exhibitions in the UK and you can expect to see getting on for 900 of the top images in the world set to an appropriate musical background.
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St Pauls Darkrooms, a community space in the centre of Bristol, provides open access darkroom facilities available for public use 7 days a week.
First opened in 2004, the darkrooms have gained a reputation as one of the finest facilities in the country, specialising in traditional and alternative photographic processes. They regularly run courses and workshops exploring various techniques catering for all levels of experience.
Previous courses and workshops have included: Traditional Photography for Beginners, Advanced Darkroom Techniques, Social Documentary, Salt-Printing, Cyanotype Process, Albumen, Gum-bichromate and Caffenol Printing, as well as Pinhole Photography with Justin Quinnell.
For full details of what's on offer, please follow this link to their website.
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Photographic Workshops - Skye
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We have received the following from Deemacphotos who organise photographic workshops on Skye:
I am writing to ask if you would be kind enough circulate my details to your club members. I run photographic workshops from my home on the Isle of Skye, a location which I'm sure your members will know has some of the most stunning scenery in the country. My new website is now on-line and information about my workshops can be found there. Please feel welcome to browse through it.
You may have read the articles I wrote in the WCPF newsletter about my move to Skye, having been in Devon for the previous 20 years. In fact, I am still a contributing member of the Exmouth Photo Group and affiliated to the WCPF. Some friendships are hard to leave behind.
I have recently added a section to my website called "Talking Photos" which is aimed particularly at less experienced photographers wanting to learn. I hope some of your club photographers will find useful and maybe even entertaining as I continue to add to it. There will be photographic tips and some discussion of hot topics in photography. It's worth bookmarking the site and returning from time to time to catch up with what I've added there. Coming soon will be some thoughts on composition.
The Isle of Skye photographs beautifully in all seasons, sometimes all of them seeming to occur in one day! If you would like to take advantage of this, now is a great time to get in touch with me.
Many, including some retired teachers, have said I have a knack for explaining things in simple terms. I believe that this, combined with living in an area of outstanding natural beauty, puts me in a great position to be of service to other photographers of all abilities.
As someone who has been enthusiastically involved in “camera club” photography, I look forward to welcoming members of camera clubs and photographic groups to Skye in the coming years and helping them to find great images from around the island and beyond. I hope some of your members will choose to be amongst those to benefit.
Wishing you and your club members successful photography,
David McHutchison
www.deemacphotos.com
(Also www.flickr.com/photos/deemacphotos )
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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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Canon 5D, boxed plus charger, booklet & discs etc. together with Canon 28/80 IS Ultrasonic lens
£375 - Please contact Mike Bews 01934 835175
If you have something photographic that you want to sell, why not let me have details and I can circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address.
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If you have anything you think other members would like to know about, such as exhibitions, special events etc. please let me know at newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
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