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Next week our speaker is Aleks Gjika from Cheltenham who will be presenting his talk "Je Ne Sais Quoi!" Aleks says of his talk:
It takes a lot of learning, devotion, work, imagination and passion to produce a photo or an image that one likes to see again and again. "Seeing it", however, is not the only thing that a photo or an image is about. To many of us who love photography, there is a story behind every image, an exciting story about experiences and emotions that the artist experienced whilst he took and/or edited the image.
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It is listening to these stories as well as enjoying looking at the
images that photography lectures or talks are often about. My talk
entitled "In the search of the "Je ne sais quoi?!"" is no different in
this respect but, what makes my talk perhaps a bit unique, is my belief
that behind every successful image there is something special, something
interesting, something that is sometimes obvious but often we cannot
quite put our finger on it! This is what they call in France (and not
only!) "Je ne sais quoi!" and this is what I am in search of!!
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the digital presentation of 100 images, all of which have been well
received by the international photographic community I will be trying to
detect what I think is the "je ne sais quoi" of in my images as well as
tell my story behind every one of them. |
Below are a few of Aleks' images, but to see more of his images, go to his web page by clicking here. |
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Distinctions Advice Meeting
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The next meeting of the Distinctions Advice Group will be held at the Clubrooms at 7.30pm on Monday 27 May. The advice will be given by Pete McCloskey FRPS, Andrew Marker FRPS and Ralph Snook ARPS.
A few changes have happened of late, with the main one being that the RPS ‘L’ panel is now for DPIs only.
The main requirements for the PAGB awards are unchanged. However, the PAGB now have two new levels on trial:
- BPAGB, will be judged as the CPAGB and requires an entry of 7 prints.
- EPAGB, the Excellence Level is a step up from DPAGB, assessed at exactly the same standard but with a significantly higher passing score.
These meetings are aimed at anyone thinking of going for photographic distinctions and is open to all members.
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Well done to Steve Field who this week was awarded his Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society - arise Steve Field ARPS.
Below is Steve's successful panel:
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Well done to Mike Martin who last week was awarded his Associateship of the Disabled Photographers Society - so it's now Mike Martin ADPS.
Below is Mike's successful panel:
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Advanced warning that the closing date for the 2024 Annual Print Competition is only a short time away - Wednesday 29 May. The judge for this year's competition is Jenny Hibbert FRPS MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/d2.
This competition will consist of the Club, Intermediate and Advanced levels. 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 a tick in the appropriate box on the print label.
Members may submit a maximum of 4 prints into the competition. These must be numbered in the entrant’s preferred order, as some images may be excluded if the total entry is excessive.
In addition to the usual awards at each level, the judge is asked to select the Best Travel, People, Action, Landscape and Monochrome 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 another award. 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.
Entry Submission
- Trade processed prints may be submitted
- All prints must be mounted, the maximum size
of mount being 50 cm x 40 cm.
- Each print must be labelled to show: entrant’s
membership number, level of entry (Cl, Int, Adv) and title of print. Other
identifying matter must be hidden. Labels will be provided by the print
competition secretary and should be positioned on the back in the
bottom right-hand corner. Anyone wishing to enter the Nature section of
the Annual competition must nominate on the labels the prints he/she would
like to be considered for this.
View/download labels for this year’s Print Competition by clicking on the version you require. Versions are either PDF or MS Word labels.
When entering the competition, you must also supply a digital copy of each print you enter (unless you have already submitted digital copies of the same images to previous print competitions). This should be the same size as for the PDI competitions – 1600 pixels x 1200 pixels – but there will be no need to give any other information than your name and the title e.g. Sam Bloggs, Storm At Sea. You don’t need to add your membership number or level of entry.
Please upload the digital copies of your prints by following this link:
Any queries to the Print Competition Secretary:
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The table at the front of the clubroom is beginning to groan under the weight of uncollected prints again. If your name is in the list below, would you please arrange for your prints to be collected as soon as possible. If you don't want them, please let me know and we will arrange for them to be disposed of:
- Suzanne Allen
- Mike Bews
- Ken Clarke
- Matt de-Beger
- Colin Dixon
- Anita Fullerton
- Gerry Gill
- Jay Hallsworth
- Derwood Pamphilon
- Ralph Snook
- Howard Thomas
- Andrew Whettam
- Keith Wood
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Are Your Creative Juices Flowing Yet?
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This following item is being repeated from last week as we are still looking for some awe-inspiring artwork from members:
Some of you may recall from the recent EGM that Ralph mentioned the fact that BPS will be hosting a new exhibition in the calendar under the banner of the BPE (British Photographic Exhibitions). It is proposed that the first date for this new exhibition will be October this year and planning is now well under way. The exhibition is to be called the Great Western Photographic Exhibition and will be run under the chairmanship of Steve Field.
One of the first things that needs to be sorted is a logo and we would like this to come from the creative mind of a BPS member. To this end, we would be really pleased if you could put your creative hat on and see if you can come up with something suitable. What we need is something that is distinctive and easy to recognise and possibly contains the characters GWPE or maybe a reference to the Southwest in a similar way that the WCPF shows a map of the area. There is no set formula for this, however, so just let your imagination run wild!
The only downside to all of this is the short timescale we have available to us, so if you can come up with something, would you please email it to Steve, to reach him by Sunday 19 May:
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2024 FIAP Monochrome Print Biennial Selection |
Every year the FIAP hold a number of Prestigious Biennial Competitions for its member countries. This year the PAGB invites you to submit up to 12 monochrome images for possible selection across the following three categories: a. Photojournalism b. Portraiture c. Architecture The FIAP Biennial Competition is a Print Competition, so high resolution digital copies of your images are required if selected for the print entry. Images will be printed by the PAGB. This selection is open to all members of WCPF Clubs and is a great chance to get your work seen on the international stage. The PAGB will select a panel of 10 prints on one of the three themes above. All selected photographers will be awarded a PAGB black badge, and all images scoring more than 8 points in the actual FIAP Biennial can be used a part of a FIAP Distinction Application. Online Entry Closes: 16 June Selection: 17 June Entry System: https://pagbhost.co.uk More details in the flyer below All enquiries to fiapbiennial@thepagb.org.uk
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Following from Mike Martin's report last week:
Photographic Society of America (PSA)
Nature PDI. This was a tough group and sadly we finished mid table (equal 10th) which isn’t bad given we’re in the top division in this category.
Congratulations to Richard Kay and Ralph Snook for their awards in round 3.
All that remains in these sections is the re-judging of awarded images from Rounds 1 to 3 to determine the individual awards in the End of Year competition, sometime in June/July.
Other categories. In the print competitions, Large Colour/Mono, Small Colour / Mono and Creative are all outstanding.
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Midland Salon 2024
Open - Now
Closing - 24 June
Winchester National Exhibition 2024 (BPE)
Open - Now
Closing - 14 July
Edinburgh International Salon
Click on image for further details
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NEW Download Issue 356 PAGB eNews HERE.
NEW Download Issue 115 of Photography News HERE.
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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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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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Members can download a pdf copy of the upcoming BPS programme by clicking on this link
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us we can't possibly know!
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