Chris Palmer FRPS AFIAP DPAGB APAGB  - A personal response. Chris is a Fotospeed sponsored lecturer. The following is an extract from his web site:

 

 

For more information about Chris and his work, visit his website,

The closing date for the Annual Projected Image Competition is next Wednesday, 7 May. The judge this year will be Tom Dodd FRPS.

 

Images as usual to competitions@bristolphoto.org.uk - any queries to Jeff at the same address. Please note Jeff is away until 4 May, so you won't get the usual confirmation emails until he returns. 

 

Jeff has asked me to point out there is a conflict in your BPS Handbook, the file names should take the form as described on page 26 and NOT as shown on page 25

Nick Ball will be organising an event at the club rooms on Thursday 8th May starting at 18:30 as an introduction to the studio. This is aimed at people who haven’t tried their hand at studio work before and will show how a simple lighting set up is created. To sign up, please follow the link.

When you do sign up, please could you add your email address and phone number in the Comment box so Nick can confirm everything and send details of what you need to bring. This session is limited to three photographers but if more than 3 sign up Nick will arrange a second session for anyone who was on the waiting list.

WCPF President judged the final round of the 2013-2014 Print Competition. The results are as follows:

 

ADVANCED
Margaret	Collis	Man with Coconuts	1st
Barry	Mead	The Omen	2nd
Patsy	Southwell	St Pauls Saturday	3rd
Ron	Harrison	Comma Butterfly	HC
Beryl	Heaton	The Old Laundry	HC
John	Hudson	In Performance 'Lac'	HC
Barry	Mead	Heron with Fish	HC
Barry	Mead	Paparazzi Ball	HC
Derwood	Pamphilon	Jasmine	HC
Derwood	Pamphilon	Scarlet	HC
Patsy	Southwell	Down and Out in Bristol	HC
Andrew	Wood	School of Science	HC
INTERMEDIATE
Marcin	Lublianka	Emilia	1st
Paul	Smith	In for a Soak	2nd
Larissa	Lubianka	Harmony	3rd
Mike	Bigger	Dorset Steam Fair	HC
Mike	Bigger	Paige	HC
Marcin	Lubianka	Jules at Work	HC
Paul	Smith	Get me to the Church on Time	HC

 

Below is the final league table for the 2013-2014 Print Competition.

 

ADVANCED
		Rnd1	Rnd2	Rnd3	Rnd4	Total
Barry	Mead	9	2	4	5	20
Derwood	Pamphilon	0	5	2	2	9
Andrew	Wood	1	0	6	1	8
John	Hudson	0	4	1	2	7
Gordon	Thomas	1	2	3	0	6
Margaret	Collis	0	1	0	4	5
Ron	Harrison	3	0	0	2	5
Beryl	Heaton	0	2	1	1	4
Patsy	Southwell	0	1	0	3	4
Mike	Bews	0	2	0	0	2
Gordon	Stirrat	1	1	0	0	2
Gordon	Bunney	0	1	0	0	1
INTERMEDIATE
Mike	Bigger	7	6	5	2	20
Paul	Smith	4	3	6	4	17
Marcin	Lubianka				5	5
Larissa	Lubianka				2	2
Mike	Fox		1			1
Gill	Peake			1		1
Joan	Symes		1			1

We have received an email from local Councillor, Barbara Janke, in response to the recent representations made to the City Council regarding the proposed Clifton Residents' Parking Scheme. The email is too large to reproduce here, but if you would like to read what she has to say, just follow this link.

The PAGB Inter Club PDI Competition is being held at Warwick University on Sunday 12 July. BPS is representing the WCPF this year and it would be great to see a contingent of club members travelling to up the M5 to support us. If you'd like to order a ticket, you can download an order form by clicking on this link.

For the very first time, these two competitions have been combined in one event and opened to an audience. The event is hosted this year by the Welsh Photographic Federation and members from all the PAGB Federations are cordially invited to attend this historic occasion. The event is being held at Talbot Green Community Centre in Rhondda Cynon Taff (Wales!) on Sunday 8 June.
If you'd like to know more or to order a ticket, please follow this link. Tickets need to be ordered before 22 May.

To download Issue 114 of the PAGB e-News, please follow this link.

SOLWAY Small Prints International Salon 2014 - Closing Date for entries : 19th May
This is an international exhibition for small prints (max size A4) and is an easy way to achieve the 10% print acceptances required for FIAP distinctions. Visit their website for entry details.

At the end of each newsletter is a link for members to access an archive of past editions. I am thinking of changing the format of the newsletter which may involve the loss of the archive facility. Could members let me know if this facility is required and more importantly if you have used it in the past. Emails to newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk

There are several changes to the forthcoming programme which Mike Bews has asked me to pass on:
 

 

Delete - Peter Hayes
Add -  Sheila Haycox ARPS DPAGB EFIAP and John Perriam.
“A Print evening with Sheila & John”
 

 

Delete - Rachel Burch
Add - Tony Byram ARPS EFIAP AWPF DPAGB and Jenny Byram DPAGB EFIAP/B BPE1*
“MR & MRS” Two different approaches to photography. Prints & DPI.
 

 

Delete - Ray Dowding
Add - David Burnett
“Burnett’s Baroque” DPI evening of visits to Dresden, Prague, Venice, Verona, Rome and Potsdam.

BPS members Peter Brisley and Sue O'Connell are having an exhibition entitled "Viewpoints"
at the Photographique Gallery in Clare Street, Bristol Centre. Part of the Bristol Festival of
Photography, it runs until 16 May. The Exhibition will reflect their different approaches to
both travel and abstract photography  

 

Bristol Festival of Photography. As mentioned above, the Festival runs until 16 May and covers a huge spectrum of things photographic. Full details of what's on and where can be found by visiting the BFOP website at www.bfop.org

 

WCPF Members' Annual Exhibition 2014 is being held at Buckfast Abbey from 3 to 18 May. Entry is free. More details available on the WCPF website.

 

 

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