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Next week is Round 4 of the Projected Image Competition, when the judge will be Peter Weaver APAGB CPAGB LRPS. This is the evening when we find out who is the best of the best and goes away with the title in each section.
Peter is an old friend old BPS and is well known for his benevolent judging style and can be relied on to provide an excellent evening's judging
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Login details:
- Wednesday 26 March @ 19.30hrs
- Log in: Click HERE
- Meeting ID: 837 2435 9390
- Password: 508159
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Speaker |
Subject |
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PDI Competition |
Round 4 |
| 2 Apr |
John Lewis |
Composition |
| 9 Apr |
Alison Mees |
Cheetahs (Zoom) |
| 14 Apr |
DI Group |
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| 16 Apr |
David Boag |
Nature |
| 23 Apr |
Print Competition |
Round 4 |
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Print Competition - Round 4 |
The closing date for Round 4 of the Print Competition is Wednesday, 2 April.
There is a box for your entries on the stage in Unit 13.
Don’t forget to upload jpegs of your prints to:
The Judge will be Gareth Martin AWPF, CPAGB from Neath and the optional prescribed topic is Documentary.
The Photographic Society of America (PSA) defines documentary photography as images with informative content and emotional impact, reflecting the human presence in our world, where the journalistic (story-telling) value of the image receives priority over pictorial quality.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact me at:
David Alderson
Print Competition Secretary
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Monday 24 March members will be able to practice their lighting / posing skills photographing each other. Feel free to bring costumes and / or accessories and have a bit of fun.
Monday 31 March – We have Coni Thorne modelling for us wearing the Maleficent costume. So now is a good opportunity to watch the film and get some inspiration.
- The morning session 10am – 1pm is open to all members at a bargain £10. No booking needed.
- Depending upon numbers it may be possible to persuade Coni to do a follow-on session (1:15-3:30 ish) with a limited number of members (max 5) at £25 each. To book a place for the afternoon session, please contact Mike: mike_martin@blueyonder.co.uk
Here’s one Mike did earlier!
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I appreciate that this is not a club or photographic topic, but I suspect a fair few members have a subscription version of Microsoft Office. Below is an extract from Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert website:
Those with Microsoft 365's (formerly Office 365) 'Personal' and 'Family' plans will see prices rise by 42% and 31% respectively from their next billing date on or after 16 January 2025 (new subscribers also paid these increased prices from this date). The increase is automatic if your plan is set to auto-renew. To check this, log in to your Microsoft account, go to 'Subscriptions' and select 'Manage'. If you see an option to 'Cancel', this means auto-renewal IS on.
If you don't see an option to cancel, but instead see a link that says 'Turn on recurring billing', then auto-renewal is NOT on. You won't be charged the new prices unless you turn auto-renew on or restart your subscription.
Beat the price hikes by switching your plan to 'Classic'
This will revert your subscription to what it was before Copilot and Designer were added, but at the old price. So you'll still have access to Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word, plus 1TB of cloud storage with a Personal plan or 6TB with a Family subscription.
Microsoft says the option to switch to a Classic plan will be offered for the next year. To make the switch:
- Sign in to your Microsoft account.
- Go to 'Subscriptions' and select 'Manage'.
- Select 'Cancel subscription'. This will give you the option to choose a monthly or annual Classic Personal or Classic Family plan.
If your plan doesn't switch over automatically, it will do so on your next billing date. If you've already been charged the new price for Microsoft 365 and you downgrade your plan, you can request a partial refund by contacting Microsoft's support team.
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PSA Mono PDI Competition - Round 2 |
More results from the PSA PDI Competition:
Mono
Much closer than the Nature category (see last week's newsletter), BPS lies in joint 4th with 137 points; one point below the two clubs in joint 2nd with the first-place club only 5 points ahead of us. All still to play for in the final round.
Congratulations to Barry Mead for our only awarded image.
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Who's Nicked Mike's Prints |
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When collecting prints left at the front after various competitions early in the new year, has anyone gathered up Mike Martin’s entry for the WCPF Members' Exhibition? These were left by Mike for Ralph to collect early in January, but have gone missing. Fortunately Mike had duplicates that can be used in the Exhibition, but if anyone has them, he’d appreciate their return. Thanks.
PS. There are still a number of mounted and un-mounted images at the front – please collect yours so we can tidy up.
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Download Issue 375 PAGB eNews HERE.
Download Issue 375 Extra PAGB eNews HERE - this issue contains a full report on the 8th Masters of Print exhibition which includes Derwood Pamphilon's successful print.
Download Issue 119 of Photography News HERE.
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| INTERNATIONAL SALONS |
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Closing - 30 March Just a few days to go!
5 PDI Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono, Creative, Nature, Scapes
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Closing - 5 June
2 Print Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono
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Closing - 23 June
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono, Nature, Scapes
2 Print Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono
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BPE Exhibitions
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Closing: 20 April
5 PDI Sections
Colour
Scapes
Creative
Monochrome
Nature
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Closing: 4 May
6 PDI Sections
Scapes
Open Mono
Open Colour
Nature
People
Creative
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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4 IS PRO Lens
Any
Olympus/OM or Panasonic users, this is your chance to pick up the above at
a bargain price of £1250.
The 300mm is currently on offer new at WEX for £2,399 or £2,099 after
cashback.
MPB currently have these on sale second hand for between
£1,329 and £1,549.
You know you want it!
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If you have any photographic items
for sale, drop me a line and I'll include them 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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The distinctions we have on record are those
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us we can't possibly know!
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