Wednesday 25 July

Wednesday sees the visit of Mike McNamee FRPS FBPPA with his talk "Exhibition Printing". Mike teaches exhibition printing at the Epson Print Academy. He is also the editor of Professional Imagemaker magazine and before that, Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging. Over the past decade he has tested almost every printer intended for the serious, enthusiast market, along with most wide format printers. Sounds like an evening not to miss if you are a print worker and even if you aren't.

As you may be aware, Gordon Stirrat maintains a print archive for BPS, containing the work of members. Periodically we like to add to this as part of a continuing record. I am looking for suitable work at the moment. This is likely be an image that has done well in external exhibitions, or has won an award in a competition. Inevitably only a small number of images can be accepted but if you feel you have a potential print, then please contact me either at club or by email. I am looking for a variety of work and even if you have work in the collection already, please submit. You may find it easier to email suitable images to me at jgchamberlin.yahoo.co.uk

Many of you will have attended the last DI Group meeting when Bob Micklethwait gave a presentation on the use of Lightroom. He has prepared some short demos that cover a large part of what he talked about on the night and these can be downloaded by following this link. When doing so, you will be confronted with a small box asking if you would like to save the file, a second small window will open showing the file downloading. When complete, you might be asked to confirm that it is OK to Open an Executable File, click OK. The presentation will then run. To run the demo again, locate the downloaded file and double click on the Lightroom icon and the demo will begin. You will see four options, just click on the one you want and sit back and watch. You will need the sound turned on on your system. Sounds complicated? If this dummy can do it, any one can.

For those of you that use the studio, please note that we are having building works carried out at the clubrooms during the first half of August and that the clubrooms will not be available for anything other than programmed meetings during that period. Please check with Nick Ball as to studio availability during August (studio@bristolphoto.org.uk)

Kingswood Photographic Society are holding a convention in October.The Convention provides a great opportunity for those interested in photography to see the work of three internationally distinguished photographers, with very different styles and interests providing the lectures. The speakers are Des Clinton from Northern Ireland, Tony Dudley from Wolverhampton and Gijs van Gent from Holland. Details at www.kingswoodps.co.uk/events

Date - 7th October 2012.

Venue - The Pound Centre - Corsham, Wiltshire.

Cost - just £15, amazingly value for a days stunningly good photography.

All the tickets are always sold out for the KPS Conventions with two thirds of them having already having gone, so book now to avoid disappointment. Reserve your place by emailing Vanessa Herring at vanessaherring@gmail.com

For those of you on the trail of extra post nominals, you might find the following website that Barry Mead has passed on to me useful; http://www.fc59delft.nl/Pagina/Inschrijfform.html. It lists many current international exhibitions/salons, giving links, closing dates, costs and much more. It's written in Dutch but the bits you will need will be obvious, whatever language they are in.

The South Devon International Salon closing date is Saturday 21 July, but I'm reliably informed that they will still accept entries up until lunchtime Sunday. This is their first attempt at running a Salon so it would be good to support them. Click here to enter.

Things to Photograph

If you know of any events happening that might be of interest to fellow club members, please let me know and I will include the details here.

Trumpet Blowers' Corner

Well done to Nick Ball on gaining his ARPS

If you want to blow your own trumpet or, dare I say such a thing, blow someone else's trumpet for them, then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include it in the next issue.

Items For Sale

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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Regards

Pete