BPS Newsletter - Issue 243 5 July 2017
|
|
|
To: Firstname Lastname
Your BPS Membership No:
|
Next Wednesday, 5 July, is the highlight of the BPS calendar and the night you've all been waiting for - The AGM. This is your chance to hear what's going on behind the scenes at BPS and have your say (I can't promise you'll be heard, but I've got to persuade you to turn up somehow!).
The AGM will only take us up to the tea break; after that, we will have entertainment of a different sort, but again provided (in part) by you, the members. This will take the form of a competition of images taken at the Studio Group meetings over the last couple of years with the audience voting to decide an eventual winner. This proved to be great fun last year and hopefully that success will be repeated again. |
For members wishing to join this year's Photography Course, full details of the course and how to enrol can be found by following the link shown at the end of this article. Payment of the course fee (£120 instead of the full £150) can be made using the PayPal link in the Members' Area of the BPS website, log in details at the end of the newsletter or by handing a cheque to Jeff Hargreaves.
Course Advertising:
Last year's Course Coordinator Derek Ripper, discovered that the majority of students enrolled on the BPS Annual Photography Course had heard about it either via word of mouth or via the Internet. Therefore, this year's Course Coordinator Jeff Hargreaves and the Course Committee have decided to concentrate on those two methods of advertising in the first instance.
Lee Spencer-Fleet has repeated last year's Facebook post which is again pinned to the top of her business page for safe keeping. For Facebook users, here's the link:
Please 'share' the post with your Facebook friends and contacts in the usual way - You can also 'pin' the post to the top of your own Timeline. If members can help in the advertising campaign using word of mouth and the Internet - It will be much appreciated.''
Alternatively, for non-Facebook users with email accounts - Please use and share this direct link to the BPS website:
|
President's Cup & Garmston Bowl Competitions
|
Last Wednesday saw the annual fight for both the President's Cup for projected images and the Garmston Bowl for prints. The judge was Barry Senior Hon FRPS APAGB.
The results are shown below: |
Results - President's Cup
|
| Photographer |
Titles |
Award |
| Andrew Wood |
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan) |
1st |
|
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan) |
|
|
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan) |
|
|
|
|
| Graham Pears |
Kingfisher with Minnow |
2nd |
|
Cormorant with Trout |
|
|
Great Egret with Perch |
|
|
|
|
| Gerry Gill |
The Strand |
3rd |
|
Victoria Embankment |
|
| |
Golden Jubilee Bridge |
|
|
|
|
| Steve Field |
South |
HC |
|
Under |
|
| |
North |
|
|
|
|
| Mike Bigger |
Oak Tree Autumn |
HC |
| |
Oak Tree Winter |
|
| |
Oak Tree Summer |
|
|
|
|
| Ken Clarke |
Zen and the Art of Football 1 |
HC |
|
Zen and the Art of Football 2 |
|
| |
Zen and the Art of Football 3 |
|
|
 |
|
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan)
|
|
|
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan)
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
Boy (Thimpu, Bhutan)
|
|
|
Name
|
Panel Title
|
Award
|
|
Brian McBride
|
LSB
|
1st
|
|
John Hudson
|
Swan Lake, Traditional & Modern
|
2nd
|
|
Andrew Wood
|
Tribal People, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
|
3rd
|
|
Patsy Southwell
|
Cacti, Lanzarote
|
HC
|
|
Derwood Pamphilon
|
Buddhist Novitiates
|
HC
|
|
Ashwin Chauhan
|
Puzzled
|
HC
|
|
 |
|
LSB 1
|
|
|
LSB 2
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
LSB - 3
|
|
|
LSB 4
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
LSB - 5
|
|
The following is taken from the Lenscraft Newsletter July 2017 (Thanks to Danny Heaton for this one).
As many of you know, Google has now officially stated that it won’t be releasing any further versions of the Nik Collection. A petition has been started asking Google to rethink the decision (or at least make the code open source so others can maintain it). If you want to sign the petition, I mentioned it in a recent blog post
If you haven’t signed the petition and use Nik, please consider adding your name.
In all honesty, I can’t see Google changing their mind and I think many of you have also arrived at this conclusion. I’m now receiving regular emails asking me if there are any alternatives to the Nik Collection that I could recommend. Therefore, I have written an article looking specifically at some of the options you should consider.
Please do take a look.
|
Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News here
Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News Extra here - this includes details of recent FIAP awards
Download the latest edition of Photography News here.
Download Issue f11 Magazine here.
|
| Until 18 July |
Guild Gallery (Park Street).
Topography by Four An exhibition by four photographers: Luis Bustamante, John Brooks, Iris Bolster and Martin Edwards.
Primal Landscapes (Luis, Martin) features two volcanic landscapes that are poles apart. Chile’s Atacama Desert and Iceland coalesce in colours, textures and the beauty.
Transitions (John) offers the viewer a fresh perspective of the everyday but abstracted and in complex photomontage.
850 (Iris & Martin) uses infrared light to create both dramatic and subtle, vast and intimate, landscapes.
Open: Mon/Sat 10.00/17.00
|
|
Sept
onwards
|
Clifton Cameras & Swarovski are holding a nature walk at
Frampton on Severn and digiscoping classes in the Forest of Dean during
September. You can find details of these and other events organised by
Clifton Cameras by visiting their website - click here. Thanks to Mark Gilbert for this.
|
|
23 Sept
|
RPS Digital Imaging Group is holding a special event - DI
Expo 2017 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport (near the NEC) from 9am
to 5pm on Saturday 23 September. This event is open to all, but you will
need to book a ticket. For full information and tickets, please visit their website.
|
|
11 Nov
|
Devizes Camera Club is holding An Evening With
Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world's leading landscape
photographers. The event is at Wiltshire Music Centre at Bradford on Avon.
Full details can be found by following this link.
I'm told that tickets are selling fast, so you are advised to book now if
you are interested. |
|
21 Oct
|
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will
premiere at the M Shed at the same time as the national opening at the
Natural History Museum in London, it will run from 21 October 2017- 08
April 2018.
|
|
|
ITS NOT PARTICULARLY EASY FINDING "DATES FOR YOUR DIARY", SO I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF MEMBERS COULD LET ME KNOW OF ANY EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS OR PICTURE LOCATIONS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE OF INTEREST. DATES AND WEB LINKS WOULD HELP
|
Salon acceptances: BPS photographers are now achieving large numbers of salon acceptances and constraints on time and space mean we can't include them all. So please only advise of awards or other milestones.
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.
|
If you have something photographic that you want to sell, let me have the details and I will circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address.
|
Would all members please note: before you plan your shoot and book your model, you should check whether the studio/clubroom will be free. This can be done easily and at any time by viewing the Clubroom Bookings calendar in the Members' Area of the BPS Website. Bookings can (and must) be made by contacting Mike Bigger at bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Log in details to the Members' Area are at the end of this newsletter.
|
For those of you who aren't sure what MPAGB, EFIAP/s and many more such seemingly random collections of letters mean, just click here to download the list.
|
Please don't forget that if you change your
address (home or email), or gain additional photographic distinctions, it
would be appreciated if you could let the Membership Secretary know so that
she can keep her records up to date, this will also ensure that you continue
to receive your newsletters - please email all changes to membership@bristolphoto.org.uk
The distinctions we have on record are those
shown at the top of this newsletter, if they are wrong, please let Carol
know.
|
|
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
|
Missed a copy of the Newsletter? |
To view past editions of this Newsletter, please click on the following link and then select the date(s) you are looking for - BPS Newsletter Archive
|
BPS Website - Members' Area "Log in"
|
To enter the Members' Area of the BPS website you will need the following:
User Name - chatroom Password - pixels
If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 924 1338 |
|
Bristol Photographic Society, Unit 13, Montpelier Central, Station Rd, Bristol, BS6 5EE
|
|
|
|
