BPS Newsletter - Issue 135 15 April 2015 |
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Next Wednesday we are being treated to a selection of the accepted prints from this year's Southampton International Salon with Glyn Edmunds ARPS DPAGB EFIAP/s ABIPP EPSA. This is your chance to see some of the top international prints from the recent Southampton International presented in Glyn's own inimitable style. You can get a preview all of the award winning images by clicking here.
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Monday 13 April is the monthly meeting of the Digital Imaging Group. As usual, all members are welcome, especially if they bring along work to show fellow members, either prints or projected images (jpeg on USB memory sticks only please).
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Wednesday Meetings & Parking
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BPS Council members are concerned that the introduction of the RPZ is having an adverse effect on attendance at Wednesday meetings. We appreciate that the parking is one of the reasons we are moving, but the introduction of the RPZ does seem to have eased the parking situation rather than making it more difficult and up to
7.00 pm (at least) there are many spaces available for pay & display. It is only a short time before we move so please
could members bear with the situation and make every effort to support BPS by attending on Wednesday
evenings. Recently the turnout has been poor and it is particularly depressing, not to say embarrassing,
when an invited speaker who has travelled a considerable distance to share their
work with us is greeted with a small audience.
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We have now come to the end of the second week on site with the final preparation and demolition work taking place, everything is now gearing up for the next stage where we start to see thing being put in rather than taken out, the electricians have already moved in to commence their preliminary wiring. We have hit a minor snag in that a large piece of steel that was expected to be found and is necessary to hold up the first floor is in fact not there! You can see from the pictures below the "twin" of the steel we expected to find once the room on the left had been demolished, however in the second picture you can see (or should I say, not see) the missing steel. This is going to result in a new bit of structural steel work being inserted to hold up the first floor, but the contractor assures us that this will not delay the promised completion date. |
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This photo was taken last week. The "twin" steel in the foreground has now been removed and the room beneath it demolished, as has the timber floor joists you can see, right back to the start of the solid ceiling line.
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You can see the area with the walls & floor (referred to above) now removed to expose the supporting steel that should have spanned the complete width of the building. From the enlarged section of the photograph you can see where the steel stops and mid air starts!.
Following the structural engineers report we are now awaiting the contractor's costings before we decide what work will be needed to be done.
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The view into the main meeting room looking from what will be the AV control desk towards the front of the room.
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The electricians busy installing the wiring for the lighting in the tea/coffee area.
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Photos: courtesy of Mike Bigger |
It is hoped that we will be holding our first meeting in the new premises on 27 May. We propose having an open afternoon on the previous Sunday, 24 May, when members will have a chance to see the new clubrooms in all their glory. We would like to make this a special day and as such we are planning to run a buffet and make a proper event of it. Before we start looking for outside caterers to provide the buffet and to avoid any members shouting "you should have asked me, my sister runs a catering business", is there anyone who has contacts in the catering field who could provide such a celebratory feast? If you have such a contact, would you please contact Carol Sykes as soon as possible, either at next Wednesday's meeting or by email membership@bristolphoto.org.uk |
Download the latest issue of the PAGB e-News by clicking here. |
Photography and Awareness - a 3 day workshop at Hamilton House in Stokes Croft - July 3 - 5. For full details, please follow this link.
RPS DIG are running a one day workshop at The University of Warwick on 20 September called Digital Imaging Expo 2015. The event features well known photographers including Joe Cornish, Steve Caplin and Eddie Ephraums. There will also be various demonstrations and trade stands. For full details and details of how to obtain tickets please visit the RPS DIG website.
London Camera Exchange are running their annual Bird Fair at Chew Valley on Friday and Saturday, 24 & 25 April. For full details of offers, talks, times etc please follow this link.
Bristol-based charity Wildscreen is holding a conservation
photography exhibition throughout May to celebrate the launch of their exciting
new initiative, Wildscreen Exchange. The exhibition is at the The Grant Bradley Gallery in Bedminster. Please find their press release here. Please follow this link to find out more about the event.
The Photographic Angle is holding its Viewpoint exhibition which showcases images that illustrate the range of effects that can be generated by selecting an ideal vantage point. These images convey energy in many forms, such as the power and tension of modernist cityscapes, the visual appeal of landscapes as well as complex patterns of light and shadow. The exhibition is free to enter and is being held from Saturday 18th to Wednesday 22nd April 2015 open daily from 10am to 3pm at Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane, Bristol, BS2 0JJ. Full details at www.thephotographicangle.co.uk
There is an exhibition at M-Shed called Open
for Business which is open until 21 June. Open for Business is the
story of contemporary British manufacturing and industry told through the lens
of nine internationally renowned documentary photographers. For full details,
and details of other events at M-Shed, please click here.
The date for the club's annual pilgrimage to the Woodford point to point races is Saturday 25 April. |
Great British Small Print Circuit Competition
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The Great British Small Print Circuit Competition is now open for entries. For full entry details and on-line entry form, please click here. |
The WCPF 2015 Members' Exhibition is to be held at Buckfast Abbey from 2nd to 17th May. More details can be found by following this link or visiting the WCPF website. |
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. |
Items will remain in this section for one month from the date of insertion or until notification of sale, whichever is the sooner.
Please let the newsletter editor know if/when any of the items listed are sold.
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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.
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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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