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Next week is the Annual Projected Image Competition, which this year is being judged by Martin Fry FRPS.
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ZOOM
Login details:
- Wednesday 21 May @ 19.30hrs
- Log in: Click HERE
- Meeting ID: 878 9000 4528
- Password: 730320
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As some of you will know a defibrillator is due be installed outside of Unit 13 in the coming weeks. It is not exclusively for BPS but will be available to all units on the estate. It’s one thing having the defibrillator there, it is another to have people in BPS that know how to use it, and also to administer CPR if needed.
To this end we are arranging for a training session to take place at Unit 13 on Wednesday 21 May at 6pm. The session will be a combination of verbal and practical training and will last for approximately 1 hour.
We hope that you will be interested and attend this training session, the more members we have who can step up if it becomes necessary the better.
Looking forward to seeing you on the evening.
Ralph Snook
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| Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
| 19 May |
Distinctions Advisory Evening |
Your images/prints |
| 21 May |
Defibrillator Training |
6pm - 7pm |
| 21 May |
Annual PDI Competition |
Judge: Martin Fry |
| 28 May |
Lisa Rendall |
Highway to Hell |
| 28 May |
Annual Print Comp |
Closing Date |
| 4 Jun |
Bristol Salon |
AV Presentation of 2025 Salon |
| 9 June |
DI Group |
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| 11 June |
Graham Neville (Zoom) |
Thailand |
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IMPORTANT - Photographic Distinctions |
It is important that we keep membership records up to date. Can you please, therefore, check that the photographic distinctions shown against your name at the head of this newsletter are correct. If they are incorrect or any are missing, please let Carol know, including the date when the change took place - send to her at membership@bristolphoto.org.uk.
This will allow us to update the Roll of Honour on the BPS website and also keep the list of honours up to date for the AGM.
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Distinctions Advisory Group |
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Monday May 19. 7.30pm at the Clubrooms.
Andrew Marker, Ralph Snook and Pete McCloskey will be present to offer advice and review possible submissions for RPS and PAGB panels. ALL members who are either already on the path to distinctions or thinking about having a go are welcome, so come along with your images (prints or DPIs) to receive advice.
For the Licentiate the RPS only accept DPI submissions and no longer prints. Our advice was largely based on print submissions, but with the RPS changed rules we will offer advice on DPIs.
It is recommended that members read up on Distinctions on the RPS and PAGB websites as they contain much useful information:
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The closing date for the Annual Print Competition is Wednesday, 28 May. There is a box for your entries on the stage in Unit 13.
The competition will be judged this year by Gareth Martin AWPF, CPAGB from Bridgend.
You may submit up to 4 prints and can use images already used in the bi-monthly competitions. But do not use images which you have already submitted for this year’s Annual PDI competition or which have gained awards in previous Annual Print competitions.
If you want to put any of your prints in for the open Nature section, tick the appropriate box on the print label.
In addition to the usual awards at each level, the judge will select the Best Travel, People, Action, Landscape and Monochrome pictures from the whole entry (i.e. all levels).
Please number your entries in your preferred order, as some images may be culled if the total entry is excessive.
IMPORTANT: Don’t forget to upload digital copies of your prints if you have not done so already for previous competitions. These should be the same size as for the PDI competitions – 1600 x 1200 – but there will be no need to give any other information than your name and the actual title of each image. Do, please, give the actual image titles, not just the image codes. Here is the upload link: www.bristolphoto.org.uk/printsupload
We look forward to seeing your prints!
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Monday 19 May
- 10am-1pm – the morning session will
now be members photographing each other for the Kingswood Salver – bring
hats, scarves, etc (unless anyone has a better idea)
- 1:15pm-4:15pm – Model will have
some Faerie outfits!!! May be able to squeeze in one more
person. Contact Mike to book or to go onto the reserve list mike_martin@blueyonder.co.uk;
Cost £25
Wednesday 28 May
- 2:30pm-5:30pm – We have the
stunning Dominika returning to BPS all the way from Poland, a rare
opportunity to get some beauty, fashion or general portrait images. Still a few spaces left, contact Mike to book.
Cost £20
Future Monday morning meetings: Mike runs these sessions for you, the members. So if you have any ideas for future sessions, whether models, abstract, still life, light-painting, macro, etc, feel free to pass on your suggestions to Mike.
Mike Martin
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Amateur Photographer APOY |
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The Amateur Photographer of the Year (APOY) 2025 is now up and running. It is the UK’s most prestigious photography competition for amateur photographers (well, that's what AP claim!)
The competition is open to all amateur photographers and once again they have teamed up with Photocrowd, who will be hosting the competition on a simple and intuitive platform.
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The competition has 10 rounds, each with a different theme. The themes for the 2025 competition will be: Black & White, People and Portraits, Close-Up and Details, Landscapes, Celebrating Colour, Night and Low Light, Animal Kingdom, Movement, Urban Life, and Open (anything goes!).
This month's subject is Black & White, to find out more and to enter, go to:
The free entry code for this round is APOY11632221
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My apologies - earlier in the week I emailed all members asking if they would visit Facebook and "like" a couple of posts about the event. I stated that you didn't need a Facebook account to "like" - I was wrong, you do.
Apology done, now I'm badgering you to purchase your tickets for the Charlie Waite & Steven le Prevost show on 25 May if you haven't already done so - THERE ARE STILL A FEW TICKETS LEFT.
Click on poster for more details and to book your ticket.
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NEW - Download Issue 381 PAGB eNews HERE.
NEW - Download issue 381 Extra, MPAGB Special HERE
NEW - Download Issue 121 of Photography News HERE.
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INTERNATIONAL SALONS
Closing - 23 June
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono, Nature, Scapes
2 Print Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono
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Closing - 5 June
2 Print Sections
Open Colour, Open Mono
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BPE EXHIBITIONS
Closing - 13 July
5 PDI Sections
Pictorial Colour
Pictorial Mono
Scapes
Creative
Nature
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Congratulations to Sue O’Connell who joins Derwood in having an image accepted in the prestigious London Salon - are there any other club members out there hiding their success under a bushel?
We can also report that Sue has reached the Finals of the World Food Photography Awards, a major event with entrants from over 70 countries. As a finalist her two qualifying images will be included in a public exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. The overall winners will be announced at a Champagne Awards Evening next week. Best of luck Sue!!!
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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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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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IMPORTANT: Personal Detail Changes |
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, please remember, if you don't tell
us we can't possibly know!
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