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What's in this issue:
- Next week's meeting
- Print Competition closing date
- Competition rules
- Prints - Collect Them or Lose Them!
- Downloads (PAGB eNews & Photography News)
- RPS AV Festival
- Masters of Print
- Smethwick International Exhibition
- Dorchester CC Exhibition
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Next week sees the beginning of the 2023-2024 competition season with Round 1 of the Projected Image Competition, which is being judged by Alan Denison DPAGB BPE4* from Frome Wessex Camera Club.
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- Wednesday 27 September @ 19:30hrs
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- Meeting ID: 830 8524 5831
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Print Competition Closing Date |
The closing date for the first print round of the new season is next Wednesday, September 27 and there is a box awaiting your entries on the stage in Unit 13.
For new members, members venturing into prints for the first time and, dare I say it, established members who may wish a little reminder, here are a few pointers.
Club level entrants may submit a maximum of 3 prints in each round of the competition. Intermediate and Advanced entrants may submit a maximum of 2. Prints awarded by the judge earn points. Across the four rounds these points are accumulated. Trophies are presented in each of the 3 levels (Club, Intermediate, and Advanced) to the holders of the highest number of points at the end of the four rounds.
Prescribed Topic Challenge
For entrants at all levels, one of your 3 or 2 images may be submitted for an optional Prescribed topic challenge in each round. These will be judged together, regardless of the entrant’s level. This entry must be identified by ticking the box on the print label. Points gained for the Prescribed topic will also accrue to the entrant’s score at the appropriate level.
A separate tally of Prescribed scores will be kept, with an award for the winner at the end of the season.
You can download labels for your prints from the Members’ Portal on the website. To find the current labels for prints, either go to Competition Closing Dates and find the download links at the foot of the list or go to Competition Rules & Info -> General Guide For Entrants and find the same links there.
It’s also important that you supply a digital copy of each print you enter. This 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 title. You don’t need to add your membership number or level of entry. Please upload the digital copies of your prints via this link: bristolphoto.org.uk/printsupload
The judge for Round 1 of the print competition will be John Tilsley APAGB, DPAGB, ARPS and the optional Prescribed topic for this round is Water.
David Alderson
Print Competition Secretary
COMPETITION RULES
Full details of the competition rules can be found in the Members' Area of the BPS website; or f ollow this link to download a full set of the 2023-24 BPS Competition Rules for both prints and PDIs, including the prescribed topics for all rounds and a set of print labels. |
Time Is Running Out: Prints - Collect Them or Lose Them! |
Following on from the item in last week's newsletter, a large number of prints from previous competitions still need collecting. This should be done by the end of September to avoid the poor Print Competition Secretary having to take them home to put out for the recycling man! If you don't want them kept, please let us know and we will dispose of them.
Prints belong to the following members still await collection:
| Member No |
Name |
| 438 |
Mike Bews |
| 466 |
Peter Humby |
| 600 |
Allan Jones |
| 672 |
Yealand Kalfayan |
| 670 |
Linda Meaton |
| 636 |
Glynnys Poole |
| 481 |
Andrew Wood |
| 621 |
Bob Phelps |
| 87 |
Gordon Stirrat |
There are also some awards (medals, ribbons, certificates) that require collecting, these belong to:
| Rachel
Domleo |
| Sue O'Connell |
| Colin Dixon |
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NEW - Download Issue 340 of PAGB eNews HERE .
Download the latest edition of Photography News (Issue 110) HERE |
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A message from the RPS:
I am writing to you as the members of your Photographic Society may be interested in the above event. The Festival is being held over the weekend of Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October 2023 in the Tony Troman Theatre, The Royal Photographic Society, RPS House, 337 Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3AR, UK. Both days will start promptly at 10:00 a.m. We have received 65 entries from 12 different countries and 74 authors, and they will all be shown. The Tony Troman Theatre is a 101 seater auditorium, which has a high quality projector, surround sound, and a 12’ 6” by 6’ 6” screen, which is proportional to the size of the theatre. The Theatre has comfortable raked seats, each of which has a small built in movable writing table.
The Festival is a hybrid event as it will be judged ‘live’, with the results announced on the Sunday afternoon in the Theatre. There is also the opportunity to view the event over Zoom. Session tickets can be booked on the website www.rps.org/iavf:
- The
closing date for booking tickets to attend the Festival in person at the
Tony Troman Theatre, RPS House, plus lunch if required, is 23:00 BST on
Thursday 21st September 2023. The cost is £17 per day and £6
for lunch each day, if required.
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closing date for booking tickets to watch the Festival over the weekend
via Zoom, is 23:00 BST on Tuesday 26th September 2023. The cost
is £10 for a Zoom Ticket, which covers both days.
If your members would prefer not to book ahead, but would like to attend, they can pay at the door, but I suggest they telephone the Festival Director, Edgar Gibbs FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP, on 07989 444326, to ensure that seats are available.
On the website www.rps.org/iavf you can also read previous Editions of Festival News. More detailed information on the location of RPS House and parking, together with the timetable for the Festival can be found in Edition 2 of Festival News.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Linda
Linda Gibbs MPAGB AV-AFIAP
Assistant Festival Director
Mobile 07989 444321
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There is a box at the front of teh clubrooms for entries. |
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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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