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A breathtaking display of prints and projected images in both monochrome and colour. Some oldies, some goldies and some hot off the printer!

Be There or be Square!!!!

 

Below are a few images from the talk, but if you want to see more but can't wait until next week, have a look at his website - www.peterbrisley.photography

• Wednesday 29 October @ 19.30hrs
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Date	Speaker	Subject
5 November	Peter Gennard	Street & Environmental Portraits
10 November	DI Group	Practical Evening
12 November	Members' Evening + Ladies v Gents
19 November	PDI Competition	Round 2
26 November	Tim Pile	Figure
3 December	Jay Hallsworth	How I Edit My Photos

 

 

Those of you who attended this week's meeting, will have heard Ralph mention that we have a small selection (seven) of Steven le Prevost prints for sale. Steven was one of the two guest speakers at this year's Bob Faris Memorial Lecture, and he generously donated these prints for BPS to sell for club funds. They are available on his website at £25 each (unmounted) but the seven we have for sale are mounted and going for the bargain price of £15 each - first come, first served!

 

Have a look at some of Steven's work by visiting his website - www.stevenleprevost.com

 

 

Next week, 29 October, is the closing date for Round 2 of the 2025-26 Projected Image competition. The judge will be Peter Crane ARPS, and the prescribed topic is Solitude. 

 

 

 

 

 

The judge is John Chamberlin, who will mark each entry out of 10, live on the night, and the victorious side will be crowned at the end of the evening.

 

Entry closes Friday, 7 Nov at mid-night.

 

Each entrant can enter 2 images, please name the images as follows:

Example: 01_My Dog_296.jpeg

Your BPS membership number can be found at top of this newsletter.

 

Image size 1600 x 1200 pixels. Colour space sRGB

 

 

The Ladies captain will be Carole Brown and the Gents Barry Mead

 

Any questions to - chairman@bristolphoto.org.uk

 

 

 

The judge, Dennis Russ, in full flow.

 

Last Wednesday saw the first round of the 2025-26 Print Competition season, which was judged by Dennis Russ CPAGB LRPS AWPF BPE1* AFIAP from Swansea, the Prescribed subject was Conversation (real or imagined).

 

 

 

 

Saturday saw Ralph and Mike travel north to Blackburn for this prestigious competition.

You will recall we qualified for this national competition by being one of the top two clubs in the WCPF Inter Club Print Competition.  

Each of the 39 clubs competing entered 12 images in Round 1 – the aim being to finish in the top 8 clubs and earn a place in the final, with the remaining clubs competing in the Plate competition. 

The rules are quite complex with a required minimum number of mono and colour images, a maximum number of nature images or images by each author and obviously none may have been used previously. For the final / plate competitions the number of images required changes, as do the restrictions on the mix of images, although you do have an opportunity to select new images hopefully aligned to the genres the judges favoured in Round 1! Selection is a tactical battle to try and boost your scores by picking wisely; hence the need for a much larger pool of prints to select from!

So, a huge thank-you for everyone who provided prints, or files for printing – whilst your images may not have been selected on the day, they are an invaluable help on the day.  So how did we do?

Round 1
We scored 159 (12 images) in a very high scoring round, 3 points and 2 places behind the cut-off for the final.

Plate Competition
Scores eased off a bit, but we still scored 106 (8 images) ending equal 4^th with Dorchester and two other clubs, only 2 points behind the winners, Ipswich PS.

The Final

We sat this out watching the top clubs battle it out, with the final outcome being a three-way tie between Chorley, Arden and Smethwick.

 

It was a real feast for the eyes, but sadly we’ve got to go through the qualifying WCPF competition to earn our place for next year.

Here are the images we used:

 

 

For the plate we had to include at least four new images, shown below:

 

 

 

Treble session special!   

Michelle will be returning, joined by Anna, a fantastic make-up artist, for the whole day.  Some of you may recognise Michelle from the fake underwater shoot in August and Anna from large number of Mike’s photos including when she had paint poured over her! Anna now focuses on make-up for film and TV so Mike is excited to see what she can add to the party. This is your opportunity to see how working on a planned styled shoot with a collaborative team can elevate your photography, at a fraction of the cost of other workshops.

10am – 1pm 

Theme to be determined.  Session open to all. No booking required. Cost £10

Building upon the morning, this session is limited to 6 people - Booking essential. Cost £25 - Fully booked, contact Mike to go on reserve list.

Halloween special, corpse bride meets fashion, maybe some prosthetics, a bit of blood, etc. this session is limited to 5 people. Booking essential. Cost £30 - Fully booked, contact Mike to go on reserve list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

smethwickinternational.com ONE WEEK TO GO - Closing: 27 October 3 PDI Sections  Open Colour Open Mono Nature 3 Print Sections  Open Colour Open Mono Nature

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