To Firstname
Wednesday 4 July
For those of you who find it difficult to control your excitement at the thought of attending the BPS AGM, you need wait no longer, next Wednesday sees the return of that dynamic duo, Danny and Carol (AKA BPS Chairman & Secretary) who will lead you through the agenda that you have recently been sent and have no doubt read and used, along with the Annual Report & Accounts, as a cure for your insomnia. The AGM is where you have the opportunity to find out what the club has been doing, where it's been spending your money and how it intends to get more money out of you in the future. Most importantly it's the time when you have a chance to have your say about the way the club is run, so please do come along.
Garmston Bowl & President's Cup Competitions
Last Wednesday saw the annual joint print and projected image evening when members fought for the Garmston Bowl (prints) and the President's Cup (projected images). The competitions this year were judged by Peter Weaver LRPS APAGB CPAGB from Hanham. Peter, who is a regular visitor to BPS, treated us to an evening of friendly and often humorous critiques of the entries. The results were as follows:
| GARMSTON BOWL |
Photographer
|
Title
|
Award
|
| Tony Gill |
Movement: Nude in Room |
1st |
| Patsy Southwell |
Rocks at Kilve |
2nd |
| Andrew Wood |
Bath Time |
3rd |
| Bob Faris |
At the Pool |
HC |
| Mark Stinchcombe |
Bad Air Days |
HC |
| Ashwin Chauhan |
Fishermen |
HC |
| Gordon Stirrat |
La Sagrada Familia |
HC |
| Bob Micklethwaite |
Steam Power |
HC |
| Derek Dorsett |
The Spirit of the Carnival |
HC |
| Ken Clarke |
Trades and Toil |
HC |
| |
|
|
| PRESIDENT'S CUP |
| Greg Duncan |
Cowboys |
1st |
| Val Duncan |
At The Ballet |
2nd |
| John Hudson |
Hummingbird |
3rd |
| Ashwin Chauhan |
Flamenco Dancer |
HC |
| Andrew Wood |
Goldney Hall |
HC |
| Jeff Hargreaves |
Cricket |
HC |
| Steve Bevan |
Bones |
HC |
| Sue O'Connell |
Khmer Dance |
HC |
Pictures of Bristol
Very many thanks to those of you who responded to my plea in last week's Newsletter for images of Bristol for St Peter's Hospice; I will be putting them all on a CD shortly and sending them off so that staff at the Hospice can select the ones they would like to have famed and put on their walls. It's still not too late to send me pictures if you have any, as I won't be sending them off for another week or so. Please email your images, if you have any, to me at newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Things to Photograph
- Many club members have been to Amman Valley trotting races near Neath in past years and we have seen quite a few successful images in club competitions. There are several more meetings left in this year's fixture list, the next of which is on Sunday 29 July. Full details can be found on their website www.ammanvalleytrotting.co.uk If you would like to go on the 29th perhaps you could let me know by email (newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk) or collar me on a Wednesday evening and I will see if I can organise some car sharing.
- Frome Festival - Friday 6 July until Sunday 15 July. The annual 10 day festival is Somerset's largest community festival with more than 160 events held at various venues in and around Frome. Full details www.fromefestival.co.uk
- 7 July until 15 July, Frome Wessex Camera Club Annual Exhibition at Unit 15, Westway Shopping Centre, Frome. daily 10am to 4pm, free admission.
- Step back in time to the 1940's this weekend at the Severn Valley Railway when they recreate 1942 on the Great Western railway. Full details can be found here.
- The Festival of British Eventing 13th to 15th July. This renowned event takes place at Gatcombe Park, and incorporates the British Open, Intermediate and Novice Championships. As well as a weekend of top class eventing there will be a shopping village, arena attractions and entertainment for all the family.
www.gatcombe-events.co.uk/
If you know of any events happening that might be of interest to fellow club members, please let me know and I will include the details here.
Trumpet Blowers' Corner
If you want to blow your own trumpet or, dare I say such a thing, blow someone else's trumpet for them, then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include it in the next issue.
Items For Sale
If you have something photographic that you want to sell, why not let me have details and I can circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address
Copy required
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 weekly missive, please click on the following link and then select the date(s) you are looking for - BPS Newsletter Archive
Regards
Pete
