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Next Wednesday, 20 April, we have something a little different, when we have a presentation by Clive Greenland ASINWP QGPP LRPS MIET from Corsham who will be giving his talk Aviation Photography.
Clive’s interest in aviation photography started in the late 1970’s with a Canon AE-1 camera. He is a WCPF judge and a member of Nonpareil Camera Club. A qualified professional photographer with “The Guild of Photographers”, Associateship membership with “The Societies of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers” (SINWP) and an LRPS qualification.
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Clive’s image of a Swiss air force F/A-18C Hornet at RIAT in 2019 won him “Events Photographer of the year 2019” with The Societies of Photographers.
Between 2018 and 2021 Clive had three further nominations for Events Photographer of the year, all involving aviation images!
The presentation will include a Bahama's adventure undertaken in 1997 over 10 days with 30 hours of flying combined with photography, routing through the Bermuda triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle or Hurricane Alley, not an area to get the flight planning wrong!
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It will include aerial images and images from the ground at RIAT and other flying displays throughout the UK.
The talk will also include drone images with a DJI Mini 2 taken over the last two years, including how to get stunning landscape images that are only achievable with a drone! |
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Visit Clive's website to see more stunning images - click here. |
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Clive’s prize winning image of a Swiss air force F/A-18C Hornet at RIAT, mentioned above. |
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Login details:
- Wednesday 20 April @ 19:30hrs
- Log in: Click HERE
- Meeting ID: 811 0034 6436
- Password: 359737
Lost the log in details? Don't forget that the meeting login details are always in the Members' area of the BPS website. |
Would members please remember to book their place at Wednesday meetings. Some members are failing to do this and just turning up.
This link is the only way that you can book your slot.
To book your place on Wednesday, please click HERE .
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BPS member, Mike Martin has a 6-page article published in the current edition of the RPS Digit Magazine. Below is the beginning of the article, if it whets your appetite to the extent that you'd like to read more, please follow the link at the end of the excerpt. |
HOW DOES MY MIND WORK:
THE DROSTE EFFECT
MIKE MARTIN
How does my mind work?
Where does the creativity come from?
The answer to the second question is easier than the first – we are bombarded daily with images through multiple channels. You just have to recognise that and see the opportunities some of those images present. As to the first question, who knows?
Let’s focus on one narrow genre that I have been looking at during the pandemic.
I’ve been a lifelong fan of the drawings by MC Escher. As a younger self I, along with many others, had a poster of that never-ending staircase on my wall. I also had posters of work by Dali, Magritte and other surrealists. I love optical illusions too.
I watched Adobe introduce then withdraw their Pixel Bender feature and Droste filter for Photoshop CS4 and CS5 and then ‘forgot it’ until the Pandemic, when once again I started looking at the potential of the Droste effect (or picture in picture effect).
Everlasting Tulips (at the head of this article) is an early image created in 1998, pre-digital, from a slide scanned and modified in Photoshop. This uses simple recursion using a plug-in for Photoshop. |
Click here to read the full article.
Many thanks to the RPS Digital Imaging Group for allowing us to reproduce this article. If you would like to know more about the RPS DIG, then follow this link to their website. |
We have a number of picture frames which are surplus to requirements at Unit13. If members would like these, please let me know and arrangements can be made for you to pick them up. If you want to see what they look like, they are the same as the ones in the staircase at Unit13.
The frames are 20" x 16" and are complete with removable hardboard backs. We are not asking anything for these, but would appreciate a donation being made in the name of BPS to a local charity.
Pete Howell
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Bath Photographic Society - Annual Exhibition |
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This offers the opportunity to watch all the classes for free. Once a class is released you'll have 48 hours to watch (and rewatch) the class for free. After 48 hours, the classes get archived to the VIP Member area (an optional purchase).
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NEW - Download Issue 305 of PAGB eNews HERE
Download the latest issue, 97, of Photography News HERE |
Click on advert to follow link.
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2022 Comedy Pet Photo Awards |
I have received the following details about the 2022 Comedy Pet Awards. I haven't had a chance to check it out fully, but it all seems above board, so why not have a go!
We wanted to get in touch as the 2022 Comedy Pet Photo Awards are now open at www.comedypetphoto.com just in case you wanted to share the details with your members. Hopefully it might be of interest and a bit of light relief and positivity - very, very much needed at the moment.
In brief, we are funny pet photo contest open to everyone, aiming to raise a smile by celebrating our pets and help fund some really hardworking pet charities in the UK. Through our competition sponsors Animal Friends we are donating £30,000 to 3 small animal welfare charities, one for cats, one for dogs and one for all rescue animals. This year we really want to grow the competition so that it becomes a sustainable source of funding for well-deserving organisations.
There are more details on the website www.comedypetphoto.com but here are some headlines:
Entry is via the website, for both images and videos. Closing date is 1st July 2022
The winning photo entry receives £2000 cash, plus a trophy and they get to choose a charity to donate £5000. The winning video entry receives £1000 cash and all category winners will receive a fabulous goodie bag!
There are 7 categories - Dog, Cat, Horse, All Other Animals, Pets who look like someone famous or owners, Video and Junior (16 or under)
Junior category is free to enter for under 16’s otherwise there is a small entry fee - £1.95 for 1 entry, £5 for 5 and £10 for 15 entries. (Charging for entry means we can offer the cash prizes)
Animal Welfare and education is a strong element of the competition and all images are vetted by Emma Milne, our competition vet.
I really hope this is of interest to you, let me know if any questions, we will do our best to try and answer them.
Thanks for your time,
Paul, Tom and Michelle - The Comedy Pet Team
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Salon acceptances: BPS photographers are now achieving large numbers of salon acceptances and constraints on time and space mean we can't include them all. So please only advise of awards or other milestones.
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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John Hudson has the following for sale:
SPRING SALE!
Drone - DJI Mavic Pro 2 for sale, very good condition, with extra batteries, multi/in car-charger, controller and carrying bag.
An amazing drone with great camera (Hasselblad) easy to handle and very portable, with object avoidance sensors and is the same model used by many professional landscape photographers.
It is ideal for landscape and coastal work - £1277.00
All the usual rules and regulations apply re drone flying.
If you have any photographic items for sale, drop me a line and I'll include it 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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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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For those of you who aren't sure what MPAGB, EFIAP/s and many more such seemingly random collections of letters mean, just click here to see the list.
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Bristol Photographic Society,
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