Next Wednesday we are being treated to an evening of audio visuals by Howard Bagshaw ARPS MPAGB with his talk entitled Exploring AV. Howard is Vice Chairman of the RPS Audio Visual Group and is recognised as an expert in the field of AV. I can't lead you to any of his AVs but if you follow this link you will see examples of Howard's work.

Last Wednesday was Round 1 of this year's Print Competition series. Our Print Competition Secretaries were unfortunately confined to their sick beds, so thanks to Margaret Collis for stepping in at the last minute to act as MC for the evening (obviously, in more ways than one!). Our judge for the evening was Peter Gennard MFIAP EFIAP/p from the Midlands whose style was both constructive and entertaining and who, by his own admission, lived up to his nickname of "Chopper Gennard". Overall a thoroughly entertaining evening and I don't think many would disagree with his final choices. The results are shown below:

 

Photographer	Image Title	Award
INTERMEDIATE
Mike Bigger	Goths at No 10	1st
Mike Bigger	Sparrowhawk with Kill	2nd
Paul Smith	Shipwreck on Noordhoek Beach	3rd
Paul Smith	Donald MacDonald, Night Fisherman	HC
Paul Smith	Tired Lads on Tokyo Metro	HC
ADVANCED
Barry Mead	Pandora's Box	1st
Barry Mead	Night Heron Fishing	2nd
Barry Mead	Memories	3rd
Ron Harrison	Milky Orchid	HC
John Hudson	Burlesque Ballet	HC
John Hudson	Pallid Bat	HC
John Hudson	Shellduck Landing	HC
Gordon Stirrat	Romsdal Alps	HC
Gordon Thomas	Luskentyre	HC
Andrew Wood	Weston-Super-Mare	HC

For those of you who enter lots of exhibitions and at times suffer from "Knackered Finger Condition" (KFC), Greg Duncan has put together a simple set of instructions for getting titles from your image folder and into your entry form without straining your typing finger. Full instructions can be found by clicking on this link (after which you can rest your weary digit!)

To download the latest edition of the PAGB e-News, just follow this link. This is a picture Special to celebrate 100 issues.  It may be slow to download as it is fairly large, but it will be worth the wait! What could make the wait even more worthwhile is that two of the images are by BPS members, Keith Wood and Barry Mead.

London Camera Exchange are holding a series of free seminars, demos and offers in their Bristol store between 2nd and 7th November. They will be showing equipment from all the major manufacturers. Full details here. Please call them on 0117 927 6185 for more details or to reserve a place for the demonstrations or seminars.

Bristol Festival of Literature is on from 19 to 27 October at various venues throughout the city. Of particular interest to BPS members will be an exhibition being held at The Parlour, 31 College Green, BS1 by our esteemed Chairman, Neil McCoubrey ARPS and local photographer, Paul Bullivant. The exhibition is called See it my way and includes a "conversation evening" on Monday 21st between 8 and 9pm. All are welcome and a little bird tells me that there might be some wine on offer. You will be able to find full details of the Festival by visiting their website at www.unputdownable.org

 

There is an exhibition on at present at the RWA in Queens Rd called Bristol and Somerset: Vanishing Lives, this is an exhibition of 150 of Reece Winston's prints depicting Bristol and Somerset between 1930 and the mid 1960s and is on until 13 November. Admission is free. Full details on the RWA website

We have received the following email from Andy Beel at Kingswood PS offering photography workshops. Full details are contained in Andy's email and the enclosed links:

 

 

To download a poster detailing the workshop, please click here.

 

 

 

 

If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: secretary@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 9241338.