Next Wednesday sees a change to the published programme with Tony Dudley swapping places in the programme with Valentina Kulagina who will now be visiting us in March. Tony will be presenting his talk: Sports Photography from Grassroots to World Class. You can visit Tony's website to see the type of things that make him tick, the evening promises to be one that will interest people of all tastes.

The first DI Meeting of 2016 is on Monday 11 January at 7.30pm. All club members are welcome. In the first half of the evening we will take a look at your images which you may wish to present to others to admire or invite comments. You may bring the images as prints or on a flash drive in jpg format. To make it easy to organise viewing the images it would help if the all images on your flash drive are in a folder bearing your name. The usual selection of chocolate biscuits will be freely available in the coffee break before the start of what promises to be an exciting talk in the second half.

The second half of the meeting will be an illustrated talk 'Creative Photoshop Projects' by a new member Lee Spencer-Fleet in which Lee will talk a little about her experience of teaching and designing with Adobe Photoshop. She will also discuss a selection of personal and student digital images; and how they evolved with the help of creative techniques.

This should tie in nicely with the forthcoming workshop with Joan Blease and Barry Mead’s appeal for creative images for competition purposes.

Lee is an Adobe Certified Educator and also a member of the North Bristol Artists. She offers tuition in the Photoshop Family including Lightroom and Elements; both from her home studio in BS7 and other locations such as the Bristol Folk House. She is happy to take questions. Her website is at www.digitaldreamdesigns.uk

Ashwin Chauhan

Next week is the closing date for theProjected Image Competition - Round 3, the judge for this round is Graham Hodgkiss ARPS MPAGB APAGB AFIAP. Full details of the requirements and entry indtructions for the competition can be found in your BPS Handbook, p23 et seq.

As usual, please email your images to Ken Clarke at competitions@bristolphoto.org.uk. If you have any problems or queries, I'm sure that Ken will be only too pleased to help, email him at the same address.

The Metropolitan Police have issued guidelines regarding photography in these troubled times. Whilst the information is perhaps more relevant to members of the media, it is well worth reading if you are an amateur photographer. Full information here.

As Barry mentioned on Wednesday, he is still looking for images for the 2016 PSA (Photographic Society of America) Creative Interclub Competition. The closing date for the submission of our club entry is early January. Barry desperately needs creative images from members to add to our dwindling bank of suitable images; by suitable we mean creative, the more whacky and off the wall the better. If you have any images that you think may be suitable, please email them to Barry at barrymead@blueyonder.co.uk. Images should be maximum size 1400 x 1050 pixels.

The Photography Show is again taking place at NEC Birmingham in 2016. The dates are from 19-22 March. The organisers have confirmed the line-up for The Live Stage and Behind the Lens, both of which are included in the entry price.
The Live Stage will host a range of experts, demonstrating the techniques behind taking unique images in a variety of environments, from posing new-borns to capturing the illusion of magic and fun at the circus. Food Photographer, William Reavell, will appear, presenting styling tips for beautiful food photography. Other speakers will include Street Photographer, Matt Hart, on photography as therapy, Fashion Photographer, Steve Howdle, on syncing flash at high speed and Vicki Churchill, on turning the everyday into the spectacular. Melanie East will share her tips about photographing babies.
Behind the Lens will see a range of professionals leading sessions covering everything from wildlife to travel to landscape and more. Ram Shergill, known for photographing public figures such as Amy Winehouse and Dame Judi Dench, will give insight into working with designers in the world of fashion. Paul Colley will reveal the art of successful underwater photography, and Ian Cook will look at sports photography in the modern era. Tom Stoddart is a photojournalist whose work includes poignant images of situation of crisis, who will tell audiences about his own photography.
The Photography Show offers something for everyone. The exhibitor line-up includes Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Fujifilm, Sony, Leica, Manfrotto, Blackmagic, Epson, Ricoh Imaging, Serif and many more.
Book your tickets here and remember to use promotion code PAGBTPS16 to claim a special PAGB discount. (Choose your tickets and enter the promotion code just before you pay).

Just in case you didn't receive (or heaven forfend, didn't read!) the email sent out before Christmas, here is a reminder as I haven't seen many entries drop into my in-box yet.
 
Bristol Salon 2016
 
Now is the time send in your entry to the 2016 Bristol Salon and give yourself the chance of some glory on the international photography scene.
 
For those of you who aren't too sure what the Bristol Salon is: it is an international photographic exhibition that has been running since the mid 1940's and is the largest exhibition of its type in the UK attracting entries from nearly 70 different countries. Entrants submit up to 16 images across 4 sections (Open, Monochrome, Photo Travel and Nature) which are put before a panel of selectors who pick the top 25% or so to be accepted. Entry for BPS members is free as long as we receive your entry before 24 January, after that you will have to pay the full fee.
 
To help you with your entry I've prepared a small tutorial that can be downloaded by following this link. When entering, be sure to tick the box on the first page of the entry system to say that you are a BPS member and fill in your BPS membership number which you will find at the top of this email; when you get to the payment page at the end, click ALREADY PAID.
 
Here's hoping that we see a rush of entries, but in the meantime if you have any queries, feel free to email me at chairman@bristolsalon.co.uk
 
Full details can found on the BPS website http://www.bristolphoto.org.uk/.
 
All the best
 
Pete Howell & the Salon Team

Lacock Abbey - ‘Iceland, an Uneasy Calm’ is a series of photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by Tim Rudman who is acknowledged as one of the very finest landscape photographers working today. This stunning collection will be exhibited at the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Britain’s birthplace of photography, from 9 January to 10 July.

 

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.

 

 

 

If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 924 1338