BPS Newsletter - Issue 244 12 July 2017
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Next Wednesday, 12 July, we are pleased to welcome Linda Wevill FRPS EFIAP/b DPAGB who will be presenting her talk entitled, surprisingly, An Evening with Linda Wevill. Linda will be showing her latest work, including landscapes, seascapes and abstractions of the world around her.
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The monthly meeting of the DI Group takes place next Monday, 10 July, at 7.30pm at the clubrooms. As usual all members are welcome, especially if they come armed with pictures, either just to show what they have been doing recently, or to get comment and/or advice from fellow members. Pictures can be print or projected (jpeg on USB memory stick please).
As usual, we can expect to be treated to Ashwin’s now famous chocolate biscuits.
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Bimonthly Print and Projected Image Competitions - Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4
The following rule changes come into effect for DPI and Print rounds at Advanced Level from Rounds 1 of both competitions in September:
For the advanced level only, the competitions will be subdivided into an ‘open’ category and a ‘genre’ category. In each round, two submitted images can be in the 'open' category, the subject and style being the free choice of the entrant. The third image submitted must be in the genre/subject/style category specified for each competition, as shown below.
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PROJECTED IMAGE
COMPETITION 2017-18
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PRINT COMPETITION
2017-18
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ROUND
1
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Transport
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Monochrome
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ROUND
2
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Street/Candid
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Work
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ROUND
3
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Close-up/macro
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Blue
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ROUND
4
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Sport
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Architecture
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Images submitted to the genre category must show the number 3 as the image identifying number. Instructions for numbering will be given in the Rules section of the Handbook and on the Website.
A member who chooses to submit a ‘genre’ category image may also enter one or two images in the same genre/subject/style for the 'open' category submissions. A member may submit an 'Image 3' to the ‘genre’ category only, and nothing to the ‘open’ category, if desired.
In each round, the ‘genre’ category Image 3s will be judged together, with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and HCs being awarded. This is in addition to the awards for the 'open' images. The appropriate points for accumulation across the rounds will also accrue. |
This is a bit specialist, but we are now getting into the air-display season, so there may well be opportunities to take qualifying images. BAE are running a photo competition for pictures of their A400M transport plane, Full details can be found on their website - a400m-photocompetition |
I wouldn't normally advertise commercial companies; however I can make an exception in the case of Mifsuds. They are always the first to offer financial backing to almost anything we do that involves advertising, so it's only fair that we reciprocate.
They have written to us offering a 10% discount on many of their products (both new and used) in their Summer Sale. Please go to www.mifsuds.com to see more. |
For members wishing to join this year's Photography Course, full details of the course and how to enrol can be found by following the link shown at the end of this article. Payment of the course fee (£120 instead of the full £150) can be made using the PayPal link in the Members' Area of the BPS website, log in details at the end of the newsletter or by handing a cheque to Jeff Hargreaves.
Course Advertising:
Last year's Course Coordinator Derek Ripper, discovered that the majority of students enrolled on the BPS Annual Photography Course had heard about it either via word of mouth or via the Internet. Therefore, this year's Course Coordinator Jeff Hargreaves and the Course Committee have decided to concentrate on those two methods of advertising in the first instance.
Lee Spencer-Fleet has repeated last year's Facebook post which is again pinned to the top of her business page for safe keeping. For Facebook users, here's the link:
Please 'share' the post with your Facebook friends and contacts in the usual way - You can also 'pin' the post to the top of your own Timeline. If members can help in the advertising campaign using word of mouth and the Internet - It will be much appreciated.'
Alternatively, for non-Facebook users with email accounts - Please use and share this direct link to the BPS website:
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Download the latest edition of Photography News here
Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News here
Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News Extra here - this includes details of recent FIAP awards
Download Issue f11 Magazine here.
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| Until 18 July |
Guild Gallery (Park Street).
Topography by Four An exhibition by four photographers: Luis Bustamante, John Brooks, Iris Bolster and Martin Edwards.
Primal Landscapes (Luis, Martin) features two volcanic landscapes that are poles apart. Chile’s Atacama Desert and Iceland coalesce in colours, textures and the beauty.
Transitions (John) offers the viewer a fresh perspective of the everyday but abstracted and in complex photomontage.
850 (Iris & Martin) uses infrared light to create both dramatic and subtle, vast and intimate, landscapes.
Open: Mon/Sat 10.00/17.00
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Sept
onwards
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Clifton Cameras & Swarovski are holding a nature walk at
Frampton on Severn and digiscoping classes in the Forest of Dean during
September. You can find details of these and other events organised by
Clifton Cameras by visiting their website - click here. Thanks to Mark Gilbert for this.
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23 Sept
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RPS Digital Imaging Group is holding a special event - DI
Expo 2017 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport (near the NEC) from 9am
to 5pm on Saturday 23 September. This event is open to all, but you will
need to book a ticket. For full information and tickets, please visit their website.
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11 Nov
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Devizes Camera Club is holding An Evening With
Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world's leading landscape
photographers. The event is at Wiltshire Music Centre at Bradford on Avon.
Full details can be found by following this link.
I'm told that tickets are selling fast, so you are advised to book now if
you are interested. |
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21 Oct
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will
premiere at the M Shed at the same time as the national opening at the
Natural History Museum in London, it will run from 21 October 2017- 08
April 2018.
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ITS NOT PARTICULARLY EASY FINDING "DATES FOR YOUR DIARY", SO I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF MEMBERS COULD LET ME KNOW OF ANY EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS OR PICTURE LOCATIONS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE OF INTEREST. DATES AND WEB LINKS WOULD HELP
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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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If you have something photographic that you want to sell, let me have the details and I will circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address.
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Would all members please note: before you plan your shoot and book your model, you should check whether the studio/clubroom will be free. This can be done easily and at any time by viewing the Clubroom Bookings calendar in the Members' Area of the BPS Website. Bookings can (and must) be made by contacting Mike Bigger at bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Log in details to the Members' Area are at the end of this newsletter.
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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 download the list.
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Please don't forget that if you change your
address (home or email), or gain additional photographic distinctions, it
would be appreciated if you could let the Membership Secretary know so that
she can keep her records up to date, this will also ensure that you continue
to receive your newsletters - please email all changes to membership@bristolphoto.org.uk
The distinctions we have on record are those
shown at the top of this newsletter, if they are wrong, please let Carol
know.
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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
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