BPS Newsletter - Issue 156 9 September 2015 |
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Next Wednesday we have a visit from Joan Blease ARPS EFIAP MPAGB BPE3, who will be presenting her talk, Bad Start - Great Finish. Joan is a highly successful member of Wigan 10 Foto Club and her talk tells the story of how her love of conventional art helped shape the images she produces today. You can find out a bit more about Joan by viewing her gallery on the Wigan 10 website or by visiting her own website.
Joan's Bronze Medal winning image, "Spellbound", from this year's Bristol Salon.
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Projected Image Competition - Round 1
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We kick off the new season of competitions on Wednesday 2 September with the closing date for Round 1 of the Projected Image Competition. The judge for this round is Ralph Snook ARPS EFIAP DPAGB.
If you have any queries, I'm sure the new Projected Image Competition Secretary, Ken Clarke, will be only too happy to help - he can be reached on the same email address.
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Print Competition - Round 1
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Just in case your printer has dried up, this is advanced notice to clean the nozzles as the new season's Print Competitions start fairly soon with the closing date of Round 1 on 23 September. The judge for this round will be Gordon Jenkins APAGB. If you haven't already picked them up, there are (name & title) labels on the computer desk, so please take a set. Any queries or questions about the competition can be addressed to the Print Competition Secretary, David Alderson, at printcompetitions@bristolphoto.org.uk.
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The next meeting of the DI Group is a little while away yet (14 September), so there is still time to download the image for this month's "homework". Just follow this link to download it, you can
then have a go at enhancing it (making a brief note of how it was done) and bring
it to the meeting on 14th.
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Our fame continues to spread, this time into the hallowed halls of the Amateur Photographer magazine, follow this link to see the latest write up about our move; to paraphrase one Council member, it only leaves Vogue and Tatler and we will have been in 'em all! |
Work is now virtually complete on Unit 13 and we now have one of the
best clubrooms in the Country. However, the clubroom is a bit like a
football stadium, i.e. it only used once or twice a week at most, the
rest of the time it just stands idle and empty. We are considering looking
for organisations of a similar size to our own who might be looking for a
suitable venue to meet. We have two evenings in the week when BPS very
rarely has any meetings, Thursday and Friday: we already have one
organisation who are interested in using Unit 13 on a Friday and we are
now looking for a taker for Thursdays. If you belong to, or know of an
organisation that might be looking for a venue to meet, please let Mike
Bews know ( mwb.rpic@btinternet.com).
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This year's photography course starts on Tuesday 10 September
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We have received the following invitation from Kingswood Photographic Society:
David
says about his talk, Picture Mixture: “As the title
suggests my presentation contains a wide variety of subject matter, in fact I’m
happy to tackle any subject as long as I’m producing
pictures!
I have
travelled quite extensively with my work and the camera has been my companion,
but these are no holiday snaps. I also take a number of sports
pictures, landscapes, street images and art nudes. There are also some unusual
pictures that are difficult to categorise.
My
passion is for producing pictures that produce a reaction, positive or negative
as long as the viewer is “moved” in some way. Peter Gennard once
said he could rely on me to see something “different” to everyone else, I think
that was a compliment?
In
recent years I have moved away from the regular club type picture to images that
stretch my imagination and hopefully that of the viewer, which I find more
satisfying.
I print
all my own pictures, this allows me to control what the viewer sees, colour,
density, size of the picture presented etc and no, I’m not sponsored by a paper
supplier!
I try
to visit as many exhibitions as I can, mostly by professional photographers that
produce pictures for non-commercial use. This is a great way to
see modern trends and stir up ideas in your mind and get your creative juices
percolating.”
Dave
says about his evening, I Shoot People: “My talk is based
mainly around my various approaches to street photography, a genre of image
making that is my passion. I enjoy finding surreal happenings in
our every day places be it urban, coastal or rural.
The
talk is structured into various sequences many street, but deviating
occasionally into other subject matter to add variety to the evening. My main aim is to share my enjoyment of
photography.”
Tony
says about his talk entitled The Art of Composition: “This is more of a
workshop than a lecture as I positively welcome input from the audience.
It seeks to place the issue of ‘composition’ within a broader
context. Composition applies to all aspects of the arts including
literature and music, but what I attempt to do with this workshop is to set
‘photographic composition’ within the context of the other visual arts, namely
painting, graphic design and architecture. What I argue is that
the compositional principles that underline these other disciplines can also be
applied to photography in an attempt to move away from the highly constrictive
‘rules’ that seems to dominate photography.
Having
completed a degree in Fine Art and having taught Art and Design for more than 30
years, I hope that I am able to offer something original to this sometimes
contentious subject. I have recently had published a book called
‘The Complete Guide to Photographic Composition’, (David & Charles), which
is where much of my information is drawn.”
We hope
these evenings are of interest to you and, if so, we hope to see you
there.
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To download the latest issue, 145, of the PAGB eNews, please follow this link.
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If you haven't done so already, please pick your 2015-2016 BPS Handbook up from the clubrooms to save the club having to spend unnecessary money on postage. When you take your handbook, please make sure that you tick your name off on the list provided.
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Arena Photographers are holding an exhibition an Exhibition titled “ Arena Presents” at The Grant Bradley Gallery, East Street, Bedminster from 10 October - 28 November. Membership of the Arena Group of Photographers is by invitation only and the exhibition includes work from Ted Sturgeon, John Chamberlin (BPS), Nikki Gwynn-Jones, Caroline Hyman, Vanda Ralevska, Leigh Preston, Steve Smith, Sue Brown, Harry Cundell, Tim Rudman, Paul Foley and Kathy Harcom. For further details, please click here, or to find out more about Arena, please visit their website. Below is one of the images from the exhibition (by Sue Brown)
David Jones, a local amateur photographer, is having an exhibition of documentary photography in Bristol on the subject of families. The exhibition takes place at A capella cafe & pizzeria, 184c Wells Road, Bristol BS4 2AL.To view the poster for the exhibition, please click here. It runs until the end of September 2015.
Photographers' Gallery (London) : Shirley Baker: Women, Children and Loitering Men. The exhibition presents the work of pioneering British photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014) in working class communities in Manchester which were gradually dispersed as a result of the slum clearance programmes of the 1960s and 70s. For further details, click here. Until 20 September.
National Portrait Gallery : Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon. For further details, click here. Until 18 October.
ExtraordinaryOrdinary 2 – Hidden Beauty in the Urban Environment - an exhibition by Simon Caplan LRPS at the Create Centre, Smeaton Road, BS1 6XN; entry to the exhibition is free and runs from 5 to 18 September (Monday to Fridays, 9am to 5pm). You can find out more about Simon by visiting his website.
Karl Blossfeldt - Art Forms in Nature. This is another (free) exhibition which might be of interest to BPS members which is currently showing at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol until 13th September. The exhibition comprises 40 exquisite original photogravures from 1932 of Karl Blossfeldt’s close-up photographic images of plants and flora. For further details, please click here.
James Ravilious - There is an exhibition of traditional photography by James Ravilious at the RWA until 20th Sept. Details from this link to the exhibition, with more information on his work here.
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