Closing date for the Garmston Bowl and President's Cup competitions is 18 June.

 

President’s Cup Projected Image Competition
This is open to all members, excluding holders of FRPS and EFIAP distinctions, and will be judged as a set of 3 related digital images on any subject.

The Garmston Bowl Print Competition
This is open to all members and is for a set of five related prints on any subject. The entry will be judged as a set of five.

An exciting new competition will take place at the AGM on the 9th July following the discovery at the back of the cupboard of the studio cup.

The studio competition will be for images taken during any of the studio group meetings that have taken place between 1st June 2012 and 31st May 2014. Any member who has attended these sessions can submit up to four images which they should rank in order of their preference for being entered in the competition.

The images should be sent to: competitions@bristolphoto.org.uk as soon as possible and should follow the normal rules for digital competitions i.e.:

1. If you do not receive a Submission Report, this may mean your images have not been received.
2. Submissions can only be made by email and are not accepted on the night and cannot be made by CD, flash drive or memory stick.
3. Please be aware that the images are handled automatically by the competition software and the software will reject incorrect images (too large or wrong naming pattern)
4. Images must not be greater than 1400 pixels wide and 1050 pixels high - Note that Portrait format images must not be more than 1050 pixels high.
5. Save the images as a JPG using the highest quality. (Other file types such as TIFF or PSD will not be accepted).
6. The projector uses the sRGB colour space and hence you should save the images using the sRGB colour profile. Other profiles (such as Adobe98 or ProPhoto) may result in incorrect display of the image.
7. Name each file you enter in the following pattern.

• 01, 02, 03, etc. to show order of preference.
• underscore (not a hyphen)
• Title of the image (which can contain spaces and hyphens but must not contain underscore)
• underscore (not a hyphen)
• Your Membership Number (shown at top of this newsletter) followed by the letter Z

                Example:-   01_China Blue_496Z.jpg  

                                    02_   etc. 

      Note - everbody use the letter Z.

The images will be shown randomly in pairs at the following AGM and all present will vote on them on a knockout basis until we have an overall winner who will be presented with the studio cup.

This will be a great opportunity to enter a competition where you won’t need to criticise the judge as well as a chance to celebrate the studio group.

If you’ve enjoyed a studio group meeting please support this new competition, it will be a great chance both for the experienced members and for those new to competitions to try their hand.

Any queries to Nick Ball - email studio@bristolphoto.org.uk

Last Wednesday I reported the results of this year's Annual Print Competition, unfortunately David missed off one of the Nature HCs, John Hudson gained an HC with his image "Blue-Throated Woodstar". So hopefully this will have put the record straight - sorry John.

 

Below are some of this year's winners:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Themed Summer Print Competition has now been cancelled.

We have now had a chance to analyse the questionnaire sent to members regarding the possible move to Montpelier. Just over 78% of the members responded (it was disappointing that just over 20% of the membership failed to respond on such an important matter) and the results would seem to point fairly comprehensively to agreement to the move. The results are shown below, but to refresh your memories the questions were:

1. If the consensus is for the society to move to these new premises in Montpelier would you continue to be a member? Yes/No
2. If your answer to question 1 is No, could you please give your reasons?
3. Would you be prepared to pay an increased annual BPS membership fee?
4. If the parking scheme does increase the costs of your attendance at BPS meetings, or if parking becomes more difficult than it already is because of the proposed restrictions, would you continue to be a member?

	Answer	No of Replies	% of Total  replies	% of Total  membership
Question 1	Yes	88	94.62%	73.95%
	No	5	5.38%	4.20%
Question 3	Yes	77	82.80%	64.71%
	No	3	3.23%	2.52%
	Did not answer	13	13.98%	10.92%
Question 4	Yes	64	68.82%	53.78%
	No	8	8.60%	6.72%
	Don't know	5	5.38%	4.20%
	Did not answer	16	17.20%	13.45%
Did not respond		26		21.85%

Barry is looking for more images for the Members' Gallery on the BPS Website. He is particularly interested in images from newer members. They don't have to be world class images, they just have to show what you have been up to (photographically). Images need to be saved at 72dpi and sized at 600 pixels on the longest side.

Please email your images to Barry at barrymead@blueyonder.co.uk

'24 Hours in Bristol' is a unique photographic competition for amateur and professional photographers from the UK and beyond to put their creativity to the test by capturing the essence of life in this vibrant city of Bristol during over a single 24 hour period, which this year is 23-24 August. This is a competition organised by the City Council and even has some cash prizes (much better use of ratepayers' money than painting double yellow lines!). BPS member Paul Smith entered in 2013 and gained an award for his image of an early morning swimmer in Clifton Lido. For full details of the competition, please visit the official website.

 

2014 South Devon International Salon of Photography will consist of three Digital projected sections: Open (colour or mono) Creative/Altered Reality and Nature. Closing date 19 July. Full details and on-line entry on their website.

 “Very few of the pictures I take are about luck - they are worked for, they are sought out, and they are captured with as much care and consideration as I can muster”.
Chris Palmer

Many of the older members of the Society will remember Roger Pym who was a member of BPS for a number of years. Roger was noted for his square format pictures of boats in Instow Harbour and that part of the Devon coast, together with pictures of Exmoor.

Roger had been suffering with cancer for the last 12 -18 months and died peacefully at home on Sunday evening.

The funeral will be on Thursday 19th June at 2pm at Canford Crematorium.

 

 

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.