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Next week we are being treated to an eveing of images from our own John Chamberlin, John will be presenting an evening called 'From Dawn to Dusk'. He will be showing a collection of largely new images taken since his last talk two years ago. As usual, there will be a wide variety of subjects with hopefully something to interest everyone. By way of a change, the second half will be put to music thanks to the help of Andrew Marker. The cost of this is as yet unknown, as his invoice is still awaited!
John has been a prolific photographer for nearly 40 years. He gained the Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1984 and the Fellowship the following year. Until December 2009 he was a member of the RPS Travel Distinctions Panel and
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Chair of the Visual Art Panel. He has also served on the RPS Nature Panel. He was a member of the RPS Distinctions Advisory Board and the Fellowship Board as well as Chair of the Multimedia and Narrative Panel. In 2008 he was awarded the Fenton Medal and Honorary Membership of the RPS for services to the Society. As well as belonging to the London Salon, he is a member of Arena and President of the Zoological Photo Club; membership of each is by invitation.
His images have been exhibited extensively in Britain and in various countries around the world gaining many awards and he has also acted as a selector at countless national and international exhibitions. His AFIAP and EFIAP were gained in the nineteen eighties and his MFIAP in 2007.
He works mainly in colour with his current images being captured digitally. In his own words he is essentially a 'photographer', rather than a digital artist. He tries to get everything 'right' at the taking stage!! As well as pictorial and creative work and images taken on worldwide travels, he is an extremely active nature photographer with a particular love for Africa, a continent he has visited nearly thirty times. |
Closing Date - Projected Image Competition
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Next week (21 February) is the closing date for Round 4 of the Projected Image Competition. There is a change to the published judge, Sandie Cox is unable to make it and Leigh Preston has agreed to step in at short notice. Leigh is well known at BPS and we can expect a masterclass in judging. |
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This weekend we will be judging the Bristol Salon, when 10,000+ images will be whittled down to about 2,500 accepted images. If you are interested in seeing how an international exhibition is selected, or want to see if you can catch your own images going through, you are welcome to visit us. We will be judging Friday through to Sunday from about 10am to 5pm each day, with judging taking place in the main clubroom on all three days and also upstairs on Saturday and Sunday. Below is a picture of the clubroom in readiness to to start the marathon.
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Following the auction at the Christmas Social when £183 was raised for St Peter's Hospice, we have received the following letter from them:
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Photography Show - Birmingham
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The Photography Show will be back for its fifth year at the NEC, Birmingham on 17-20 March. Develop your passion – get kit from over 250 brands, be inspired by tutorials led by those in the know and take advantage of an abundance of opportunities to enhance your skills in your chosen field. The firm favourites are back, including the Super Stage, Behind the Lens Theatre, the ever-popular Live Stage and Canon of course, plus new for this year, The Great Outdoors will focus on everything from dramatic landscapes, to macro shots in your back garden, to special occasions in any weather.
Save £3 on standard adult entry (pay only £10.95) with our special discount*. Book your tickets here – use promo code PAGBTPS18 to claim. *Discount code expires on 14 March 2018 and applies to standard adult entry tickets only. Plus, stay up to date with the latest announcements on The Photography Show website.
Download this PAGB eNews Extra for full details of the show and the many special offers. |
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WCPF Members' Exhibition - Entry Now Open
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We have received the following from WCPF:
The 2018 WCPF Members Exhibition (MX) is currently being finalised and the entry system will be available from mid-January. Previous entrants will receive an ‘invitation to enter’ email, and a link to the entry system will be available from this page once it is available.
Timings
Entry details are available here. Entry will close as usual on the date of the Council Meeting ie 3rd March 2018.
Terms and Conditions
The entry classes remain as last year with 3 print classes (Open, Mono, Nature) and 4 PDI classes (Open, Nature, Creative, Photo Travel). The class definitions will be available on the entry website, and are the same as last year and are those adopted by the PAGB. Image size for PDI’s has been increased to the PAGB standard of 1600x1200 (previously 1400x1050).
Awards
The exhibition once again has PAGB Patronage and PAGB Gold, Silver and Bronze medals plus Selectors Ribbons will be awarded in each class. A number of highly commended certificates (at the selectors discretion) will also be awarded in each class.
The ‘Margaret Aven’ trophy for the entrant who gains the most acceptances across all 7 classes, and ‘Best Wildlife’ trophy in both Nature classes will also be awarded again this year.
Favourite Image and Sale Of Prints
We are repeating these initiatives that we introduced last year. Entrants will have 3 choices available
1. They may opt in to the favourite print image lottery where one of the visitors that voted will receive a free copy of the print that they voted for.
2. They may opt in to the visitors favourite print image lottery and the sale of prints. Prints will be offered for sale at a standard price of £35. Any postage fees required would be an extra cost.
3. They may opt out of both initiatives:
Venue
We are returning to Bovey Tracy Golf Club with the excellent facilities that proved so sucessful last year.
Selectors
Christine Widdall MPAGB EFIAP FBPE
Paul Keene FRPS MPAGB EFIAP/d2 MFIAP
Leo Rich ARPS DPAGB APAGB EFIAP/g
We hope that members of WCPF clubs will continue to support the exhibition and submit their entries in good time. Clubs may want to collect all of the print entries from their members and make a single delivery to the appointed AES. This should make the process more efficient and effective for club members and the AES.
The name & contact details for an entrants AES will be notified on completion of the online entry.
If anything is unclear or there are any questions then please get in touch with the Exhibition Secretary by email at mpix@wcpf.org.uk
Ralph Snook & Sandie Cox
WCPF Exhibition Secretaries
Danny Heaton will be able to take your prints to the WCPF Council meeting on 3 March, so if you are interested, please keep a weather eye open on the WCPF website for the actual opening date - www.wcpf.org.uk |
Download Issue 201 of the PAGB e-News here. |
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Until 20 May
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'Tribe' a photography exhibition. Lacock Abbey until 20 May.This is a collaborative exhibition of photography by mid-career professional artists. Their work is a narrative, addressing issues of family, history, love and loss. The artists are a group of women from all over the US. Full details here.
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Ongoing
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Painswick Rococco Gardens - Famous for their Snowdrop displays, they are delighted to confirm that the snowdrops are now looking at their very best, after weeks of anticipation. The main Snowdrop Grove is in full flower, with their own famous "Galanthus Atkinsii" attracting particular comment at the moment. Depending on the weather, the snowdrop display is likely to be looking good until the end of February. If you're planning a visit later in the month, do check back or keep an eye on our social media feeds for updates. The cold and dry weather is good, as this slows down the snowdrops' growth and means a longer display! Full details here.
Other Snowrop displays during February are: Batsford Arboretum - until Wednesday 28 February click hereNewark Park - until Sunday 25 February click here |
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9 to 17 Feb
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A retrospective exhibition of Carlo Chinca’s documentary photographs from the past 45 years.
Local collective, PhotoBath have been working with Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution (BRLSI) to exhibit a small selection of Carlo Chinca’s large-format prints in the institution’s central Bath venue at 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN.
The exhibition will run from Friday 9 February to Saturday 17 February and admission will be free. Opening times 10.30am to 5.00pm each day.
Award winning photographer Carlo Chinca has worked as a photojournalist all of his life. His work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications such as The Telegraph, Observer, Country Life, British Journal of Photography and Life magazine. Carlo’s more celebrated subjects include; Salvador Dali, Paul McCartney, Monica Lewinsky, Patti Smith, Buzz Aldrin, Luciano Pavarotti and many others.
Having lived in Spain for many years Carlo returned to the UK around 26 years ago, focusing more upon his own social documentary themes. |
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Until 8 Apr
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The renowned wildlife photography competition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, from the Natural History Museum is back at M Shed in the City Docks until 8 April, with 100 spectacular images. From frozen wastelands and peculiar species, to tropical paradises and fascinating animal behaviour; this year’s selection is a call to action – a plea to band together and protect our fragile planet. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the most prestigious photography event of its kind, providing a global platform that showcases the natural world’s most astonishing and challenging sights. For full details, please click here. |
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Until 15 Apr
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Swaps: Photographs from the David Hurn Collection. Until 15 April at the National Museum, Cardiff. This exhibition celebrates the major gift of photographs from David Hurn’s private collection and marks the opening of Amgueddfa Cymru’s first gallery dedicated to photography. Throughout his career as a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos, Hurn has been an avid collector of photography. Remarkably, he has amassed his private collection by swapping works with other photographers. The collection comprises approximately 700 photographs by leading 20th and 21st century photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Sergio Larrain, Bill Brandt, Martine Franck, Bruce Davidson and Martin Parr, through to emerging photographers such as Bieke Depoorter, Clementine Schneidermann, and Newsha Tavakolian. The exhibition presents a selection of works that reflect on Hurn’s own career and influences, his eye for a good photograph and the friendships he has developed with photographers along the way. Further information & details, click here
Thanks to Dave Lawlan for this
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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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Well done to John Hudson who is now an SPSA: Silver - Photographic Society of America, which is awarded for a portfolio of of fifteen images, which in John's case was called Performance. Below are two of the images from John's portfolio:
Well done also to Greg Duncan who has just received confirmation that his application for the second portfolio level in the PSA has been successful and that his BPSA has been replaced with SPSA. Whereas other people have achieved this level before him, he is the first person in the PSA to have achieved a portfolio distinction with 3D images.
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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One of our newer members has recently moved to the area for work and is looking for long term accommodation within easy distance of Avonmouth and M5, preferably close to Westbury on Trym. He is fully employed, working in Avonmouth during the week. He is a non-smoking 55year old professional man from South Devon looking for furnished rental for up to four years.
He's looking for:
Fully furnished, central heating, one double bedroom (minimum), own bathroom with shower, kitchen (with cooker, microwave, fridge/freezer), own sitting room and car parking and excellent wifi - all bills included.
If you can help, please contact Andy by phone on 07974 923633 or email at chapman2001@gmail.com or have a word with him on Wednesday.
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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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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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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 special events, exhibitions, photographic hints and tricks, etc. please let me know at bpsnewsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
PLEASE NOTE: ALL COPY TO BE WITH THE EDITOR BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO ALLOW FOR PUBLICTAION (HOPEFULLY) ON FRIDAY MORNING
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To view past editions of this Newsletter, please click on the following link and then select the date(s) you are looking for - BPS Newsletter Archive
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BPS Website - Members' Area "Log in"
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To enter the Members' Area of the BPS website you will need the following:
User Name - chatroom Password - pixels
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 |
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