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• Wednesday 21 October @ 19.30hrs
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• Meeting ID: 873 5979 9107
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Date	Speaker	Subject
28 Oct	Alex Nail	Adventures in the Drakensberg
28 Oct	PDI Competition - R2	Closing Date
4 Nov	Mike Martin	This is a programme change
9 Nov	Distinctions Advisory Group
11 Nov	ZOOM - Scott Hurd	Living & working as a photographer in Namibia
18 Nov	PDI Competition - R2
18 Nov	Closing Date	Print Competition R2

 

Please note, the proposed Ladies v Gents battle has now been moved to January and the 4 November date will now be a presentation by Mike Martin. 

 

The Society does not run itself, it survives because of the hard work of a small band of willing volunteers (mainly BPS Council). However, from time to time vacancies occur for important posts that need filling to ensure the smooth and continued running of BPS. Below are two such vacancies that need filling now:

 

 

The selection for the GWPE takes place over 3 days starting this Friday, 16 October. It is not "hush hush" how the process works and anyone can come and watch the selectors in action. No need to stay for the entire process but it will give you an idea of how "Salons" are implemented and the work needed to organise one.

 

Prints on Friday and PDI on Saturday and Sunday - scheduled start time of 10am.

 

All we ask is that the audience is quiet during the scoring with no "secondary" judging taking place. Bring some food if you want to make a day of it!

 

The more the merrier 🙂

 

 

Advanced warning - the closing date for Round 2 of the Projected Image Competition is 28 October. The prescribed topic will be Landscape. The judge for this round is Tony Oliver ARPS CPAGB BPE5* from the Southern Counties Federation. You can see some of Tony's work by visiting his website - https://www.aropics.com/

 

 

At the last BPS Council Meeting the decision was taken to change the rules for print entries that relate to the labelling of prints. For all future print competition entries, you will no longer be required to quote your membership number, instead you will be required to label your entry with your name. To this end, the print labels have been updated, and the revised labels can be downloaded by following these links:

• pdf format
• Word format

This change does not affect entries already submitted for Round1 of the 2026-27 Print Competition

 

A couple of "general" items:

 

If you do not have sound or vision when logging into a Zoom meeting, please don't shout across the airwaves - it doesn't sound very professional if we get a series of angry voices bellowing through the clubroom speakers, especially if we have an external speaker or judge. Instead, use the in-meeting Zoom chat feature, which allows you to send instant messages to the host, to all meeting participants, a private message to an individual participant, or a sub-group chat to multiple participants. Users can create a new chat by clicking the chat icon at the bottom of the screen and selecting the participant's name or multiple participant names. In the case of messages to report problems, send you message to the Host. For more information on messaging in Zoom, click on this LINK.

 

Want to book the clubrooms and need to know the availability? Just log into the "Members Portal" of the BPS website (see end of newsletter for instructions), where you will be able to see the calendar under the heading Studio & Clubroom Bookings.

Choose your required (vacant) date and for:

• Studio bookings contact Mike Martin at  studiobookings@bristolphoto.org.uk  
• All other bookings email Mike or bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk 

Members may hire the studio for personal use at a reduced fee of £35 per session - please note, the clubrooms/studio cannot be used for commercial use. 

 

 

 

Here is the timetable for the rest of the competition:

 

If you haven't entered before, just remember to select BPS when you register your first entry. Let's hope that we see BPS leaping up the league table!

 

We need more BPS members to have a go at this competition, especially as it will cost you nowt!

 

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To enter the Members' Portal of the BPS website you will need the following:

Username - Your Membership Number           

Password - Created by you  

 

If you have any problems getting into the Members' Portal, please contact Matt by email: