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Next week our speaker is Chris Ryan ARPS who will be presenting his talk: The Evolution of a Photographer's Eye - Chris Ryan on 45 Years of Chasing the 'Art' in
Photography.
Chris Ryan is a Photographer and an Independent Film maker. The talk is a discussion about The Evolution of a Photographer's Eye - Chris talks about his wide-ranging experiences having spent 45 Years Chasing the 'Art' in Photography... he will show some of his assignment work and his personal work. He will also give insights, and be showing clips, from the films on photography he has made with some of the greatest photographers in the world.
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Background: His photography work spans many creative genres and has been commissioned by many magazines including; Vogue, The Telegraph Magazine, The Observer Magazine and The Times, Radio Times as well as being commissioned to create campaigns by leading Advertising Agencies throughout Europe...including Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett & JWT. Chris has also created album cover photography for many of the recording artists at Chrysalis Records, working with their legendary Art Director John Pasche. Film making has always been at the heart of Chris's creative work. Over the last 7 years he has worked closely and made film Masterclasses with Steve McCurry, Joel Meyerowitz, Albert Watson, David Yarrow, Paul Nicklen, Cristina Mittermeier and Nick Danziger for his own company Masters Of Photography www.mastersof.photography
Below are a few images from the talk to whet your appetite. However, if you can't wait and want to see more of his work, why not visit his website: https://www.chrisryan.co.uk/ |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
| 10 August |
DI Group |
Image Sharing Evening |
| 12 August |
Mike Clatworthy |
Mono 2025 |
| 19 August |
Adrian Donoghue |
8pm Start - Zoom from Australia
My story-telling photography journey
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| 26 August |
Tom Rowland |
BBC Nature Cameraman |
| 2 Sept |
John Chamberlin
Pete McCloskey
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Barry Mead Retrospective |
| 9 Sept |
ZOOM - Guy Edwardes |
30 Years of Landscape and Nature Photography |
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The next Digital Imaging Group Meeting will be on Monday 10 August at 7.30pm.
Meetings are informal and take place at the clubrooms and via zoom.
If you would like to share your images at the June meeting, please send them to me at dig@bristolphoto.org.uk ideally by Friday 7 August.
If you attended the practical evening for our photo walk around Montpelier on Mon 13th, it would be great to see some of your favourite images taken that evening.
Please number your images in the order you would like them to be viewed and resize to the usual competition size, not essential but helps to keep the files to a manageable size. If you could please restrict the number of images to a maximum of 30 this will ensure that we enjoy a wide variety of subjects.
I look forward to receiving your images.
Rachel Domleo.
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2026-27 Print & PDI Competitions |
Don't say you don't get sufficient notice! Here are the details of the competitions for the 2026-27 Competition season, including the Prescribed topics for each round - where you see APOY against the topic, which is the theme of the Amateur Photographer of the Year round at that time - so no excuses for not entering APOY! Similarly, the Print R2 topic shows Knightshayes, which is the theme of the WCPF Knightshayes Trophy.
| Competition/Round |
Closing Date |
Judge |
Prescribed
topic |
| PDI R1 |
02/09/2026 |
Maria Leekblade |
Architecture (APOY) |
| Print R1 |
30/09/2026 |
Aleks Gjika |
People &
Portraits (APOY) |
| PDI R2 |
28/10/2026 |
Tony Oliver |
Landscape (APOY) |
| Print R2 |
18/11/2026 |
Carolyn Moore |
Minimalism
(Knightshayes) |
| PDI R3 |
06/01/2027 |
Johnnie Rogers |
Night & Low Light
(APOY) |
| Print R3 |
03/02/2027 |
Pete Fry |
History |
| PDI R4 |
03/03/2027 |
Peter Weaver |
Monochrome |
| Print R4 |
31/03/2027 |
Ian Bateman |
Climate |
| PDI Annual |
28/04/2027 |
Pete McCloskey |
xxx |
| Print Annual |
26/05/2027 |
Gareth Martin |
xxx |
| President's
Cup & Garmston Bowl |
09/06/2027 |
Lee Spencer-Fleet |
xxx |
| Creative
-Prints & PDI |
23/06/2027 |
Peter Hyett |
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Monday 3 August: Something special! Snakes/Tarantula and other critters. Mike’s friend, Ellie will be accompanied by a selection of her animals. There will be an opportunity for members to have a snap with their favourite, as well as photographing the animals with Ellie.
- Morning Session: 10am - 1pm – All welcome, no need to book. Please note higher
cost of £15 per person*
- Afternoon session: 1.15pm - 4.15pm – LIMITED NUMBERS, booking essential. £30 per person*
– contact Mike_martin@blueyonder.co.uk to book your place/join the reserve list. JUST TWO PLACES LEFT!
* higher cost as an extra contribution towards the animals’ upkeep
Monday 10 August: Mike is away on holiday. Anyone willing/able to lead a session or suggest a theme – please let Mike know.
Monday 17 August: Theme TBC
Monday 24 August: Possibly Peaky Blinders theme...... watch this space
Monday 31 August: NO MEETING – Bank Holiday.
For any queries or bookings, please contact Mike Martin:
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PAGB Interclub PDI Competition |
Below is a report from Mike Martin on the recent PAGB Interclub PDI Competition held at Warwick last weekend.
So close! After the first two rounds of 8 images form 47 clubs, BPS had a total of 181 points, placing us joint 16th well short of the cut off (193) to get into the top 8 clubs and the top club on 203 points! Scoring had been low; anyway it was difficult to read the judges’ likes and dislikes other than some insects and sport doing particularly well and portraits comparatively poorly. There was a lot of dance images, and these tended to do either very well or quite badly, with little to differentiate between them. There were some surprises with Catchlight, Arden, Dumfries all similarly failing to make the top 8!
So, we entered the Plate competition – another 8 images, no more than two per author, no more than two nature, and a minimum of 4 completely new images. Sadly we didn’t quite make it. We scored 96, an improvement on rounds 1 & 2, ending in 4th position just 3 points below the Plate winners, Carluke CC (99), Bridgend (98) and Colchester (97)!
Thanks to everyone who made images available for selection, now we just need to qualify again via the WCFP Inter Club competition for next year!
Mike
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Amateur Photographer - Sue O'Connell |
Well done to Sue O'Connell for being featured in a full page spread in the latest edition of Amateur Photographer. Sue was one of three photographers "invited to share one image they consider among their best ........ offering insight into not just how the image was made, but why it matters" |
Amateur Photographer of the Year 2026 |
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The 2026 APOY Round 4 - Celebrating Colour, is now open for entries until Monday, 17 August.
To enter, just visit: www.amateurphotographer.com/apoy and quote the FREE entry code APOY98337784 Just remember to select Bristol PS when you register your first entry.
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Here is the timetable for the rest of the competition:
In view of the strength in numbers that we have in this category, there should be a massive entry from BPS members - 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 you can do so for FREE.
Below is an extract from the latest issue of AP showing a successful image from Round 2, Black & White, by our own Mike Martin:
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NEW Download Issue 409 PAGB eNews HERE, this edition includes images by Barry Mead and Derwood Pamphilon.
NEW Download Issue 409Extra PAGB eNews HERE. This contains the latest FIAP distinctions results for 2026
Download Issue 127 of Photography News HERE.
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Below are links to upcoming BPE exhibitions.
To read more about BPE and see the full list of all BPE approved exhibitions, go to their website:
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PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION*
Closing: 27 September
3 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Nature
3 Print Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Nature
* Free entry for BPS members (Not available to distance members)
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Closing - 2 August
THIS WEEKEND
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Scapes
Nature
1 Print Sections
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Closing - 27 September
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Mono
Nature
Scapes
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Closing - 5 October
4 PDI Sections
Open Colour
Open Mono
Landscapes
Nature
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Closing - 30 August
4 Print Sections
Open Mono
Portraits & Figure Studies
Scapes
Sport
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Simon Caplan’s abstract image “Rust Never Sleeps” - previously a finalist in the International ‘Close-Up Photographer of the Year’ contest – has been awarded a Commended in the Annual Members’ Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society’s Creative Eye Group. The image is a macro shot of part of a sheet of rusting metal stored at Underfall Yard on Bristol Harbour. The image may be familiar to members as our very own Sandie Cox awarded it a Highly Commended when she judged a round of the club’s bi-monthly DPI competition last year. Simon says: ”Rust Never Sleeps" is one of my favourite and most successful abstract images and it’s a great accolade to get a Commended for it in this RPS Group’s annual exhibition. Needless to say, he's pretty chuffed!
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Salon acceptances: 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 any photographic items for sale, drop me a line and I'll include them in the next newsletter. Please make sure that you provide contact details, price and full description of the sale items (pictures always help).
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