Author name: David Jellie

As I predicted, it sounds like I missed another great session last Tuesday from Bob Goode. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining with a great range of images presented, according to the feedback from members. This week we have a model night, with a male model for a change. Colin has circulated details – no early session but […]

Another exciting week at the club last week, with Jenny’s discussion on photographic distinctions followed by the MCPF travelling portfolio. There were some brilling images included, and some thoughtful commentary (and some weird sound effects). Not forgetting of course the highlight of the evening – the fire drill! Thanks everyone for your cooperation on this. It

Unfortunately I missed last week’s meeting due to illness – I hope it went well and everyone enjoyed it. I expect to see lots of pictures of horses in next year’s competitions! This week we have another early session from Jenny, this time on how to gain photographic distinctions. In case any newer members are

Another successful model night last Tuesday, with a variety of outfits from the ever-reliable Elise and her friend Vic. It was well attended and I know for quite a few new members it was their first experience of shooting models. I hope everyone had a good time – please remember to send the models an

Well, by all accounts I missed another cracking evening last Tuesday. The feedback from members (and the feedback from the presenter which Jan has forwarded) was unanimously positive, with the word “inspirational” appearing more than once. For the sake of anyone that missed it (like me), I hope Jan will be able to arrange another

A fantastic result for BPS in the competition on Tuesday night, with teams from Bromsgrove taking the top two places! Seriously, congratulations to the “girls” team for a VERY strong performance in the annual “Boys vs Girls” competition. Looks like us Boys are going to have to seriously up our game to compete next year.

Just back from my hols in time to write another Vocal Point. I’m sorry to have missed the presentation by Darron Matthews last Tuesday – if the photos he showed were anything like the ones on his website it must have been a cracking evening. Coming up this week we have the biggest competition of the

Another busy week at BPS. On Tuesday, we started with an early session, presented by me, talking about lenses and their characteristics. Hopefully some of you found it useful. There are some notes I made when preparing for the talk at https://www.richardkchapman.co.uk/characteristics-of-lenses/ which go into a bit more detail. The main session was the selection process for