Hello everyone. Well January is going to be very difficult. I am, as always optimistic, but even I’m finding photography quite hard to find with lockdown and tiers. However I will do my very best for you all in these very difficult conditions. I start my blog with a explanation. I was reminded that in our […]
31/12/2020 Jenny’s topical Nature tips for January 2021 Read More »
Yes, I know I said that last week’s Vocal Point would be the last of 2020 – but this is so exciting it needs to be shared. I realise that a lot of you will already be aware of this through Facebook, but not everyone uses social media. We have made the front page of
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Hi all This will be the final Vocal Point of 2020. What a topsy turvy year it has been and I don’t think that many of us will be sad to see the back of it. I firmly believe that new challenges bring new opportunities, and your committee have certainly risen to the challenge of lockdown
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Hi all What an excellent week for BPS. On Tuesday we had our annual interclub competition – the Midland Bank Trophy with Redditch PS and Studley CC. There was some stiff opposition and some excellent work on display, however we came away with the trophy as convincing winners. Not only that, 5 of our entries gained the
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Hi all For those of you who were unable to attend the PDI competition on Zoom last week, I have some very sad news to pass on. Unfortunately, Ken Bryan has recently passed away. Ken has been a regular attendee at Avoncroft in recent years. I’m sure that we will all remember him for the
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Hi everyone, these blog’s come around very quickly, however, before I start I want to say how absolutely chuffed that I am for David Ward and myself, that our suggestions and ideas are being attempted and used by you, all the members. Thank You. In the last pdi competition, Novice Nature was so well supported
27/11/2020 Jenny’s topical Nature tips for December Read More »
Hi all The results of two external exhibitions have been announced this week and they bring further success for our members – Frome Salon of Photography – Julie Hall – one acceptance Highly Commended Jan Harris – three acceptances Jenny Webster – 4 acceptances including one HC Smethwick International Exhibition of Photography
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Studio group update for BPS website 2017 further Studio Group meetings. In August we had a good Avoncroft session with the lovely and versatile Em who is skilled in ballet dancing and gymnastics. She travelled over from Milton Keynes and we arranged 2 groups of 5 members for 2 hour sessions. Em is a partner
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Hi all This has been a good week for Bromsgrove PS. We entered the Cwm Rhondda Battle yesterday against 24 other clubs from the UK and Ireland. The quality of work was very high and we finished a very creditable 4th out of 25 – dropping only 10 points out of a total of 80. The
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Hi all Congratulations to everyone who got a place in the Print Competition last week. Once again the standard was high across the sections. Our thanks go to Van Greaves for stepping in as a judge at relatively short notice. The print competitions are obviously more of a challenge in the current circumstances, but it
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