OPS Weekly Newsletter 18 May 2025
- Ten Best of the Year: You have until mid-night tonight to upload your Ten Best of the Year (2024-25 season) that we will show on 20 May.
- Ten Best of the Year – Show and Tell: The second half of the evening will be a members’ Show and Tell so please bring with you the images you would like to ‘show and tell’ on a USB stick.
- Our Annual General Meeting takes place on 27 May. We need more members to help with the running of the club. Please do contact me if you have the time to help us keep the club running smoothly.
- Uwe has a new exhibition called Reasons to be Cheerful which runs until 21 June. It is at the Corridor Gallery at the John Radcliffe Hospital is situated along the Level 2 main entrance corridor
- Last week’s meeting Tues 13 May: Print Competition
Our judge was Kathy Chandler and the results were:
Colour
| First Place | John Boteler: Gypsy Lad |
| Second Place | Pete Warrington: The Old West Pier Brighton |
| Third Place | Dave McKay: Concentration |
| H. Commended | Ian Bray: Dolce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori |
| H. Commended | Rob Ferrands: Nelson Mandela |
| H. Commended | Alan Lewis: Iberian Lynx |
| Commended | Les Gordon: Cormorants Neck and Neck |
| Commended | Adrian Cubitt – Lynx Young Male |
| Commended | Keith Worthington – Little Bee Eater |
| Commended | Pete Warrington – Bosco Surf |
Monochrome
| First Place | John Boteler: Broken Oak |
| Second Place | Ian Bray: Tulip |
| Third Place | Sandra Devaney: Late for School |
| H. Commended | Pete Warrington: The Light on the Beach |
| H. Commended | John Boteler: Passing Strangers, Weston |
| H. Commended | Dave Belcher: Contemplation |
| Commended | Sandra Devaney: Bubble girl |
| Commended | Dave McKay: Hokkaido Winter |
| Commended | Dave Belcher: Fountain Abbey |
| Commended | Les Gordon: AR 55 |
Congratulations to all who entered the competition.
- Next meeting 00, Tues 20 May: Ten Best of Year followed by members’ Show and Tell
Slide show of all your/our ten best images of the year. Each member uploads their ten best of the season and together with everyone else’s are shown in a slide show. For the second half there will be a members Show and Tell. Please bring your Show and Tell images on a usb stick.
- Upcoming meetings
27 May: Annual General Meeting
- Events photographic in and around Oxford
Reasons to be Cheerful: An exhibition of photographs showing moments of contentment and happiness.
Uwe has a new exhibition which runs until 21 June. It is at the Corridor Gallery at the John Radcliffe Hospital is situated along the Level 2 main entrance corridor.
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/artlink/exhibitions/corridor-gallery/
Artweeks Oxfordshire
Lots of photographic exhibitions. See here: https://www.artweeks.org/festival/search?keys=&field_medium_value=photography&field_region_2025_value=All&field_dates_2025_value_1=All
Microsculpture Exhibition: The insect photography of Levon Biss
The stunning high magnification insect portraits by British photographer Levon Biss were first shown in the Microsculpture exhibition in this Museum in 2016. Since then, the show has toured to 44 cities in 22 countries around the world.
Free – no booking required
Oxford University Museum of Natural History,
Parks Road,
Oxford, OX1 3PW
3 April 2025 – 4 January 2026
https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/microsculpture?page-5255386=1
Travel Photographer of The Year Exhibition
Banbury Museum and Gallery
Spiceball Park Road
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 2PQ
29th March 2025 – 6th July 2025
Price: Adult: £5.00
Child: £2.50 (Ages 5-18. Under 5’s are free)
Concession: £3.00 (Over 65’s, students, Mill Member and unwaged)
Art Fund Member: £2.50
…and further afield
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
See the world through a new lens. Experience the wonder of life on Earth through the world’s best wildlife photography. Our photography exhibition is back for its sixtieth year to reveal more of nature’s stories.
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
- General photographic interest
It makes photography easier, instantly.
YouTube video by James Popsys. Jump to 5.11 mins to get to the point of the video: ‘projects are oxygen for photography’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvKbeqZOVuY
‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize
Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life
A seadragon and flushing worms: Environmental Photography award winners – in pictures
Winning images from the 2025 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography award, selected from 10,000 images submitted globally. The contest aims to reward photographers who put their creativity to good use in raising awareness of the importance of environmental protection
Looking up! Glorious images from rising stars – in pictures
From adventures in adolescence to Venezuelan dancers, these images from new artists were nominated for the Photo London Nikon emerging photographer award
I want to boycott AI but there isn’t even an OPT OUT button!
AI is here, whether we like it or not. John Bridges wants to find the off switch.
