OPS Weekly Newsletter 19 May 2024
- We need members to come forward and help run the club. The tasks are not onerous, but they are falling on a very limited number of club members. We need someone to be secretary, someone to run our external competitions, our internal competitions, our exhibitions, and also members to act as support. It is your club, but the club will not be able to function without members coming forward to take on some of the essential tasks that we all rely upon. Do contact myself of any committee member if you have any questions.
- Please start selecting your 10 Best Images of the Year for our final meeting this season.
- Last week’s meeting: Third print competition – judged by Martin Pattern.
The results were:
| Mono | ||
| First | Dave MacKay | Immature Starling |
| Second | Helen Webb | Proud |
| Third | Dave MacKay | Early morning fishing, Varanasi |
| H Commended | Les Gordon | Didcot |
| H Commended | John Boteler | Rat catcher |
| H Commended | Dave Atkinson | Snow Leopard |
| Commended | Ian Bray | Turl Street |
| Commended | John Boteler | Summer sun |
| Commended | Adrian Cubitt | Deep in the Dales |
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Colour |
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| First | Helen Stewart | Polar Bear |
| Second | Dave MacKay | Fish cleaner |
| Third | Keith Worthington | Owl |
| H Commended | Dave Belcher | Aeroplane |
| H Commended | Sandra Devaney | Lights are on, no one home |
| H Commended | Dave MacKay | Thrush breakfast |
| Commended | John Boteler | Homeless man |
| Commended | Adrian Cubitt | Tui on Tiritiri Matangi |
| Commended | Dave Atkinson | Bee Eater |
| Commended | Ivor Porter | Golden Eagle |
Congratulations to all winners.
- Next week’s meeting 21 May 19.30 Panel Competition
Our judge will be Phil Joyce FRPS
- Upcoming meetings in May
28 May AGM and your 10 Best of Year
The AGM will be followed by the showing of members’ selection of their 10 best of the season
- Photo themed events in Oxford
Oxford Photographic Society’s Annual Exhibition
Cloister Gallery, Soldiers of Oxford Museum
Park Street
Woodstock
OX20 1SN
From 4 May to 26 May. Note it is not open on Mondays
https://www.artweeks.org/v/oxford-photographic-society
Meadow photography course
Capture our wonderful meadow in bloom in the summer whilst exploring the Arboretum. Learn various methods to photograph trees, plants and views with your own camera
10.30am – 1pm/£50/Sat 15th Jun. Harcourt Arboretum Nuneham Courtenay
Natural Photography Workshop
Leave the cameras at home and try a photography workshop with a difference. Create your own beautiful prints from plants and explore a new experimental photographic technique that references Sir John Frederick William Herschel’s discoveries in the 1800s
10.30am – 2.30pm/£50/Wed 3rd Jul. Harcourt Arboretum Nuneham Courtenay
- Photo exhibitions further afield
Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World
17 February – 2 June 2024
10am – 5pm
MK Gallery
900 Midsummer Blvd
Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA
American photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013), one of the most important practitioners of the post-war period and a pioneer of colour photography, celebrated for his evocative images of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, is the subject of a major survey at MK Gallery.
Leiter photographed every day for sixty years, keenly observing daily life and discovering beauty on the streets of the East Village neighbourhood where he lived his entire adult life and which became his enduring subject. Upon his death in 2013, Leiter left behind a remarkable collection of around 15,000 black and white prints, at least 40,000 colour slides, a similar number of black and white negatives and over 4000 paintings, only a handful of which had seen the light of day. Once lost to obscurity, his work has since been rediscovered and revaluated for its ground-breaking role in the emergence of colour photography.
Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World at MK Gallery is the largest exhibition of Leiter’s work to take place in the UK, featuring 171 photographs alongside a selection of over 40 of Leiter’s lesser-known paintings.
https://mkgallery.org/event/saul-leiter/
Best photography exhibitions to see in 2024
One of the best ways to gain inspiration for your photography and exploring different styles is by experiencing and viewing the work of other photographers and artists. We’ve put together a selection of the best exhibitions on around the UK during 2024 to see photography; including exhibitions that present photographs alongside other disciplines.
Below, you’ll find the information you need including dates, location and ticket details to plan your trips.
https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/articles/best-photography-exhibitions-to-see/
- General photographic interest
The Magazine For Photographers
Welcome to a brand new Issue of my Magazine. Another amazing one, enjoy the read
A nature photography tour of Madagascar – parts 1, 2 and 3
Globetrotting landscape and nature photographer Erez Marom takes us to the island nation of Madagascar
https://www.dpreview.com/tag/madagascar-photography
Author Anne Enright on how women are captured on camera: ‘The lens has not lost its power to claim and possess’
Introducing a photography special, the author considers how women’s stories have always been told through pictures – including of their own making
Protesters, pop stars and pioneers: 38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)
Shocking, arresting and extraordinary photographs that shifted how women are seen in the world
Fragile Beauty review – Elton John and David Furnish’s photo collection goes from basic to brutal
From glossy celebrity portraits through raw news shots to AI-driven abstracts, this epic show captures half a century of iconic images