OPS Weekly Newsletter 23 September 2024
- Please start selecting your entries for Take 5 which takes place on 1 October
- Bring your print, or prints, for Ivor’s fundraising exhibition
- And don’t forget to pay your subscriptions for the coming season
- Last week’s meeting Tues 17 September: Projected Digital Image Competition No. 1.
The results of the competition were as follows:
First: Keith Worthington, Cheetah Mum and Cubs
Second: Pete Warrington, Skegness Silhouette
Third: Adrian Cubitt, Said the Spider to the Fly
Highly Commended:
Keith Worthington, Baboon Sentry
Les Gordon, Thruxton BSB Neck and Neck
Dave Belcher, Evening At The Depot
Commended
Sandra Devaney, Jain Ladies of Delwara
Les Gordon, Cormorants in Flight
Keith Worthington, Lion Hunting
Pete Warrington, At the Waters Edge
Congratulations to all winners.
- Next Tuesday’s meeting 24 September at 19.30: Camera Gear with Gareth manager of Oxford branch of the London Camera Exchange
Gareth will bring along various camera gear and talk through what they do and how to use them. Members will have the chance to have a go at using the gear
- Upcoming meetings
Tues 1 October 19.30: Take 5.
Upload your favourite five images you have recently taken, in the last three or four months say, and on the night everyone in the hall will enjoy the images and vote on them. Who’s gonna win it this year?
Tues 8 October 19.30: Ivor’s Wildlife Photos
A must watch. Ivor will be showing his excellent portfolio of wildlife images
Tues 15 October 19.30: Tabletop Photography led by Ian Bray
A practical evening when you use your cameras and shoot anything on the tabletop you fancy having a go at. There will be continuous lights provided, background material, reflectors, diffusers and things to shoot. Bring your camera, a flash, small items to shoot, and most importantly, your photographic creativity.
Tues 22 October 19.30: Print Competition No. 1
Judge will be Peter Cox.
Tues 29 October 19.30: Inter-Club Competition, Bicester and Oxford
Competition consists of 40 images from each club. OPS members to judge Bicester images, and Bicester club members to judge OPS images
- Members’ news
Ron adds another trophy to his collection
Please see latest news from Ron Perkins
The results of the 2024 British Deer Society 2024 photography competition have been announced. I have been awarded the BDS Photographer of the Year prize, shared with another photographer this yearend thus retains the title for another year. Reflecting the growing number of entrants the competition has been upgraded. Judging is now by a panel of wildlife artists and media professionals. There are now 3 categories with the BDSPOTY award based on aggregate placements over the 3 categories rather than a single image. My images were placed 1st and 2nd in the ‘Deer in Action’ category and 2nd and Highly Commended in the ‘A Home for Deer’ category. Snow being virtually non existent in South Dorset I did not enter the ‘Deer Through the Year’ Category’.
In due course I will send a newsletter email to OPS Members showing the successful images.
Although I have only signed on as an Associate OPS member this year my interest in OPS and the membership is in no way diminished.
- Annual Subscriptions
Subscription details are as follows: –
- Full annual membership £55.00
- Joint membership £100.00
For those of you who are associate members because you have moved away from the area, please email me if you wish to continue. The annual cost is £30. Please note if you are an associate you can attend three meetings per year for which you will be required to pay the visitors fee. . This year’s “visitors fee” will be £5.
Early membership payment is appreciated and will be accepted now. This can be done in the following ways.
- Payment directly to the club’s bank account for online bankers is always appreciated. The details for this are:
Bank. – Barclays
Account Name. – Oxford Photographic Society
Account Number – 60707872
Sort Code – 20-65-18
Please include your name as a reference.
- For those wishing to pay via debit or credit cards, this will be available via “stripe” using the following link under “Store”
- Payment can also be made directly to the above bank account via “the high street banks”.
- Programme Secretary vacancy
We have a full and varied programme for you this season thanks to the hard work and excellent choices by Les. Unfortunately, due to unexpected changes in Les’s work commitments he cannot continue in the role and we need someone to step forward to start the planning and booking of speakers for next season’s programme. Please do contact me or any other committee member if you are interested in taking on the role.
- Events photographic in Oxford
Learn to Use a Film Camera and Develop Your Own Black and White Film at Home
Enjoy your vintage camera and cut the cost of film photography. Safe, satisfying and a lot of fun.
Sessions start at £60 for one person and £90 for 2. Mondays and Fridays
The River Studio, Salter Brothers Yard, Folly Bridge, Oxford OX1 4LB
https://stoneandco.uk/Develop-your-own-Film/
Paul Kilsby: The Pensive Image – exhibition
These photographs, in their different ways, allude to the complex ways in which art and science co-exist, sometimes sharing a single vision while at others occupying a much more ambivalent and uncertain dialogue.
The North Wall Arts Centre
South Parade
Summertown
Oxford OX2 7JN
2 October – 19 October 2024
Free
https://www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/paul-kilsby-the-pensive-image/
- General photographic interest
Royal Photographic Society Workshops
Current and upcoming workshop to help expand your photographic skills
Emily Garthwaite captures a persecuted Yazidi community
The photographer was commissioned by Save the Children to tell their story a decade after the genocide
https://www.1854.photography/2024/09/emily-garthwaite-captures-a-persecuted-yazidi-community/
2024 Mono awards: the best black and white photography in Australia and NZ – in pictures
The winners of the 2024 Mono awards have been announced, with a mysterious, evocative portrait, a Canberra panorama and an artistic nature shot taking the honours. Now in its sixth year, the annual competition draws the cream of Australia and New Zealand’s black and white photographers, who compete for $18,000 in prize money across three categories: people, places and animals. More than 4,000 images were entered in the 2024 competition, run by Australian Photography and Capture magazines and sponsored by Synology
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/17/2024-mono-awards-in-pictures
‘Humanity is thriving!’: a street-level tour of the world – in pictures
From smoking royalists to wandering snow artists, the stunning images from this year’s LensCulture street photography awards come from more than 20 countries
No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island – in pictures
From crazed parties and LSD-laced bread to bike rides in blissful silence, the inhabitants of this isolated outpost in the Mediterranean have a uniquely strong social bond – as long as you don’t speak ill of the dolphins …