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Welcome to the BHPS News Blog. Here you will find a variety of articles celebrating and sharing the successes of club members, particularly in external competitions and awards, as well as other items of news pertinent to our photographic society. If you would like to share your news with the rest of the club, please email me at [email protected], and perhaps include a photograph or two (1400x1050) if relevant.
The Ross Cup
The Ross Cup is an annual print competition organised by the Kent County Photographic Alliance (KCPA), and is open to all member clubs. The competition involves submission of 8 prints by those clubs that want to participate. BHPS enter this competition each year, along with about 30 other Kent (and oddly, Sussex) clubs. I'm not sure if BHPS has ever won this trophy but I know that we came pretty close on a couple of occasions, and individuals’ prints within our club have done very well. DPI's are required for projection so that the audience can see all entries on the presentation day, when the overall winners are announced.
Prints that have scored well (20 or 19) in club competitions are considered for entry by the selection committee. However, if you have a print that has not yet been in one of our own competitions but you think would do well, please let me have it so that the selection committee can decide whether to include it in our entry this year. The rules for the competition can be read on the KCPA website via this link:
Colin North (External Competition Secretary)
Update from Roger Stevens! BHPS has won the Ross Cup on 3 previous occasions since 1951 - in 1965, 1966 and 1991. Maybe it's about time we won it again!!
Meinertzhagen Trophy
This is an annual tripartite competition between BHPS, Dartford CC, and Woolwich Aperture, and is possibly one of the oldest inter-club competitions in Kent. This year, Woolwich Aperture are the hosts and the competition will take place on Tuesday, 22nd October, starting at 8 o'clock at their clubhouse, located at Shrewsbury House Community Centre, Bushmoor Cres, London SE18 3EG. Please do come along to support BHPS if you can.
The competition is open to all BHPS members, who can submit up to three prints. Colin North needs your prints by 23rd September next, so he will label one of our rigid boxes with "Meinertzhagen Prints" Please be careful to avoid mixing them up with prints for other competitions, as happened last year. The Dobinson trophy is awarded each year to the author of the best print. Club member Roger Stevens currently holds this trophy.
Bromley Battle of the Prints
The annual battle with Bromley Camera Club is to take place at their clubhouse, on Tuesday, 24th September next. Please come along and support BHPS. Bromley's clubhouse is at Bromley United Services Club, 33 London Road, Bromley BR1 1DG. Their meeting room is quite small, so try to get there early to get a decent seat. BCC meetings commence at 8 pm.
Each club will present 8 colour and 8 mono prints which will be scored out of 20 by an external judge. The photos representing BHPS are chosen by the club's selection committee. For future reference, all club members are eligible to submit photos for selection. These are generally pictures that have scored 20 or 19 points in BHPS club competitions.
Paul Adams 'San Francisco Impression' wins first place!
Congratulations to Paul Adams who has once again achieved success at the Disabled Photographers' Society Annual Exhibition. At this year's exhibition his monochrome photo 'San Francisco Impressions' was awarded 1st place in the Open Prints category.
San Francisco Impression
Ron Jarvis achieves 'Excellence'
Having already gained the distinction of AFIAP (Artiste de la Féderation Internationale d’Art Photographique) BHPS member Ron Jarvis has added ‘Excellence’ to the accolade and now carries the letters EFIAP after his name. No small feat this! If you fancy having a go yourself, here’s what is required.
As a first step you must have the AFIAP distinction which is itself a daunting task.
For EFIAP you must gain at least 250 acceptances with at least 50 different photographs. ‘Acceptance’ meaning that a photograph has been chosen during a competition (salon) to be exhibited.
These acceptances must come from at least 30 different salons with FIAP Patronage.
The salons must be spread over at least 20 different countries.
At least 12 of your 50 photographs must have at least one acceptance as a print as well as being accepted as a PDI.
At least 2 of your pictures must each have received at least one award. (Gold Medal, Highly Commended, Ribbon, Certificate, etc.) The awards must have been gained in different salons and different countries.
Are you still with me? Well, that is just the first stage. Having achieved all of the above, and having kept meticulous spreadsheet records of your acceptances and awards along the way, you then move on to stage 2.
You now must submit a portfolio of 5 digital images to FIAP.
These photos must each have received at least 3 acceptances from different salons and must include at least 2 that have gained awards. They must also be different from the photos you had submitted to achieve the AFIAP distinction.
A contact sheet (part shown below) with thumbnails of all the accepted photos must also be sent to FIAP, along with a spreadsheet containing all accepted titles and the salons that accepted them.
Having done all this you wait anxiously to see if your 5 photos are accepted by FIAP as worthy of the award of Excellence.
It should also be said that there is a financial commitment involved too as entering your photos for the salon competitions costs around £20 per salon. So, massive CONGRATULATIONS to Ron for achieving this mammoth task.
Contact sheet showing 20 of the 50 accepted photographs needed to achieve EFIAP
Contact sheet showing 20 of Ron's accepted photographs.
Footnote: I am currently attempting to gain the AFIAP award and will be giving a presentation on this as part of the club programme for next year.