Hi all I hope the summer season got off to a good start in Droitwich on Tuesday. Sorry I couldn’t be there, but I plan to be at Chaddesley Woods this coming Tuesday. We are still in Scotland, the weather is typically Scottish – 4 seasons in one day and getting good photographic light is…

I hope everyone enjoyed the MCPF travelling portfolio last week. There were some fine images, including a fair number from BPS members, covering a wide variety of genres from nature to portraiture to landscape to astrophotography and everything in between. Sorry about the late change to the programme – we will try to reschedule the model evening that…

Hi all I don’t have a lot to say tonight other than to promote our Bill Chambers Memorial Lecture tomorrow evening. This is a very special night in our calendar and deserves our full support. This year our speaker – Chris Fairweather – comes from the world of Photojournalism, covering a wide range of topics…

Well, here I am again, reporting on a summer programme outing that featured dismal weather but still enjoyable despite the downpours for those of us that braved the rain. I had not been to Wythall Transport Museum before – safe to say that if you like buses you’ll love it, if you hate buses you’ll…

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…

Hi all This coming Tuesday we will be running an interactive Zoom meeting on photo-editing. Technology permitting, we plan to run demonstrations on 4 types of software during the evening – Photoshop (Colin Close) Photoshop Elements (Ruth Seadon) Lightroom (Richard Chapman) Affinity Photo (David Jellie) During the first half, we will demonstrate each software covering…