Vocal Points

Hi all Once again lockdown has kicked in, which limits our photography to local shots or indoor work. Still, for those of us who don’t mind the cold too much, the snow and ice last week offered many opportunities – even without leaving our own gardens. It’s also a great chance to hone up on your […]

A Happy New Year to you all. I hope that you have all had a chance to enjoy the Christmas break, even if it was different to previous years for many of us. The new year brings increased restrictions, with possibly worse to come. At the very least, you know that you have our regular Zoom meetings

Hi all This will be the final Vocal Point of 2020. What a topsy turvy year it has been and I don’t think that many of us will be sad to see the back of it. I firmly believe that new challenges bring new opportunities, and your committee have certainly risen to the challenge of lockdown

Hi all What an excellent week for BPS. On Tuesday we had our annual interclub competition – the Midland Bank Trophy with Redditch PS and Studley CC. There was some stiff opposition and some excellent work on display, however we came away with the trophy as convincing winners. Not only that, 5 of our entries gained the

Hi all For those of you who were unable to attend the PDI competition on Zoom last week, I have some very sad news to pass on. Unfortunately, Ken Bryan has recently passed away. Ken has been a regular attendee at Avoncroft in recent years. I’m sure that we will all remember him for the

Hi all The results of two external exhibitions have been announced this week and they bring further success for our members – Frome Salon of Photography –    Julie Hall – one acceptance Highly Commended    Jan Harris – three acceptances    Jenny Webster – 4 acceptances including one HC Smethwick International Exhibition of Photography

Hi all This has been a good week for Bromsgrove PS. We entered the Cwm Rhondda Battle yesterday against 24 other clubs from the UK and Ireland. The quality of work was very high and we finished a very creditable 4th out of 25 – dropping only 10 points out of a total of 80. The

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 I think we can all agree that the presentation by Dave and Angie Tucker last week was top class. An amazing range of photographic interests represented by many excellent images. What you may not know is that the fee that they charged was much less than the average speaker. Generous with their time