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29.08.10

Thomas Wrights macro image came fourth in Amateur Photographer's APOY competition (macro round, 28th August edition of the magazine): well done to Tom who is enjoying sucsess in many of the photo magazine competitions.

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23.08.10

A selection of Linda Wrides allotment photos (Cultivating Communities) are being shown (on DVD) as part of the Oxford Textile Workshop's exhibition Sew Seasonal (Stitched Allotments) in the Upper Gallery, Vale and Downland Museum, Church Street, Wantage.  The exhibition opens, 17 August, and runs until Saturday 4 September (open 10:00 - 16:00 Monday-Saturday).
Here is a link ( scroll down to Sew Seasonal)
She will be doing a "meet the artists" season on Saturday 28 August 11 am - 1 pm, if anyone wants to pop in and say hello!

 
29.07.10

Congratulations to Colin Harrison for gaining his MFIAP, The MFIAP is the highest award of FIAP (Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) you can see Colin’s panel here on our website on the photo awards page and other MFIAP panels on the FIAP website.

 
28.07.10

Oxford Photographic Society are in the top 10 clubs in the country again! after the annual PAGB (Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) projected image competition where all the federations have conducted local competitions and sent their top clubs to decide each clubs ranking, OPS are now officially Seventh in the country, we would like to thank all the members for submitting their pictures and Ivor Porter and Phill Ball for making the selections and all the club members who represented us at the event.

 
06.07.10

BY THE WATER`S EDGE an exhibition by one of our members Uwe Ackermann at the North wall arts center south parade Oxford OX2 7NN from Mon 19th - Sat 31st Jul 10.

Uwe Ackermann uses photography in his own words ’as a filter for the visual world and a tool for focusing on what is there for all to see’. Following a journey to New Orleans in the 1980s, Uwe was inspired to record the city’s use of and connection with iron, and so began taking photographs. This exhibition will be an exploration of ’the water’s edge’ as a transitional place of life and a place of death, where many congregate to re-invigorate body and soul, an edge that ’takes, gives, reflects and tantalises’. Trained as a physiologist, Uwe spent his professional life teaching and researching at the Universities of Oxford and Toronto, before taking up photography full time.

 

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Gallery hours:
Monday-Saturday, 11am-4pm
Tel. 01865-319450
Admission free

 
26.05.10

Jeanette Upton presented the award for the Peter Upton Best Use of Light Memorial Trophy to Peter Warrington. After the sad passing of Peter this year we are pleased to honour his memory in this way and thank Jeanette for presenting the trophy.

I think you will agree Peters picture is a great example of the use of light in Photography.

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11.05.10

It's Art week in Oxford and some of our members are putting on exhibitions check the links below for details

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Igor Bronstein

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Valentina, Anatoli Krassavine

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Ian Cave

 
14.04.10

OPS member Neil Lawrence has won a photographic contest! However, not a national contest. Not even a regional contest. No, not even a local contest. He has won the Burra Regional Art Contest (photographic) in South Australia

So how did this happen? Well, his sister lives in Booborowie in South Australia (I promise you, that is actually a real place name. It's known as 'Boobs' for short) and after entering her own watercolours. She saw one of his photos (Inside Dad's Coat) on his Flickr site and asked him to send a high-res image, which she then got it framed and entered into the competition.

Well done Neil on your long distance win.

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07.04.10

We would like to congratulate Doug Vernimmen for his BPE1* award for 25 acceptances required at National Exhibitions, these where obtained using 25 different images and these were also different from the ones used for his LRPS panel, Well done Doug.

To find out more about BPE awards see our Photo Awards page on the Events menu and to see Doug’s panel of pictures see the Photo Awards pages under our gallery menu.

 

CLUB NEWS ARCHIVE

DPAGB
Click the tabs below to see members with DPAGB (Distinction - Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) accreditation.
 
Adrian Triggs

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'I first went for a PAGB Distinction award in 2004 submitting slides as my entry. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful scoring only 271 out of the required pass mark of 300. So after being disillusioned for a couple of years I decided to have another go in 2006 but this time I used 15 prints as my entry.

I submitted these in time for the November 2006 adjudications, but was disappointed to find out that the PAGB had been over subscribed nationwide, so was automatically put forward for the following March 2007 selections.

This gave me more time for choosing my final images and also enabled me to go to the November judging. I was then able to support other club members with their entries and see the standards expected for successful submissions and how the format for the day was run.

This was quite an eye opener and I recommend anyone entering PAGB awards for the first time to go along to one of these selection days for experience, before submitting your own work. Also ensure to submit your entry in plenty of time before the deadline for selection as the PAGB awards are very popular with photographers as I found out to my cost!

The day for selection finally came around and I was naturally apprehensive having seen and known how the day would proceed after attending the previous adjudication. I was also the only person attending from OPS on the day so was alone to face the music!

As my pictures went up one at a time in front of the panel of judges the scores were read out, each picture needing to average 20/30 in order to obtain the pass mark for DPAGB of 300 points. I was delighted to know after my final image was scored that I had obtained the DPAGB award scoring a total of 332 out of 300.

I would like to thank my fellow club members for helping me select my final picture submissions. It was great to know that we have such a wealth of talent and experience to draw on and share knowledge with in our club and that the club standards are so high. Next stop MPAGB? I don’t think so!(not yet anyway!)'

 

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Ian Lees
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Philip Joyce

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PAGB - The Distinction award (DPAGB) is the middle of the three awards from the Photographic Alliance and I obtained mine in 1994 when the awards were first introduced. All pictures are judged individually and scored by 6 judges, so your score could range from 12 to 30. The DPAGB award requires 300 points from a possible maximum total of 450 (an average score of 20) and judges make their decision based on the standard of National Exhibition photography - I totalled 327. All my pictures had gained Exhibition acceptances at the time of my submission (although some look a little dated now) and it was helpful to submit a range of subjects to minimise the risk of bias towards certain subjects and at the same time demonstrate diversity. This is a good award for people who do not like to work to narrow themes and appreciate 'stand-alone' images.

Gary Irvine

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"My first attempt at entering a panel for the Distinction award from the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain was last November. It fell short of the pass mark (300 points) by 10 points and even after the review the PAGB does of close results it was deemed a failure.

Having been so close I determined to beef up the panel and submit again ASAP. The 7 pictures that scored the pass mark (20) or more were retained. One that scored a 20 was replaced by what I thought of as a better version of the same subject. And 7 new images were submitted to replace those that scored less than the pass mark. The panel was duly sent off to Belfast to be judged.

The 7 pictures that had previously done well did not do fare as well this time - scoring 7 less marks, but still just over the pass mark.

The one "improved" picture scored 3 points less than the first time!

This meant that the 7 new pictures had to score 22 more points than the pictures they had replaced. Fortunately they did exactly that... giving me 300 points and the DPAGB award."

Jeff Coles

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A Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Distinction is my first Photographic award, I was keen to gain my distinction with my current images and not go back and use past images , only three images out of my selection was drawn from my archive.

On the assessment day the images are viewed one at a time along with the other photographers selections, so your selection is not viewed as a panel, the only control you have is the order they are shown in.

Marks between 12 and 30 are awarded for each image and a pass mark of 300 out of a possible 450 is required. With six judges awarding marks between 2 and 5 for each picture you need to consistently score 4 with each judge to gain the award.

My final score was 296 this put me below the pass mark I was disappointed having got so close but as I was so close to passing an independent judge assessed them and awarded me the distinction. three cheers for independent judges. This is seen a fair as there is bound to be some inconsistency between a panel of 6 judges.

If you are a keen photographer and want a good measure of you standard of photography the PAGB award system is a good way to go and it makes a great day out.

I would like to thank all the members of OPS, who I must have driven crazy while making my selection and who came and supported me on the day.

Philip Ball
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