Oxford Photographic society

Club News Archive

17.05.06 Congratulation to all the OPS members

who won acceptances into the London Salon of Photography, a big round of applause to Phillip Ball who was one of the medal winners.
Phillip Ball, Park Life & King Charles Square Prague. Medal
Douglas Vernimmen, Taking a Bath & Lonesome.
Peter Warrington, Skylight.

01.05.06 ARPS awarded to OPS member

Gary Irvine has recently been awarded the Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. He submitted a panel for approval by the RPS's Travel panel, consisting of 6 Highly Qualified Fellows of the RPS, on 19th April at the Society's HQ in Bath.

Congratulations to Gary for this award.

You can view Garys panel on our photo awards pages.

19.04.06 Two of our members are exhibiting in this years Oxford Art weeks.

Douglas Vernimmen has an exhibition in Brasenose college and Ian Cave has an exhibition at Manor Farm Great Wolford, Please support out members and visit their exhibitions.

30.03.06 Evesham Digital Exhibition

At this year's Evesham Digital Exhibition OPS members gained a total of 27 acceptances. Evesham is a nation salon and acceptances count towards the BPE distinctions. The standard of work is exceptionally high so this is really a good effort by members. The following had acceptances...

Phillip Ball 3 accepts; Don Byatt 5 accepts; Colin Harrison 6 accepts including a Commended for Blenheim Snow; Gary Irvine 10 accepts and Steve Field 3 accepts.

The total number of acceptances was 377 from an entry of 1875. So Oxford's 27 works out at 1 in 14 images or roughly 7% of all acceptances. an impressive result!

30.03.06 Oxford member scoops the prize
INTRA MUROS, meaning "within the walls", is a student-driven project that aims to capture the experience of being at Oxford on film.
We are happy to announce the results of this year's photographic competition. Images were judged on the following criteria: (1) originality and creativity; (2) composition; (3) photographic merit; and (4) reflection of theme. Drumroll ... and the winner is:

Douglas Vernimmen, for his image of Christ Church College. The judge remarked that this image, the most original photograph submitted, was clearly taken by someone with a lot of imagination and photographic ability. Congratulations, Douglas!

09.03.06 Oxford Photographic make it through to the National slide championships,

After a pleasing second place in the CACC Interclub Slide and Print Championship 2006 at Amersham on Sun 5th March, in both prints and slides, we are now through to the National slide championships at Warwick University.
Thank you to all members for submitting work and well done to all members for a great result.

Photographic Exhibition - 20th Feb to 4th March 2006

OPS member Gary Irvine has an exhibition of his work entitled "The Ethiopians" showing at the Little Gallery in Broad Street Oxford from Monday 20th Feb through to Saturday 4th March. The Little Gallery is above the Broad Canvas shop and is just along from the Sheldonian Theatre in the heart of Oxford.

We get many negative images of Ethiopia in the media, but this exhibition focuses on the people in their everyday activities such as working, playing, and praying. It is intended to celebrate the warmth, humour and dignity of these proud people from the rich
cultural mix that is Ethiopia.

30.01.06 Success

Congratulations to Phillip Ball who had 3 acceptances at the Smethwick International with his images 1. Penarth Pier, 2. Reflections, 3.Swans Departure.

He was also placed joint second in the colour section of GEMS digital photo competition with his picture (The Race) Weston-Super-Mare.
Congratulations to the other OPS members who had work accepted in this competition, David McKay, Douglas Vernimmen and Jeff Coles.

12.01.06 Club members success
In Digital Photo Art magazine annual photo competition, Gary Irvine won first place in division 3 with 57 points, it was a very close contest with two other competitors on 56 points and another two on 55 points, congratulations to Gary who moves up to division 2 this year.
Shelagh Roberts was in the runners up spot in division 2 and now moves up to join Jeff Coles and Philip Joyce in Division 1.

08.12.05 More acceptances in International exhibitions
With the exhibition circuit in full swing we have more club successes, two acceptances for Gary Irvine in the 31st Smethwick International with "Zanzibari Beach" and "Enjoying his studies."

Jeff Coles had 3 acceptances in the 37th Paisley Salon with his images Sacred, Rage and Defensive

28.11.05 Congratulations

..to Ian Lees and Phillip Ball for their stunning performance in the PAGB assessments at Harrow Arts Centre. This award requires 10 pictures with an average score of 20/30 and both Ian and Phill easily met the required standard and can now use CPAGB after their names. A good contingent of OPS members turned up to offer their support and enjoy a good day of looking at pictures. The standard of work was high and 85% of the candidates were successful.

Well done to you both, they now add their names to the growing list of WASOLATN photographers at OPS (with a string of letters after their name)

11.11.05 Colin Harrison continues his assault on the National Exhibitions
With 4 acceptances, one commended and one Gold Medal for Best Slide in the Shrewsbury exhibition. 4 acceptances at Dingwall, 5 acceptances and One Selectors Medal at Bromsgrove. congratulations to Colin for his recent successes.

19.10.05 OPS winners in Marlow Camera Club's Digicomp 05
Congratulations to Douglas Vernimmen who was awarded first place in the "Artistic Licence" class, with his image "Taking a Bath"

Gary Irvine was second in the in the “Photo Realism” class with his image "Enjoying his studies" and Jeff Coles was fourth in the same Class with his image “Abandoned”

19.10.05 OPS Members are successful.

OPS members Colin Harrison and Don Byatt have been successful in this year's PAGB Slide Exhibition. Colin has two acceptances with Blenheim Snow and The Old Buses and Don has an acceptance with Back To The Future.

Don has also been successful in the national BPE exhibitions, gaining two PAGB Ribbons in Shrewsbury with Zero Tolerance and Late For Work. He also has a Commended in Dingwall for Late For Work and wins a minature bottle of whisky. Well it is a Scottish exhibition!

27.09.05 OPS Exhibition medal and acceptances.

Colin Harrison FRPS EFIAP had 3 acceptances in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation International exhibition; along with Jeff Coles ARPS who had his image entitled Observatory accepted.
Colin also was awarded a PSA gold medal for best Creative slide with his image titled "The old buses" and the Judges medal from Simon Allen for his image "Blenheim snow"

19.09.05 OPS winner at Stokesley Show

OPS member Tony Marsh was first in the "Natural World" section of the Stokesley Show North Yorkshire, with his Puffin picture, he also took 2nd and 3rd places.
His landscape picture was first in the "Landscape" section, which he also took 3rd place in.
The judge from Stokesley Photographic Society. was disappointed that Tony was unable to join their club, we aren't. Well done Tony.

18.08.02 Ops members do it again!
Yes, for a second year running OPS members are in the top three images selected for the National Lifeboat Institution photo competition.
Harry Harris CPAGB and Peter Warrington CPAGB came 2nd and 3rd this year, no doubt we will have a chance to view their pictures when Pete and Harry start the new season off with a personal retrospective of their work, in conjunction with Nancy Richards FRPS.

13.07.05 OPS retain their position in the top eight at the PAGB national slide competitions.
After a exciting day of competition with the top 33 clubs in the country, OPS remain one of the top 8 clubs in this national event.

A big thank you to the club members who’s work was used, to Colin Harrison our external comp secretary and Don Byatt for all their hard work in making this such a successful event for the OPS.

27.05.05 OPS Members are winners again!
John Boteler and Peter Warrington where invited to Amateur photographer of the Year winners party for their winning pictures.