On Friday 11th May, eight of our new members were persuaded to show their prints and projected images, which proved that the latest recruits to KPS show great promise, imagination and talent in their photography.

Alison Price, who very recently was awarded an Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society, displayed her successful panel, seen below.

This annual event took place on Friday 27th, judged by Peter Weaver LRPS, CPAGB, APAGB.

The FT Trophy was won by Alison Price with a set of wildlife prints seen below. Second was John Hoddinott and Mike Martin was third.



The AP Trophy was won by Vanessa Herring, second was Andy Beel and third was Ray Reeves



Alison Price is seen here being presented with her trophy

As from July 6th, the start time of our meetings will be 7.30 pm This will be announced at every meeting until then to enable members to fix it in their minds and arrive earlier. When possble, we would also hope to finish the meeting at 9.30 pm

Please note the following venues for the Summer Outings:

29 June Purton ships graveyard
20 July Bristol Harbour Festival (NB moved from 13 July to coincide with Bristol Harbour Festival)
27 July Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol tour including Gt George bell (7.15 – 9.00pm)
31 August Christmas steps, Bristol

The London Salon showing will now be on Friday July 13th

On Friday 20th April, our speaker was BOB BISHOP who is a member of Backwell C.C.
Bob's first love is landscape photography and he tells us there is nothing better than getting our early in the morning to capture a landscape. He is also keen on Gig and Concert photography and he displayed prints covering both subjects. After the coffee break we were treated to a selection of A.V's including the winning sequence in the 2012 WCPF AV Competition 'Lest we Forget'

We are delighted to announce that one of our members has been successful in achieving his Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in the Natural History category.
We congratulate BOB RYAN ARPS who is seen below with part of his panel.

"A and F and the bits in between" was the title of the talk given on Friday 13th April by ROSIE ARMES FRPS, DPAGB, AFIAP, BPE3
On her first visit to Kingswood, Rosie took us through her adventure with the RPS distinctions of 'A' and 'F', and this was followed by pictures, many showing 'before and after' post production. A passionate Travel and people photographer, we were shown pictures from her holiday in Etheopia and many other fascinating and exciting subjects.

Friday 30th March brought the husband and wife team ANNE & ALAN MILLWARD FRPS's with a print talk "An evening with the Millwards" Alan batted first and showed prints from places as diverse as Cuba, Yellowstone, Georgia and Turkey, many featuring children and people. Anne followed after the break and displayed many fine pictures including some of the delicate soft images which we expected from her. Interesting how diverse her pictures were from Alan's although taken in the same locality! A memorable evening!

On Friday 23rd March we received a visit from DUNCAN McEWAN the well-known Scottish Landscape Photographer with his illustrated talk "Scotland-Land of Light"
We were enthralled with his talk and pictures, illustrating Scotland in all weathers and lighting conditions. Truly a memorable evening!

From time to time we invite another local club to visit us and bring a selection of their work, and our meeting on March 16th brought four members of the BACKWELL CAMERA CLUB to Kingswood.
The photograph shows (l to r) Nick Cambourne, Pip Sawtell, Kay Walsh and Richard Pring who displayed an interesting selection of DPI's, A.V's and darkroom Mono prints.

Friday 9th March brought PETER GENNARD MFIAP, EFIAP/p to KPS with his talk "P.G.Tips - Fiddling and Diddling" We had a wonderful evening of exciting prints and entertaining stories to accompany them. Peter visits many places during the year to get his pictures including Goth events, WW2 re-enactment weekends, and the Tough Guy Challenge. We were also treated to some fine landscapes and nature pictures.

On Friday 2nd March we viewed the PAGB 2011 DPIC Exhibition. A very enjoyable experience, but we made the error of viewing the auto version. The images moved on too quickly and there was little time to read the title and enjoy the image. Later in the evening we projected our entry to the WCPF DPIC Competition which took place in February. KPS came joint 11th out of 50 clubs.

Our first Quarterly Competition of the year took place on Friday 24th February, when our judge MIKE CURTIS ARPS - a first-time judge at Kingswood PS - gave a considered and helpful comment on every print and Dpi. There were a record number of entries and it is encouraging to see that many of our new members entered the competition for the first time.

Print Section:
1st The Kill - Alison Price
2nd Surf School - Dave Bryan
3rd Monkey Maffia - Bob Ryan



DPI Section:
1st Bittern – Jenifer Morgan
2nd The Dreamer – Alison Price
3rd First Drop – Joe Exon

Print Section:
1st Dennis - John Long
2nd Twilight at Porth Naven - Peter Phillips
3rd Rotting Groynes - Elizabeth Restall



DPI Section:
1st Rippled Glass - Mike Martin
2nd Wobbly Bridge - Mike Martin
3rd Kelston Round Hill - Peter Phillips