This Friday, Bob Dennis CPAGB, APAGB, BPE3* makes his annual visit to Wrekin Arts to present the Bebington Salon of Photography to members. Bebington Salon is a national competition on the British Photographic Exhibitions (BPE) Circuit http://www.britishphotographicexhibitions.org.uk Acceptances in these exhibitions count towards the “crown” awards from the BPE and further details about the awards can be found on the link above. This year, Jon Baker MFIAP, EFIAP/p, our own International Salon Chairman was a judge at Bebington.
The Learner’s Hour, lead by Calvin will start at 6.45pm
Friday is also the last night that you can enter the final’s night PDI competition http://www.photocompentries.net/?org=WrekinClub
The Midland Counties Photographic Federations’ Photofolio will be shown at The Old School House, Churchbridge, Oldbury, B69 2AS from 8-11 June starting at 8pm each evening and tickets are £3. Doors are open at 7pm when you can see nearly 300 prints on display. The AV presentation contains all the accepted pdi images.
On Friday 10 June, Roy Thomas APAGB, HonFWPF, President of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain http://www.thepagb.org.uk/about/what-we-do/ visits the club from South Wales to judge the finals night PDI competition. Don’t forget that this night is also the hand in night for the finals colour print competition. The entry rules have changed for both the finals colour and finals mono competitions and you can enter up to four prints in each class rather than the normal three.
On Saturday 11 June, the club has a stall at the annual Wellington Midsummer Fayre https://wellingtonsoup.org/events/wellington-midsummer-fayre/ held at All Saints Church in the centre of Wellington. The event starts at 10am and Tony is looking for help to transport and erect the gazebo and display boards. In particular, if anyone has a transit style van or a trailer of suitable size to move the display boards to the church then please contact Tony. Members will be able to sell their prints on the day and the club will charge 20% commission. Please let Tony have your prints as soon as possible.
Geoff Owen has a Sigma 170-500mm APO AF zoom lens f5 - f6.3 for sale. Geoff says that the lens is in excellent condition. It has had very little use and there is no fungus nor oil on the blades. It’s a Nikon mount lens and has a rotating collar for a tripod or monopod. It comes in the original Sigma padded box with original front and rear lens caps and lens hood. If you’re interested then please contact Geoff on club nights or on 07481 911699.
And finally, there are two 1940’s events providing photo opportunities in the near future. The first one is at Blists Hill Museum on 18 June http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/plan-your-visit/events-and-exhibitions-calendar/blitz-hill-a-1940-s-evening-on-the-home-front/view/2016-06-18 I know that many of you have passport tickets for the museum. Unfortunately they are not valid for this evening event and you must buy a separate ticket in advance of the event.
One week later on 25 and 26 June repeated again on 2 and 3 July Severn Valley Railway http://www.svr.co.uk/SEItem.aspx?a=49 are putting on their 1940’s weekend with costumed re-enactors. Events are taking place at all stations on the line and you can make savings by pre-booking a ticket.