Everyone at GBPS hope you had a great Christmas break. Are you ready to embark on a creative journey to kick off the New Year and discover the hidden beauty of Great Barr? We challenge you to take one photograph each week in the postcode areas B42, B43, and B44. This challenge is a great way to build your skills, explore your local area, and share your unique perspective with the Great Barr community.
On Friday the 10th of November, we travelled to Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society for a friendly inter club competition.
As is often stated, photography is the winner when we get together to share our images, but when it came to the points, the winner was Great Barr Photographic Society. It ended with Sutton Coldfield scoring 314 points to Great Barr's 350.
We're a non profit club, we're part of your community. We're happy to help with other clubs and community projects with some photography, give us a shout.
For anyone interested in photography we're holding a series of open days at the Library. So come and find out about Great Barr Photographic Society and while your there, what the Library service can do for you.
On the 22nd of June we had the pleasure of hosting Natasha J Bella.
It was great to see Natasha J Bella back at Great Barr Photographic Society again. This time she was able to give us some amazing insight to her modelling career, which mostly came about after having her children!
Natasha detailed how she has grown and expanded her offering to provide assistance to photographers as she knows what its like to be on both sides of the camera.
A great deal of discussion centred around the the collaborative process between model and photographer and that great teamwork leads to great images.
We engaged our good friends at Walsall Wood Camera Club in battle last night. As always, it was a tough old affiar with each club taking it in turns to knock lumps out of each other.
Photographically speaking.
But, our hits did the most damage and by half time the print scores were in.
Thursday 6th April saw Great Barr Photographic Society host 'An evening with Salli Gainsford Fnps'
The extremely talented photographer shared her inspiring photographic journey with us alongside some amazing images and was a presentation not to be missed.
Right from the beginning of the talk, Salli's passion for her work was evident as she explained how many of her shoots came about and the people and animals that were involved in them. Many of the models have worked with Salli for years and had never been photographed before meeting her. Likewise the stunning animals used in the photoshoots are now regulars for her workshops.
The season began with a return to the Great Barr Social club for Thursday meetings and the resumption of what we have always regarded as normal activities.
As ever, competitions proved to be popular with members, and the judges provided lots of positive feedback on the entries. It was also pleasing that so many judges praised the overall standard of the entries. Face to face meetings enabled a welcome return for the colour and mono print competitions giving members the chance to enjoy a range of printed images, in addition to the DPI competition that had been able to continue through lockdown. As the season started to draw to a close, the annual competitions took place leading to the prestigious best-of-the-best event that pitches the winning images from all events across the season against each other.
