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Remembering Tigers – 24 October 2024

 

Please join us on 24 October for a very special evening with Margot Raggett, MBE, the driving force behind the ‘Remembering Wildlife’ charity.
 
Margot will be talking about her latest book “Remembering Tigers” – just two weeks after its national launch at London’s Royal Geographic Society.
 
Margot created a ‘live aid’ moment for photographers. Photographers come together to raise funds through wildlife book launches, which, so far, have distributed more than £1.15 million to conservation projects.
 

Tickets cost £6 for visitors and can be reserved by emailing info@rtps.org.uk. 

Upstairs at St Luke’s Community Hall, The Avenue, Kew from 8pm to 10pm.

Book cover photo credit: Sarah Skinner

Congratulations Lorraine!

Many congratulations to Lorraine Clifton who has achieved her BPE3 award after gaining 100 acceptances into national exhibitions.

What is BPE?

British Photographic Exhibitions (BPE) awards encourage photographers to enter exhibitions. Successful entrants receive Crown Awards photographic distinctions.  To be accepted for an exhibition, each image is marked by a panel of judges. The acceptance level is usually around 12 points out of a maximum of 15, so that requires an average of 4/5 points from each of the 3 judges.

First BPE exhibition

Lorraine entered her first exhibition as something to do during the 2020 lockdown and only dabbled with a few entries for the first couple of years. Lorraine has now been bitten by the exhibition bug. She is working towards her BPE4  award which requires 200 successful exhibition acceptances.

Most successful images

So far, Lorraine has 37 different images accepted, with the most awards achieved by ‘Fighting Stallions’, pictured below, along with Lorraine’s other successful images (click on the images to see full size).

Good luck with BP4 Lorraine!

This month’s top scorers

Some stunning images were shown at our June Print Analysis evening last week. Many congratulations to the following members who scored 10s:

Andrew Heaps for ‘Mist at the Brook’

Mist at the Brook

Andy Clifton for ‘Kamikawa-gun trees, Hokkaido’

Lorraine Clifton for ‘Fighting Stallions’

Colette Hewitt for ‘The Prince’s Head, Richmond’

Lynda Bailey for ‘Cafe Rose’

Massive congratulations to Jocelyn Horsfall

Huge round of applause for Jocelyn Horsfall who received no less than 5 awards at the recent International Garden Photographer of The Year competition.

3rd place  – ‘Dappled Dreams’ captured at Kew
Finalist – ‘Fire and Rain Abstract Views’
Finalist – ‘Leaf Artistry’ captured at Kew
Highly Commended – ‘Textural Foliage ‘ captured at Kew
Commended – ‘Cool Fairy-Tale Foliage’ captured at Kew

‘Dappled Dreams’, ‘Fire and Rain’ and ‘Leaf Artistry’ are all currently on display at Kew.

A grand time was had by all at the RTPS Summer Social

Congratulations to all our annual award winners

Lisa Edie, George Morris Salver – Best Print Overall
Lisa Edie, Shenton Cup – Creative/Altered Reality
Andrew Heaps, George Cooley Cup – Landscape/Urban
Andrew Heaps, John Bardsley Cup – Portrait/Theatrical
Andrew Heaps, George Bunzl Cup – Open Colour
Peter Highton, Courlander Cup – Nature
Deborah Highton, Dunn Rose Bowl – Monochrome
Wendy Akers, Fry Memorial Trophy – Set of 3 Related Prints
Mike Woodman, Randall Webb Trophy – Street/Documentary

Thank you to Tony Drummond-Murray for being official photographer for the evening and a very big thank you to Emma Durnford for organising the whole event.

Congratulations Jocelyn

Winners have been announced for this year’s International Garden Photographer of the Year competition and RTPS member Jocelyn Horsfall is once more on the roll call of honours.

Jocelyn, https://www.jocelynhorsfall.com/ a fine art photographer, was a Finalist in the Captured at Kew category with her image Magnolia Whispers and received a Highly Commended with Glasshouse Window Leaf Patterns.

Jocelyn also received a Highly Commended for her Rye Salt Marsh image in the Abstract Views category. Many congratulations Jocelyn.

The IGPOTY competition celebrates the genres of garden, plant, flower and botanical photography and is run in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The competition attracts up to 20,000 individual entries submitted from photographers all over the world. You can see all the winning images at https://igpoty.com/garden-photography-winners/and the outdoor exhibition is at Kew Gardens until 5th March.

Jocelyn will be giving a demonstration at our annual photography exhibition at the Landmark Arts Centre on 8 April showing how you can create startling designs and patterns using the cyanotype printing process (or sun printing as it is often known).  The charge is £5 but this then gives you free entry to the exhibition. Book here:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/487995727357