News and Events

In the national Photographic Alliance of Great Britain inter-federation competitions Sandy White's slide of Sulphur Tuft Fungi and Sylvia Wilbur's print of Misty Winter Morning were selected to represent Kent. Congratulations to Sylvia on winning a PAGB ribbon for her print. (July 2007)

Congratulations to Sylvia Wilbur on being awarded a PAGB Gold Medal in the Colour Pictorial Print section for her image 'Misty Winter Morning'. Steve Wilbur was awarded a Highly Commended certificate for 'Yellowstone Mist' in the Colour Pictorial print section. Andrew Lloyd, Bert Crawshaw and Sandy White also had work accepted. (May 2007)

Unfortunately, Beckenham PS were beaten by 2 points by Selsdon CC in the Alex Falk Trophy for prints. Sandy White LRPS was awarded a certificate for her print of 'Mycena'. (May 2007)

By a very narrow margin of the plus mark, Beckenham PS beat Old Coulsdon CC to win the Colour Challenge Trophy for slides. 'Kingfisher' by SueMcDermid was awarded 10+. David Wood ARPS, DPAGB won the Punch Bowl colour print open competition with 'Rough Sea'. Sandy White LRPS was awarded a certificate for her print of 'Crested Tit (Parus cristatus)'. (April 2006)

Congratulations to two BPS members who won PAGB Ribbons for images entered in the KCPA Exhibition: Julie Avenell for 'Serenity', a Mono Pictorial print, and Ron Edwards ARPS for 'Perambulating', a Colour Pictorial print. Highly Commended certificates were awarded to Sandy White LRPS for 'Parus Cristatus (Crested Tit)' in the Nature slides section and Nenne van Dijk FRPS, DPAGB for 'Queen's Tears' in the Mono Pictorial prints section. Alan Sander, Lesley Rees and Sylvia Wilbur also had work accepted. (April 2006)

At the inaugural inter-club competition for the Vic Smith Trophy for projected digital images, BPS came 4th on a tie-break with 138 points from our panel of 12 images (marked out of 15). Cheam Camera Club won with 142 points. Mark Behrens was awarded a certificate for "Lion and Lioness". (March 2006)

At the inaugural Jack's Jug open competition for projected digital images BPS members were awarded three of the five Highly Commended Certificates. Congratulations to Elmer Cossey FRPS with "Dancer", Nick Duncan ARPS with "On Points" and Sylvia Wilbur with "Evening Shadows, Italy". (October 2005)

Bert Crawshaw's slide of Lake Herbert in Canada has been awarded the RPS Medal for best slide in the RPS Colour Group Exhibition 2006. (October 2005)

Two of Sandy White's slides were chosen by the KCPA to represent Kent in the national PAGB slide competition recently. They were 'Orange Tip Butterfly' and 'Sparrows'. (September 2005)

Szen Ong was voted winner of the One Challenge competition organised by Leica in December 2004. The best of 36 shots taken on a single camera with a single lens was judged on-line by members of the Leica Forum. Szen says: "I just took a simple shot of the waiter serving some customers over the counter and as I was walking away, I noticed this old man on a trolley wheeling up to buy a cup of coffee. What really caught my attention next, apart from the old man on the trolley, was the fact that the waiter refused to accept the old man's money and insisted on giving him a cup for free. I hurried back just in time to capture the moment when the waiter reached over with that free cup of coffee." (August 2005)

Beckenham PS won the Alex Falk Trophy for the third consecutive year in the Inter-Club Colour Print Finals v Croydon CC. Nick Duncan won the KJP Colour Trophy for Colour Print Honourable Mentions. (April 2005)

Beckenham PS is well represented in the KCPA 2005 Annual Exhibition with 22 selected images from our members. Highly Commended awards went to Bert Crawshaw ARPS (2), Sandy White LRPS, Steve Wilbur and David Wood ARPS, DPAGB. Additional acceptances were: Alan Sander, Steve Wilbur (5), Sandy White LRPS and David Wood ARPS, DPAGB (3). (April 2005)

The 2004 BPS Annual Exhibition was judged by Les Ayres MPAGB, AFIAP, ARPS, BPE3*, APAGB who chose "Lion and Lioness" by Mark Behrens as Print of the Exhibition and "Arable Pattern" by David Rees as Slide of the Exhibition. Steve Wilbur was awarded the Landscape Cup for "Dune" and Mark Behrens won the Wildlife Trophy with "Two Lions at Waterhole ". Ron Edwards won the Dennis Berry Trophy on the subject of "Red" with "Red Letter Day". Highly Commended awards went to Nick Duncan ARPS, Dave Mason, Sue McDermid, Sandy White LRPS and David Wood ARPS, DPAGB. The images can be seen here. (October 2004)

Beckenham PS was well represented in the KCPA 2004 Annual Exhibition. Highly Commended awards went to Nick Duncan ARPS (4), John Mason, Nenne van Dijk FRPS, DPAGB (2) and Steve Wilbur. Other accepted images were from Nenne van Dijk FRPS, DPAGB, Steve Wilbur (4), Sylvia Wilbur, Sandy White LRPS and David Wood ARPS, DPAGB.

Two members had prints accepted for the 2004 London Salon: they are Dave Mason with "Two Nuns and a Splat" and Nenne van Dijk with "Dark Day" (July 2004)

Congratulations to Nenne van Dijk on gaining the DPAGB distinction, Szen Ong for his LRPS and to Eddie Harris who was recently made an Honorary Life President of the Federation of South London Photographic Societies (FSLPS).

BPS won the Colour Print Finals v Carshalton CC. Sylvia Wilbur got a 10+ with "Learning to Write" and David Wood got a 10 for "Spiral Staircase". In the Punch Bowl Competition for individual prints, Steve Wilbur was awarded a Certificate for "Sandhill Crane"