To recognise the growing trend in mobile phone/tablet photography we've created a new gallery dedicated to images captured and edited entirely on mobile devices.
Please swing by and take a look.
http://bpicni.com/phoneography/
News
The 13/14 Season Is Now Open
The 13/14 season is now officially open!
If you'd like to join BPIC this year please complete this membership form.
Be sure to hurry, as there aren't many places left.
12/13 Season Review
As the 12/13 season draws to a close it's a great opportunity to thank everyone for making it a great season and to look back over the highlights from the last 12 months.
June 2012
- Club Trip: H.M.S. Caroline
July 2012
- Club Trip: Ulster American Folk Park
August 2012
- Stephen Wilson had an image selected as the runner-up in the BBC Countryfile Photo Competition
- BPIC hung an exhibition at Belfast City Hospital
September 2012
- Brian Bennett received an EAPU Panel Award at the East Antrim Open
- Brian Bennett's mono print "Christine" was selected for inclusion in the NIPA entry in the Celtic Challenge 2012
- Karen McCrea, Melissa Gordon, Martin Lamb and Brian Bennett each had images selected for the Celtic Challenge
- Roger Eager's image came second in the Shorts Camera Club - My Titanic Belfast Competition
October 2012
- Guest Speaker: Janine Walker
- Martin Lamb had an image selected for the Natural History section of the PAGB PDI competition
- Gareth O'Cathain received a Highley Commended in the 'Best black and white' category of the Belfast Zoo 2012 Photographic Competition
- In the NIPA Round 1 competition Stephen Wilson and Brian Maguire received NIPA stars, Brian also received the top Colour Print honours
- Club Trip: Scott Kelby 5th Annual Photowalk
November 2012
- For our inaugural Mentoring Competition, Mel Boyle achieved the top mono print and Saravanan Appukuttan had the top scoring PDI.
- Club Trip: Belvoir Photowalk
- In the NIPA Round 2 competition Stephen Wilson and Alan Lavery received NIPA stars
January 2013
- Vivienne Beck placed first in the PDI section of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition
- Club Trip: Donegal
- Guest Speaker: Roy McKeown FRPS
- Guest Speaker: Glenn Norwood
- In the NIPA Novice Competition Gareth O'Cathain placed 1st in the Mono print section with "The Blacksmith", placed 2nd in the Colour print section with "Helen's Wool" and received a Commended for his PDI "Zimbabwe Danger".
Mel Boyle received a commended for his Mono Print "Indian Labourers".
February 2013
- In the NIPA Round 3 competition Matthew Jeanes received a NIPA star
- Guest Speaker: Carrie Davenport
- The winners in our internal Architectural competition were; Colour Print - Donal McCann, Mono Print - Russell Birch and PDI - Brian Maguire
- Brian Maguire won our Donegal Trip competition
- In the NIPA Round 4 competition Brian Bennett and Barry Lau received NIPA stars
March 2013
- The following members had images selected for the 2013 Annual NIPA Exhibition; Alan Lavery, Brian Bennett, Mel Boyle, Barry Lau, Stephen Wilson, Gerald Gribbon, Russell Birch, Matthew Jeanes, Suzi McBride and Nolan Duffy. Nolan achieved a PAGB silver medal, Mel received a PAGB Bronze Medal and Alan Lavery received two PAGB Ribbons
- Brian Maguire achieved his LRPS
- Martin Lamb was awarded with a Neil Marshall Medal in the Natural History section of the PAGB 2012 Inter-Federation competition.
- Guest Speaker: Ross McKelvey
- Gareth O'Cathain had one of his images displayed on the BBC News website
- Barry Lau reached the final of the Ballymena Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year 2013
- Guest Speaker: Paul Hanley
- In the NIPA Round 5 competition Saravanan Appukuttan received a NIPA star
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 1 competition Vivienne Beck was the Novice winner and Barry Lau won the Advanced category
April 2013
- Guest Speaker: Gerry Coe
- Guest Speaker: Jim Moreland
- Gareth O'Cathain achieved his LRPS
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 2 competition Roger Eager was the Novice Winner and Dermott Sweeney won the Advanced category
May 2013
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 3 competition Roger Eager was the Novice winner and Stephen Wilson won the Advanced category
- Roger Eager was named as the 12/13 BPIC Novice Photographer of the Year
- Dermott Sweeney was named as the 12/13 BPIC Advanced Photographer of the Year
- The season wrapped up with a lovely dinner
A Successful Night At BPIC
Friday 1st February saw BPIC host Round 3 Triangles of NIPA. With a tough selection on hand, this did not deter the volume of entries from members of each club. As you can see a great selection was on view.
I would just like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to everyone who came along this evening and in my mind made it a very successful one at that and also to those who provided the wide selection of tray bakes and buns.
Everything went according to plan and most of all we worked together as a team. That is what a club should all be about!
Barry Lau
Chairman
Getting ready
Exhibition At Belfast City Hospital
We're delighted to announce that BPIC has once again been asked to exhibit some of its work at Belfast City Hospital.
You can see a wide selection of BPIC members' work on display in the Tower Gallery from the 30th August to the 25th September.
Here are some images of BPIC members setting up the exhibition and posing with their work.
Two Weeks. Two Weeeks!
Well, by golly gosh, can you beleive it? It's just two weeks until the start of BPIC's 12/13 season.
If you're interested in joining, come along and see us at 7.30pm on Thursday the 6th September.
You'll be able to see what we're about, and we'll be providing details of the sign-up process on the night.
We'll see you there!
PS - The first person to name the relevance of the picture and post title in the comments gets extra geek kudos points.
Walk This Way
BPIC's esteemed Vice-Chairman (Brian Maguire) has just finalised plans for a Belfast City Centre based photowalk as part of Scott Kelbey's Fifth Annual | Worldwide Photowalk.
This will take place on Saturday the 13th October between 12:45pm and 3pm and full details can be found on the photo walk page.
This is not a BPIC only event, it's open to anyone who likes;
- Taking photos
- walking
- meeting people who like taking photos and walking
If this sounds like you, then sign up and we'll see you there.