Waverley Camera Club

Don’t forget..this coming Tuesday we have our regular monthly competition evening.

Doors open at Wadham House at 7.15pm. Be sure to get there early to catch up with fellow club members, and to view the printed images submitted to the competition. All the prints will be on display before the judging starts.

The competition theme is “Melbourne Parklands”. All images submitted were taken in and around Melbourne’s Parklands.

Our judge for the evening is the very well known Bev Pascoe. No doubt she will have some very interesting comments.

Remember, this evening is not just for the people who entered our competition. It is a great evening for everyone to learn from the judge’s comments and to learn from the images submitted by others.

The monthly competition evening is usually the highlight of the monthly calendar, so be there or “be square”!

As usual guests and new members are welcome.

Last Night (Tuesday May 26th) we had our first beginners group meeting in our new format at Wadham House.

The meeting was extremely well attended with 24 attendees. Well done to all of you who came along.

Because our numbers have grown to such an extent we will now need to ask you to submit your “Homework” photos before the meeting via E mail. We will publish the new e mail adddress on the blog at the same time as we announce this month;’s homework topic…keep a watchful eye.

Also, please continue to use the online comment gallery. Please make sure you are involved in both sides of the equation, both sending your images for comment, and making comments on other images.

To get more value out of the comments it would be helpful if you could include with each image you submit, a sentence or two explaining your image, what you saw and what you wanted the viewer to see.

Keep snapping…and keep improving!

The President, Pete Davies is looking to find 3 volunteers to judge at the ‘Pub National’ held by Berwick Viewfinders on 9th June 09 at 6.30pm. See below for details:

I am looking for three volunteers from WCC to act as judges at Berwick Viewfinders annual “Pub National”.

What is a Pub National? It is a competition based on a National (such as the upcoming Warragul National) and it’s held at a pub. It’s only open to members of Berwick Viewfinders and it’s meant to be the best of the preceeding 12 months.

What the judges will be required to do is to be at the Central Hotel in lovely Beaconsfield on Tuesday the 9th of June at around 6:30pm. That’s the hard part!

The easy part is to have a meal and a drink (for which BVCC will give you $20) and look at some photos. Couldn’t be more simple.

Because it’s based on a National there will be a panel of three judges who will each award a score from 1 – 5 after being shown the image for 8 seconds.

At the end of the night scores are toted up and some trophies are handed out and everyone goes home with a smile on their face.

If you are interested please contact me asap via email or mobile (0403 803 299)

Don’t forget…our monthly beginners class will be held this coming Tuesday (May 26th) at Wadham House at 7.30pm NOT at the house of Donald Boyle as has been the case previously.

All members, new and old, are invited to attend.
Don’t worry if you have not attended any previous classes, each class is “Self Contained” and does not rely on continuing from previous classes.

Classes last for 2 hours and cover topics such as composition, camera controls and image editing using tools such as Lightroom and Photoshop.

Refreshments are provided…providing our regular attendees remember to bring along some refreshments!

See you there…

The May competition theme was  an “Open” theme.

The four winning images for the May 2009 monthly competition were:

A Grade – Print of the Month – “Monk” Ross Garner

B Grade – Print of the Month – “Better Days” Peter Myers

A Grade EDI of the Month – “In the Mirror”  Leif Anderson

B Grade EDI of the Month – “Mornington Sunset”  Vicki Moritz