Waverley Camera Club

Waverley Camera Club’s monthly photography competition for September was held on Tuesday the 1st September 2009 and was judged by Pele Leung. The competition topic was ‘Open’ and there were a total of 86 images submitted to the competition, 51 EDI and 35 Prints.

Pele was excellent in his judging of the images, giving essential feedback where needed and he also dealt out the odd compliment as well. Pele’s awards of Merit and Highly Commended are listed below along with the Winners of the four categories. Pele treated us to three of his AV’s after the competition was concluded which were just stunning, especially the Melbourne at Night presentation.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Pele for judging our competition and for sharing his AV’s; with us, I know I speak for everyone when I say that we all had a great night. Also, thank you to all of you who took time to enter the competition and congratulations to the prize getters.

The results were as follows:
(Please click each link to view the images on the SmugMug site)

A Grade Prints

Image of the Month:
Leif Anderson – Boyds Forest Dragon

Highly Commended:
Fred Bullock – Burnt Snowgums
Albert Hutchison – Big Wheel
John Mallett – Moth Orchid

Merit:
Roger Howell – All Aboard
Ron Weatherhead – Strangle Hold
Roger Howell – For Journeys Past
Teddy Tan – Bride_and_Father

A Grade EDI

Image of the Month:
Teddy Tan – Catch Me if You Can

Highly Commended:
Roger Howell – Riding the Thermals
Alan McLean – Stillness

Merit:
Leif Anderson – Melbourne Redical Centre
Vicki Moritz – Taggerty River
Ross Garner – Wool Classing

B Grade Prints

Image of the Month:
Rachel Kazantzis – St Mary’s Cathedral

Highly Commended:
Peter Myers – Winter Drought
John Hadfield – Venetian Jewel

Merit:
Perry Kazantzis – Alley Bar Girl
Peter Myers – Montsalvat
David Burton – Pinball Fun
Stephen Edmonds – The House on the Point
Lisa Mason – Let Me Off

B Grade EDI

Image of the Month:
Dijana Risteska – Good Days Bad Days

Highly Commended:
Andy Armitage – Red Lantern
Justo Lei – Top of the World
Peter Myers – Downham Village

Merit:
Dave Sumner – Three Heads are Better than One
Ake Severinson – Leading by Example
Peter Myers – Lake Burwain
Sue Gabriel – Balloons Over Mount Merit

Tuesday Sept 8th sees the third monthly meeting of our A/V special interest group at Wadham House at 7.30pm.

For those of you who were at the “club night” last Tuesday and hopefully inspired by the A/V presentations from our judge Pele Leung, why not come along and start with us the journey of learning, so that hopefully one day we can all make A/V’s as inspiring as Peles’.

Last month, Ross showed us how to start creating an A/V.

This month we hope to take things a stage further. If anyone has an A/V they have either finished…or just started, or all stages in between, please bring it along on Tuesday and as a group we will analyze, dissect and learn…hopefully.

If anyone is struggling to produce an A/V because you do not have any appropriate software, well the good news is I have found a web service which will do it for you. Go to www.animoto.com and see for yourself.

See you all on Tuesday at Wadham House…7.30pm prompt

Bert Hovelling of VAPS has issued these two urgent notices.

BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE
2009.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED!
www.ballaratfoto.org

A spectacular month of photographic exhibitions for the BFB09 FESTIVAL PROGRAM in Ballarat and surrounding towns requires a team of volunteers to assist the organizing committee.
Volunteers will receive discounts on activities and clothing for their efforts after a sufficient number of hours of assistance.

Program Dates: 5th September -5th Obtober 2009
Contacts: Phone: (03) 5331 4833
www.ballaratfoto.org/volunteers

ALSO

AUSTRALIA – GERMANY PHOTOGRAPHIC
CULTURAL EXHANGE EXHIBITION -2009.

AT

MELBOURNE CAMERA CLUB

CNR. DORCAS & FERRARS STREETS
SOUTH MELBOURNE.

SATURDAY 12TH. SEPTEMBER 2009: 10AM – 5.00PM

SUNDAY 13TH. SEPTEMBER 2009: 10AM – 5.00PM

ENTRY – FREE.

AN AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY – VAPS – GERMANY CULTURAL EXCHANGE ACTIVITY

PLEASE COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS

100 PHOTOGRAPHS

FURTHER INFORMATION: Bert Hoveling: 0419 118 610

This is taken from an email I received from Kodak regarding the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

I’m very pleased to let you know about an event Kodak and ANZ are running as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. We are running an event called “Capture Ballarat” – sort of like a “great race” around Ballarat, but instead of completing feats at each checkpoint, you are required to take photos at each of the 7 photo points. These 7 photos will be judged, and the winners awarded some fantastic prizes.

“Capture Ballarat” takes place on Sunday 13th September – please see below for more information, or go to the website : http://www.ballaratfoto.org/ballaratfoto.org/kodak_anz_challenge.html

If you would like to know more about the entire Ballarat International Foto Biennale event, please go to their website http://www.blogger.com/www.ballaratfoto.org – the Biennale is the biggest photographic event in the southern hemisphere, expecting 40,000+ people to attend over the month 4th September – 4th October. We look forward to seeing you there.

Just a quick follow up to a previous post where David had asked for help with some image manipulation and Warren Knower came to the rescue.

David had wanted some people cutting from a couple of images and pasting into a larger family image. Of course this wasn’t easy as you can imagine but I think you’ll agree that Warren has done a great job. It is reassuring that there are people like Warren around who give up their time to help others who are stuck especially when the outcome gives so much pleasure to someone as in this case.

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