Cranbourne Rodeo details: Saturday 29th Jan

Hi all, here is some more information on Saturday’s club outing. Judging from the facts below, it’s a ‘must see’ event. The event opens at 4:30pm with the Rodeo starting around 6:30pm.

Location:
1450 Ballarto Rd, Clyde.

Date:
29 Jan 2011, Open from 4.30pm to 1am

Admission:
Family $60
Adult $25
5 – 16 years old $15
Under 5 – Free

The Facts:
– It’s the biggest Victorian rodeo of the year with 10-15,000 people.
– Full line up of rodeo events as well as live music, amusement rides and dirt bike riding.
– Any excuse to wear a cowboy outfit!
– Rodeos are great fun and rarely so close to Melbourne

Map:

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Cranbourne Rodeo – 29th Jan 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen the Cranbourne Rodeo 2011 is happening on the 29th of January and Waverley Camera Club has scheduled “A Day Out at the Rodeo” unfortunately Rosie is asthmatic and the dust, horses, cows, bulls, sheep goats and other, sometimes 2 legged critters even, make her very sick.  We were out at the Mareeba Rodeo in Queensland one year and she was very ill and her sisters from the surrounding aboriginal communities came to her aid. So Rosie and I will not be going. Embarrass!! But what’s even more embarrassing is that I can not find any details about the current rodeo on the web, all references to the Cranbourne Rodeo are from previous years and relate also to the Newspaper that reports the rodeo.  So please watch this space for a little longer, tomorrow I will call the newspapers in Cranbourne and have something up here for your information.

Cheers

Andy

WCC Photoshop Group

WCC Photoshop Classes

Don’t forget…our monthly Photoshop classes will be starting in February (last Wednesday (23rd) of the month) at Wadham House. Classes will run from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

So far we have had 15 members ‘sign up’.  For the beginner, classes will be structured in a way so that they can learn Photoshop from the ground up. Rather than an ad hoc approach where in each class we tackle a multitude of issues that individuals may be having I think a better approach would be to structure the learning from the very basics to more complicated tasks over the course of the year. Hopefully by doing this people can learn at a steady pace and build on their skills over a period of time. Intermediate uses will also gain knowledge when topics such as setting up Photoshop (first session), blending modes, smart objects, and masks (just to name a few) are covered in later sessions.

Other topics that will be covered include image evaluations and how Photoshop can be used to enhance images for competitions which include producing better prints.

Ideally you will have a laptop with Photoshop installed or you could possibly share with someone.  Why? The only way to learn will be to do it yourself therefore these will be hands on classes, so you will be doing as much work in class as me (and at home!).

*** PLEASE NOTE *** You won’t be able to just turn up and attend as numbers are strictly limited so If you want to take part you will have to register your interests with either Pete Davies or myself.

Cheers

Warren

Club Outing Suggestion: Tooradin Tractor Pull and Truck Show – Sat 15th Jan 2011

Hi folks, one camera club outing has hardly been concluded and the next is being advertised on an e-mail close to U.

The Tooradin Tractor and Truck Show happens on Saturday the 15th of January, at Tooradin funnily enough.  The Family Day held at the Rutter Reserve in Tooradin begins at 10am and ends at 10pm, so a full day’s entertainment is offered.  The cost of this extravaganza is $25 if you arrive after 12 noon and $15 if you arrive before 12noon.  Part of the entertainment includes a Truck Show and Hellicopter Rides – I cant guarantee real hellicopters folks but there you go.

This show has been run very successfully every year since 1998.  The tractor pull is judged by class and includes classes for engine modifications, fuel modifications, weight modifications and size modifications.  I have heard that some of these monsters have a 1000 horsepower engine tucked away under the bonnet and some even have several 1000 horsepower engines tucked away under the bonnet.  As if that much horsepower is not enough some have centurion tanks hidden under there while others have ww11 jet aeroplane engines – dare I say it “…tucked away under there”.  “And what do they pull  Andy?  And well you might ask, “a weight transfer machine” I’d reply;  I have read that a weight transfer machine becomes heavier and digs further into the ground as it is pulled along.

So there you have it folks a fun family day at the Rutter Reserve in Tooradin, Saturday the 15th January 2011.  $25 if you arrive after 12 noon $15 if you arrive before 12 noon and you may stay till 10pm what ever time you arrive.

Cheers Andy

BBQ this Tuesday

Hi Folks,

I do apologise for the lateness of this, but I must say that the new year has snuck up on me way too fast for my liking.

BBQ at Jells Park this Tuesday from 6PM.

The forecast isn’t great but for those brave enough to venture out into the elements we will meet at the electric BBQ in the Stringybark Picnic Area which is the same bbq hut as we did two years ago.

Enter Jells Park from the Waverley Road entrance and look out for us on the left, if you reach the Visitor Center/ Madelines you have gone too far.


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Cheers,
Pete

First Sunday Outing Report

Sunrise shoots are meant to be exciting and leave a lot to the imagination.  This one was no different.  Rosie and I with Pete Davies, Ray Anderson, Albert Hutchins and Jenny Boyle arrived at the prescinct of the Monash Gallery of Art at 5.00am in time to get in tune with all the 1,000,000 other inhabitants of the area – the mosquitoes.  The frogs not to be out-done took on their own cacophany, the birds were not even awake yet.  After our last foray into the bush for a Sunday shoot, following the lead of all the other seasoned participants, Rosie and I have now actually put a tube of Bushmans into my camera bag, but, although I pocketted the little red torch, I left the Bushmans in the car. Got cleaned up ! Anyway thanks Jenny for the Aeroguard.

We looked around for something to take a picture of, but it was still dark, and the mosquitoes would not leave us alone, Rosie and I opted for the library building; awash in the glow of its own security lighting the library was the most prominent of the ‘things’ we could see.  At one stage there was a mouse scuttling around and its enormours shadow was something to behold but not to take a picture of.  The others wondered away elsewhere.  The light was soft and clean but disappointingly there was no real sunrise.  The pond in the gardens looked great in the rising light and so did the library building – i’m not so sure whether I was able to do it justice.

Andy Armitage