Waverley Camera Club

We will again be running the Flash & Portrait Group Meetings in 2012 and anyone and everyone of our members can turn up to see if you really want to improve your flash and portrait images

The first night will be Tuesday January 24, 2012 which will be a basic introduction to using a flash and what you can expect to learn over the following months.

The technical detail starts on the second meeting in February.

The Committee of the WCC would like to take this opportunity to wish all our members, their families and friends a very Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Season greetings.

Have a happy, safe and wonderful photographic time.

We look forward to seeing your images throughout 2012.

Tonight was our end of year night where the aggregate score winners from throughout the year were first announced:

A Grade Print – John Hadfield
A Grade EDI – Teddy Tan
B Grade Print – Rosie Hughes
B Grade EDI – Rosie Hughes

Members had submitted their best images from throughout the year, judged in this case by our former president, Pete Davies:

Mono Prints

3rd: Anne DiCarlo – Looking Up
2nd: Dave Sumner – Another World
1st: Andy Armitage – Three Canoes

Open Prints

3rd: Andy Armitage – Coca Cola
2nd: Andy Armitage – Red Umbrella
1st: Ray Anderson – Violet Sabre

Electronic Digital Images(EDI)

3rd: David Burton – Fun or Torture
2nd: Vicki Moritz – Life Goes By – The Glen
1st: Vicki Moritz – Moet

As our outgoing president, Pete also announced the winners of the “End of the Line” President’s Trophy with the winner announced as

Fred Seeber – End of the Hills Line

Thank you to all that came to support the evening and especially all that took part.

We will be running the beginners courses again in 2012. They will be the same format (weekly for 9 weeks) and should run:

Term 1: Monday 30 January to Monday 26 March
Term 2: Monday 23 April – Monday 18 June
Term 3: Monday 16 July – Monday 10 September
Term 4: Monday 8 October – Monday 3 December

Each term should also include two Sunday outings and possibly also a night shoot.

Please contact beginnersclass@waverleycameraclub.org to register your interest.

Rosie and I joined 14 other WCC members and their guests on the final Sunday outing for the year to Werribee Open Range Zoo – Yes there were 16 of us including new members Paul Spence and John Ho, and several guests; husbands, wives and in-laws. It was a cold, almost wet, windy Club Outing – what more would we have expected!!!

Image by Andy & Rosie Armitage

Undaunted, and by the good offices of Mary McLean who organised us all into the 11.10am bus, we all sat together each with a window and we took pictures to our hearts content. Of course the first thing we did given the overcast conditions, was to re-set our ISO ratings – some to ‘auto’ others up to 400. Some of us even remembered Andrew Harrison mentioning the other night that an overcast sky can take the place of a soft-box and did nothing with ISO ratings.

Image by Andy & Rosie Armitage

After the interesting safari ride into a wet and dull African Savanna on which we were able to spot Hippo, Zebra, Giraffe, Rhinos we went for a walk into the jungle seeing many other animals such as Cheetah, Lions, monkeys, African Wild Dogs. Later we had some well deserved lunch and another walk to look at kangaroos and emus. It was long after 3.00pm when the afternoon ended and we headed home. And as we drove home, guess what? the sun came out to give us the feeling of quiet contentment, we had indeed spent a warm day on the African Weldt.

Image by Andy & Rosie Armitage

I hope you had a great day and learned some photography tips and techniques. We also hope that you can be with us next year when we have our first Sunday Outing for 2012 – Daybreak at Williamstown on the 5th of February. Pray for some sunshine and a great sunrise, see you at the End of Year Night.

Cheers Andy