Waverley Camera Club

Just a reminder that our club has been invited to take part in the Knox Interclub competition on Wednesday the 22nd of July 2009.

The competition will be for “Novice Small Prints”, “Large Prints” and “Digital Electronic Projected Images” . It is an OPEN competition, but restricted to MONOCHROME only. Each club may enter 5 in each category.

The judging night will be at Boronia West Primary School, Tormore Road, Boronia. 3155. Melway 64 J8. (Near the Knox swimming pool) starting at 8pm and followed by supper.

All Prints should be mounted. Prints must be identified with a title, Club name and maker.

We will select 5 large prints from those entered in the recent 4-club and VAPS competitions. If you had a monochrome print in one of these competitions, please bring it to our next meeting.

There is a great oppprtunity for members to enter Novice Small Prints (Maximum mount size 8×10 inches – maximum image size 5×7 inches). We will seek interest at our next meeting.

Digital Electronic Projected Images will be selected from entries to our recent EDI competions.

What a great night…what a great result!

For those of you who did not manage to get to the “4 Club” competition on Tuesday night the final results were..

Mono Print Competition
Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society – 74 Points
Maroondah Photographic Society – 68 Points
Waverley Camera Club – 69 Points
Berwick Viewfinders – 67 Points

Colour Print Competition
Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society – 71 Points
Maroondah Photographic Society – 66 Points
Waverley Camera Club – 73 Points
Berwick Viewfinders – 75 Points

EDI Images Competition
Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society – 66 Points
Maroondah Photographic Society – 62 Points
Waverley Camera Club – 73 Points
Berwick Viewfinders – 72 Points

Overall Club Totals
Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society – 211 Points
Maroondah Photographic Society – 196 Points
Waverley Camera Club – 215Points
Berwick Viewfinders – 214Points

So overall, a win by 1 point for Waverley Camera Club…(Cue…”We are the champions” by Queen). The “icing on the cake” was the fact that our own Teddy Tan won the individual award for best Monochrome print, and Tuck Leong won the individual award for best colour print, so well done Teddy & Tuck.

A great night, some excellent judging comments, and in the words of the judge “some absolutely excellent images”.

But despite the accolade of winning on the evening, the highlight for most WCC club members in attendance, and there were many, was the presentation of a club Life Membership to our very own Fred Bullock.

Congratulations Fred, from all the club members old and new who you have served so well over the years.

A more deserving award there could not possibly be!

A brief but informative introduction to 4-Club from the WCC President, Pete Davies.

There are competitions being run outside of WCC’s monthly comp and lots of photography clubs get together and stage inter club competitions. Waverley is involved in one known as 4 Club, every six months (usually April and October) we join up with Berwick Viewfinders, Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society and Maroondah Photographic Society. The clubs take turns to host the event and Waverley does it in April during the odd number years and when Waverley is not hosting the 4 Club it receives a letter from the host club asking for entries.

We are invited to enter 6 colour, 6 monochrome and 6 digital prints. There is an individual medal given to the maker of the best entry in each class while all the scores are tallied up in each section and the top club in each section is awarded a trophy. Last time around Waverley won everything except for one trophy. Can we do it again? Come along and see.

When you see 4 Club Selection Night listed in the program bring along some prints and or digital for everybody to have a look at. General consensus decides which entries are chosen and we try to spread the entries between as many makers as possible. When we do host the 4 club comp we move into the Community Centre on the corner of Stephenson’s Road and Miller Crescent. If you look out of the kitchen window in Wadham House and across the car park you are looking at the Community Centre.

Please bring a plate of food with you and arrive early as we need some equipment carted across to the Community Centre.

As a final favour could I ask you all to make an effort to introduce yourselves to at least one person that you do not recognise? The whole point of these interclub comps is to get out there and share the love so to speak. Everybody there is there because they all share a common passion so why not spread it around?

Pete Davies WCC President

Our club has been invited to take part in the Knox Interclub competition on Wednesday the 22nd of July 2009. Entries close on 8th July. We will need to decide on entries at our meeting on June 16th, or earlier.

The competition will be for “Novice Small Prints”, “Large Prints” and “Digital Electronic Projected Images” and is restricted to MONOCHROME only. Each club may enter 5 in each category.

The judging night will be at Boronia West Primary School, Tormore Road, Boronia. 3155. Melway 64 J8. (Near the Knox swimming pool) starting at 8pm and followed by supper.

Only Monochrome work is eligible. A single all over toning is acceptable. THERE IS NO SET SUBJECT – it is an OPEN COMPETITION.

All Prints should be mounted. Prints must be identified with a title, Club name and maker.

Large Prints – Maximum mount size for large prints is 16×20 inches (print size optional)

Novice Small Prints – Maximum mount size for small prints is 8×10 inches with a maximum image size of 5×7 inches.
Not compulsory, but recommended that the mount be 8×10 inches.

Digital Electronic Projected Images – Images must be saved as JPEG files and in the sRGB colour space with maximum pixel dimension of 1024 wide x 768 high.

The Waverly Camera Club is expressly requested to join the Merrimack Valley Camera Club (MVCC) as a participant in the 29th annual George W. Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition. The judging will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009. The submission closing date for the Exhibition is Tuesday, March 24, 2009.

Although a Best Wildlife award will be given, this is a single section Exhibition. Each club’s images will be distributed throughout 10 rounds. Judging will be conducted on a round by round basis.

The Exhibition web site (www.glennie-exhibition.com) is the primary means of completing an entry form and submitting a club’s images. The vertical Submissions Table is located on the right side of the Home Page and contains three options. “Instructions” provide detailed information concerning the submission of the entry fee, the on-line registration form and the uploading of images. “Registration Form” enables you to directly enter the club identification, the club coordinator’s contact data and the images names and their makers. “Image Submissions” is the means by which copies of the images are uploaded to the web site.

The “Instructions” option also provides information for submitting entries via postal mail. By prior arrangement with the Exhibition Chair, Email may be used to send images and the Registration Form.

For your convenience, some of the more pertinent information is listed below.

o) A club may enter a total of 10 digital images; but no more than two images per maker.

o) Whether they are from scanned slides or digitally captured, images which have previously won Glennie awards are ineligible for re-submission. This exclusion also applies to those images which are near duplicates or so close that they might reasonably be considered identical.

o) The PSA Nature definition will be used. It is available on the Exhibition Home Page.. Manipulation is limited by PSA guidelines. Wildlife eligibility is discussed as part of the PSA Nature definition.

o) Maximum allowable dimensions (in pixels): 1024 horizontal (width); 768 vertical; (height), regardless of image orientation – portrait or landscape.

o) Maximum allowable file size: 1 Megabyte (MB).

o) Images received that are oversized will be adjusted by the Glennie staff. The composition will not be changed, however there may be some loss of quality.

o) Image files must be in JPG/JPEG format.

o) Categories: Amphibians, Birds, Botany, Insects, Land and Seascapes, Mammals, Marine Life and Reptiles. Some categories will be sub-divided, dependent upon the number of entries received.

o) Awards will be presented to the clubs having the four highest cumulative scores.

o) Plaques will be awarded to the best images in each category. A select number of Merit Awards will be given, based on the number of entries in each category. Some high scoring images not otherwise recognized will be presented Honor Awards. Also, each judge will select their favorite from the high scoring images not otherwise receiving an award; those images will be given a plaque. The Exhibition Chair will make a selection, as well, and present a plaque, courtesy of the Yankee Photographic Society.

o) The entry fee, covering all 10 club images, is $15 USD. Payment may be made in cash, by check drawn on a US bank (payable to the Merrimack Valley Camera Club) or by international postal money order (payable to Charlie Burke). Send the payment to the Exhibition Chair.

If you have questions or wish additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the Exhibition Chair.

We hope you will join us and help make this a truly outstanding Exhibition and Nature Showcase. We are looking forward to receiving your images.

Charlie Burke, PPSA

President, Merrimack Valley Camera Club