Waverley Camera Club

The club has again entered the annual black and white interclub competition run by the Knox Photographic Society. The judging night is this Wednesday at the Boronia West Primary School, starting at 8PM followed by supper.

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Unfortunately this clashes with our portrait and flash photography group, but if you are not going along to that, please come along to the judging night to represent the club, and possibly learn a thing or two from the judge’s comments.

The judging of the Pakenham National is this Saturday. We are still waiting to hear if observers are permitted or not. If they are, details will be posted in the next day or so. Let Pete know if you are interested.

Finally, this Sunday is the first of August which means it is also time for our monthly Sunday outing. As the exhibition for the VIGEX 2010 Salon also opens on that day we have decided to head down to Geelong for the exhibition (at the Geelong Art Gallery, Little Malop Street, Geelong). We will meet at the gallery at 11am, have lunch somewhere around 1pm, then a photo shoot somewhere after lunch.

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Wadham House resembled a packed media conference at Tuesday night’s sound-triggered flash workshop. After everyone had set up their camera gear, the night started off with a bang.

With Stephen Edmonds on props, Pete Davies at the light switch and some generous supplies from some forward-thinking members, many party-poppers were detonated at various angles and millisecond delay settings; no single one popped the same: some fizzled, a few backfired onto Stephen’s fingers, some hit Dave Sumner in the head – entertainment on its own! Using the club’s sound triggered flash system (built by Craig Terry), in a dark room with about 15 open camera shutters, those attending got the opportunity to photograph some unique action,especially towards the end of the night when positioning and timing of the flash had been perfected.

Some more members brought a few [increasingly rare] tungsten lightbulbs to smash up with a metal wrench (these glass bulbs proved surprisingly difficult to shatter!) Keeping to the pyrotechnic flavour of the night, the workshop finale involved an exploding apple that had to be seen to be believed.

A fun night of photography and many a laugh was shared between club members for another highly successful WCC workshop.

At the workshop this Tuesday we will be having another sound triggered flash workshop.

This was awesome fun last time and those that were there will know what sort of things to bring.

For those who weren’t: bring your camera and a tripod. Last time around we were setting off party poppers, smashing light globes and bursting balloons.

If you can think of anything else which happens at high speed and will set off a sound triggered flash please bring them along.

This Sunday 4 July is an outing to the wonderful Cloudehill Nursery and Gardens in The Dandenongs.

Meet there at 10am. It’s not mentioned on the website but we have been told that there is an entrance fee of $5. It may just be a gold coin donation, so be prepared.

There’s also a restaurant there which may be open for lunch – if you are interested in having lunch at the restaurant please let Pete know ASAP.

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This weekend the Warragul National Exhibition is being held and is well worth a look.

Official Opening Night Saturday 19th June 2010 -7.30pm at St. Paul’s Anglican Grammar School, 150 Bowen Street, Warragul.

Saturday, 19th June 2010 – 10:00am – 10:00pm
Sunday, 20th June 2010 – 10:00am – 4:00pm

The plan is to go to Mount Worth State Park beforehand.

Meet at the picnic ground carpark at 10am.
Wander around for a couple of hours.
Lunch in Warragul somewhere tbc
Meet at the exhibition at 1pm.

Approximately an hour and a half drive to Mount Worth from Mount Waverley:

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