Not many Waverley members attended the convention this year, I hadn’t heard of anyone who was attending either the lectures or the dinner. However, there is still the matter of the interclub results and we have done exceedingly well again. I’ll break down the results into and individual and team scores. I must again say a very big thank you to the image selection team and the hard working coordinator, Donna Clark. Donna runs around coordinating the selections, picking up the images and ensuring that they get to VAPS on time. All of this in her own time and at her own expense, the results you see here are largely because of Donna’s relentless efforts.

First we have the results from the Audio Visual entries, then the prints and Electronic Images.

You can assume that because of the manner in which the images are judged, they were picked in the first instance on their initial impact and then with greater scrutiny once they had made some sort of grade. Only images receiving 15, 14 or 13points normally go on to be scrutinised further. This makes this competition a little harder than other interclub competitions because not only do the images need to have initial impact, they have to be able to stand up against close scrutiny also.

Here are the results:

Audio Visual
Open 3.21
Geraghty Hill     44Pts (one point from the first merit)

Open Full
Floating in the Air     35Pts

Overall Club Scores
Prints 116Pts and equal 7th place out of 47 clubs
Highest scoring club Frankston with 125Pts
Lowest Scoring Club Bellarine with 62Pts

EDI 115Pts and equal 3rd place out of 46 clubs
Highest scoring club Southern Suburbs with 128Pts
Lowest scoring club Bellarine with 57Pts

OPEN PRINTS
Craig Francisco – St Pauls Beach Sunset 11pts
Anthony Yap – Long Jetty 10Pts
Craig Francisco – North Wharf Sunset 11Pts
Paul Spence – Walkerville South 13Pts
Rosie Hughes – POINT LONSDALE SUNSET 11Pts
Anthony Yap – JOSHUA 10Pts
Dave Sumner – Malu 13Pts (Merit)
Vicki Moritz – St-Clair-Jetty-Dunedin-mono 13Pts
Felix Shparberg – Rhythm 12Pts
Cuc Chong – Lake Entrance 10Pts
Rosie Hughes – TRAIN ON BRIDGE 12Pts
Vicki Moritz – Beach-morning 9Pts
Paul Spence – Vietnam Smoko 10Pts
Dave Sumner – Pull Up 9Pts
Lenore Pedrina – The Webb at Sunset 10Pts

EDI
Richard Dabbous – BALI LADY 11Pts
Craig Francisco – I Can See You 9Pts
Dave Sumner – What a Poser 11Pts
Rosie Hughes – SUNRISE OVER RHYLL 12Pts
Richard Dabbous – SHOULD WE 12Pts
Vicki Mortiz – Kerford-Rd-Pier 13Pts
Pete Davies – Cerberus 2 10Pts
Rosie Hughes – APPROACHING STORM 12Pts
Cuc Chong – ALL FOR LOVES 11Pts
Dave Sumner – Up Early 12Pts
Alan Scott – Mangrove Trees 8Pts
Pete Davies – Carcass 10Pts
Fred Seeber – Parachuting Seeds 9Pts
John Hadfield – Under Observation 9Pts
Elizabeth Crellin – The Esplanade St.Kilda 11Pts

Dave Sumner’s Malu and Vicki Moritz’s St-Clair-Jetty-Dunedin-mono have been chosen to go on to the Australian Interstate Photographic Competition

Thanks again everyone for their outstanding images and even more outstanding hard work. 5 years ago we didn’t even enter any images into the VAPS Interclub and now were scoring high and doing well. Keep it up for 2015 and we can be the TOP club for 2015.

Thanks

Dave Sumner

Another great result for Waverley, around 18 Waverley members in attendance and great hosts with Berwick being very welcoming. The judge David Burren did a great job giving some great feedback on technical errors and improvements whilst still managing to impart some of the artistic elements within the images. You may or may not know that 4-Club is about the 4 competing club’s overall scores rather than being about individuals. There are 3 trophies, 1 for each section. However, there are awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each section, the latter two being just bragging rights.

Here are the place getters for Waverley:

Open Prints

2nd Place – Craig Francisco – Sunset on North Wharf

Mono Prints

3rd Place – Felix Schparberg – Leonard
1st Place – Cuc Chong – Docking

Well done to all three place getters and Cookie for a 1st place. Thank goodness for that, no more mention of being a ‘B Grader’ at last.

So to the overall scores and Waverley won 2 of the 3 trophies outright:

Competition	Maroondah	Eastern Suburbs	Berwick	Waverley
Large Print	65	68	69	72
Mono Print	62	67	65	78
EDI	73	66	71	69
Total Overall	200	201	205	219

Obviously the photographers deserve the majority credit for this great result however, thanks and a real big appreciation go to Donna Clarke who painstakingly collates all of the panel who pick the images and then she runs around collecting all of the images and gets them off to the host club. Without Donna, none of this would have happened.

Thanks

Dave Sumner

The 4-Club Competition will be held at Berwick Viewfinders Club Rooms, details are below. For new members and those of you who don’t know what 4 – Club is then please read on.

Bi-annually, Waverley CC takes part in a photography competition between four local (ish) camera clubs called ‘4-Club’ and every second year we host this event. You may or may not know that WCC has a small sub committee that selects members images to represent WCC in this competition and we have  gallery of selected images HERE

The sub-committee tries very hard to vary the entries selected to be from different members and we are always happy when someone new has their image chosen. We try to select images that are fairly recent and definitely one’s that we think will do well in competition. You might think that a club monthly winner is automatically chosen to represent us at this competition but this isn’t always the case. Once an image has been chosen and entered into 4-Club it cannot be re-submitted a second time.

With regards to the competition night, this varies from club to club however, the basic concept is the same. ANYONE who is a club member can attend and you will get to see a competition similar to our own monthly event. The difference here is that we get to see what other clubs are doing and how we stand up against their images. Please don’t think that if you go along that you will be there on your own in a room full of strangers because WCC always has a good following at these events. Afterwards there is opportunity to see the images up close, supper is usually provided and you can get to meet some other photographers from other clubs if you wish.

So come along and see how it all works, details for the event are as follows:

Date – 14th April 2014

Time – 7.30pm

Berwick Fields Primary School
35 Gwendoline Dr
Berwick

Map –