Last night was the presentation of the results for the 2025 4-Club Interclub, which is a competition between Camberwell Camera Club, Caulfield Photographic Society, Maroondah Photographic Society and us.

The judge was Sam Mariani and we are pleased to announce that we came out first overall, also being first in the Colour EDI and Monochrome EDI sections.

Special recognition to the following award winning images:

Print – First Place – Leanne Poole – Mayfly

Monochrome EDI – Second Place – Geoff Shaw – Look deep deep into my eyes

Colour EDI – Third Place – John Crawford – Windows and a few Doors

Monochrome EDI – Third Place – Tim Keane – Soft Encounters

Colour EDI – Merit – Jen Fawkes – Feed me

Colour EDI – Merit – Jenny Adams – Rainbrella Painting

Colour EDI – Merit – Sim Chong – Trees Birds and Moon

Print – Merit – Jenny Adams – City Enigma

All of our entries can be viewed in our 4-Club 2025 galleries.

Judge: Lyn Haywood

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Eddie Teh – Ancient Modern

Advanced: Jenny Hartman – Village in the Sky

Open EDI

Intermediate: Fiona Jones – Life well lived

Advanced: John Morter – The Eyes Have It

Open Print

Intermediate: Alan Mackinlay – Welcome Swallow feeding

Advanced: Stephen Jude – Flow

Set Subject definition:

Use your phone to take/made photos. All processing must be done in the phone. Consider the use of some phone appllications such as Snapseed, Slow shutter, ProCam, PhotoSplit or Distressed FX. Any Apps that introduce third party textures such as Distressed FX must be notified when loading the image, but are allowable.

Entries for our end of year competition are due on Tuesday 28 October 2025. This is a best of images entered throughout the year, members select from their previous entries to enter the end of year competition sections:

• Two images for Open Print
• Two images for Colour EDI
• Two images for Monochrome EDI
• One image for Creative EDI

The entry must have been entered into:

• Open Print images were entered in the Open Print sections of a 2025 monthly competition.
• Colour EDI and Monochrome EDI images were entered in the Open EDI and Set Subject EDI sections of a 2025 monthly competition.
• Creative EDI image is any image featuring creative photo techniques (in-camera or post production, including multiple exposures, composites and highly manipulated images) that was entered into a 2025 monthly competition (EDI or the EDI version of a print) or the 2025 interclub creative competition.

Select your entries through the Competition upload system. As well as selecting your print entries in the upload system, also ensure that your print entries are placed in the print box on Tuesday 28 October 2025 at our November competition night.

We allow images to be altered prior to entry in the end of year competition (eg to incorporate comments from the judge).

5.c.1. Alterations are limited to ensure that the altered (EOY) version is clearly recognizable as a revision of the same image as entered in the monthly competitions. Conversions from colour to monochrome (or vice versa) are allowed.

To enter an altered image:

1. In the upload system select the image from the monthly competition as normal, then indicate via the dropdown that it will be altered for end of year.
2. Email your altered entry to the competition steward at comp@waverleycameraclub.org.

Judge: Paul Robinson

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Jim Thorne – A splash of colour

Advanced: John Crawford – Echoes

Open EDI

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Soft as a dream

Advanced: Kerry McFarlane – Graceful Encounter

Open Print

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Casein print red mica Hanne

Advanced: Jen Fawkes – Quiet repose

Set subject definition:

An arrangement of colours and shapes which are not recognisable as known objects, although they may suggest any object or scene. (APJA)

Judge: Ian Van der Wolde

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Joanne Rowley – Roman Cobbles

Advanced: Jen Fawkes – Mid Winter

Open EDI

Intermediate: Ingrid Makowski – Fork

Advanced: Stephen Jude – Wood for the Trees

Open Print

Intermediate: Alan Mackinlay – Birds in a pond

Advanced: Tim Keane – Peril

Set subject definition:

Street images taken after dark.

Judge: David Norris

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Ingrid Makowski – Private Jetty

Advanced: George Skarbek – Growing inside

Open EDI

Intermediate: Phillip Harris – Pelicans Eye View

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Icy Lake Georgina

Open Print

Intermediate: Jenny Adams – Floating

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Claret Ash botanical

Set subject definition:

The Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection.Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi-sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence.

We recently participated in the Knox Monochrome Interclub where, with 240 total points, we were first out of the seven clubs participating.

Special mention to the following images which each scored the maximum 15 points:

Tim Keane – Soft Encounters

Russell Lucas – Digital Native 1

Vicki Moritz – Fjordboten in cloud

Russell Lucas – Striving To Survive

Jim O’Donnell – Ghosts

Final placings:

1. Waverley Camera Club – 240 points
2. Knox Camera Club – 226 points
3. Rosanna Photographic Club – 223 points
4. Camberwell Camera Club – 219 points
5. Williamstown Camera Club – 218 points
6. Mornington Peninsula Photographic Society – 215 points
7. Maroondah Photographic Society – 213 points

All of our entries can be viewed in our Knox Monochrome 2025 galleries.

Judge: Trish McKeown

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Jim Thorne – Let there be light

Advanced: Jim O’Donnell – Petals

Open EDI

Intermediate: Jenny Adams – Rainbrella Painting

Advanced: Alan Bennett – I eat what bugs me

Open Print

Intermediate: Jenny Adams – A Colourful Array

Advanced: Vira Vujovich – Beauty

Set subject definition:

An image where unusual lighting adds interest to the scene. This may be high key, low key, bokeh – or maybe just experiment with light.