The creative sessions for 2024 will be taking a slightly different direction this year, the first session will be hosted by Geoff Shaw on Tuesday 13th February 2024 and will cover:
Bookings for the WCC Annual Presentation Dinner are now open via TryBooking. Please note that we will not be holding it at the Hall this year, but at the Sandown Park Hotel.
This is an evening and opportunity to catch up with fellow Club members, acknowledge our achievements and congratulate the winners of our Annual Awards. The Committee have arranged for the Club to subsidise the two course dinner; same price for members and partners. There are a limited number of seats available. This is a once a year event, so please don’t miss out.
Thanks to Ross Eddington who has done much of the organising for this.
Our club aponsors a competition run by the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) for secondary students in honour of our dear departed friend Rosie Hughes. Please see below information about the launch of the exhibition on Wednesday 26th April 2023 at 6:00pm.
Celebrating its 15th year, TOPshots continues to highlight the strength of the photographic work being produced by students in Victoria’s high schools. The 14 artists selected for this year’s exhibition highlight a range of creative and experimental approaches to photography while exploring themes and ideas that are relevant to these young artists as they navigate their worlds and develop their creative responses.
MAPh is proud to have the opportunity to foreground and acknowledge these emerging artists while providing them with a vital platform to share and exhibit their work.
– Stella Loftus-Hills, MAPh Curator
TOPshots 2022–23 | Exhibition launch and award announcement
Museum of Australian Photography
Wednesday 26 April 2023
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Free event. RSVPs essential
The Trybooking for membership renewal for 2023 is now active, so members can pay and renew their membership.
We will be back in the Main Hall at the Mount Waverley Community Centre for our competition night on Tuesday 1st March 2022.
Monash Council have confirmed the following requirements:
If there is any change to these requirements notified to us before the meeting on Tuesday night, members will be notified ASAP.
We would also like to clarify that a 7:30pm start time means that you should arrive at 7:15pm and the meeting will start at 7:30pm sharp. This is especially important this week with the additional COVID procedures detailed above.
The committee has been continuously monitoring the progress of the ongoing situation in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular the potential risks to our members of returning to in person meetings. As such the committee has decided that we will not be returning to in person meetings until at least the beginning of March.
This means that the February Competition Night on Tuesday 1st February will be held via Zoom (link to be advised in the Watson on Sunday) and not at the Mount Waverley Community Centre as previously advertised.
In regard to prints, your EDI versions of entries for March will still need to be uploaded by midnight on 1st February, however the physical prints for March can be dropped off at the entrance to the MWCC between 6:30pm and 7:30pm the following night, Wednesday 2nd February. The February Print entries will also be available for pickup on the Wednesday at the Hall.
We hope you will understand the reasons for this late change, and apologise of any inconvenience it may cause.
At the recent 31st Eastern Interclub Competition run by Maroondah Photographic Society we came first overall and second in both sections. Particular congratulations for individual awards go to:
Jen Fawkes – Water Girl – 1st Place B&W
Steve Hilton – Laughter is the best medicine – 3rd Place Open
Jill Shaw – Eating icecreams – Merit Open
Sim Chong – The S Sofa – Merit B&W
Vicki Moritz – Lost habitat2 – Merit B&W
Thanks also to the selection committee and others who organised our entries.
Our entries can be viewed in our Eastern Interclub 2021 galleries.
Please note that our workshop on Tuesday 15 June 2021 has been cancelled. This workshop is not practical to be done over Zoom and current COVID restrictions limit an in-person workshop to groups of up to 10 people.
WCC as a club is again participating in the 2021 Australian Cup Competition.
Last year in the 2020 Australian Cup Competition we came in equal 10 of 40 other clubs and congratulation to Anthony Pearsall awarded a Judges Choice.
Well done to all !! This year, we need to be top 5!! We can do it !!
Last day to upload to WCC website 7th May 2021
We are requesting all interested members to submit 2 (TWO) of their favourite images to represent WCC in this year’s competition. Each image will be selected by our own WCC panel of selectors for the final 20 to be chosen. A mixture of different genres of photography is encouraged. Note: your images may or may not be the ones that had already been submitted in the WCC monthly club internal competitions.
When submitting, files should be:
Entry Fee FREE for members (paid by WCC)
Entries should be submitted via the our competition upload site under Australia Cup 2021.
Thanks to Anthony Yap for putting this communication together.
We have decided to proceed with an outing on Saturday Morning at Bunjil Place, in Narre Warren (Cnr Magid Drive & Princess Hwy). This is a great modern building with many photogenic aspects and architectural details, inside and out.
Saturday 15 February 2020 at 9am to approx 11am
Cnr Princess Hwy & Magid Drive Narre Warren.