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)

Last Wednesday we participated in the 34th Eastern Interclub run by Maroondah Photographic Society, three members of our club attended the competition awards night.

Nine clubs were involved, with Waverley coming 3rd in both the Open EDI and the Black and White EDI sections. Congratulations to all our members with an entry.

We were thrilled when Stephen Edmonds was awarded 2nd place in the open EDI section for his stunning image of an owl in flight. Congratulations!

Open EDI – Second Place – Stephen Edmonds – Launch

All of our entries can be viewed in our Eastern Interclub 2025 galleries.

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.

Congratulations to our members who had images selected for entry into the 2025 VAPS Interclub competition. We came first in prints with 212 points, and third in EDI with 208 points.

Special mention to Leanne Poole, Geoff Shaw and Rebecca Kashyap received awards for these entries:

Leanne Poole – Mayfly (second place)

Geoff Shaw – Golden Beetle 4 (third place)

Rebecca Kashyap – 927 Rainbow Frames (third place)

Rebecca’s print was also selected to be part of Victoria’s entry to the APS Interstate Competition (AIPC).

All of our entries can be viewed in our print and EDI galleries.

Judge: Louise Sedgman

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Lyndel Holt – Crepuscule

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Marysville Botanicals2

Open EDI

Intermediate: Lyndel Holt – Nectar Collection

Advanced: Angela McLeod – Six

Open Print

Intermediate: Jenny Adams – Movie World with a Twist

Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Yarra Valley shed

Set subject definition:

Any different approach to an image of nature- that is, NOT a standard shot. Subjects can be animals, botanicals… macro. Creative techniques (Adamski, Vanoost, Pep Ventosa, ICM, multiple exposures….), filters etc. can be used for an interpretation of the subject.

We have received the results from Round 3 of the PSA Interclub, making our final standings:

Division	Group	Total points	Standing
Colour	E	211	3rd out of 23 clubs
Mono	C	181	5th out of 20 clubs
Nature	B	183	9th out of 25 clubs
Travel	A	158	15th out of 25 clubs
Photojournalism	B	184	5th our of 18 clubs

Congratulations to the following images which received an award throughout the three rounds:

All images and scores are available in our PSA Interclub 2024-25 SmugMug galleries.

All images that received a merit will now go into the EOY judgings. Good luck to those that were awarded a merit during the season.