On the same night as the October competition, the 4-Club Interclub competition was held at Eastern Suburbs Camera Club’s new club rooms in Blackburn. Unfortunately due to miscommunication, Ringwood hadn’t entered and the night ended up being a 3-club event. WCC did as well as ever although we only retained one of the trophies instead of the two we had won earlier in the year. Although everyone as usual contributed to the overall scores, I would like to mention that Interclub rookie, Jason Roy Price scored 13 Points for his image Inside the Bean, well done Jason.

Here are the results starting with members special awards:

* Highly Commended (Colour Prints) – Slow Morning Cat Bay – Vicki Moritz
* Highly Commended (Mono Prints) – Iesha – Cuc Chong
* Highly Commended (Projected) – On the Way Home – Felix Shparberg

Colour Prints

Placing	Club	Points
First	Eastern Suburbs	76
Second	Waverley	73
Third	Berwick	71

Mono Prints

Placing	Club	Points
First	Waverley	76
Second	Eastern Suburbs	75
Third	Berwick	71

Projected Images

Placing	Club	Points
First	Eastern Suburbs	75
Second	Berwick	72
Third	Waverley	71

Printed images of the month

A grade: Anthony Yap – Zohra

B grade: Jason Roy Price – Kea

EDI images of the month

A grade: Brian Bethune – The Father

B grade: Jason Roy Price – Eye of the Beholder

The 24th Eastern Interclub Competition was held on Wednesday 17th September 2014 with a total of 8 clubs taking part. Once again WCC’s members have risen to the challenge with their fantastic photography and I have to say that there is the usual mix of our fine photographers in the pot including Craig Francisco who as always has done brilliantly as has Tuck Leong. But, before we get to the results I want to add a special mention for Anne Ramus with her image Seagulls Stacked Up, well done Anne in what was I think, your first interclub. Also there were a few other newer members taking part this time such as Geoff Shaw with his image City of Gold, Oswin Antio’s image Living on a Prayer and Hai Thi Nguyen with Morning’s Taggerty.

It is unfortunate that I couldn’t make the Eastern Interclub myself however, I have been given the results by the President and all I can say is a huge WELL DONE to those people whose images were representing Waverley. Particularly the members listed above who also achieved individual awards. The results are as follows:

The Overall Club Results

As you can see, all the individual club members image scores are added together to give a score in each section for each club. Then each section is added together to give an overall club score. Therefore, with 179 points WCC were overall winners along with 61 points in Small Prints and 59 points in EDI making WCC top scorers in both of those sections. We also had 59 points in Large Prints making WCC 4th with 1st place only being 3 points ahead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Results

I’ve only listed the members scores here for those with individual awards, to see everyone’s scores please see the gallery HERE 

Large Prints – Craig Francisco – North Wharf Sunset – MERIT

Small Prints – Anne Ramus – Seagulls Stacked Up  – MERIT

Small Prints – Craig Francisco – Sleeping Giants – SECOND PLACE

EDI – Tuck Leong – Concentration – SECOND PLACE

Some of you may have noticed that there are several blank spaces in in the Small Print section of the results.  This has been the case for several years now and many clubs find it difficult to get members to print small versions of their images and therefore don’t enter. VAPS also had a small print section in their interclub competition until last year when they dropped this section. The small print section was used when printing was only really available in labs and amateur photographers didn’t have access to larger format printing as they do today. With that in mind, I am told that the Eastern Interclub will be dropping the small print section for 2015 and replacing it with a monochrome section.

Again, well done top all the WCC members that took part.

Dave Sumner

Printed images of the month

A grade: Ray Anderson – PuffinEels

B grade: Hai Thi Nguyen – Morning Light

EDI images of the month

A grade: Tuck Leong – White-tailed Sea Eagle No.2

B grade: Richard Pilcher – Chameleon

Printed images of the month

A grade: Rosie Armitage – A quiet street

B grade: Geoff Shaw – Shunned

EDI images of the month

A grade: Felix Shparberg – Morning

B grade: Ian Hansen – Fevela, Rio de. Janeiro

For over 40 years the Photographic Society of America (PSA) has had a division for Photo Travel images, it is their definition that we are using for our November ‘Photo Travel’ competition.

In 2013 the PSA revised the wording of their definition to be:

“A Photo Travel image must express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, its distinctive features or culture in its natural state. There are no geographical limitations. Closeup pictures of people or objects must include distinguishable environment. Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. Conversion to full monochrome is acceptable. Derivations, including infrared, are unacceptable.”

We are now using this version for our November competition, there is no substantive difference between the pre-2013 and current definitions.

Both versions of the definition include the “natural state” qualifier and we have received a couple of queries as to what that means. Fortunately there was an article in the PSA Journal explaining the full definition which clarified:

“…in its natural state means that what we see is what we shoot. Like Photojournalism and Nature, Photo Travel is essentially a documentary media; our goal is to portray the truth of a situation. When we change or arrange elements in a scene for photography, to that extent our photograph becomes untrue. Consider set-up shoots. They usually are well planned; but the final result is not a real record of what existed there. What to look for in a photo travel photograph with people is spontaneity. Set-ups are the enemy of spontaneity. You may have good results with a set-up; if so, enter that image in an open division. Keep your photo travel images a natural state.”

The full article (PDF 1MB) is worth reading to get a complete understanding of the definition.

Judge: Alfred Zommers

Printed images of the month

A grade: John Mallett – Kestrel

B grade: John Podger – Mud, Mud, Grorious Mud

EDI images of the month

A grade: Vicki Moritz – Mentone1

B grade: Richard Pilcher – Synchronized Scratching

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

Judge: J-P Weibel

Printed images of the month

A grade: Vicki Moritz – Marysville Dam Reflections

B grade: Jason Roy Price – Inside the bean

EDI images of the month

A grade: Stephen Edmonds – Riding through

B grade: Stuart Barrie – silhouette of a goddess

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