The Pakenham Camera Club is holding their 6th National Photographic Exhibition that is open to all residents of Australia.

Last year a few club members entered images to good result. If you are interested in entering images this year then be aware that entries close on Friday 16 July, a little over two weeks away.

Judging of the entires occurs on 31 July, with the exhibition on the weekend of 11-12 September. Like the recent Warragul National, we will be planning an outing for a nearby location on one of those days.

Printed images of the month

A grade: John Hadfield – Excited “E” String

B grade: Anne DiCarlo – Autumn Reflections

EDI images of the month

A grade: Pete Davies – Hazelwood

B grade: David Burton – Three Ride Spin Off

Waverley CC did rather well at the recent 4 Club where we won the aggregate for all three sections: digital, colour prints and monochrome prints. The other two interclubs we’ve just been in are the VAPS Interclub and the Camberwell Camera Club Mono Comp.

The VAPS Interclub is held once a year and is open to all Camera Clubs in Victoria. This year the exhibition of entries took place at the Muster in Apollo Bay. WCC finished mid table in each of the three sections. The entries are scored out of 15 points and each club gets to enter 5 images in each section.

• In the Novice section, WCC got 45 points. The winner, Geelong Camera Club, had 55.
• In the Open print section we received 45 points. The winner, Camberwell Camera Club, was awarded 57.
• In the EDI section Waverley got 50 points while the first placed club was Southern Suburbs Photo Society with 60.

The judging of the Camberwell Interclub took place last Monday night and the judge was the well known Adrian Smith.

Apart from Camberwell four other clubs were invited to participate. The other clubs were Geelong, Frankston, Doncaster and ourselves. When I arrived at Camberwell and saw who the other clubs were I thought we would be lucky if we didn’t finish last in each section (large, small and EDI – all monochrome). At the recent VAPS interclub those other four clubs would all have been in the top five or six clubs overall. On top of that Geelong and Frankston both have well over 100 members.

It came as a very pleasant surprise then that we finished equal first in the EDI section. We got 66 points along with Camberwell and Geelong. In the large print section we had 59 while the winner, Frankston, had 65. Small prints was won by Doncaster with 64 while we had 60. So overall, while we did come last we certainly didn’t disgrace ourselves. What was most pleasing was the number of people were able to muster to attend the evening on very short notice.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in these competitions either as entrants or attendees at the judging evenings.

The next interclub will be the Knox Monochrome Interclub – stay tuned for more details.

Cheers,
Pete

Printed images of the month

A grade: John Hadfield – The Gallery

B grade: Brian Bethune – Dramatic Effect

EDI images of the month

A grade: Jill Myers – Reflections

B grade: Diana Ferdinands – Twi-Lights

There are two external competitions that members might be interested in.

Entries close in June for the VIGEX International Photographic Print Salon 2010. As the name indicates, this is an international competition, yet based in Victoria, and it is recognised by international photographic societies. This prestige comes at a price, an entry price, however if 10 or more people from the club enter, a discount is available.

Another competition, closing at the end of May, is The People & Planet International Photo Competition 2010. The aim of this competition is to select 55 photos to be published in the 2011 People & Planet: Social Justice & Environment Diary & Calendar, which raises money for Australian non-profit organisations. The top three photos receive a cash prize.

Tomorrow night is the first of our monthly comps for 2010 and don’t forget that the competition nights are now held in the Craft Room at the Mt Waverley Community Centre. It’s a hop, skip and a jump from Wadham House on the corner of Miller Cres and Stephensons Road.

Please don’t park in the Wadham House car park as you would normally do as we are not renting Wadham House on the night. There is plenty of parking at the community centre.

This will be the deadline for the March comp so bring along your prints on the night. Digital copies of the prints and the EDI entries must be bought along on disk or emailed by this date also.

Also stay tuned for more information about the outing to Cranbourne Botanical Gardens on Sunday the 7th of Feb.

G’day Folks,

It’s almost end of year comp time again. This year things are slightly different:

• You can enter up to 3 COLOUR prints in the Colour Prints section.
• You can enter up to 3 MONOCHROME prints in the Mono Prints section.
• You can enter up to 3 EDI in the EDI section.
• EDI’s can be either colour or mono – they all compete against each other.

All of the entries MUST have been entered into one of the WCC 2009 monthly competitions. All of the entries MUST be entered into the same section in which they were originally entered. For eg: you quite like your EDI entry from the April comp – it must be entered as an EDI, you cannot print it and enter it as a print.

All prints must be in with Albert by this Tuesday (Cup Day). All EDI’s must be submitted by Thursday the 5th of November. To submit an EDI you can either tell comp@waverleycameraclub.org the name of the entry and the month it was entered or send it again and use 12 for the month in the file name.

The President’s Trophy is a bit of fun that we have every year. You can enter up to 4 EDI’s to the President’s Trophy online Gallery anytime until the 30th of November. The subject for this year’s comp is “One Amongst Many”.

Simply email your entries to comp@waverleycameraclub.org and make sure that you point out they are for the President’s Trophy.

Cheers,
Pete

All of the images in the October Competition print gallery and the October competition EDI gallery have been updated with the awards and judges comments.

***NOTE*** The judge used the term KISS, extensively on the night and in his comments. For those of you who missed his expalnation, KISS stands for ‘K’eep ‘I’t ‘S’imple ‘S’tupid.

The subject for tonight’s competition is ‘BLUE’ and there may be a few surprise winners.

Don’t forget that November’s entries are due tonight and as usual Albert and Peter will be collecting your submissions whether they be a print or EDI on a disk. If you are sending EDI entries via email then don’t forget the naming convention and sizes.

See you tonight