I’m pleased to announce that two members of WCC have achieved excellent results in the Sutherland Shire National Exhibition of Photography competition for 2013. As you may well guess, one of them is Vicki Moritz who always does well in anything she enters and in this case she has achieved FIRST PLACE, the mark of an excellent photographer. The other is Anthony Yap who is just up and coming in the club and there is just no holding Anthony Back. He has huge enthusiasm for all things photography and we all should look to him for inspiration in the coming years, another excellent photographer in the making. Anthony has achieved two Commended awards in this competition.

Please see the details below:

“Don’t put up with rubbish” and “Don’t put rubbish up” are the two lessons Cuc Chong learnt from this Lakes Entrance image.

In preparation for the landscape competition in May this year, I set out to take some landscape images. We arrived in Bairnsdale in the late afternoon and a local told us that Ninety Mile Beach is great for sunrise and sunset, so we decided that we would head there early the next morning.

When we arrived at the Ninety Mile Beach, I was disappointed as the scene was filled with endless sand and water, there wasn’t anything interesting. I decided to climb up the sand dune and the scenery wasn’t much better. I remembered Pete Davies said “make the extraordinary out of the ordinary” at the end of the beginners course, so I decided to apply that insight.

I set my camera on the tripod as low as possible, using gradual neutral density 0.6 to balance the light between the sky and the foreground. I was too excited about capturing the emerging light and that I didn’t see the rubbish that lay within the shot.

During the competition judging night, I was hammered left, right and centre about how a good image was ruined by the rubbish within. Hence lesson 101 ‘Don’t put up with rubbish’.

I could have removed the rubbish during post production, but at that stage my editing skill in Photoshop or Lightroom was limited and I couldn’t rescue the image from its fallen grace. I should have been more patient and waited until my editing skills were good enough to remove the rubbish. The image has been published without correction and it’s irreversible, hence lesson 102 ‘Don’t put rubbish up’.

Editor’s Note: Irrespective of the “rubbish” in the foreground, the WCC selection panel for the Eastern Interclub 2013 competition entered Cuc’s photo in the EDI section where it was awarded a merit. Well done Cuc, not only did you learn two valuable lessons but also a merit in an inter club competition against very good competition. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Here’s another in this wonderful series of ‘The Story Behind the Photo’, this time is the turn of Anthony Yap. Enjoy!

Thanks

Dave Sumner
WCC Secretary

Here’s another of my long winded stories about a photo, if anyone else has anything that they would like to tell us about then please email it to me with a jpeg image of the ‘Photo’ in question and I’ll ensure it gets place on the website and the Facebook page.

Thanks

Dave Sumner
WCC Secretary

Here’s another story behind the photo, please feel free to comment. You will be seeing more of these as time goes on.

Dave Sumner
WCC Secretary

This article is about one of the Photojournalism Competition Winners by Ray Anderson. It’s interesting reading, take a look.

Thanks

Dave Sumner
WCC Secretary

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Waverley Camera Club, Incorporated – Registered No. A 0023863S
8:00PM. Tue 15th October, 2013

The Annual general meeting of the Waverley Camera Club will be held at the date and time stated above and at the location below:
Wadham House,
52 Wadham Parade,
Mt Waverley,
Victoria 3149

Please take careful note the following;
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Any nomination for a committee position must be fully completed and delivered to the Secretary before the commencement of the AGM.

Nomination forms will also be available at Wadham House from Monday 9th Sep 13.

Proxy voting is possible for agenda items provided that the person who wishes to vote via proxy has completed and signed the Proxy Voting Form and forwarded this to the secretary via post, hand or electronic means no later than midnight on the 8th Oct 2013. Any forms received after this date or not completed correctly will be discounted from any voting.
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Voting at the Annual General Meeting, only members who are financial for the year 2013 will be eligible to vote at the AGM.

If anyone has any items that they wish discussed at the AGM, please advise the Secretary or President ASAP but no later than the 8th Oct 2013.

David Sumner
WCC Secretary