Judge: Mandarine Montgomery
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: Kirsten Morton – Flowers
Advanced: Vicki Moritz – Norfolk Island graveyard
Open EDI
Intermediate: John Crawford – Mother and Child
Advanced: Jen Fawkes – The Sweeper
Open Print
Intermediate: Colleen Singleton – Crazy staircase
Advanced: Trace O’Rourke – The Train Man
Set subject definition:
Images taken in a cemetery. There are no limitations on editing.
For the September outing, we are going to the 10th Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
This year’s festival features more than 2000 works by some of the world’s biggest photography names. Headline exhibitions include:
| Time: | Thursday 14th September 2023, 10am to 5pm (or earlier) |
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| How to get there: | By public transport: Train to Ballarat from Southern Cross Station (around 90 minutes) By Car: Around 90 minutes, there should be off-street parking and paid parking |
| Meeting Point: | 10:15am at Ballarat Train Station, just a few minutes walk to the Festival Hub. |
| Ticket: | Please purchase your ticket to the festival online before September 14 (Single day ticket: $25 Adult / $20 Concession) |
RSVP: By email to Jennifer Sui before 12th September 2023.
Last night the 4 Club presentation night was hosted by Camberwell, with Camberwell, Caulfield, Maroondah & ourselves competing for honours. Nigel Beresford (from Warragul) was the judge. The other clubs were well represented in-person and the event was broadcast to 100 participants live.
I am pleased to advise everyone that Waverley came out on top again, and took home the 4 Club trophy!
We were very strong in both the EDI sections with several award-winning images, but it was the overall strength of all our entries which enabled us to take home the honours.
Congratulations to everyone whose images represented our club, with special recognition to the following award winners:
Colour EDI – WCC was 1st overall
Merit – Marlene Chaithra – Fruit Splash 1 – 17pts
3rd – Jill Shaw – Birds At Sunset – 18 pts
2nd – Rebecca Kashyap – Take A Seat – 19 pts
Mono EDI – WCC was 1st overall
2nd – Tim Keane – Despair – 19pts
Merit – Ray Stabey – Arctic Walrus – 17pts
Merit – Trace O’Rourke – Snow Gums Bogong Plains Three – 17pts
All of our entries can be viewed in the 4-Club 2023 galleries.
For our August outing, we are going to capture sunset around Webb Bridge. If you are keen, you can stay for night exposure as there are so many beautiful spots for reflections nearby.
| Time: | Saturday 26th August 2023; 5pm or earlier (sunset time is 5:53 pm) |
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| Meeting place: | The far end of Webb Bridge, near Yarra Edge IGA (54 River Esplanade, Docklands 3008) |
| How to get there: | Public transport (train and then walk or tram) or car (there are plenty of parking garage with weekend rates) |
| Camera gear: | Lens – Wide angle or 24-105mm Tripod is needed for sunset or night capture Filters are recommended Spare batteries if you plan to stay longer |
RSVP to Jennifer Sui via email by Thursday 24th August 2023.
Thank you to all that submitted images for our creative interclub with the Geelong Camera Club Creative Group.
Congratulation to the first place images:
Sim Chong – Waverley – Rainbow Tree
Anthony Yap – Waverley – Morning Rest
All entries can be viewed in the Surreal Landscapes and Open galleries.
Judge: Mario Mirabile
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: Kirsten Morton – Autumn Still Life
Advanced: Marlene Chaitra – Autumn reflections
Open EDI
Intermediate: Leanne Poole – Walking on water
Advanced: Stephen Jude – Light through the trees
Open Print
Intermediate: John Crawford – Formation Break
Advanced: Alan Bennett – Just winging it
Set subject definition:
An image in which the dominant content is associated with the season of Autumn. (APJA)
We have received the results from the 2023 Monochrome Interclub competition run by the Knox Photographic Society where we came 4th place overall.
Four of our entries received the maximum of 15 points:
Ray Stabey – Arctic Walrus
Stephen Jude – Manhattan Bridge
Kerry McFarlane – Turn and Burn
Tuck Leong – Black Reflection
All of our entries can be viewed in the Knox Monochrome 2023 galleries.
The opening of our exhibition went well tonight. So good to see all the prints on the wall looking so good.
If you didn’t make it tonight do drop by during the week. I expect we could also open the gallery for a short period next Tuesday night.
Great work everyone and special thanks to the hanging team and others who put to do various tasks. Too many to mention but special thanks to John Noble who did a lot of the mounts and many of the prints.
The displayed images can also be viewed in our Scapes Exhibition 2023 gallery.
Our workshop next week is both on a different day and a different time:
Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 7:00pm
Mike Langford and Jackie Rankin are master photographers from New Zealand who will be covering the processing of black and white images.
After a very busy first 6 months of this year, I’ve finally got back to putting StreetBeat back on the agenda. There are some changes and I’m trialing something different. The aim of all of this is learning to ‘see’ so the arrangements and format will be different from what you might be used to.
StreetBeat will run on the last Friday of the month at 10am, at a location in Melbourne that will be accessible by public transport. (so mark your calendars). The location will be announced in Waverley Watson each month.
The format will be a little different, so instead of just wandering around a location, participants will be given a theme to look for. This might be an art element (a color, shape), shadows, words, people, reflections or light. Participants will be given an hour and a coffee spot for us all to reunite for some social time.
Afterwards people are welcome to continue on their street photography journey or head off home. New photographers are always welcome and we will try to link you up with someone that can help you.
I hope you will join me to get to know Melbourne better and to see Melbourne through fresh eyes. If you have any further questions please just ask.
And yes, the first StreetBeat will be this month, on Friday 28th July 2023 at 10am on the steps of the State Library for our first challenge.