Judge: Gary Smith
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: John Crawford – Outward Bound
Advanced: Sim Chong – Tea is always hot
Open EDI
Intermediate: Michael Bucklow – Arise
Advanced: Sim Chong – Horsham Bridge
Open Print
Intermediate: Colleen Singleton – Standing Tall
Advanced: Trace O’Rourke – Road from Hotham
Set subject definition:
This is to include object or person that is easily recognizable as belonging to a railway.
Last night we held our AGM, prior to the workshop with Albert Tay. The minutes of the AGM, together with the President’s and Treasurer’s Reports, will be available in due course, but I did want to take this opportunity to provide a quick update around changes in the Committee.
The following people were elected to the positions stated below:
And as general committee members:
As you can see, I have stepped down as President after 3 years, but took up the supporting role to Ian Coombs, our new President. I’ll take this opportunity to congratulate Ian and welcome him into the role, and thank him for being prepared to take it on.
I said a lot of ‘thank you’s last night in my President Report, and I will not repeat them here – suffice it to say, we are lucky to have a great team, with considerable depth and experience, supporting our cub, and it great to see that largely retained.
I did want to call out our two retiring committee members, Paul Spence and Jen Fawkes. Paul has steered our Creative group from inception to where it is today over several years. Anyone who has been involved in that group would have to be impressed not only with Paul’s knowledge, skill and craft, but also his passion for this subject. He has put Waverley ‘on the map’ as far as creative photography endeavours are concerned. Jen has been the instigator of several great programs and initiatives at our club, and currently runs ‘Street Beat’, the Portfolio Group and the the clubs involved in the PSA Competitions. Jen also organised our weekend away this year, although was unable to attend due to COVID. Jen has worked really hard for us bringing us new and interesting initiatives that challenge us in different ways. We look forward to her continuing to lead some of these groups, albeit off the committee – serving as a great example that you do not have to be on the committee to help the club drive things forward. On behalf of the members and committee, I’d like to thank Jen and Paul for their service and contribution.
I’d also like to thank all of you, our members, for giving me the privilege of leadership over the last three years. Thank you for your friendship, and most importantly, thank you for your support. I am now looking forward to working with Ian and the team as we move forward.
Kind regards, Russell.
Below is some information from Albert on tonight’s workshop (after our AGM), do come along and find something new to do at home!
Workshop Summary
Do you have enough photography ideas to keep yourself busy during weekends or rainy days? Albert Tay has done a lot and will be sharing the secrets behind his Levitation and Multiplicity photos. He will talk about the preparation, setup, tips and go through the post processing (if time permits).
Workshop Outline
The final results for the PSA Interclub competitions for 2021-22 are in and we have done quite well for our first time entering:
| Division | Group | Total points | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open | F | 177 | 3rd |
| Creative | B | 201 | 1st |
| Nature | C | 182 | 9th |
| Travel | B | 172 | 1st |
| Photojournalism | B | 178 | 3rd |
Clubs start out in the lowest group in each division and the top clubs are automatically moved up to the next level for the following year. As can be seen we will be moving up a few groups, however the division are slightly different for the 2022-2023 year.
In addition the images in each round that received a merit are judged again to determine the best of show images. Congratulations to Vicki and Xiaobo for these images which received an honourable mention in the end of year:
Vicki Moritz – Family Portrait
Xiaobo Yu – Beijing Front Gate
All of our entries can be viewed in our PSA Interclub 2021-22 galleries.
Thank you to all that submitted images for our creative interclub with the Geelong Camera Club Creative Group.
Congratulation to the first place images:
Stephen Hilton – Waverley – Eggsistential Crisis
Geoff Shaw – Waverley – Chromatic abandon
We have received the results from the 2022 APS Australian Cup, with 343 points we placed 15th.
Our two highest scored images were from Sim Chong:
All of our entries can be viewed in our Australian Cup 2022 gallery.
The full catalog showing the entries from all clubs can be downloaded (a 28MB PDF) at Results for competitions in 2022 APS Australian Cup.
Judge: Stella Loftus-Hills
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: John Crawford – Cottontop Tamarin
Advanced: Steve Hilton – Pepe
Open EDI
Intermediate: Nihal Basnayake – Moon and Light Trails
Advanced: Tim Keane – Bark Painting
Open Print
Intermediate: Jenny Hartman – Afternoon Meeting
Advanced: John Noble – Lake Eyre mound springs
Creative EDI
Helen Warnod – On the sandy shores
Set subject definition:
An image of living animals, birds or insects either confined or in their natural environment. Studio style images of animals are acceptable.
In what was a tough competition, with many very high calibre images, last night WCC came in 3rd overall behind Knox (2nd) and Rosana (1st) at the 2022 monochrome interclub run by the Knox Photographic Society
We had some award winners…
Third place EDI: Julie Madders – THE MESSENGER
Second place EDI: Sim Chong – Hallway
… and …
First place print: Trace O’Rourke – Path to where
Well done to all involved, and congratulations to the award winners.
All of our entries can be viewed in the EDI and Print galleries.
Join us tonight on Zoom for a workshop with Naomi Sherman on Ugly-Beautiful – Making canned stew look delicious.
Tuesday 19 July 2022 – 7:30pm via Zoom
Judge: Matt Irwin
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: Alan Scott – Beach Cricket
Advanced: George Skarbek – Wind and dust
Open EDI
Intermediate: Jill Anderson – Identifying the flower
Advanced: Geoff Shaw – Cormorant fisher 2
Open Print
Intermediate: Jenny Adams – Corduroy Landscape Ord River
Advanced: Alan Bennett – Landing a kite
Set subject definition:
Contre-jour (French for “against daylight”) is a photographic technique in which the camera is pointing directly toward a source of light.
Contre-jour produces backlighting of the subject. The effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes and emphasizes lines and shapes.