Tonight is the 23rd Eastern Interclub Competition held at Maroondah Photographic Society’s rooms, details below. Please come along and support Waverley as we have 15 of our images competing against other clubs images. There will be a judging of the images followed by supper and a chance to see what other clubs are doing, so don’t miss the opportunity.
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;
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.
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.
The Sunday outing rapidly approaches yet again, this time it’s a trip to Ballarat for the Ballarat Foto Biennale. There are loads and loads of exhibitions happening in Ballarat and the surrounding area for the next three weeks and it’s always worth the trip.
Meet at 9am at the corner of Sturt St and Dawson St South directly across from the church. The plan is to see as much as possible on the day. It is impossible to see everything so visiting the website and planning your day would be a good move.
For those interested in making a detour on the way home the sunset at Dog Rocks near Geelong could be very worthwhile.
To get to Dog Rocks take the Midland Hwy and head towards Geelong.
Near Batesford turn right onto Dog Rocks Rd, you can also turn on to Blackall Rd which becomes Dog Rocks Rd. Then you will see the granite outcrops on your right on top of the rise.
You can park off the side of the road adjacent to the rocks. Single wire farm fence, walk of 10-500 metres depending on which bits you go to. The familiar tree and nearby rocks are barely 10 metres from the road.
Twas raining when I walked out to my car at 05.10am for the 1 1/4 hour trip to Murchison Gap. I knew the traffic would be light at that time in the morning and I just prayed that the weather at the meeting place would be better. I went to fill up with fuel at the Shell servo and standing with the nozzle in my fuel tank ready, I realised that there was no attendant to start the pump working. Just my luck that he’d picked that moment to take a toilet break. 15 minutes later I was on my way, armed with a cup of coffee but now at least 10 minutes behind schedule. I had a clear run through Melbourne and onto the Hume which was also pretty devoid of traffic and it stayed that way until around 4 km from the turn off at Broadford. I could see lights behind me catching me up and about 500 meters before the turn off, a red Land-rover Discovery tore past me and about 10 meters ahead of me swerved into my lane and turned left where I was turning. This idiot then promptly held me up by driving at 55kph all the way to Murchison Gap where I turned off to the lookout. This and the attendant at the servo had put me 20 minutes behind schedule and the light was breaking through when I got out of my car at 7am.
There were another two cars at the lookout and I saw Cuc, TI and a few others and a voice from the half light told me that Craig Francisco was also there. It was raining and the view was flat and grey, umbrellas were the equipment of the moment and the talk was slowly getting around to “no sunrise” and “I hear breakfast calling”. But like I always say, you can’t judge the weather in Victoria and before we knew it the rain had stopped and the sky started to colour up, so we had ourselves a semi-sunrise. I say semi because we never actually saw the sun, only the light and its rays poking through the clouds. Unfortunately the sunrise was short lived and it soon started to grey over again and it rained again. It was at this point that people announced their departure and even after about another 30 minutes Craig and I also headed off for some food at Broadford.
The Semi-SunriseStill in My Shorts Though!!!
After breakfast at the bakery and with more rain looking imminent, Craig said he was going home and I set off back towards Strath Creek and on to Flowerdale. I got a few ordinary landscape shots here but when I stopped off at the side of King Parrot Creek for a walk along the banks, I was startled by something in the water. I saw that it was a mammal of some sort and it had gone under before I could even touch my camera. But then suddenly up it popped onto a branch at the opposite side of the creek. I fired off two shots, clunk clunk, no light and 1 sec each shot and both were blurred so I quickly whacked up the ISO to whatever number it happened to stop on which was 3,200 and I fired away. I got 8 shots before it disappeared and luckily one or two were in focus.
King Parrot Creek
I then went on the Kinglake and Mason’s Waterfall in Kinglake National Park where Parks Victoria have done a great job of making the bush like a sidewalk on Swanston Street but more importantly the viewing platform is useable (if not a little over ambitious) for a change and you can see the entire waterfall. A visit to the café in Kinglake and then a very wet and dreary drive home was all that was left of the day.
Mine and the others images can be seen on the gallery HERE
Thank you to all that made the journey and I’m sorry the sunset didn’t work this time. There’s always next time.
There is an exhibition being held at Melbourne Camera Club from 12pm – 5pm on Sat 3rd and Sun 4th August 2013. Please see the poster below for more details.
We had a great turn out at the Knox Interclub again almost outnumbering the host club. We waited with anticipation as the slideshows of images from 8 clubs that had been judged by Duane Eakes from Ivanhoe slowly churned away in alphabetical order, our only saving grace being that Williamstown were after us. Novice prints were through and the HC’s and place getters were announced and with 15 points and first place ‘Wiseman’ by Rosie Armitage, we were ecstatic and so pleased for Rosie. The Open prints churned away next and again there were some exceptional images but this time a Highly Recommended for Vicki Moritz with ‘A Quick Look Back’ and then in second place ‘Pull Up’ by Dave Sumner.
Next were the EDI images and the novice section with Highly Commended for Craig Francisco for ‘Peek-a-Boo’ and followed by the Open EDI with another Highly Commended for Alan Scott with ‘Mangrove Trees’.
A great night was had by all and some great networking was done and thank you very much to all that came and supported the club. Full scores of all of our images can be found online in our gallery HERE
The overall results were as follows:
Club Name, Novice Prints, Open Prints, Novice EDI, Open EDI
Thanks to Knox for inviting us to enter the competition. A big thanks goes to Vicki, Tuck, Paul and myself for being the board that chose the images with a very special thank you to Donna who not only helped choose the images but did all of the collecting and collating of images. Also thanks again to all who participated and came along on the night.
For this Sunday outing we will be shooting another sunrise, this time at the Murchison Gap Lookout and then at around 10am we will meet at Strath Creek for brunch and a decision for the afternoons shoot for which there are several possibilities. We will meet at the lookout at 6.45 for sunrise which should be at 7.15am on Sunday 4th Aug 2013 and the angle will be pretty much straight across Strath Creek (see sun map below).
I intend to visit Strath Creek on the weekend prior to the outing to check it out and I will provide more information next week. There is a map below for directions but just head on up the Hume Highway until you get to the Broadford turn off and turn right. For those who are not so well travelled, the easiest way to the Hume is along the Monash to the city and after the tunnels, head towards the airport (Tullamarine) and then the Hume highway is shortly after the Sydney Road turnoff. Beware, there are tolls involved in going this way. Alternatively you will need to go up through Heidelberg towards Greensborough and take the Metropolitan Ring Road to the Hume Highway.
The judging of the Knox B&W Interclub Competition will be held on Wednesday 24th July at 7.45pm Sharp.
The mentoring group will not run on this Wednesday, instead we encourage members to attend this event to hear another perspective on images.
For the benefit of the newer members, WCC takes part in several interclub competitions throughout the year and we submit images from members to represent the club against several other camera clubs. There are 5 images in each category and there are 4 categories as follows: Open EDI, Novice EDI, Open Print and Novice Print.
Going to the judging of these events is not only really beneficial in seeing what other clubs are producing but also to get to meet other clubs members and do some networking. The evening will see members from all of the clubs viewing the images and listening to the judge and hoping that we do well. Then the host club provides refreshments and you can view all of the prints around the room. Hopefully we will see many of you there, the location details are below.
