Christmas Dinner Update…

Andy Armitage

Hi all, the main purpose of this email is to bring you all up to date with the arrangements for Christmas Dinner.

We will celebrate Christmas together, at dinner on Friday the 11th of December at Madeline’s at Jells.  Madeline’s is located within the precinct of Jells Park where parking is available either opposite the restaurant or beside it. We have booked out the main function room which I believe is called the Alexander Room.  Suggested arrival time is, say, between 6.30pm and 7.00 pm for a dinner service which might begin at, say, 7.30pm.  The restaurant would like us to make full payment, and where possible to tell them what we would like to eat, before we arrive.  They also ask that if U have any food allergies they be told about it so they can sort the issue out in the kitchen before we arrive.  This, they say, makes for a quick and easy service.  So, given we don’t have many full meetings left, I must ask anyone who has not yet made a payment to see Rodelle our Treasurer for 2010, and please do that as soon as you can. The full cost for the 3 course dinner is $50 per head not including drinks.  This is a strictly no BYO venue. Rosie and I have eaten at Madeline’s and we were impressed with the level of service and indeed the taste of the food.

Your choice of meal can be made from the menu on the blog site but for those of you who, like me, have trouble with anything even vaguely electronic here it is again;

Entree – selection of either …
Pumpkin Soup
Lamb Kofta or
Crispy Calamari

Main Course – selection of either …
Fish of the day
Fillet Steak
Fettuccini or
Chicken Breast

Dessert – selection of either
Chocolate Addiction
Sticky Date Pudding
Trio of Ice cream

We have a list of 36 members who say they would be there which makes for a right crowd.  If anyone else is still thinking about it don’t wait too long.

Cheers Andy Armitage

End of year competition 2009

Pete Davies

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

Christmas Dinner…Update

Andy Armitage

Hi folks.  Great response to the Christmas thingy on the 11th of December.  16 acceptances – I have now been able to get my hands on a Dinner menu suitable for a function taking about 4 hours;  But if U haven’t responded yet please do so quickly as I must BOOK this real soon. Here goes!

On arrival
Pita Bread with oils (?)

Entree selection
Pumpkin Soup or
Lamb Kofta with jasmine rice or
Crispy Calamari with the lot

Main
Fish of the day or
Fillet Steak (250g) with mushrooms and veg or
Fettuccini with mushrooms, white wine, cream and parsley or
Chicken breast with feta and sun dried tomatoes with a cream sauce

Desert
Chocolate addiction or
Sticky Date Pudding or
Trio of Ice cream

This is a strictly No BYO folks – under any circumstances but there is a substantial beverage list and what the restaurant quaintly calls a ‘beverage package option’.  We can talk about that later.
Cheers Andy Armitage

Competition Night – Tuesday 6th Oct 09

Dave Sumner

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

Point Nepean Sunset – Sunday 4th October 2009

Dave Sumner

A quick message from the President, Pete regarding the club visit to Point Nepean on Sunday 4th October 2009.

Sunday the 4th of October is the next of this years exciting outings. This time around we will be visiting Point Nepean.

For those that don’t know Point Nepean is at the end of the Mornington Peninsula. The plan is to be there for the sunset which we believe is at 7.20pm. Roger Howell has very kindly arranged for the Parks people to hang around for us to shoot the sunset as they would normally have booted out all park visitors well before then.

There is a cost of $20 per person (for the bus) for them to do this for us but as the bus is normally $16 it doesn’t seem like such a rip off. We must have a minimum of 10 people on the bus and a maximum of 40. The cost per person does not change based on the numbers we have.

Once you have said you want to go you are up for $20 per person regardless of whether you show up or not.

We must be at the visitor centre by 4.45 sharp.

We will drive down with cars to the inside car park where we will be met by the park transport. That will take us to the Point and return us to the car park.Sunset is 1920 and they do want us to leave the park by 1930 or shortly afterwards. Should the weather be unsuitable there are arrangements for cancellation.

If you want to go then please rsvp with the number of people attending by 7pm next Tuesday (29th).

Pete

Cycles & Echoes

Dave Sumner

The workshop scheduled for the 15th of September will no longer be a Photoshop night. Instead we have the distinct pleasure of a presentation from profressional photographer David Williams.

David Williams M.Photog. FRPS ALPE is a very well respected wedding photographer who is going to present a talk entitled “Cycles and Echoes”. This presentation formed the keynote speech to about 400 international members of the Digital Wedding Forum at their annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in January 2009. It is about the importance of our family portrait collection – the visual history that we all possess. What are the gaps in it, and why do they exist?

Using a collection of images from various Art Collections, David picks out the essential communications and lesson to us as photographers. He then blends this into a short AV presentation of his own family’s photographic collection followed by a discussion of how we relate to images and their true value – the ‘minds eye view’. David will discuss, illustrate and demonstrate:

  • The truth of front-lighting, and the minimalization of retouching
  • The art and acquisition of story-telling detail miniatures
  • Discovering and appreciating Style over Trends
  • Broadening your horizons through Art, Design and Graphics
  • The age of Superb pigment ink printing – a return to the true artisan.

Amongst working Wedding/Portrait professionals, David is one of the most respected and beloved lecturers of his time, and spends more than half of every year training already practicing professional photographers in the UK, USA, Canada and Asia. As such we are extremely lucky to have David come to WCC.

The meeting will be held in the craft room at Mt Waverley Community Centre on the 15th September 2009 which is where we held the 4 Club competition earlier in the year. The evening will commence at 7:30pm and I ask that you please bring a plate as we are expecting guests from the Royal Photographic Society.

Pete Davies, WCC President

Member of the Month: Ron Weatherhead

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My apologies for the lack of the Member of the Month article, moving house made this quite difficult. This month the article focusses on a long standing member and current Secretary, Ron Weatherhead.

Self Portrait

We moved to Australia, with two young children, 25 years ago, having lived in England, Nigeria and Barbados. I taught Mathematics and later became an Actuary, but am now retired. I have been coming to Wadham House on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday since 1992. Photography had long been an interest, but it only became a real hobby after I joined the club. The club’s beginners’ course taught me B&W processing, and I spent hours in my blacked-out laundry trying to make images that were good enough for competitions. Not many were winners in those early years. The club was run by a small committed group and I did not contribute much until I took on the job of secretary. The newsletter editor role was added and I also wrote a monthly article for our local newspaper article featuring the winning competition shots.

Q. What sort of equipment you use and what you would like to own in an ideal world?

My first SLR was a Praktica, a good affordable camera made in the (former) East Germany. I got a Nikon F601 when I joined the club, then moved on to a Nikon D80. I use the 18-135mm kit lens, which does not have good reviews, but gets reasonable images with the help of Photoshop. I don’t really crave any fancy equipment, but would have liked the VR Nikon 18-200mm lens, but it was not available at the time.

Q. What sort of photography you like and where do you like to take pictures?

I like “found” images, not so keen on set-up shots. A camera is often with me when out and about, and most of my shots are taken quickly when I see something interesting. They tend to be of buildings, flowers, birds, etc, not many of people.

Heart of a Harley Eucalyptus

Q. How has the WCC changed since you joined?

The format of meetings is much the same as it always was, but the members are now a lot younger and there are more activities outside of the two main monthly meetings. Skills have also changed, mainly due to digital cameras and computers. We used to have members who specialised in B&W processing, cibachrome, slides, hand colouring etc, but now we rely on the computer. Digital photography is great, giving easy access to creativity, much better than spending hours in the darkroom!

Q. Who is your favourite photographer, why, and what is your favourite image?

I am a regular at the MGA, so get to see the works of Australian photographers and really like the B&W images of people like Olive Cotton, Max Dupain and David Moore.


Teacup Ballet – Olive Cotton


Meat Queue – Max Dupain


St Paul’s Cathedral – David Moore

One of my own favourite photos is this one of St Kilda Pier, taken not long before the building was burnt down and replaced by a similar one,

St Kilda Pier – before the fire