30 Monday Jun 2014
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Camping Under the Stars – (c) Mark Gee
Interested in astrophotography? Mark Gee is giving a talk entitled “The art of astrophotography” this Thursday 3 July at 7:30 pm, in the Huntleigh Girl Guiding Centre, Silverstream, Crofton Downs. More details at http://www.gleanreport.com/events/mike-gee/
In 2013, Mark won the prestigious Astronomy
Photographer of the Year. His work is stunning – just have a look at his website http://theartofnight.com.
22 Sunday Jun 2014
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Our guest speaker at the KCPS Meeting on Monday 23 June is Richard Young. Richard’s talk is entitled “African Wildlife and Landscape Photography”. You can see some of his work on his website, and we understand he will be bringing along some of his prints to share.
If you’re interested in Nature and Landscape work this will be well worth making the time to attend.
The annual Frank Hinchcliff competition is in honour of one of the founders and first President of the Waikanae Camera Club, the forerunner to our Kapiti Coast Photographic Society. The July 2009 KCPS newsletter included an article on Frank Hinchcliff written by Hugh Scott, which is also available as a one-pager and well worth a read.
The rules for the Frank Hinchcliff competition are simple (and available as part of our overall competition rules via https://kcps.org.nz/membership/ as a pdf)”
“For the Frank Hinchcliff competition in June or July a member can submit one or two Prints. As with the Salons, there is no set theme. The entries must not have been submitted to a previous KCPS Salon or Frank Hinchcliff competition. The images must also have been captured within the last two years.”
To enter – just bring your one or two matted prints along in an envelope, together with a sheet of paper giving your name and the titles, to the KCPS meeting on Monday 14 July. The competition will be judged by Bruce Girdwood on Monday 28 July.
10 Tuesday Jun 2014
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Selecting the Triptych Print
The dismal weather meant attendance was down a bit last evening for our competition selection for the Wellington Interclub to be held at the end of August. Full details of this year’s competition are at http://wic.org.nz/2014.
We did manage to select five prints for the subjects of panorama, abstract, triptych, portrait and monochromatic. .
However, we need more entries for the five very general digital image categories of emotion, natural, active, fluid and situation. We’ll need to take along up to twenty (20) images for each of those categories, so that we can choose the best match on the night when the exact topic for each category is announced.
Please email Ian Linning any additional digital images you want to be considered – specifying what category they apply to. Images should be max of 1920 pixels wide, max of 1080 pixels high, sRGB space. We’d like them by the end of this coming weekend please (18 June). Thanks.
