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2021 Annual Awards Dinner

27 Saturday Nov 2021

Posted by Greg in Competitions, Meeting Report, News

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KCPS rounded off another active year with the annual awards dinner, held at the Paraparaumu Golf Club. The presentations of the annual club awards for best overall salon results was topped off with the Best of Year competition judged by Chris Parkin.

The photographers who had most overall points across the four 2021 salons in each grade and category were:

TrophyWinnerRunner Up
Novice Combined Print & DigitalAni McManawayMalcolm Bayliss
Intermediate DigitalGraham LonsdaleIan Yeoman
Intermediate PrintIan YeomanEva Petro
Advanced DigitalJacky ChallisCarol Molineux
Advanced PrintCarol MolineuxGreg Whitfield

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up, and of course to the entire membership for creating such a great set of images over the year.

The highlight of the evening was the Best of Year competition, where club members submit their best print and digital image for commentary and ranking by the guest judge. In addition to deciding the winners and runners up, Chris included a few special mentions while delivering his comments:

  • Carol Molineux for “Dispute” – Print
  • Alison Viskovic for “Grey Power” – Print
  • Eva Petro for “Hellebore Triptych” – Digital
  • Neil Gordon for “Morning Shower” – Digital
“Dispute” – © Carol Molineux
“Grey Power” – © Alison Viskovic
“Morning Shower” – © Neil Gordon
“Helebore Tryptych” – © Eva Petro
Best of Year Special Mentions Gallery

And on to the winners and runners up:

Best of Year AwardPhotographerImage Title
Print WinnerDavid YockneyInto the Desert
Print Runner UpBarry CullingHeron Pair
Digital WinnerCarol MolineuxGodwits Return
Digital Runner UpGreg WhitfieldOffice Construction
Digital Runner Up – “Office Construction” © Greg Whitfield
Digital Winner – “Godwits Return” © Carol Molineux
Print Runner Up – “Heron Pair” © Barry Culling
Print Winner – “Into the Desert” © David Yockney
Best of Year Gallery

The evening rounded off what has been a very active year for KCPS with field trips, salons, workshops, and a wider variety of speakers. Below are a few images from the night.

Best of Year Prints
Chris Parkin & KCPS President Eva Petro congratulate David Yockney for Best of Year Print
Advanced Digital Runner Up Greg Whitfield
Advanced Digital Winer Jacky Challis
Mealtime view over the golf course
Novice runner up Malcolm Bayliss
Intermediate Digital Winner Graham Lonsdale

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Regional Print Battle Goes to the Wire

28 Thursday Oct 2021

Posted by Greg in Competitions, News

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The 2021 Regional Print Battle this year was a very closely fought affair. Last years’s winners – KCPS – were joint runners up.

Impromptu Pop Up Exhibition after the judging

Judged by Bruce Girdwood FPSNZ, the battle was between the hosts Hutt Camera Club, Johnsonville Camera Club, Kapiti Coast Photographic Society, Wellington Photographic Society and Kapiti Camera Club. The format of the competition is that there are ten rounds, each of a different theme. Each club enters a photo in each round, and the judge orders them from best to least favourite. Points are given based on position – 1 point for 1st, 2 for second and so on. The club with the least number of points by the end of the evening takes the glory of winning the trophy.

The themes this year were:

  • Blur
  • Framed
  • H is for…
  • In the City
  • Multiple Exposure
  • Symmetry
  • Triptych
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Wet
  • What we do in the Shadows

As you can see from the scoreboard, it was an incredibly tight and exciting competition – only four points between first and last. The lead changed several times as each round unfolded.

Hutt and Johnsonville camera clubs took joint first place, the two Kapiti’s were joint runners up, with Wellington just one point behind. Bruce Girdwood commented that he had not seen such a strong set of fifty images all in one place for a very long time – all his decisions were very close.

A nice touch to round off the evening was with an impromptu pop up exhibition of all the entries across the clubs, giving everyone a good chance to browse some fantastic and inspiring images.

The committee had a tough time selecting images to represent the club from a large set submitted by the KCPS photographers. Our entries are in the gallery below, listing the theme and author.

  • What We Do in the Shadows – Alison Viskovic
  • Blur – Roger Smith
  • Multiple Exposure – Greg Whitfield
  • Wet – Jacky Challis
  • The Great Outdoors – Neil Gordon
  • H is for…. – Jacky Challis
  • In the City – Roger Smith
  • Symmetry – Alison Viskovic
  • Framed – Margaret Low
  • Tryptych – Eva Petro

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KCPS Wins 2021 Trenna Packer Salver

22 Sunday Aug 2021

Posted by Greg in Competitions, News

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The objective of the national PSNZ Trenna Packer Salver Competition is to illustrate the diversity of the natural world in New Zealand and its off shore islands, with images that are of a very high standard. There were sets entered from twenty once camera clubs across the country, and this year the winner of the competition was – us!

 Contributors to the winning set were:

  1. Anthornis melanura – Gavin Klee
  2. Geum uniflora – Carol Molineux
  3. Metrosideros umbellata – Carol Molineux
  4. Scutellinia colensoi – Rhonda Billington
  5. Stalactite Patuna Chasm – Neil Gordon
  6. Female Ischnura aurora – Rhonda Billington

And special congratulations to Rhonda and Gavin who  were awarded honours for their images. A great result all round for the club.


This is what the judge, Bob McCree FPSNZ had to say about the Kapiti Coast Photogrphic Society’s entry:

“An excellent, diverse and consistent set of natural history images. This is certainly one of the best sets here with each image nicely notated with the Latin names for the species. The set is well book ended by two very strong images nicely positioned – the first looking into the set at the start, and the sixth looking back into the set at the end. There is a very pleasing tonal flow and mixture of images here. The consistent high quality of each individual image together with their placement within the set and the overall high quality of the set’s presentation, all adds up to a very pleasing set to view.“

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2021 Frank Hinchcliff Award

22 Sunday Aug 2021

Posted by Greg in Competitions, News, Salon Results

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The 2021 Frank Hinchcliff Award was judged by Bruce Girdwood, who did his usual excellent job in providing thoughtful and insightful comments on this year’s entries.

The competition is for prints only and commemorates a founder member of the Waikanae Camera Club that was a forebear of the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society.

Congratulations to this year’s winner Ian Yeoman, with “New Zealand Dotterel”

Ian Yeoman (L) and Bruce Girdwood (R)

The evening was completed with an excellent talk by Brendan Gully describing his adventures in taking photographs of storms in the USA’s tornado season. Visit his website https://brendangully.co.nz for some stunning imagery.

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KCPS Win Regional Interclub Print Battle

10 Wednesday Mar 2021

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Print Battle Trophy

The 2020 Wellington Regional Interclub was the victim of Covid-19 restrictions and postponed to March 2nd 2021. Hosted by Kapiti Camera Club (not to be confused with us, the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society) it very nearly became the victim of a further postponement when alert levels were raised again just a couple of days before the event. Fortunately they had a plan to limit numbers to eight per club, which allowed what is always an enjoyable, popular and competitive competition to go ahead.

The six clubs that make up the Wellington Region submitted a print in each of the ten categories chosen by the host club. The guest judge ranks them in order, with the ranking translating to points (1st equals 1 point, 2nd is 2 etc). The club with the fewest points at the end of the judging takes home the trophy.

In addition to the main trophy, a secondary competition for the best abstract image on the night was also up for grabs.

It is great to be able to report that KCPS made a clean sweep on the night, winning both the main trophy and the abstract prize with Jenny Setchell’s image Crazy Pipes for the Musical Image category wowing the judge. The scoreboard with all the placings is shown below:

The selection committee had a tough time selecting which images to choose to represent the club, but obviously did a fantastic job. The images and the categories they represent were:

  • Earth, Sea and Sky – Jacky Challis
  • Just Illusion – Hugh Scott
  • Mono Portrait – Ian Yeoman
  • Musical Image – Jenny Setchell
  • Once Was Home – Kelly Munro
  • An Emotion – Eva Petro
  • Macro Life – Neil Gordon
  • Levitation – Alison Viskovic
  • Luscious Liquid – Nicola McGinty
  • In the Style of Andreas Gursky – David Yockney

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Vision 2020 Exhibition Opening

28 Wednesday Oct 2020

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A wet and stormy evening didn’t deter KCPS members and guests from attending the opening of our Vision 2020 photography exhibition on Monday 19th October at the Roderick and Gillian Deane Community Art Space Paraparaumu Library.

KCPS were pleased to have the the Director of Mahara Gallery Janet Baily to do the official opening before enjoying the buffet put on by the members.

Twenty four members had their work showcased in 65 images across 6 categories – Nature, Landscape, Travel, People, Creative and Kapiti.

The exhibition runs from 19th to 30th October. Funding support was provided by the Kapiti Coast District Creative Communities NZ project.

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Vision 2020 Exhibition

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

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The Kapiti Coast Photographic Society is holding its 2020 exhibition at the Roderick and Gillian Dean Community Art Space, Paraparaumu Library from 19-30 October. It will be open to the public during library hours.

Sixty four images are showcased in 6 sections: Nature, Landscape, Travel, People, Creative and Kapiti. Images will be for sale at the end of the exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened by Janet Bayley, Director Mahara Gallery, Waikanae.

The cost of printing and mounting has been partly met by a grant from the Kapiti Coast District Council Creative Communities Scheme, and partly from funds from the sale of the club’s annual Kapiti Coast calendar. The calendar will be on display at the exhibition and available to buy at local markets. 

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Lighting Development Night

11 Friday Sep 2020

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September’s development night was spent experimenting with the club’s studio lighting gear that was recently donated to us by Kim Duckworth.  A big thanks to David for imparting his lighting knowledge to the group, and also to Nicola who sat patiently throughout as the lighting model.

We have 3 professional lights, lighting stands, a softbox, umbrellas and reflectors. The intention is to make it available to be loaned out to KCPS members, and we could also use it in the future for some studio lighting projects at future meetings or workshops.

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Frank Hinchcliff Results

16 Sunday Aug 2020

Posted by Greg in Competitions, Gallery, News

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Winner Carol Molineux being presented the trophy by judge Alison Viskovic

The 2020 Frank Hinchcliff Award was judged by KCPS Past President Alison Viskovic. The competition is for prints only and commemorates a founder member of the Waikanae Camera Club that was a forebear of the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society.

You can read all about the life and times of Frank here.

The winner this year was Carol Molineux with her brilliant image of a Spoonbill entitled “Spunk”. Runner up for the second consecutive year was Greg Whitfield with “Flying Ahead”.

Alison provided some great feedback on the submitted images. A hardcopy of her comments can be found in the Salon Results page on this site. Note that this is password protected for members only.

The following gallery contains the winning image (a photo of the print), plus digital versions of the runner up and those prints awarded Highly Commended.

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The evening was rounded off by an entertaining and fascinating talk by local author Mike Peryer describing the wildlife of Waikanae Estuary.

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Next Development Night – Presenting Images

26 Wednesday Feb 2020

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The development night on Monday 2nd March focusses on preparing your images for salons, competitions, or general show. It will cover matting and mounting printed images, resizing digital ones, and anything else related to image presentation.

As usual, there will also be a general Q&A opportunity for those with current problems or interesting techniques and tips they wish to share.
Time is 7-30pm at the usual venue of Otaihanga Boat Club.

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