The weather was almost enough to keep me home last night, but I was glad that I did venture out in the torrential rain and gale to go to our KCPS meeting. Around twenty of us enjoyed three interesting presentations:

Focus on Fun

Paul Witham from the Hutt Camera Club told us all about the Central Region Convention which they will host at Silverstream from 7-9 November.  See the full details on their website. It does indeed sound like lots of fun, with great speakers and workshops and field trips.  Register soon to get the early bird rate and make sure you have your pick of the workshops. I have.

Hal Gimperson

It was fascinating to see the range of photographic prints from Hal, who is a new KCPS member, having joined in April.  Some examples are shown below – a textural detail from a railway engine at Paekakariki; a solarized monochrome print; and one of a number of beautiful matt prints where Hal took a narrow vertical slice of a colourful sunset over the Kapiti Coast, and then expanded it horizontally to a panoramic format.

“Close 5a” (c) Hal Gimperson

“Greely railroad” (c) Hal Gimperson

Example of vertical sliver of sunset expanded horizontally (c) Hal Gimperson

 Ian Linning

Our President also gave a very interesting presentation on his photography – covering three themes. First were some examples of street photography from when he lived in Singapore; second was sharing some examples and experiences of his commercial photography business Primofoto; and third was a short video of a trip to Italy where the images were all taken on a very travel-friendly Canon G10, and “Ken Burns” panning was used to good effect. Some imagery examples are also shown below.

(c) Ian Linning

Example of a Kapiti Coast image created, printed and installed on a glass splashback.

(c) Ian Linning

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.