02 Tuesday Apr 2019
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The gallery of the Summer 2019 Salon entries that were awarded Highly Commended or Honours has been published. You can find the link to it here. Alternatively, select the Galleries menu from the top of the page and navigate to the page from there.
“AngryBird(nature)” – Honours, Advanced Digital – ©Roger Smith
02 Monday Apr 2018
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The gallery of the Summer 2018 Salon entries that were awarded Highly Commended or Honours has been published. You can find the link to it here. Alternatively, select the Galleries menu from the top of the page and navigate to the page from there.
“Glow” – Honours, Intermediate Digital – ©Greg Whitfield
22 Thursday Feb 2018
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Kapiti Coast Photographic Society is pleased to announce an Open Evening on Monday 26th February at Otaihanga Boat Club.
Anyone interested in photography and seeing what the club gets up to is welcome to come along and meet current members. A barbecue, nibbles/snacks and soft drinks will be provided.
The evening starts at 7-30pm. Venue is Otaihanga Boating Club, 19 Makora Rd, Otaihanga.
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
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A gallery of the Spring 2017 Salon entries that were awarded Highly Commended or Honours has been published. You can find the link to it here. Alternatively select the Galleries menu from the top of the page and navigate to the page from there.
“Catching dinner before the storm” – Honours, Intermediate Digital – ©Jacky Challis
03 Sunday Apr 2016
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Our judge for the KCPS 2016 Summer Salon last Monday was Glenn Howey. For the first time, we all viewed the prints on the new easels right from the start of the meeting – a great innovation from our president, Alison Viskovic.
Glenn Howey Judging Prints
The images which received either Highly Commended or Honours can be seen in the 2016 Summer Salon Gallery which is now online. (All Galleries can be viewed by clicking on the Galleries main menu item at http://kcps.org.nz)
Special congratulations to brand new members Peter Katz, who gained an Honours and a Highly Commended with his first two entries as below, and to Martin Wagner who also gained a Highly Commended with one of his entries.
“Ohh soo tired! ” – Hon, Novice Digital – ©Peter Katz
“Umbrella love” – HC, Novice Digital – ©Peter Katz
“salon_2016_1” – HC, Intermediate Digital – ©Martin Wagner
After his excellent judging session, Glenn gave a slide show of images from his recent trip to Indonesia, with some fantastic photos made well away from the standard tourist destinations. Thanks once again to Glenn for all the work he puts into judging, and the expertise and images that he shares.
10 Tuesday Nov 2015
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Last night’s AGM was all over in 13 minutes – a record time. That doesn’t mean that important decisions weren’t made. The following is based on a summary kindly provided by Alison Viskovic, who was re-elected President.
Reports had been pre-circulated, and no major issues arose. The subscriptions for the coming year will remain unchanged.
A highlight was the unanimous vote that Hugh Scott be appointed a Life Member, recognising his many years of service on and off the committee, and the enthusiasm and stimulation he always brings to the club.
Hugh being presented with his new “Life Member” badge by Alison
Neil Gordon has retired from the committee after a number of years as committee member, president, past president and guardian of the blog and website functions. The meeting thanked him for all his contributions to the club.
The committee for the coming year is:
Following the AGM we had some good discussions about themes for next year’s Kapiti project. We also viewed the print set which came second in the Bledisloe competition, as well as club and successful individual entries for the Central Regional Convention, on in New Plymouth this coming weekend.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our end-of-year dinner, Monday 23 November. We need to confirm numbers next week, so please do your online payment soon if you have not done so already.
27 Tuesday Oct 2015
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Our judge for the KCPS 2015 Spring Salon last night was Fred Wotton APSNZ.
The images which received either Highly Commended or Honours can be seen in the 2015 Spring Salon Gallery which is now online.
Special congratulations to brand new member Alison Wills-Olsen, who gained a Highly Commended in her first salon entry with the lovely image below.
“White Ballerina” – Highly Commended, Novice Digital Image – ©Alison Wills-Olsen
24 Saturday Oct 2015
Yes, we know it’s Labour Weekend and you are probably out and about, or even away.
But fight your way through that traffic and get to the Otaihanga Boating Club by 7:30 pm on Monday to see Fred Wotton judge the Spring Salon entries, and show some of his own work.
In other news:
Congratulations to Gary Moncrieff and Chrissy Garlick who had images selected for the Mahara 2015 Arts Review exhibition currently on, until 1 November, at the Mahara Gallery in Waikanae. Check it out.
The following were the entries selected and submitted. It’s pleasing to see that there were 14 different images from 14 members – an indication of the increasing strength of our club.
Prints Photographer
Digital Projected
The online entry form is now available – via https://kcps.org.nz/salon-entry-form/ or direct at http://jotform.co/KCPS/bestofyear. Online entries close at 5 pm on Monday 9 November.
Each member can enter one digital image and one print. There are no “grades” for this end of year competition.
Each image entered must have been entered into one of the four Salons held during the year, or be fundamentally based on it (for example, small improvements in line with judge’s comments at the original competition are acceptable).
The Best of Year entries will be judged by John Boyd at our gala end of year function on Monday 23 November starting at 6:30 pm, at the Otaihanga Boating Club. Details have been emailed to all members. Please pay online if possible, or by cash to Treasurer Jo Goudsblom at a meeting. Jo will have tickets available at all meetings, starting with the meeting on Labour Day Monday.
09 Friday Oct 2015
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The main speaker for the KCPS Meeting on 12 October will be Stephen Rowe (BA, DipPhot, MFA), from the Photo School in Raumati.
Stephen has a wide range of experience as an editorial and portrait photographer for magazine stories and book covers, and has also worked as a photography technician/tutor at Massey University.
His exhibition, “The New Rugby” (a documentary photography project that looked at the changes in rugby since it became a professional sport and how those changes mirrored the societal changes in New Zealand since the 1980s economic reforms) started at The Dowse, Lower Hutt, 2003, then toured nationally. Images from the project are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library.
For his MFA final exhibition (ATM, 2008) Stephen produced near life size images of Automated Teller Machines. Devoid of the usual text, these images called into question the ubiquity of branding and the homogeneity of a global consumer culture where words become replaced with symbols.
26 Saturday Sep 2015
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Individual members of KCPS have done well in national salons over the last few months. Below is a summary of known achievements. Congratulations to all.
(Please let me know of any corrections or additions to this list.)
Kapiti Coast Photographic Society 