21 Sunday Jul 2013
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Frank Hinchcliff
Come along for our meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm to hear from the esteemed John Boyd Hon FPSNZ Hon PSNZ APSNZ, who will once again be judging the print entries for our annual Frank Hinchcliff Award.
You can read all about Frank Hinchliff here:
25 Saturday May 2013
A very happy birthday to our oldest member – Peg Griffin, who is now 109!
There was a very nice story on her in the Dominion Post.
Some changes have been made to the website to make it clearer what events are coming up. If you look in the left-hand sidebar of http://kcps.org.nz you’ll see details for the next five events. If you click on EVENTS in the top menu, you’ll see an embedded calendar with the current month (which is very configruable to show other months, etc.) as well as a full list of upcoming events beneath it.
These events change from time to time, so it’s worth keeping an eye out for any changes. You can also subscribe to the calendar of upcoming events using the instructions that were posted when it was originally set up. Then your own calendar system will always be up to date.
Speaking of upcoming events ….
The next event is, of course, the meeting on Monday 27 May when our regular judge Bruce Girdwood will be judging our Autumn Salon. We’ll also be showing a short AV with photos provided by many of those who went on the field trip to Ohakune last weekend. We had a blast, and made some great images, as you will see.
Because it is Queen’s Birthday, there won’t be a Development Group meeting. So you’ll have more time to get organised to bring along prints and images for the following week …
Our main task will be to select ten prints for the Wellington Interclub Print Battle. Our club will be hosting it at the Otaihanga Boating Club on Monday 5 August (in lieu of a Development Group meeting), so it’s important we do well! The ten topics are:
You’ll need to bring along prints that could be suitable. They need not be matted at this stage, but should be large enough to have a good look at (at least around A4 – not 4 by 6). We’ll use the whole club to review and select the best print for each topic in turn.
On that night we’d also like to review digital images and prints and digital images that could be entered as part of two club sets for the Bowron and Chance interclub landscape competitions. We need four images for each set. Again, prints need not have been matted just yet. It’s proposed that we try to build sets around a “Kapiti Coast” theme so that each Kapiti Island does appear in each image, so you still have time to make some on that theme if you haven’t already.
09 Thursday May 2013
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Karyn Packing Natex packages
Our Natex project is almost all over, although there’s a lot of tidying up of finances and reporting now.
Support from many KCPS members for Natex through its many phases has been fantastic. We had another long day yesterday at the Te Horo Hall to repack all the prints into 109 boxes and packages, for dispatch back to the entrants. Thanks to Hugh, Karyn, Jo, Gary, Alan, Peter Ellis, and Jenny for helping out on this phase, as well as all those who helped mount the exhibition last Wednesday and then dismount it on Sunday.
Ou regular meeting at 7:30 pm at OBC next Monday 13 May will cover what happened at the PSNZ Convention last week. For a bit of a preview, you can see my seven “running commentary” blog entries at blog.photography.org.nz. Don’t forget that entries for the Autumn Salon are also due – go to this link on our website. The judge for this Salon is Bruce Girdwood.
03 Sunday Feb 2013
Illusion No. 5 – (c)Alison Viskovic
Hi everyone – the programme for 2013 is about to get underway. You can check out the calendar for the year here or by going to the EVENTS menu item at the top of the KCPS web site.
Our first meeting for the year will be at 7:30 pm on Monday 11 February at the usual venue, the Otaihanga Boating Club. The featured speaker will be our vice President, Alison Viskovic APSNZ, who will give a presentation entitled “A Photographic Autobiography”.
Alison did very well in the recent Dunedin Festival of Photography, receiving honours for her image shown here – “Illusion No 5”. It will be good to see more of her work.
We’ll also be seeking people to help out with the PSNZ National Exhibition of Photography (NATEX) which KCPS is running this year. Don’t forget to get your own entries in (that’s fine) – see details at kcps.org.nz/natex2013.
If you were considering going for PSNZ Honours, now is the time as well. See details about Honours on the PSNZ blog.
Finally, the PSNZ National Convention this year is as close as it can get – down in Wellington. There’s lots of information at http://positivelyphotography.org.nz – check it out and consider registering for what is always a fantastic experience. Early bird pricing is available until the end of February.
04 Wednesday Jul 2012
We’re going to hold our first ever Open Day from noon to 3 pm on Sunday 15 July, to welcome members of the community, and share our passion for photography. Below is a flyer advertising the event. Please contact Hugh Scott if you are able to assist on the day, and do encourage friends and family to come along.
02 Saturday Jun 2012
We have been fortunate to have a special offer for a guest speaker on Monday 11 June. This will replace the critique session that was to be at that meeting on topics 6-10 of the Wellington Interclub Print Battle to be held in August. Selection for our club set for the Interclub Print Battle will still take place at the KCPS meeting on 25 June.
Our guest speaker is Debra Glasgow, who is a Wildlife Photographer and Cetacean Researcher. Debra has had 12 seasons in Antartica, on two of which she has over wintered.
She works on icebreaker research ships and has photographed around the entire waters of Antartica. She has been based in Australia for the past 25 years and has worked on documentation of whale species around this coast.
Should be a fantastic talk and images.
(Don’t forget you can always check the latest programme by going to EVENTS on the top menu of http://kcps.org.nz .)
The Wellington Photographic Society has invited members of neighbouring camera clubs to join them on Thursday, 14 June, 7.30pm at the Loaves and Fishes Hall, Hill Street, Thorndon for:
‘New Seeing – Beyond the Pictorial’
Keynote address by Tony Bridge
$10 payable at the door for non-members of the Wellington Photographic Society. Supper provided.
The Topic
Tony will talk about photography as art, and also photography and art. All that holds us back now is our own imagination and a willingness to experiment and make mistakes. Each of us is the greatest resource we have. Tony will share his move beyond the ‘pure’ photograph, using software to help express his vision.
About Tony
Tony Bridge FPSNZ, ACPP (dist) is a professional photographer, digital artist and writer, who has taught photography for more than 30 years. He has been a teacher, curriculum developer and is a published author, including (amongst others) White Cloud, Silver Screen, Out There South and Out There North.
He has taught and exhibited both nationally and internationally, in New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. He is a fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand and has been a member of its Honours Board, as well as Chairman of the Judge Accreditation panel, a qualified member of the NZIPP, as well as holding a BA in foreign languages and a Diploma in Professional Photography with Distinction. He has been a Kodak Professional Mentor and a member of the PSNZ Honours Board. He also works as a beta tester in imaging software development.
Tony has a unique teaching style and an ability to communicate concepts and ideas effectively. He is known for his ability to inspire and enthuse his students, as well as Introducing new approaches and attitudes to photography.
Gaia 1. (c) Tony Bridge. From http://www.thistonybridge.com/gallery/canto-i-archetypes
10 Thursday May 2012
There are four opportunities coming up very soon for you to show off your images.
Entries are due in the usual way by Monday 14 May for our autumn salon, which will be judged on 28 May by Tony Whincup. Please use the online system to provide your entry details and digital images, and bring prints along to the meeting on Monday evening.
There’s only a few more days to submit your entries for consideration for this – they are due with us by 15 May. Details are in this blog post. Please help out – we need a lot more to be able to do a club entry.
The 16th Laurie Thomas Landscape Competition is accepting entries until 18 May. You can enter up to four digital images for the cost of $20, and it can all be done online.
Entries are open until 25 May for the 2012 North Shore Salon of Photography. Check out the full details at their salon website.
13 Monday Feb 2012
The most up-to-date information about upcoming activities will always be obtained from the Calendar of Events.
But since it can also be useful to have a one-pager with an overview of the year – here it is as a pdf file.
The first event is tonight – hope to see you there soon.
09 Thursday Feb 2012
Just look at that view from the deck of The Boat Shed at the Otaihanga Boating Club. That’s what we’ll be enjoying with the first meeting of the year – 7:30 pm on Monday.
Yes – MONDAY – we’ve changed our regular meeting night to Monday, not Tuesday. Don’t be a day late! (And you’re likely to be very lonely if you go to our previous venue at the church hall in Waikanae by mistake.)
The main event will be a Members Exhibition with three of our members informally sharing some of their images and interest in photography. We look forward to seeing you there.
Don’t forget that subscriptions for this year are due now – Ian Linning will happily take your money at the meeting, or you can use Internet Banking. Details of the bank account are on the new member application form on our Membership Page.
Finally, when considering images, don’t forget the importance of content. This cartoon hilariously makes the point, from one of my favourite web comic sites – xkcd.com.
21 Wednesday Dec 2011
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The programme for 2012 has been uploaded to our Calendar of Events. Access it via that blog entry, or use the EVENTS Menu at the top of the web page.
You may need to click on “Look for more”, as our first meeting of the year is some weeks away, on Monday 13 February at the Otaihanga Boating Club. Keep clicking, or switch to month mode, and you can check out the whole year.
You can also download a pdf of the KCPS 2012 Outline Programme as presently planned, but bear in mind that the calendar will always have the most up-to-date details.
If you are feeling technically savvy, you can also subscribe to the calendar and have the events automagically appear and be updated on your iPhone or iPad or iPC.
Best wishes to all for a happy and safe Christmas with family and friends, and we look forward to many outstanding images in 2012.
Kapiti Coast Photographic Society 