26 Saturday May 2018
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KCPS’s entry into this year’s PSNZ Wiltshire Cup earned 2nd place this year. Congratulations to Rachel Stevens, Susie Whelan, Shona Jaray and Jo Goudsblom.
The Wiltshire Cup is an annual competition awarded to the PSNZ club submitting the best selection of four digital images, one image per club member, on any subject.
“In My Father’s Eyes” – Rachel Stevens
“Jamie and Rotor” – Susie Whelan
“Robin Rogerson” – Shona Jaray
“I Met a Boy” – Jo Goudsblom
24 Monday Jul 2017
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Our Club Successes
A big congrats to our Club President Karyn who recently won a national Women’s Institute photo competition judged by Lance Lawson.
KCPS came in third place (our best ever) in the Trenna Packer interclub nature competition, with this set of six images, including Neil Gordon’s “Fog Bow and Glory” top middle. The two images bottom left are by Gavin Klee, top right by Roger Brent Smith, and top left and bottom right by Carol Molineux. You can view the wining sets HERE.
Well done everyone.
19 Thursday Jan 2017
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An early reminder that our first meeting of the year will be on Monday 13 February – a general catch-up for us all, planning for the year’s events, and a surprise item the committee are planning. The brochure for the year will be available at that meeting.
Top of the agenda right now, however, is putting together two sets of images taken on the south Wairarapa coast by our members. These are to enter in the Wiltshire Cup (four digital images) and the Bledisloe Cup (four prints, subjects must be taken in NZ). A selection subcommittee will decide on the final sets. Once we know which images are chosen for the prints we will ask for larger high-resolution files to print from. Some images may come from last year’s field trip but others are welcome.
Please email your images in the size you would submit for club salons: max 1080 ppi on the vertical side, max 1620 pip on the horizontal side, SRGb and JPG. Your images can be of landscapes, buildings, people, activities, seascapes, even abstracts… we’d like lots to choose from. They need not have been in a club salon beforehand. Everything you send will be deleted from the computer once decisions have been made.
Entries are open to any New Zealander and PSNZ member residing overseas.
There are Four Sections available:
In a change from previous years registration and submission of entries will open on 1 December 2016 and will close on 10th February 2017. The selection process will be conducted over the weekend of 25 February, 2017.
Enter here http://www.photographyontheedge.org/ and click on the ‘Salon’ tab for details and Entry Form.
The PSNZ New Zealand International Salon is open for your entries and will close on the 20th February 2017.
Heaps of awards to be won including 12 Gold Medals.
NZ$4.50 per image. up to 4 images in each section.
Four sections:
For full information and to enter visit http://www.psnzinternationalsalons.com
The Auckland Photographic Society is pleased to announce that registration for the 65th PSNZ National Convention – Photography on the Edge.
Being held at the Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, from 6 – 9 April 2017, this will be an exciting opportunity for everyone to learn from the best, experience the enthusiasm of passionate photographers and to interact socially with other members and friends from throughout New Zealand.
If you have never been to a PSNZ national convention before, put an ‘I need to be here’ action on your calendar.
Register now for the ‘early bird’ discount and ensure you don’t miss out on your preferred choice of workshop and field trip. The timing of the field trips will allow delegates to attend one in the morning, be returned to the hotel, and to then attend an afternoon session. Read the instructions carefully and follow the easy steps to register.
There is an outstanding lineup of talented photographers, speakers and presenters, as well as a great support from sponsors and trade stands – you will definitely be spoilt for choice.
The website is packed with information, so check it out for yourself and don’t delay your registration at www.photographyontheedge.org
04 Tuesday Oct 2016
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We all had a great time at the PSNZ Central Regional Convention held in Porirua last weekend. We were entertained by an array of guest speakers all of whom were very inspiring and had a lot of fun with the workshops and field trips around the hills.
We have fully recovered from the aberration of the recent Wellington Interclub Battle by almost sweeping the board at the Central Regional Salon! With 6 Cups.
Our Print and Digital sets won the two Interclub Cups, and the following people had individual successes:
Interclub Cup – Digital
Interclub Cup – Prints
“Gracefully aging” – Champion Open Print – ©Susie Whelan
“Nesting Blue-eyed Comorant” – Champion Nature Print – Carol Molyneux
“Takiri and Tupuna” – Champion Print, Interclub – ©Chrissy Garlick
“Submerged Peaks ” – Champion Print, Interclub – ©Neil Gordon
Plus from a mix of prints and digital:
Carol, two Honours and one Accepted
Gavin Klee, two Honours and four Accepted
Rhonda, one honours, two Accepted
Rachel Stevens, two Accepted
Neil, six Accepted
Jo Goudsblom one Honours, three Accepted
Susie, one Honours
Teresa Angell, one Accepted
Hugh Scott, one Accepted
Alison, one Honours and three Accepted
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.)
23 Wednesday Sep 2015
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KCPS has done well in two recent competitions.
George Chance Cup – only just beyond our grasp!
We entered a set of four prints for the George Chance Interclub Print Competition for landscapes. I’m pleased to say that KCPS came second.
Congratulations to Jo Goudsblom, Gavin Klee, Carol Molineux and Rachel Stevens whose prints were used for our entry.
Thanks also to Alison Viskovic for her hard work in printing and matting the set. We won’t show the (stunning) print set publicly online just now, because some prints may be used for other club entries.
Another 2nd for this interclub print competition, that took place in Petone on Tuesday 8 September. Well done to Peter Ellis, Neil Gordon, Jo Goudsblom, Carol Molineux, Hugh Scott and Alison Viskovic whose prints were used, after being selected at our KCPS meeting on 10 August.
Eight club members were there for the live judging. We were apparently in a three-way tie for first half-way through, but ended up just pipped at the post (by one point?) at the end. The winner was the Aotearoa Philippines Photographic Society, who will also be the host next year.
11 Monday May 2015
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Besides the KCPS Autumn Salon, for which online entries are due by 5 pm today – there’s three other opportunities to enter your images right now.
07 Saturday Feb 2015
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Congratulations to six of our club members who were accepted into the PSNZ New Zealand Camera book which will be published in April. Scott Stevenson, Shona Jaray, Jo Goudsbloom, Gavin Klee, Alison Viskovic and myself, well done everyone you have made our club very proud and we cant wait to see a copy of the book.
Just reminding everyone that our next meet up is tomorrow at Clive Taylor’s in Raumati, 2pm. If you would like more information please head over to our meetup.com page HERE.
We would love to see you there, entry $5pp.
In the latest copy if the D-Photo Magazine (Feb-Mar, p90) is a fantastic write up about the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society thanks to some careful planning by Alison, there is also a showcase of some our top images from 2014. So what are you waiting for? Hop into your nearest book store and grab yourself a copy, it’s well worth the read.
Last but not least, the formal programme for KCPS will kick off on Monday 9 February at 7:30 pm, with a talk by Carol Molineux on ““Recent Journeys into the Arctic Regions of Svalbard and Iceland”. She has some great images from a unique area that few get the opportunity to visit. Not to be missed.
We are also looking forward to welcoming some new members to the club.
04 Tuesday Nov 2014
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We’re into the final month of activities for this year. A rundown of what has already happened, and what is coming up:
We had a good attendance last night, and everyone (including me) learned more about how Lightroom can be used to input, organise and post-process images.
These can be entered online now. You can enter via the SALON ENTRY menu item on our website, or go direct to http://www.jotform.co/KCPS/bestofyear. Remember there are no grades for this final competition. Any member can enter one digital image and one print but they must be the same (or based on) images which were entered in one of the four salons during the year.
Online entries must be in by 5 pm on Monday 10 November. Bring your print along to the AGM that evening.
The AGM will be held at 7:30 pm on Monday 10 November, at OBC. Following the AGM we will show the AV of this year’s Laurie Thomas Landscape Competition.
Formal notice of the AGM was earlier sent to members, and further documents will be distributed.
For this meeting:
This year’s venue for the EOY will be the Kapiti Club at 32 Marine Parade, Paraparaumu Beach. The function will start at 7 pm. The esteemed John Boyd will be the judge for the Best of Year Competition, and other awards will be given. This is always a great night – don’t miss it.
25 Friday Jul 2014
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Hooker Sea Lion (c) Gavin Klee
Congratulations to Gavin Klee who made the top ten (really hard to do these days), with a 7th placing in the third round of Canon Online, with his image Hooker Sea Lion. See http://photography.org.nz/canon_online_recent.html.
Here Comes the Sun (c) Rachel Stevens
Congratulations as well to Rachel Stevens who gained honours in the Laurie Thomas Landscape Competition, with her image “Here Comes the Sun” from the recent KCPS field trip to Castlepoint. See http://salon.cpsnz.com/about/results.php for the medals and honours winners.
Rachel had another image “Everything I Touch Turns to Gold” from Castlepoint accepted into the Laurie Thomas, as did Neil Gordon with “Kenepuru Sound”; Shona Jaray with “Sun Setting on the Hawkduns”; and Carol Molineux with three images “Incoming Tide”, “Tarn Reflection”, and “Volcanic Stream”.
In the “‘scapes” Print Section, Neil Gordon had two acceptances for “Kenepuru Sound” and “Upper Antelope Canyon”, and Hugh Scott had an acceptance with “Ruahine Rainclouds”. Hugh also had an acceptance for “Trapped” in the Digital Open Colour Section. Full results are at http://www.northshoresalon.co.nz/?q=Results/2014.
