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Central Regional Convention

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.

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Our Print and Digital sets won the two Interclub Cups, and the following people had individual successes:

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Interclub Cup – Digital

 

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Interclub Cup – Prints

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“Gracefully aging” – Champion Open Print – ©Susie Whelan

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“Nesting Blue-eyed Comorant” – Champion Nature Print – Carol Molyneux

Takiri and Tupuna

“Takiri and Tupuna” – Champion Print, Interclub – ©Chrissy Garlick

Submerged Peaks

“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

 

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Recent KCPS Individual Member Successes in National Competitions

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.

North Shore National Salon

  • Teresa Angell – 1 acceptance
  • Peter Beddek APSNZ – 1 acceptance
  • Hugh Scott – 1 acceptance
  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 1 Honours, 1 acceptance

Laurie Thomas Landscape Salon

  • Neil Gordon APSNZ – 1 acceptance
  • Carol Molineux LPSNZ – 1 acceptance

National Photojournalism Competition

  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 1 Honours

Creative Focus Competition

  • Neil Gordon APSNZ – 1 Honours, 1 acceptance
  • Jo Goudsblom – 4 acceptances
  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 1 acceptance

Dunedin Festival of Photography

  • Neil Gordon APSNZ – 1 Honours, 3 acceptances
  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 3 acceptances

PSNZ Set of 20 Autumn Colours for FIAP Competition

  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 1 selected

PSNZ Set for Four Nations Competition

  • Carol Molineux LPSNZ – 1 selected
  • Alison Viskovic FPSNZ – 1 selected

(Please let me know of any corrections or additions to this list.)

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KCPS Interclub Successes

23 Wednesday Sep 2015

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KCPS has done well in two recent competitions.

George Chance – 2nd for NZ

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.

Wellington Interclub Print Battle – 2nd

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.

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National Competitions Now On

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.

  1. The Laurie Thomas Landscape Salon – entries close on Sunday 24 May.  You can enter up to four digital NZ landscapes, and the entry fee is only $20.  Details at http://salon.cpsnz.com/
  2. The North Shore Salon of Photography also closes on Sunday 24 May.  There are four print categories and four digital categories.  Full details are at http://www.northshoresalon.co.nz/SalonDetails.
  3. PSNZ is going to enter some images into an international FIAP competition on the theme of “Autumn Colours”. Images can be submitted for consideration by any PSNZ member or member of an affiliated club (including KCPS).  Entries need to be sent by 25 May.  See all the details and how to submit in this PSNZ blog post.

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PSNZ New Zealand Camera

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.

Meetup Group – Welcome to Taylorville

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.

D-Photo Magazine

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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.

First Meeting for 2015 – Monday 9th February 7.30pm

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.

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Final Month Events and Details

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:

Development Group – 3 November

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.

Best of Year Entries – Due by 10 November

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.

AGM – 10 November

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:

  • Don’t be shy about putting your name forward to join the Committee.  It is very rewarding to be involved in running our Society, and it’s always good to get new people with new ideas.  Please bring along your completed nomination form.
  • Please bring along your matted print for the Best of Year Entry, along with a printout of the online entry you made (or a note with your name and the print title).
  • We expect to have, for return to members, any unclaimed prints from the KCPS set or from individuals that were submitted to the PSNZ Central Region Salon being held this coming weekend at Silverstream.
  • Bring along up to two mounted (but unframed) prints you would like to display at the Kapiti Arts Trail (to be held on the weekend of 15-16 November), with a price indicated if they are available to sell. While we see this mainly as an opportunity to promote the club, visitors do also expect some works to be for sale.
  • Bring money to buy tickets for the EOY function ….

EOY FUNCTION – 24 November

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.

 

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Recent NZ Salon Successes for KCPS Members

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.

Laurie Thomas Landscape

Here Comes the Sun (c) Rachel Stevens

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”.

 North Shore Salon

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.

 

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Richard Young Speaking; Frank Hinchcliff Competition Coming Up

22 Sunday Jun 2014

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Our guest speaker at the KCPS Meeting on Monday 23 June is Richard Young. Richard’s talk is entitled “African Wildlife and Landscape Photography”. You can see some of his work on his website, and we understand he will be bringing along some of his prints to share.

If you’re interested in Nature and Landscape work this will be well worth making the time to attend.

Frank Hinchcliff Competition Coming Up

The annual Frank Hinchcliff competition is in honour of one of the founders and first President of the Waikanae Camera Club, the forerunner to our Kapiti Coast Photographic Society. The July 2009 KCPS newsletter included an article on Frank Hinchcliff written by Hugh Scott, which is also available as a one-pager and well worth a read.

The rules for the Frank Hinchcliff competition are simple (and available as part of our overall competition rules via https://kcps.org.nz/membership/ as a pdf)”

“For the Frank Hinchcliff competition in June or July a member can submit one or two Prints. As with the Salons, there is no set theme. The entries must not have been submitted to a previous KCPS Salon or Frank Hinchcliff competition. The images must also have been captured within the last two years.”

To enter – just bring your one or two matted prints along in an envelope, together with a sheet of paper giving your name and the titles, to the KCPS meeting on Monday 14 July.  The competition will be judged by Bruce Girdwood on Monday 28 July.

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Submit Nature Images for Trenna Packer by 31 May Please

20 Tuesday May 2014

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The Trenna Packer Nature Competition, run by the Nature Photography Society of NZ (based in Christchurch) is coming up again very soon.

We need six images in total from KCPS.  No more than two images can come from an individual KCPS member.  The key points of the rules are:

  • The subject matter must be nature as defined by the definition in the rules, which excludes cultivated plants, domestic animals and confined animals
  • The subject matter is restricted to New Zealand and its offshore islands.
  • Each entry is judged as a ‘set’ not as individual images (so there is no point in having six fantastic images just of birds)
  • Digital images should be saved as jpeg, sRGB colour space, with a max of 1400 pixels on the horizontal side and 1050 on the vertical side for portrait and at a file size between 400Kb and 1Mb
  • Entries are due by 20 June 2043.

Carol Molineux has kindly agreed to coordinate our KCPS entry for this competition.  We’re asking members to submit up to six images each for consideration by a group which will be convened by Carol.

Please use this online form to submit your images (no more than six) by 31 May 2014. Remember that we need a diverse set of images to choose from.

We look forward to receiving and considering your submissions. By way of example of what we need to strive for, check out the gallery of previous winners.

Thanks.

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Natex Results – KCPS Did Well

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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The results for the PSNZ Canon National Exhibition of Photography (Natex) were emailed out this morning.  Our Kapiti Coast Photography Society has done really well, with these six members gaining a total of 25 acceptances. (Apologies to Jo, and any others I may have missed.)

    • Gavin Klee – 7
    • Carol Molineux – 5
    • Hugh Scott – 5
    • Neil Gordon – 4
    • Johanna Goudsblom – 2
    • Alison Viskovic – 2

All told, 25 images from KCPS, out of 448 images selected, from a total of 2122 images submitted.  Not bad.  These images will be exhibited at the PSNZ National Convention in Blenheim in 3 weeks – see the website http://www.coloursofmarlborough.org.nz .  It’s not too late to register.

Congratulations to all who gained acceptances and awards in Natex, and best wishes for next time if you didn’t.

 

 

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