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End of Year Awards Dinner

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

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What a great party we had again, with 62 people noisily enjoying the evening.  Particular thanks to Debbie who did most of the organization, including arranging the caterers, to all the helpers, to Simon Woolf for judging the Best of Year digital image and print competitions, and to Ian for all the photos with Simon.

And the envelopes please – the results were:

Overall Results for the Four Salons in 2012

INTERMEDIATE GRADE

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Winner:  Barry Culling; Runner Up: Carol Molineux

Barry Culling

Carol Molineux

PRINTS

Winner: Bernie Fraser; Runner Up: Carol Molineux

Bernie Fraser

ADVANCED GRADE

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Winner: Neil Gordon; Runner Up: Shona Jaray

Neil Gordon

PRINTS

Winner: Neil Gordon; Runner Up: Hugh Scott

Hugh Scott

BEST OF YEAR COMPETITION

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Winner of the Waikanae Cup: Teresa Angell (“Gannet Soars“)

Gannet Soars (c) Teresa Angell

Joint Runners Up: Gavin Klee (“Istanbul Sunrise“) and Neil Gordon (“Get That Hose Connected“)

Neil Gordon and Gavin Klee

 PRINTS

Winner of the Peg Griffin Cup: Shona Jaray (“Enough“)

Shona Jaray

Shona with Meg Griffin – the “Peg Griffin Cup” is in honour of her mother, an honorary life member of KCPS

“Enough” – (c) Shona Jaray

Runner Up: Neil Gordon (“Move Over“)

KCPS AGM Report

13 Tuesday Nov 2012

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We had a good attendance of 30 people at the AGM, for a short formal session (19 minutes) then lots of socialising over refreshments, and the Matiu/Somes Island AV.

My outgoing President’s Report is available online and also via the RESOURCES section of the website.

Thanks to everyone on the current committee, and congratulations to the new office holders on the incoming committee:

  • Ian Linning (President)
  • Alison Viskovic (Vice President)
  • Karyn Crocker (Competition Secretary)
  • Carol Molineux
  • David Blyth
  • Gavin Klee
  • Neil Gordon (Immediate Past President)

Central Regional Convention

02 Friday Nov 2012

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The convention is underway in Palmerston North, with 103 attendees from more than 20 clubs, including 4 from KCPS.

It’s been a great start with a presentation this evening of beautiful panoramic, black and white, infrared film photos from Helmut Hirler. Here’s just one example. Extraordinary. Have a look at his website.

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Report on Spring Salon Judging

23 Tuesday Oct 2012

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We had a ball last night.

“Kapiti Ball of Light” – ©Ian Rotherham

A big thank-you to Ian Rotherham for coming down from Palmerston North to present his results of judging our Spring Salon, and for a presentation of his own impressive portfolio.

We then had a lot of fun with Ian explaining his personal project of photographing “balls of light”, and doing a real-live demonstration out on the lawn by the river while we all watched.

The Spring Salon gallery of Honours and Highly Commended images is now available online.  A special well done to Gavin Klee and Gary Moncrieff, whose four entries each received either Honours or Highly Commended, and to Barry Culling with three entries in this gallery.

Report on Members Exhibition

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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Some 25 members enjoyed hearing from Marshall, Gary and David last Monday night. It made for a good mixture of older and newer members of our society.

Marshall had some fascinating stories about his early work with wet plate photography, and suggested viewing this youtube video. Although the system is the same as what he was using, the sizes of the glass he used ran from 8*10 up to 24*20 inches.

Rose – (c) Gary Moncrieff

Gary showed some of his images (a lovely example is shown here), and David illustrated his conversion over the last few years into more than just snapshots.

Thanks to all three for sharing their images and stories.

Macro Workshop Report and Followup “Homework” for November

03 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Some of the fifteen KCPS members trying out various macro techniques and equipment

It was another very interesting session on Monday night, with lots of experimenting with close-up techniques and equipment.  Many thanks to Ian and Hugh for bringing along special gear, and to Hugh for his opening presentation. The notes he handed out are available on our RESOURCES page.

Homework for the next Development Group session is to work on photographing just one or two small objects. Try several versions of each, and be ready to talk about the issues you struck, how you tried to deal with them, and bring the resulting questions you still have. Then we can have a good round-table session offering help.  The images don’t need to have a lot of post processing. It’s the taking stage of things we will be concentrating on. The session is on 5 November, so I’m sure it will go off with a bang well.

2012 Winter Salon Results

30 Thursday Aug 2012

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We sure had a bumper crop of entries!  26 members entered the Winter Salon, with all but four using the online system.

There were 40 digital entries – a record, as can be seen from the graph below showing entries since the start of 2010. It’s also very pleasing to see the number of entries from the Novice Grade this year.

KCPS Digital Entries since 2010

40 digital images plus 33 prints gave our hard-working judge Murry Cave 73 images to carefully consider. Many thanks Murry, for all the effort you put in.

There were around 30 members at the meeting last Monday night to see all the images and hear Murry’s comments on them – this took quite a long time, so unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to see any of Murry’s work – particularly his nature photography.  That will have to wait for another day ….

The gallery of most of the 17 images awarded either honours or highly commended is now available on our website (see GALLERIES in the top menu for all of them).

Of particular note is the appearance in this gallery for the first time by new members David Blyth (a Highly Commended for his first entered image), and Barry Culling (an Honours and two Highly Commended for his first Salon), as well as an Honours in Novice Print for Gavin Klee’s image – well done!

Wellington Interclub Print Battle Result

24 Friday Aug 2012

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It was a tough competition last night – with 60 fabulous images.

We didn’t win, but were in good company.  Four out of six of the clubs, including KCPS, ended up on the higher end (low is good) with a total of 37 or 38 points.  The results table was:

Congratulations to WPS who won the competition, and Aotearoa Philippines Photographic Society who came in second.

The judge, Jordyn O’Keefe, did a great job on speedily assessing and providing useful comments on every image.

We did manage to score top marks (1) in two categories – “Animals”, where it turned out she was a big fan of cows, and “Abstract”, with Hugh Scott’s image “From a Fantasy Forest“. Here’s Jordyn reviewing the abstract entries, with Hugh’s at bottom left:

Special congratulations to Hugh. With the top abstract image, he was the winner of the “Stella Daniell Award”, in honour of the late Stella Daniell, and will retain a framed image of hers until next year’s competition – when it’s our turn again to host it up here on the Kapiti Coast.

Trimember and Triptych

18 Saturday Aug 2012

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It was another great meeting last Monday with the Members’ exhibition.  More than 30 of us saw some great images from three of our members Stu, Gavin and Des, and heard about their unique styles and interests in photography.

For those who were able to be there, here’s an image from each as a memento;  for those who weren’t, this is just some of what you missed!

Australian Scene – (c)Stuart Ayres

“Shag versus Eel” – (c)Gavin Klee

“Anglican Perspective” – a photo of one of the black and white prints – (c) Des Johnston

From three members to three panels – a reminder from PSNZ about the Nelson National Triptych Salon, which closes at the end of August.

Report on Portrait Workshop

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Some of the attendees trying out and discussing various lighting gear for portraits

Around 14 of us had a great workshop last evening. Unfortunately Colin wasn’t well enough to be there, but the workshop was well led by Ian and Hugh, assisted by notes from Colin. It was very hands-on, as the photo shows – with lots of trials of lighting techniques and use of fancy gear such as wireless flash triggering.

A homework “Challenge” was set for those who were there – and others are of course welcome to join in:   Make an Environmental Portrait where the photographer is in control of posing the subject, and telling a story about the person.  This could be someone proud of their garden gnome, someone reading a story to a child, etc. If you can, do this with someone you don’t already know – ask if you can take their photo for a KCPS project.

WINTER SALON ENTRIES DUE

These are due by next Monday 13 August.  Please use the online entry system, and bring along any prints to the meeting that evening, together with a printout of your online entry form from the response email.