10 Saturday Nov 2018
Posted in Competitions, News, PSNZ Notices, Salon Results
KCPS members continue to make an impact in wider competitions. Results of this year’s PSNZ International Salon were recently published:
Congratulations Neil, Alison, and Hugh.
03 Wednesday Oct 2018
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Nine club members enjoyed a fun and interesting convention in Whanganui last weekend, hosted by the Whanganui Camera Club. A highlight was the salon, where the club and individual members did very well.
Our interclub sets won in both print and digital, and Nicola McGinty won the Stratford Cup for her portrait “Behind the Mask”, judged best print from all the interclub print entries.
Here’s our president, Alison Viskovic after Vonnie Cave presented her with the Palmerston Cup for prints and the Wanganui Cup for digital.
The winning print and digital sets:
KCPS Print Set – images from Nicola McGinty, Neil Gordon, Hugh Scott, Susie Whelan, Jo Goudsblom and Alison Viskovic
KCPS Digital Set – images from Caroline Ludford, Gavin Klee, Carol Molineux, Neil Gordon, Jacky Challis and Helena Fierlinger
Individual honours were
and five other members (Rhonda Billington, Jo Goudsblom, Teresa Angell, Alison Viskovic and Jacky Challis) also had images accepted.
The convention was very well organised, and everyone who went had a wonderful time. We plan to show some images from field trips, etc., at the next KCPS meeting on Monday 8 October.
18 Tuesday Sep 2018
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Our new exhibition “Through the Photographer’s Eye” was formally opened last evening.
About forty members and guests were present – here’s just some of them enjoying the occasion and viewing the photographs.
We were honoured to have KCDC Mayor K Gurunathan present, and formally open the exhibition.
Mayor Guru in discussion with Carol Molineux about her NZ Dotterel Chick photo
The Mayor declaring the exhibition open
Our President, Alison Viskovic, has done a tremendous amount of work leading and organising the exhibition, and was warmly thanked for everything she has done.
Alison speaking at the formal opening
The exhibition will continue until 5 October, at the Paraparaumu Library in Iver Trask Place off Rimu Road. Come along and see it! Opening hours are:
KCPS is grateful to the Kapiti Coast District Creative Communities Scheme for support for our exhibition, and to all members who contributed images and time to make the exhibition a success.
15 Saturday Sep 2018
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Continuing a good year for KCPS members in national competitions, Shona Jaray APSNZ and Caroline Ludford LPSNZ LRPS have both had images placed in the top 10 in Round 4 of the Canon Online 2018 competition.
The images and the comments of judge Bruce Girdwood FPSNZ are online here on the PSNZ site..
29 Wednesday Aug 2018
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KCPS is pleased to announce “Through the Photographer’s Eye” – an exhibition of images created by its members. Starting on Monday 17th September with a members and guests only opening evening, the exhibition is open to the public from 18th September to 5th October inclusive.
Venue is Paraparaumu Library in Iver Trask Place off Rimu Road. Opening hours are:
26 Saturday May 2018
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The results for the 2018 exhibition for KCPS club members who submitted images are:
26 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Competitions, News
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
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.
24 Thursday Aug 2017
A small but enthusiastic group from KCPS was at the Karori Arts Centre last night for the annual Wellington Interclub Print Battle. Bruce Girdwood did an excellent job as guest judge, with a helpful constructive critique of each print. That’s a hard thing to do when you’ve only just seen the prints and are in front of a partisan audience!
The way it works is that each print gets a score of 1 point for first, 2 points for second, and so on. And then the lowest total for all ten print categories wins.
This picture tells the story – we blew away the competition with a total of 21 points. Hutt Camera Club and Johnsonville Camera Club (formerly Aotearoa Philippines Photographic Society) came second equal with 34 points.
Here are the scores for the individual prints, and who they were from:
| Category | Score | Print From |
| Abstract | 2 | Neil Gordon |
| Graffiti | 2 | Neil Gordon |
| Silhouette | 2 | Katrina Magill |
| Zoo Animals | 3 | Hugh Scott |
| Rocks | 1 | Rachel Stevens |
| Pattern and/or Texture | 4 | Dave Yockney |
| Multiple Exposure | 1 | Jo Goudsblom |
| Body Parts | 2 | Alison Viskovic |
| Hands | 2 | Shona Jaray |
| Rainy Days | 2 | Gavin Klee |
So we had very consistent high scoring with many second places, and congratulations to Rachel and Jo for coming first with their prints.
At the end of the evening, Karyn Crocker, President of KCPS, was presented with the trophy by Mark Robinson, the President of the Karori Camera Club who were the kind hosts on the night. She also received the “Wolf in the Snow Picture” – see http://wic.org.nz/prizes for the history of this.
It’s great to have “our” trophy back. We donated the trophy when we hosted the event in 2008 and haven’t won it back since, although we have come second several times. We last won ten years ago in 2007, as the Waikanae Camera Club.
Well done all!
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.
