You’ve still got a couple of days if you haven’t yet entered the North Shore Salon. Go for it!
North Shore Salon Deadline Extended to Friday
29 Wednesday May 2013
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Big Birthday, and Upcoming Events
25 Saturday May 2013
Happy Birthday Peg
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.
Upcoming Events
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 ….
Meeting Monday 27 May
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.
No Development Group Meeting 3 June
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 …
Competition Selection Night – Monday 10 June
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:
- Beams
- Contained
- Eggs
- Eye
- Feathered
- Movement
- Mysterious
- Skin
- Reaching
- Terraced
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.
Natex Last Steps – Autumn Salon Entries Due for Monday Meeting
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.
Monday Meeting
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.
Summer Salon Gallery – and Natex in Wellington
26 Friday Apr 2013
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Summer Salon Gallery
The 19 images which were rated Highly Commended or Honours by Tony Whincup when he judged our Summer Salon on 25 March are now available. I’m sorry it’s taken so long – things have been rather busy with Natex.
Either go to the GALLERIES menu on our home page where from a drop-down you can access all galleries, or you can get to them directly here. Enjoy.
Natex
Deciding on Natex Prints Layout
Thanks once again to all those who have been helping with various tasks for Natex. One of the recent jobs was to look at all the accepted prints in the Te Horo Hall, and decide on the exhibition layout.
The Exhibition will be mounted in the West Gallery of the Wellington Town Hall next Wednesday.
If you weren’t able to register for the PSNZ convention, you can still see the Exhibition. Best times for public viewing are on Friday and Saturday 3 and 4 May, from 9 am to 5 pm. Do check it out if you can.
Critique Session on Monday 8 April
06 Saturday Apr 2013
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“Eye Spy” – An Image that Perhaps Covers Eye and Feathered! – ©Carol Molineux
At our KCPS meeting next Monday we will have a critique of your submitted images on the first five subjects from the Wellington interclub print battle that we will be hosting in August:
- Beams
- Contained
- Eggs
- Eye
- Feathered
This is a great opportunity for those members who have not submitted any images for judging in our Salons, but would welcome feedback on their work by their peers in a non threatening environment.
Also for members who are regular contributors to our Salons it’s the opportunity to stretch your imagination, within the bounds of the Topic.
If you are going to bring along prints they don’t need to be matted, but need to be large enough to be seen by the audience, so a minimum of 20cm x 15cm.
If you are going to bring along digital images, it would be helpful if you could email them to Ian by Sunday night (i.linning@xtra.co.nz) and bring along your USB drive on the night.
Come along and enjoy an entertaining and educational evening on Monday at 7:30 pm.
Natex 2013 Awards and Images
29 Friday Mar 2013
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28 Thursday Mar 2013
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Huge thanks are due to all involved from our Society, for your contributions to what was a very successful weekend.
Summer Salon Entries Due by Monday
08 Friday Mar 2013
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Time to get your entries in for the KCPS Summer Salon.
These are due by Monday 11 March. Enter online via https://kcps.org.nz/salon-entry-form/ and bring along any prints plus a printout of the entry form to the meeting on Monday night when Julian Ward is speaking.
Competition rules can be downloaded from here.
Judging of the salon will be by Tony Whincup at the following meeting on Monday 25 March.
Julian Ward (Street Photographer) – 11 March
05 Tuesday Mar 2013
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Photo (c) Julian Ward
Julian Ward will speak to us next Monday at 7:30 pm on Street Photography. This should be an excellent presentation, especially for those interested in street and monochrome work.
Here is Julian’s own introduction to his talk:
“I live in the centre of Wellington and tramp its streets relentlessly. As I get older I hunt less and pictures come to me like little gifts. This has been my habit for over 40 years. I particularly enjoy the balance of human form and decisive moments.
Photographers have always recorded street life but in recent years it has become more difficult because of public/state paranoia. Even the police question photographer’s freedoms.
I would like to discuss these changing times, show my work and talk about technique.
See my website: www.julianward.co.nz“
Low Light Photography – and Nick Ward
04 Monday Mar 2013
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The first Development Group meeting for the year will be on at 7:30 pm tonight at OBC.
The topic is Low Light Photography, and it will be led by Ian Linning.
This will be a practical session – so bring your camera, etc. The idea will be be to match up newer members with more experienced ones so they can work together and try various techniques for dealing with low light.
Don’t stay in the dark about this topic – come along and learn and have fun!
Nick Ward Report
Some 40 KCPS members were spellbound last week for the talk by Nick Ward.
He showed a couple of opening sequences from movies such as Hitchock’s “Rear Window” to illustrate how much could be conveyed about the characters and the story simply from imagery, without dialogue. The lessons for our own photography were obvious, and his presentation was well received.
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