Don’t forget entries for the KCPS Spring Salon are due – please bring prints and entry forms along to our regular meeting, at 7:30 pm Tuesday 11 October in the Presbyterian Church Hall, 43 Ngaio Road, Waikanae.

Digital entries should be emailed to kcps.entry@gmail.com – normally these are due by midnight Monday, but I’ll be happy to receive entries up until noon Tuesday this time.

The guest speaker at our Tuesday meeting is Joanna Piatek – this should be another very interesting presentation.

You will also get to see our set of six prints which won the Central Region interclub print competition, and the rather large engraved Palmerston Cup – better than the Webb Ellis Trophy in my view.

Shona Jaray and I can also give you a brief overview of the PSNZ Central Region Convention. On a lighter note, it did seem to be all a bit much for this ‘delegate” at the Tawhiti Museum on Saturday.

Workshop #3 of the new look “Postprocessing/Tutorial Group” will be on Tuesday evening 4 October.

Please meet at 7:30 pm at Mahara Place (near the Gallery), not at the house we have met at before.

After a short meeting and briefing you will be free to photograph around Mahara Place, along the main road, the carparks, the railways station, and each other.

Prepare in advance what white balance and ISO settings you should use. Make use of your camera hand book. Wear something red – and include red in your images if you can.

Rare Snow Falling in Waikanae, 15 August 2011 (c)Neil Gordon

Keep en eye on the MetService Paraparaumu weather forecast. If wet the photo shoot could be even better, with lots of light reflections. I can promise it won’t be like this snowy scene in August, though!

If you are unable to make it on Tuesday, please go another night and take some photos you can bring for the post-processing phase of this workshop on Tuesday 1 November. More details about that later.

"Lake Matheson Reflection" ©Mike Martin

Our next meeting will be a Members’ Exhibition put on by the “Monochrome Darkroom” interest group. We will get to see seven vintage cameras – all from last century (and I don’t just mean the second half), as well as many fine monochrome prints.

The meeting will be at 7:30 pm Tuesday 27 September in the Presbyterian Church Hall, 43 Ngaio Road, Waikanae. See you there.

Our camera club friends to the south – the Kapiti Camera Club (for Porirua and surrounding areas) – are holding an exhibition on 1, 2 and 8 October 2011 in Plimmerton. See details in the flyer.

The second Tuesday of the month is rolling round, so it’s time for our regular meeting at the Presbyterian Hall, 43 Ngaio Road, Waikanae.

The highlight will be a presentation by Bruce Girdwood. Bruce is well-known to us as one of our regular judges.  He will show some of his excellent images. Check out his site – this image is just one example of the quality of his work.

The next post-processsing and tutorial group session is on Tuesday evening 6 September at 7:30 pm. See the Calendar of Events for details, and come along to learn and have fun.

Reminder: Just over 9 weeks until entries close

Entry into this competition is open to all PSNZ members and members of clubs affiliated to PSNZ, which includes KCPS.

• Closing Date:   Friday 4 November 2011
• Judging Date:  Saturday 19 November 2011

Winning entries will be shown at the PSNZ National Convention 2012 in Invercargill.

See the PSNZ website for more information and entry forms. And check out this PSNZ help sheet for guidance on making AVs:

This year the Stratford Camera Club is hosting it.

Expect the Unexpected.

Don’t forget to register by 8 September 2011.