Recent NZ Salon Successes for KCPS Members

Canon Online

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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.

 

Astrophotography Talk by Mark Gee in Wellington

Camping Under the Stars – (c) Mark Gee

Interested in astrophotography?  Mark Gee is giving a talk entitled “The art of astrophotography” this Thursday 3 July at 7:30 pm, in the Huntleigh Girl Guiding Centre, Silverstream, Crofton Downs.  More details at http://www.gleanreport.com/events/mike-gee/

In 2013, Mark won the prestigious Astronomy
Photographer of the Year. His work is stunning – just have a look at his website http://theartofnight.com.

 

Richard Young Speaking; Frank Hinchcliff Competition Coming Up

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.

More Digital Entries Need for Wellington Interclub

Selecting the Triptych Print

Selecting the Triptych Print

The dismal weather meant attendance was down a bit last evening for our competition selection for the Wellington Interclub to be held at the end of August.  Full details of this year’s competition are at http://wic.org.nz/2014.

We did manage to select five prints for the subjects of panorama, abstract, triptych, portrait and monochromatic. .

However, we need more entries for the five very general digital image categories of emotion, natural, active, fluid and situation. We’ll need to take along up to twenty (20) images for each of those categories, so that we can choose the best match on the night when the exact topic for each category is announced.

Please email Ian Linning any additional digital images you want to be considered – specifying what category they apply to. Images should be max of 1920 pixels wide, max of 1080 pixels high, sRGB space. We’d like them by the end of this coming weekend please (18 June). Thanks.

 

2014 Autumn Salon Results

Our judge for the KCPS 2014 Autumn Salon last Monday was our very own President, Ian Linning.

We had an excellent attendance of around 40 members to hear Ian’s thorough and constructive appraisals of all the images. Thanks to Ian for doing this.

"Castle Point Lighthouse" - Highly Commended, Novice Print - ©Rhonda Billington

“Castle Point Lighthouse” – Highly Commended, Novice Print – ©Rhonda Billington

The 29 available Highly Commended and Honours images can be seen in the 2014 Autumn Salon Gallery which is now online.  It was good to see Rhonda Billington receive her first Highly Commended for her Novice Print “Castle Point Lighthouse” – not taken on our recent trip!

After the judging, we watched a 5 minute audiovisual of images from some of those who had been on the very successful field trip to Castlepoint the previous weekend, and viewed some further submissions for the Waikanae Estuary exhibition.  The deadline for this has now been extended to next Monday 9 June – see details here on the website . And don’t forget you have until Saturday (tomorrow) night 31 May to submit images for our club set for the Trenna Packer – details on this blog post.

Enjoy your holiday weekend, but don’t forget that Development Group will meet as usual for the first Monday of the month on 2 June. The advertised topic is “Low Light and Fill in Flash Photography”.

 

Happy 110th Birthday Peg

Our oldest member (and New Zealand’s oldest resident) Peg Griffin celebrated her 110th birthday today. Wow. Congratulations from everybody at the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society.

Check out today’s celebration (at Cookies in Paraparaumu Beach) in a TVNZ item from this evening’s news, and yesterday’s item from the Dominion Post.

(c) ROSS GIBLIN/ Fairfax NZ – DomPost 24 May 2014

Submit Nature Images for Trenna Packer by 31 May Please

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.

Castle Point Field Trip

There’s 15 of us on this weekend’s field trip. After sunset photos, then a congenial pot luck dinner in front of a roaring fire, many of us were up at 6 am to enjoy the early light at the lighthouse. Here’s Carol and Alison at the top viewpoint.

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Interesting Links

  • Registrations are now open for the PSNZ Central Regional Convention – this is being run by the Hutt Camera Club in a very handy location for us, Silverstream, from 7 to 9 November. Check out their website and register early for the best rates and choice of workshops.
  • Perfect Effects 8 Premium Edition from onONe Software is currently available free at this link if you want to grab it.
  • Want to see if your image will be popular?  On Flickr at least.  Check out http://popularity.csail.mit.edu. It’s fun to play with.  No guarantee of course that your image will do well, when judged for the Autumn Salon!

Rhein II by Andreas Gursky – sold for $4,338,500 in 2011