“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.

Huge thanks are due to all involved from our Society, for your contributions to what was a very successful weekend.

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.

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“

We’re in for a treat at the next KCPS meeting (7:30 pm Monday 25 February March at OBC) with a talk by Nick Ward about “Creating a Story in Your Images”.

Nick Ward broke into feature screenwriting with pool comedy Stickmen. An instant Kiwi hit, Stickmen won Ward a 2001 NZ Film Award for best script.

He went on to originate and co-write the hit romance Second-Hand Wedding, and reconvened with Wedding director Paul Murphy for 2011 follow-up Love Birds. Ward has also penned episodes of TV series Outrageous Fortune and Burying Brian, and horror flick The Ferryman.

Should be great!

Reminders

Check out this post from the PSNZ blog about lots of deadlines coming up. In particular:

• Take advantage of early bird pricing and register by 28 February for the PSNZ National Convention in Wellington
• NATEX entries are due in by 6 March

And of course entries for our own KCPS summer salon need to be in by Monday 11 March – use the online submission system, and bring any prints along to the meeting that night.