12 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in Useful Links
≈ Comments Off on Coward’s Guide to Street Photography
Are you a bit daunted by taking photos of strangers in the street? Me too. I recently ran across an excellent online article with some advice for people like us – a Coward’s Guide to Street Photography.
This is one of many excellent articles at the Digital Photography School website. I highly recommend this site. It’s been added to the list of LINKS available via the top menu of this website.
12 Wednesday Oct 2011
We’ve got an extra, special event this month – a sausage sizzle at 3 pm on Sunday 30 October.
The venue is the new Otaihanga Boating Club facility, at about 19 Makora Road Otaihanga. Our committee has negotiated an excellent deal for the use of this fantastic facility from 2012, three Mondays (1st, 2nd and 4th) each month from February to November. We’ll be seeking endorsement of this decision at the AGM on 8 November.
This is your chance to come along and check out the new venue, while socialising with your fellow KCPS members in this lovely location overlooking the Waikanae River. Family are most welcome as well. Sausages will be provided. BYO beverages of choice.
10 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Reminder
≈ Comments Off on Spring Salon Entries Due
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.
07 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in Meeting Report, News
Shona Jaray and I are at the PSNZ Central Region Convention – Expect the Unexpected – being hosted by the Stratford Camera Club.
We were thrilled to learn this evening that the KCPS Print Set won the inter-club competition for prints. Congratulations to the following six Kapiti Coast Photographic Society members:
Neil Gordon's "Orkney Vista" won Champion Print for the Interclub Print Sets competition.
Shona Jaray's "Catching the Light" won 1st prize for the Open Prints Section.
Shona Jaray's "Coalpit Dam" won 1st prize for the Open Digital Image section
Neil Gordon's "Arctic Tern" came 2nd in the Nature Digital Images.
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in News
≈ Comments Off on More Newsletter Memories
What were you doing in February 2003?
These Waikanae Camera Club members were having a very pleasant barbecue.
Thanks to Peter Ellis, who was the newsletter editor for the Waikanae Camera Club from 2003 to 2005, our Newsletter Archive has been extended back for another three years to the start of 2003.
Indulge in some nostalgia.
02 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in PSNZ Notices
≈ Comments Off on NZ Camera 2011 Special Price
PSNZ has a special deal – they have reduced the price of New Zealand Camera 2011 to $25.00 (plus distribution costs) for web site sales, effective Saturday October 1st.
If you wish to order a copy of the book, please go to http://www.photography.org.nz/nzcamera_purchase.html
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Reminder
≈ Comments Off on Photo Shoot – 7:30 pm Tuesday 4 October
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.
27 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in News
≈ Comments Off on Exhibition Closes
The KCPS “Images Showcase 2011”, which was on at Kapiti Law in Waikanae from 28 July to 26 September, has now closed.
We had lots of good feedback, and many positive comments in the visitors’ book (see below). There was just one sale – an image of Shona’s – but the main purpose of showcasing our talent and the Society was achieved.
Thanks to all involved.
The committee is actively considering the merits of another exhibition in 2012.
25 Sunday Sep 2011
Posted in Reminder
≈ Comments Off on Monochrome Extravaganza Coming Up
"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.
23 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in News
≈ Comments Off on Trip Down Memory Lane
We now have available on this site a Newsletter Archive with all the available newsletters for the last six years. The link is also available from the top menu.
There have been 28 newsletters produced since 2008, when we have been the Kapiti Coast Photography Society.
Until 2007 we were the Waikanae Camera Club. We have available 19 newsletters going back to September 2005.
These older newsletters were formatted so they could be printed side-by-side on two sides of A4 paper and then folded and stapled to make an A5 printed newsletter. So what you see in the archive has pages in a non-obvious order.
Go check out this fascinating Newsletter Archive, and see our how club and society has evolved over this recent part of its long history.
If anyone has soft copies of newsletters before September 2005 please let me know, and I’ll load them up as well.
Kapiti Coast Photographic Society 