Our competition evening of 24th June once again attracted an interesting and high quality selection of images.    Considering that we were in competition with the State of Origin there was a good crowd of members and visitors to hear our adjudicator David Toyer give his valuable critique from a life time as a photographer of our entries.    
Honours were won by John Van den Broeke for ‘More Traffic Lights’ and Soren Martensen for ‘A Place to Reflect’.      Merits by Kristine Kowitz (2), Bernice Camlin (2), John Van den Broeke (2), Carol Brandt, Paul Singleton, Andy Selinger and David Thompson.    Congratulations to all of the award winners.

External Competition Information can be found at Other Information / External Competitions.

To see the selected entrants to the National Photographic Portrait Prize including our very own John Vandy follow the link:
  www.portrait.gov.au/site/nppp2009_9.php 
On the right hand side under number of pages........ select all......to see all photos   Left click on any photo enlarges it and gives photographers comments

Our next meeting on Wednesday 8th July 2009 commencing at 7:30pm, will be our clubs Annual General Meeting, which should last for approximately 30 minutes,     Agenda and nominations available for  members to view at Members Only / Committee & AGM / AGM.  

Immediately following our AGM will be a presentation on Image Composition. Our adjudicators make reference from time to time on the composition of our images. This session will cover the various tools that we can use in the composition of our images.This will be an informative session and everyone will  benefit  from  this night.     Speakers Alleen Peate and Paul Hart

IMPORTANT AGM INFORMATION FOR ALL CLUB MEMBERS:  Nominations for committee positions closed on Friday the 12/06/09.   To see a list of nominations and a meeting agenda visit Members Only / Committee and AGM / AGM. The AGM will be held on Wednesday the 08/07/09 at 7:30pm when all positions will be declared vacant. 

Remember from February, that the new competition rules require that images both print and digital are with our with our Competition Secretary by the end of our Group Studies evening, 2nd Wednesday of the Month.    If you wish to enter prints and for any reason can’t attend the Group Studies please contact the Competition Secretary in plenty of time prior to the dead line to arrange an alternative delivery method.

Remember that your camera is just a tool. Don't pamper it. You can always buy a new one. If you leave your camera in a closet, it will never get dirty or broken, but you won't have too many great photographs to show for yourself. Many of the best photographs can only be taken under conditions that will render your equipment wet and/or filthy. That's life.

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