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Welcome to the New Year

Wayne — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:26:28 +0000

The first meeting for 2010 is this Thursday the 28th, it is a members Holiday Show and Tell, come along and let us know what you have been doing over the last two months, bring some images as well. There will be a report on the great day had at Hanging Rock – Australia Day Races, hopefully with plenty of images. Those members and their families that attended had a very pleasant day.

We will have the projected images file name and resize program on the clubs laptop to instruct those that need help with this program, I have heard from a few members of their inability to get it to work.

Don’t forget that entries for the February Competition are due this Thursday as well.

Looking forward to seeing you all, Happy New Year in Photography.

Ballarat Foto Biennale

Jack — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:45:57 +0000

The Ballarat Foto Biennale is being held from September 4 to October 4. On the weekend of 12 and 13 September VAPS (Victorian Association of Photographic Societies) will be taking a space at the Ballarat School of Mines for all camera club members to use as a drop-in area/meeting point whilst they are in Ballarat for the Biennale. Tea and coffee will be available to all.

An exhibition of prints will be staged on this weekend at the drop-in centre. Clubs have been asked to submit two or three prints (Colour or Monochrome – Open subject) for this exhibition. We have informed VAPS that we will participate. We are waiting on further details, but in the meantime please select one print or two prints from your catalogue that you would like to have considered for selection. Please note that prints must be on a mount size of 16″ x 20″ (no larger or smaller).

When we know more details on when/how we need to submit prints we can work out how we select the three we will submit to represent the club. If it fits in with a regular meeting night we may have a members vote (eg on a 3/2/1 basis) otherwise we may need to appoint a selection committee on a separate night.
Will keep you informed.

In the meantime you may wish to check out the Ballarat Foto Biennale website to see whats on offer.

Bell Street Gallery Easter Exhibition

Jack — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:27:37 +0000

The Bell Street Gallery Easter Exhibition is running from April 3 until the end of the school holidays at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Torquay. It features well known photographers like Steve Ryan, Barry Sutherland, Rod Hyett, Wendy Mitchell and Kyle Simpson. Why not take some time out to check it out. Kyle Simpson, who judged our last competition, will be in attendance between 12 noon and 2 pm on the 5th, 12 noon and 4 pm on the 10th and 10 am and 2 pm on the 11th of April. See also www.bellstreetgallery.com.au

Anzac Day 2009

Jack — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:12:43 +0000

Shane Coles is heading to Melbourne on the 25 April to photograph the 2009 Anzac Day parade. He will be driving to Essendon then catching train into the city. If anyone is interested in the day trip let him know via email or on his mobile. He can take 3 passengers in comfort. If you don’t have Shane’s contact details, send us a note via the Contact Us page.

Best of the 2008 Head On

Jack — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:18:05 +0000

The Best of the 2008 Head On competition will be shown at 12.30 p.m., prior to the VAPS Half Yearly General Meeting at the Melbourne Camera Club on 5th April 2009.

“Head On” is an annual national photographic portrait competition and exhibition representing a diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices.

See previous post

Christmas Breakup

Jack — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:15:18 +0000

Our Christmas breakup this year was kindly hosted by Shane and Lorraine Coles at their home on 7 Dec. It turned out to be a double celebration as it also happened to be Shane’s birthday. The food was great, the company even better. As she did last year, Adelina Knight very kindly donated a number of Christmas cakes for us to raffle to raise a few extra dollars for the club. This is very much appreciated – thanks Adelina. Also as happened last year, Wayne Harris won the raffle, but this year he went one (or two) better – he took out all three prizes!!! All budding statisiticians are welcome to work out the probability of this happening. The President (who happened to be drawing the raffle) swears there was nothing sinister in this, but is having trouble convincing anyone.

Wishing all members and their families a very safe and Happy Christmas and New Year

Races At Hanging Rock – Australia Day 2008

admin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:50:31 +0000

On Saturday January 26th, we had a picnic/photography outing to the Australia Day Race Meeting at Hanging Rock. Mario arrived early and arranged a great spot for all of us, it was reasonably well shaded which was really good as it was a hot day, although it was quite a bit cooler there than the 38° C back in Geelong.
We all had a really good day, relaxing and taking photos of the races, bookmakers, food vendors and spectators at the race meeting, also some shots of the scenery around the place. Some of those who attended suggested we make it an annual event as they thought it was a really great day.
And it was a bit like the cricket as we had a streaker, who ran a full lap of the racecourse, which must have been nearly a kilometre or more before getting caught.