Melanie Dick has whipped up a fancy poster, featuring David Steer’s friendly Kea, to promote our exhibition which starts this week. Please feel free to download and print out the poster if you’re able to display it anywhere, and we hope to see you all there throughout the week!
Thanks very much to Ross McIvor and his trusty assistant Judith Swan for their appraisals of the POTM this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
Just a few more activities for the year, then we’re done! Our first meeting for 2021 will be at Mornington on 25 January, but watch this space in case we organise any photo walks or field trips before then.
| Date | Activity | Details | Location |
| Wednesday 2 – Tuesday 8 December | Members’ Photo Exhibition | Community Gallery | |
| 7:30pm, Monday 7 December | View Finder #6: Julia Coddington, Women in Street Photography | Zoom | |
| 7:30pm, Monday 14 December | Club meeting: President’s Evening | Trophy presentations, quiz, bring a plate for shared supper | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
The 14 Nov saw some 17(!) photographers pile out of cars at Katiki Point lighthouse into a clear, sunny, and warm afternoon. The plan: photographing around the Katiki Nature Reserve, fish and chips at The Fishwife in Moeraki, then on to Moeraki boulders. Some folks chose to stop at Shag Point on their way home, they found a grand spot for a specific visit!
Walking around the reserve and headland led to images of photographers, fisherpeople, sea gulls, shags, penguins, terns, plants, insects, landscapes, and more. We were entertained with seal antics, in the water and on the rocks; the fishermen and their catches; and lots of birds in flight.
The general consensus seems to be The Fishwife dishes up some of the best blue cod around!
Then on to the beach and fun with jumping and pushing and sitting and running with the boulders. Some long exposures, reflections, and shadows. Those at Shag Point found barnacles, rocks, rock pools, sea weeds, star fish, more rock jumping, and more landscapes.
A fabulous afternoon, and evening, out with friends and photos …
Thanks to Melanie Dick and Anastasia Labudina for their appraisal this month, and congratulations to Simon Parsons, Judith Swan and Gordon Speed!
-Nicola
The results of our second Projected Image Exhibition for 2020 were announced at the club meeting this week. For the first time, we used Zoom at a club meeting, so that one of our judges was able to present her comments ‘in person’, and it seemed to work really well. Watch this space for more Zoom visitors at meetings!
Congratulations to Stephanie Forrester APSNZ for her Champion Open Image Out of the Fog and to Simon Parsons for his Champion Natural History Image Albatross 1, and well done to everyone who had images accepted.
Thank you very much to our judges, Nicki Mora LPSNZ for the Natural History section, and Cushla Moorhead for the Open. We really appreciate the time they put into judging for us, and their thoughtful commentary.
The results are available here as a PDF and below in the two slideshows.
Only a few more meetings for this strange year – please remember to check the programme here for any changes, as we try to keep this as updated as possible.
| Date | Activity | Details | Location |
| 7:30pm, Monday 2 November | View Finder #5: Kevin Landwer-Johan, Cultural Sensitivity when Photographing in South East Asia | Zoom | |
| 7:30pm, Monday 9 November | Club meeting: Simone Jackson – Wedding and Family Photography Slideshow: Alphabet Challenge CDE | Projected Image Of The Month: Food and Drink and Open Appraisers: Anastasia Labudina and TBC | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
| 7:30pm, Monday 16 November | Focus group meetings | Zoom and various | |
| 7:30pm, Monday 23 November | Club meeting: Trevor Douglas – Aerial Photography 10 minute presentations by Graeme Atkinson and Ian Thompson Slideshow: Alphabet Challenge BA | Print of the Month: Open Appraiser: Melanie Dick | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
Thanks to Judith for putting this together for us recently – looks like the NatMAT group has been a hive of activity!
What has the Nature – Macro – Astro – Timelapse (NatMAT) focus group been doing??
Well, we started with a chat and found out we were keen on photographing pretty much anything ‘outside’, taking part in field trips, and learning from our colleagues. So with those things in mind we set up a field trip to the Botanic Gardens.
The aim was to take some macro images. We had a beautiful afternoon of sunshine with nearly a dozen of us finding bees, weevils, flowers (especially yellow flowers!), yellow and black bugs, and some fungi. These images got critiqued at our next face-to-face meeting, and we learnt good ideas from each other.
Then COVID-19 came along and turned the world upside down!
Nature-Macro pivoted to online! We decided to meet once a week (Sunday evening) using the DPS Zoom room, sharing images based on a theme.
We started with ‘My Garden Inhabitants’ which showed up some skills within our group. We’ve challenged ourselves with birds, water, focus stacking (after Ged shared some techniques for focus stacking), fungi, insects (after a DPS presentation on insect photography), ‘creative nature’ (after some ideas from Tulipa), astro/stars, and always open.
As soon as we moved to level 1 Nature-Macro scheduled a field trip!!
In mid July another dozen or so of us arrived at Yellowhead, Broad Bay, again on a stunningly clear beautiful afternoon with a low tide. We enjoyed a wonderful slow stroll around the point with images of birds, krill, harbour, sky, boats, and lots of the cliff face. All supported with lots of chat, catching up, and friendships – new and old.
Our club colleagues from the Astro-Timelapse focus group opted to come along and join in. As the group size expanded, so did our name!!
More recently, we’ve learnt from Karen about the different twilights, and the transition from light to dark. We’ve challenged ourselves to use that learning with astro and twilight themes. More trips and themes have included Purakanui, birds in flight, green, weather, asymmetry, black and white, and Aramoana.
This week we’re working on spring images, thinking about other things we’d like to do, and hoping for a nice enough weekend to visit Aramoana. If any of this sounds like you, please come along – DPS Zoom room, Sunday, 7:30pm.
Here are some of the images that we’ve taken and shared and learnt from:
Thanks very much to Kate Burton for stepping in to appraise the PIOTM this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
Thanks to Craig McKenzie and Graeme Atkinson for their appraisals this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
