At last! This years programme is (pretty much) finished and is available now.
The last few meetings and workshops that are still TBC (to be confirmed) will be updated as soon as possible.
We have also loaded all the meeting dates and info into our DPS Google calendar. Feel free to add this to your own Google calendar – click the link in bottom right of the calendar.
See you on Monday 22nd 🙂
We have had a few queries as to when the 2016 programme will be ready, and I am happy to say we will have something out to members in the next few days 🙂 Thanks for your patience.
– Melanie
Photograph the Chinese New Year celebrations with us!
We will meet at 7pm outside the Duke of Wellington pub on Mon 8th and find a good spot to photograph the parade.
There will be plenty to see and photograph with the Dragon dance, cultural performances and food stalls at the Chinese Gardens after the parade. And, if anyone wants to stick around, there will be fireworks at 10pm.
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have had a relaxing and enjoyable break over Christmas and a great start to the new year.
Council are in the final stages of putting the 2016 programme together – we are just waiting on confirmation of a couple of guest speakers, and then you will receive a copy via email and it will be available here on our website.
The first meeting will be on Monday 22nd Feb 7.30pm (no meeting on 8th Feb, Waitangi Day observed). Our speaker will be club member Paul Sorrell, and we will have the Projected Image of the month (theme: open).
The doors have closed on another successful Dunedin Festival of Photography. This is mostly due to the fantastic images that were entered and the great job the selectors did in putting together the collection of images for the print and projected exhibitions.
This year we had a total of 839 images (print and projected) from 94 entrants. The final print and projected exhibitions comprised 355 accepted images. Congratulations go to all the entrants who had images accepted, and in particular to those who were selected for honours and champion awards.
Full AVs of the exhibition are available:
Print http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoZGny0EWE
Projected images http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi4C_Srm70c
Entries are now open for the 46th Dunedin Festival of Photography.
This Festival is open to all New Zealand residents and financial members of PSNZ affiliated camera clubs. There are eight sections:
Entries must be made using the online entry form. More information is available from our website.
This weekend the Dunedin Photographic Society celebrates 125 years.
In March 1890 a small group of enthusiastic photographers formed the Dunedin Photographic Society with the firm intention of encouraging amateur pictorial photography. Today, 125 years later, the group is larger and more diverse, but the intent of fostering enthusiastic amateur photographers continues.
The Society has a long history in the local, national and international photographic community. Aside from being arguably the longest continuously running photographic society in the Southern Hemisphere, it has contributed to the community through the organisation of many exhibitions; the Society organised its 1st Annual Exhibition in 1890, the first NZ Interclub Competition in 1920, and in 1925 the 1st International Salon of Photography. The success of the Society can also be gauged by the success of its members who have been awarded many national and international honours over the years.
Over the next couple of days the Society will celebrate with several events:
The 125th Anniversary Exhibition celebrates the photographers who have come before us and have left a fine legacy for current members and the wider community to enjoy. The Society holds a permanent collection from members in the Hocken Library, and this exhibition contains a selection of those prints for you to enjoy. We also celebrate the current members who continue in the light of the founders to foster and encourage amateur photography. This exhibition comprises small personal exhibitions from 21 current Dunedin Photographic Society members.
Post by Laurie White, Print Secretary
I would like to help and encourage new members to enter our Print of the Month, this is a good way to start showing your work in a more relaxed and less formal way than the Exhibition’s. You can receive some positive feedback as well as comparing your photography against other club members.
Producing a print is relatively easy as there are a number of businesses in Dunedin which will print an acceptable photo. The following are all being used by club members: Mint Gallery (Moray Place) good for doing Archival prints, Pro Lab (Moray Place), Harvey Norman, Warehouse Stationary, Photo Warehouse.
In Dunedin the following will cut your mat and backing foam board to suit The Framing Studio (South Dunedin), Art Zone (Hanover Street), The Framers Room (Dowling Street), Neville Studios (Crawford Street), although best prices are probably found by buying online at: Framing Online or Factory Frames.
If you would like to make your own mats, buy mat board and foam backing from Southern Paper Products (Main Road Fairfield) and Logan mat cutters from Gordon Harris.
To get you started I can supply your first mat, hinged with foam backing for a special price of $7.00. You can talk to me at most club nights re further info.
The new year is well underway now and hopefully you have all been out enjoying the great weather and taking lots of photos. We had the first photowalk of the year on Sunday, which was actually a photobike rather than a walk. We headed to Hyde and cycled a bit of the rail trail, before heading back to the cafe at Hyde for lunch. Great way to start the DPS fieldtrip/photowalk year.
2015 is a big year for the Dunedin Photographic Society – we are celebrating 125 years. We are led to believe that the society is the oldest continuing Photographic Society in the Southern Hemisphere – certainly in Australasia We will be celebrating this occasion in March with an exhibition of members’ work and some historical works from the Hocken Collection. There will also be some associated events – more details to come.
The programme for the year is available online. The first meeting of the year is Monday 9th Feb at 7.30pm. Our speaker for the night is Terry Maguire who will be giving us a history of the Society. Of course, the print of the month competition will also start on the 9th. The theme is “Open” and prints will be appraised by John Hart. Remember to bring your prints along by 7.20pm.
Print AV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrJOYrNkCE
Projected Image Av: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaGPhq4aUY
Dunedin Photographic Society 