Please note: all images on this site remain copright of the original photographers. Contact us to request use of any images (webmaster.DPSNZ@gmail.com)
All New Zealand residents can enter the National Exhibition
If you are entering prints remember to give your prints enough time to get to Tauranga!
PSNZ Sony National Interclub Salons
Entries close on 30th August
Wiltshire Cup Interclub Salon, George Chance Landscape Interclub Salon, Bledisloe Cup Interclub Salon, Bowron Digital Landscape Interclub Salon
More information, including rules and entry forms: Interclub Salons
Creative Focus
The Creative Focus family is celebrating 10 Years of outstanding, imaginative and artful photography! Our milestone birthday is in September this year, and we are going to be celebrating in style. We will be showcasing all the inspirational and successful images from this year’s competition, with an award-winning prize giving, at our local Arts and Cultural Centre, Pukekohe. Along with wine, cheese, music, banter, rosettes, certificates and trophies, there will also be a digital show of the colourful and imaginative winning images. The award-winning images from each section will also be printed and displayed in our exhibition. September 23rd is the party date….come and enjoy the magical world from behind the lens.
Entries close: 6th August 2023
Information, rules, entries. Find it all at Creative Focus, Pukekohe Camera Club
PSNZ Accredited Judge Training Weekend
Anyone thinking of becoming a PSNZ accredited judge or wanting to know more about how images are assessed, there are still a couple of places left for the ‘in-person’ training in Cambridge (12-13 August 2023). Please be sure to get in quick to avoid disappointment.
Time again for the 32nd Annual New Zealand Photojournalism Competition. You are invited to present your best PJ images and compete for the prestigious Ted Walker Trophy (Sport and/or action) and Maree Turner Trophy (Street Photography and/or Social Commentary) section.
Entry is open to all New Zealand photographers and PSNZ members who reside outside of New Zealand.
Remember the competition is open to anyone in New Zealand. Tell your friends and family and anyone you know that loves to take PJ style photos.
PSNZ Honours
Closing date: 31st July
A PSNZ Honours distinction is an internationally recognised award, confirming a level of photographic competence demonstrated through a portfolio presentation of a member’s work. There are three levels of distinctions – Licentiate, Associateship, and Fellowship. For the Licentiate level you do not have to be a member of PSNZ.
Nominations for Service Medals need to be submitted to the Honours Board by 31st July.
PSNZ presents several Service Awards to members who have made a significant contribution to the Society. Members can be nominated for any of the following Service Awards:
An Honorary Fellowship is the highest service award granted by PSNZ. This is made to a member who has made unique contributions of significant importance to the Society.
An Honorary Life Membership is awarded for outstanding service to photography particularly through organisational work.
A PSNZ Service Medal is awarded for service alone, of an outstanding nature.
The Emma and William McPherson Award is made to a club or individuals who have helped to foster the interest of amateur photography over the previous 12 months.
Creative Focus is celebrating 10 Years of outstanding, imaginative and artful photography!
Our milestone birthday is in September this year, and we are going to be celebrating in style. We will be showcasing all the inspirational and successful images from this year’s competition, with an award-winning prize giving, at our local Arts and Cultural Centre in Pukekohe. Along with wine, cheese, music, banter, rosettes, certificates and trophies, there will also be a digital show of the colourful and imaginative winning images. The award-winning images from each section will also be printed and displayed in our exhibition.
September 23rd is the party date … come and enjoy the magical world from behind the lens.
A special and spectacular place to visit. You quickly feel a sense of awe from the continually moving environment and nature all around you. The roar of thundering waves along a rugged rocky shore bounces off steep weathered hills rising high up out of the coastline. It’s name means the headland (rae) where the mountains come down (turaki) to the sea – and is home to some rare plants, seals wintering over and earthquake-raised beaches.
The reserve is also home to banded dotterels, caspian terns, and variable oystercatchers plus skinks and geckos. Wainuiomata
Zealandia
Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne is the world’s first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary, with an extraordinary 500-year vision to restore a Wellington valley’s forest and freshwater ecosystems as closely as possible to their pre-human state. The 225 hectare (500+ acre) ecosanctuary is a ground breaking conservation project that has reintroduced 18 species of native wildlife back into the area, some of which were previously absent from mainland New Zealand for over 100 years. Set around a picturesque reservoir, Zealandia is home to some of New Zealand’s most rare and extraordinary wildlife – all thriving wild in a world-first protected sanctuary. Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne is about the most biodiversity-rich square mile of mainland New Zealand in terms of the species living wild here. Over forty different species of native birds have been recorded in our sanctuary valley, twenty-four of them endemic (found in no other country). Dozens of reptile species, hundreds of plant species and thousands of kinds of invertebrates have made Zealandia their home. Many of the animals and plants you will see at Zealandia are highly endangered, and some are practically extinct in areas not protected or managed like Zealandia. Zealandia
Cable Car Museum, Botanical Gardens, Lady Norwood Rose Gardens and Waterfront
Ride the cable car and alight at the Lady Norwood Rose Gardens station or travel to the top, enter the Cable Car Museum or walk a short distance to the top entrance of the Botanical Gardens. Wherever you want to start first. Admire the great views over the harbour from the Cable car or walk the waterfront first and soak in the atmosphere of Wellington before venturing up the Cable car. There are so many places to choose to have your lunch. Nothing can beat Wellington on a great day. Wellington Gardens and Wellington Cable Car
PSNZ is now on Instagram
Keep on eye on activities and see some amazing images by following: “PhotographicSocietyofNZ”
Look out for the public Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/PSNZgroup/members/. If you or anyone you know is interested in knowing more about or joining the Photographic Society of New Zealand, you’ll find a lot of information on the public Facebook page or on the PSNZ website.
Dunedin Festival of Photography – 50th Anniversary Exhibition Our very own national competition. The 50th Anniversary Exhibition invites print and projected images in open, nature, monochrome and portraiture categories. Come and join the hundreds of photographers who have participated in this exhibition since its inception in 1968.
Entries close: 16th April 2023. Details: Dunedin Festival of Photography
Jack Sprosen Audio-Visual competition
Closes: 22nd April 2023. Enter: Jack Spronsen AV on the PSNZ website.
Whanganui Salon – Humanity and Earth
A new category next year is Aotearoa New Zealand Heritage for images that are iconic and recognisably Kiwi. In addition, the Salon retains the previous categories Humanity and the Natural World and Living in a Changing World. The Whanganui Salon is a bit different to other salons seeking images which illustrate the relationship between humanity and the planet we live on.
Closes: 23rd April 2023. Details: Whanganui Salon.
We’re really excited to be presenting the 50th Festival of Photography this year! On 1 April, entries will open, and the Dunedin Photographic Society invites you to join the hundreds, if not thousands, of photographers who have participated in this exhibition since its inception in 1968.
This year, there will once again be both print and projected image sections, with Open, Natural History, Monochrome and Portraiture categories in both – plenty of options to cover all the photographic bases. Selected images will be curated into an exhibition that will be shown at the Dunedin Community Gallery from 3 – 11 June.
For more info and to enter from 1 – 16 April, go here – and good luck! With your help, we’re looking forward to producing an exhibiton to be proud of!
Thanks very much to Judith, our PSNZ Liaison Officer, for updating us with the following:
There is heaps coming up from PSNZ in the next few months and lots to plan for as the year unfolds. Have a look below for individual competitions, club competitions, honours challenges, workshops and judge training opportunities …
On 8 Feb there were 3 spaces left! PSNZ members only. $140.00. Information and registration link. Note – workshop attendees must be fully vaccinated and provide vaccination passes for accommodation and hospitality venues associated with the workshop.
Canon Online Competition round 1 – entries close 25 February 2022
PSNZ members only. Six round across the year. Points accumulate. More information, log into the PSNZ Members Area, then Canon Online Submission. See the 2021 winning images.
PSNZ Sony National Exhibition 2022 – entries close 28 February 2022
Digital only this year (due to COVID-19). Open to ALL New Zealand residents. Two categories: Open and Nature. A number of trophies are able to be won. Information, 2021 winning images, entry form here: National Exhibition information.
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled for 2022. More information about this decision is here.
Camera Talk 2022
Articles, updates, and news for the next Camera Talk … email the editor. Read Camera Talk/.
Tentative Workshop Programme 2022
Notes
Attendees must be fully vaccinated and have a valid vaccine pass.
Previously PSNZ have subsidised the workshop series, this practice is stopping. Hence workshops are more expensive than previous years, but will still be cheaper than attending directly with the presenters.
The workshop programme kicks off from May. Registrations will likely open in March. All workshops are tentative and depend on the evolving COVID-19 situation.
Astro – Tekapo – Joseph Pooley – 27-28 May May be residential and include accommodation
Landscape – Queenstown – Meghan Maloney – 15-15 July Will be residential (include accommodation) and will include transport to the shooting locations.
Astro – New Plymouth – Leith Robertson – 23-24 July
Street / Urban – Wellington – Helen Westerbeke – 5-6 August
Creative Portrait – Tauranga – Karoline Ferbei – 1-2 October
Landscape for Novice and first time workshop attendees – Buller / West Coast – Graham Dainty – 22-24 October
Possibly also South Island workshops for bird, and studio portrait or natural light portrait.
Judge Training Weekends 2022
A number of Judge Training Weekends are being planned for later in the year. More information is available at Judge Training. These are, of course, dependent on the COVID-19 situation but should be able to operate under the current red settings.
Orewa – 18-19 July – Hibiscus Coast Camera Club
Taupo – July – More details to come
Christchurch – September – More details to come
Dunedin – October – More details to come
Judge Training weekends will require full vaccination and valid vaccine passes.
The 49th Dunedin Festival of Photography is now open for entries!
Image City Life by Ita Daniels
Important dates to note: Closing Date: 11:59pm Tuesday 31 August Prints to be received in Dunedin by: Monday 6 September Selection Day: Saturday 18 September Exhibition Opening: Saturday 9 October, at the Dunedin Community Gallery, Princes St Exhibition: Sunday 10 – Friday 15 October
The Festival is open to all New Zealand residents and financial members of PSNZ affiliated camera clubs.
The results of our Projected Image Exhibition were shown at our most recent meeting – massive congratulations to Gary McClintock for producing the Champion images in both the Open and the Natural History categories! What a coup! Congratulations to everyone else for their accepted and awarded images, and many thanks to our judges Graham Dainty and Mike Boyd-Clark for their selections and appraisals. And lastly, thanks very much to our Projected Image Secretary, Melanie Dick, for putting the whole exhibition together, and for producing these slideshows to show our great results! Enjoy 🙂
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.
Out of the Fog by Stephanie ForresterAlbatross 1 by Simon Parsons
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.
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