Thanks to Melanie Dick and Anastasia Labudina for their appraisal this month, and congratulations to Simon Parsons, Judith Swan and Gordon Speed!
-Nicola
2020 Projected Image Exhibition No.2 Results
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.
- Nicola
What’s On: November 2020
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 |
- Nicola
Focus Groups: NatMAT
Thanks to Judith for putting this together for us recently – looks like the NatMAT group has been a hive of activity!
Themes and Fieldtrips
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:
- Judith
Projected Image of the Month: Open, October 2020
Thanks very much to Kate Burton for stepping in to appraise the PIOTM this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
Print of the Month: Open, September 2020
Thanks to Craig McKenzie and Graeme Atkinson for their appraisals this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
What’s On: October 2020
Now that things are looking a bit more normal back at Level 1, here are the plans for this month. As before, if we need to go back to Level 2, all face-to-face meetings will be postponed or moved to Zoom when possible. Hopefully there should be something here for everyone!
| Date | Activity | Details | Location |
| 7:30pm, Sun 4 Oct | Nature/Macro/Astro/Timelapse focus group meeting | Zoom | |
| 7:30pm, Mon 5 Oct | View Finder #4: Maarten Rots, Abstract Architecture | Zoom | |
| 7:30pm, Mon 12 Oct | Club meeting: Graeme Warman – Food Photography | Projected Image Of The Month: Sport Action and Open Appraisers: Chris Hewitt & Ken Trevathan | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
| 10am, Sun 18 Oct | Projects/Sets focus group photo walk | Street Art Challenge and Architecture | Queens Gardens |
| 7:30pm, Mon 19 Oct | Focus group meetings | Zoom and various | |
| 7:30pm, Mon 26 Oct | Club meeting: Projected Image Exhibition, Mini workshop on reflectors, external lighting and white balance | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
Please email me at secretary.dpsnz@gmail.com if you have anything to add to our calendar.
– Nicola
Intro to the 2020-21 DPS Council
We had an excellent turnout for our AGM earlier this week, and once again, were lucky enough to have a good, healthy Council elected. As Gary mentioned at the meeting, a very big welcome to Judith Swan who is our newest Councillor, and many thanks to the Councillors who stepped down at the AGM: Glenn Symon, Ita Daniels, Brian Treanor, Jenny Longstaff, Antonio de Souza, and Simone Jackson who finished earlier in the year.
As not everyone was able to attend the meeting, and as we’ve had a few new members join over the lockdown months, this seems like a good time to briefly introduce the newly elected Council. Without further ado, they are:
| Patrons | Ian Wyllie and Phil Hollard | |
| President (and Immediate Past Pres) | Gary McClintock | president.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| Vice-President | Ross McIvor | vicepresident.DPSNZ@gmail.com |
| Treasurer | David Steer | treasurer.DPSNZ@gmail.com |
| Secretary | Nicola Pye | secretary.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| Webmaster | Melanie Dick | webmaster.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| Print Secretary | Tulipa Briggs | prints.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| Projected Image Secretary | Melanie Dick | slides.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| AV Secretary | Anastasia Labudina | |
| Field Trip Secretary | Ross McIvor | fieldtrips.DPSNZ@gmail.com |
| Social Media Secretary | Nicola Pye | cameracraft.dpsnz@gmail.com |
| Councillors | Alan Coppin, Bob Dagg, Judith Swan |
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email the relevant person above, or talk to them at a meeting – they’re a friendly bunch, and frequently know the answers to most things!
– Nicola
Join us via Zoom
We are meeting via Zoom until we return to COVID Alert Level 1:
Link to Zoom Room: https://zoom.us/j/673661631 (password required – see your email from President)
Visitors are always welcome. While we are meeting via Zoom, please contact the Secretary for details about how to join the Zoom meeting secretary.dpsnz@gmail.com.
2020 Projected Image Exhibition Results
Our first “face-to-face” meeting since the COVID-19 Lockdown was the viewing of the 2020 Projected Image Exhibition. The full results are available here as PDF download and the slideshow of images can be seen below.
Thanks to Chris Parkin APSNZ and Roger Thwaites APSNZ for making the selection of images and providing feedback on their selection.
Congratulations to David Steer APSNZ for his Open Champion Image – Plumb, and to Noelle Bennett LPSNZ for her Natural History Champion Image – Green chiton.
Dunedin Photographic Society 