Dear Member,

Here is your monthly reminder of  ‘What’s on in September’ for the Maitland Camera Club.

You are able and encouraged to view the home page of the MCC website. 

Please click on this link >  https://maitland.myphotoclub.com.au  to view the extensive Events Calendar that is located on the left hand side of the home page. You are able to view, click on and expand each event or even click on “View Calendar” to see events for the remainder of the year. You can bookmark the MCC homepage on your computer home screen to short cut to view the Calendar and view all posts that have been made on to the website.

Petro’s Day Class meets every Tuesday between 10.00 & 12noon with the 4th Tuesday allocated to an excursion. All members, new and old are invited to attend.

4th September – Open Photographic Competition – Judges George & Gail Hardy

11th September – Guest Speaker – Dianne English

18th September – Photo Assignment – Geoff Patchett

4th October –  Set Subject – “Patterns in Nature” – Judge, Bill Chambers

9th October – Showing of Photo Assignment – Geoff Patchett

Dennis Jones is judging our November Open Photographic Competition.

Please have a read and contact Dennis if any or all of these tours interest you.

Hello from Wildlife Safari Consultants / Journeys Unlimited / Madagascar Travel Centre.

It is a pleasure to be able to share details of our three group tours for 2019, which I will be leading.

I have attached “fliers” about the three tours. I have created a link to the full itineraries so you can directly download any you have a further interest in. This link will only be available to you for the next 4 weeks – after that please email or phone me and I will send the itinerary out to you. Continue reading →

In 2017 Jennine Rutherford and Sue Joy had an idea to run a Photo Hunt Competition for the MCC. This year again the format proved highly popular. A great deal of thought was put into the rules, categories and boundaries for this very successful event. Many many thanks girls, your efforts are very much appreciated we all hope that you revisit this event again next year!

First place in each section received a certificate and a $20 voucher and the Overall Winner a Qubie light and a $20 Camera House Voucher in addition to the the original $20 voucher.

First Place and Overall Winner,  Geoff Patchett – Section “Movement” – Rainbow Migration 

First Place – Petro Holowinskyj – Section “Yellow” – Tiny Yellow Circles

First Place –  Dave Vane – Section “Tiny” – Training for BMX

First Place – John Vernon – Section ” Shadows” – Leaf Shadow

First Place – Sue Joy – Section “Doors or Knobs” – Nice Knockers

First Place – Garry Pearce – Section ” Round” – Round

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First place – “Mice and Wild Berries” by Alec Trusler

Second Place – “Wildcat” by Julie Rathbone 

Third Place – “Green Frog on Leaf” – by Petro Holowinskyj

Highly Commended awarded to – Peter Smith “In for a free feed” ,  Grahame Wright “Figbird”  ,  Brad Le Brocque ” Lone Red Fungi”

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First Place – “Ferns #2” by Petro Holowinskyj

Second Place – “Babbler in Mono” by Brad Le Brocque

Third Place – “Mono Mushy” by Brad Le Brocque

Highly Commended awarded to  – Malcolm Pattison ” Arms Outstretched”  ,  Ernie Goulding ” It Must Be Black and White”  ,  Grahame Smith ” Starting Young”

OPEN CREATIVE LARGE PRINT (10)

First Place  ” Seed Pods” by Sue Joy

Second Place – “Spider Web” – Geoff Patchett

Third Place – “Lavender Tint” – Malcolm Pattison

Highly Commended awarded to  – Geoff Patchett ” Bumblebee Hunting”  ,  Petro Holowinskyj ” Water Garden Flowers #b ” ,  Malcolm Pattison ” Lunchtime”.

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First Place – “Avocet Huddle” by Julie Rathbone

Second Place – “Purple” – Heather Colgate

Third Place – “Bluebells 6384” by Neville Forster

Highly Commended awarded to  – Sue Joy ” Baby Bird”  ,  Kevin Parsons ” Blocks”  ,  Grahame Smith ” Orchids” 

OPEN SMALL PRINT

First Place – “Red Berries” by Sandra Elliott

Second Place – “Tilt Shift” by Sean Sylvester 

Third Place – “Church” by Christine Lewis

Highly Commended awarded to – Jennine Rutherford ” Bottoms Up”  ,  Eric Reid ” Day Lily 1 1017″  ,  Sean Sylvester ” Panned to Speed”

Congratulations to all

Dear Member,

Here is your monthly reminder of  ‘What’s on in August’ for the Maitland Camera Club.

You are able and encouraged to view the home page of the MCC website. 

Please click on this link >  https://maitland.myphotoclub.com.au  to view the extensive Events Calendar that is located on the left hand side of the home page. You are able to view, click on and expand each event or even click on “View Calendar” to see events for the remainder of the year. You can bookmark the MCC homepage on your computer home screen to short cut to view the Calendar and view all posts that have been made on to the website.

Another feature of the home page is, the Green tab “Contact/ Help” in the top menu bar. This is particularly useful when you need to either contact a committee member or find the help you need in the FAQ’s. (frequently asked questions)

It is a very good idea to familiarise yourself with all of the features of the website. All special and regular events are permanently placed on the website as are the all of the details for past, present and future competitions.

August 7th :-  Set Subject ” Selective Focus” showing and judging. Definitions are listed on the MCC website MEMBERS > ALL CLUB INFORMATION, RULES, DOCUMENTS (etc) > 2018 Programme pdf link ( lease click on this link to open)

      Petro’s day Class meets between 10:00am and 12:00 noon in the Emerald room,                  the Club Maitland City.

August 12th :- Photo Hunt closes. – Please look at the MCC Website homepage https://maitland.myphotoclub.com.au to see competition rules, map and details.

August 14th :- Showing of Edits of the Same image 

 Petro’s day Class meets between 10:00am and 12:00 noon in the Emerald room,                    Club Maitland City.

August 21st :- Photo Hunt Showing and Presentation 

Please click on the link below to view the Photo Hunt Details

Photo Hunt Details July, 2018

On 14 Aug we will be trying a new style of members’ participation fun night where we will look at different edits of a number of images.
What we are doing is asking members to contribute an image that they think would benefit from some editing. We’ll then randomly give those images to other people to apply their editing skills, whilst the owner of the image also edits the image. On 14 Aug we will look at the original plus the two different edits and have a bit of a discussion on the effects of the different edits.
There will be no restrictions on how the images are edited, so there will be plenty of scope to be creative – we are not after competition standard images, just some different ideas on how images can be treated.
For the night to work we need lots of people to participate and as we are looking for images that could benefit from editing, we are not looking for award winning images – anything you have that didn’t quite work would be fabulous. Similarly your editing skills don’t have to be that good – anything you do to change an image will be interesting to look at.

How it will work:

Select an image of your own that you consider could be improved with some editing.

Give the unedited image file a title then email it (in whatever format it came out of your camera) to Geoff Patchett gphe@bigpond.com, with “Two Edits” and your name as the title of the email.

Email must arrive by 9pm 31 July.

Standby to receive someone else’s unedited image by return email on 1 Aug.

Edit your image and the other person’s image in any way you choose. Do not change the title of the other person’s image or your original image.

Add “-1” to the title of your edited image
ie if your original image was called “Sunset” the edited version becomes “Sunset-1”

On 14 Aug bring standard EDI size copies of your unedited image, your edit of your own image and your edit of the other person’s image on a USB stick.

Join the discussion about the various edits.

138 prints and projected images were presented to our judge Barry Collier. As usual there was a very high standard of entries. We have some truly talented members!

July the 24th sees the meet up of Petro’s Day Class at the “Fishermans Wharf” – Carrington at 9:00am till noon. All members are invited and welcome to attend.

July the 31st at 7:00pm is the night of the MCC Committee Meeting. All members are invited to attend and put forward any ideas that they may have that would be of benefit to the MCC. Probably won’t be as much fun as Petro’s outing at the Wharf, but….. the invitation is still there. 🙂

Congratulations to all of this months award winners!

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First Place – “Yellow Trio” by Petro Holowinskyj

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