What a start to the year. We have undertaken the 31 day challenge in January. This year we have had unprecedented bushfires destroying property and taking lives. The club year started with our first two scheduled competitions and a workshop and now we find ourselves in Covid 19 shutdown. This edition of the newsletter represents all of the activities we undertook before the Covid shut down. We have 2 articles from the double exposure workshop, a photoessay from the 31 day challenge and an original article by Vicki Kramer. I hope you enjoy these articles. Next edition will be the “Stuck at home” edition.
James
February 2020
10/04/2020 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on February Camera Clips is out.
Attention Members: there will be changes to our activities but we will attempt to have something happening online in which you can participate at or around the time of each scheduled meeting.
Details on how each of these activities will run will be emailed to all members shortly.
Peer Review/Critique Sessions will happen using our group pages in Flickr and/or Facebook, starting on April 9th.
Competitions will still be held on the scheduled nights and have the Set Subject as per the programme although the format will be different. Start preparing to enter up to three Colour Digital entries and up to three Monochrome Digital entries (in the usual digital format) for the “Social Documentary” competition on April 23rd. They can be split between Set Subject and Open in the usual way. Competition entry instructions will be emailed to all members.
We will make new plans for other meetings when guest speakers and workshops were scheduled. If you have any suggestions or questions please contact Julie or Judy at blackwoodphotoclub@gmail.com
In the meantime, let’s view self isolation at home as an opportunity to sort out our disorganised photos or practise our still life, table top, creative, flower, insect, pet and portrait photography! (Self-portraits if you live alone!)
We may not be able to see each other but we can still support one another in these strange and daunting times!
01/04/2020 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on Amended Programme due to Covid 19
Following our inspiring and educational workshop on Multiple Exposure (thank you James, Judy and Ray) it was great to see the number of members venturing into this creative genre and exciting to see the variety of applications and techniques employed. Although many of us had felt challenged by the idea of creating Multiple Exposure images, Set Subject entries significantly outnumbered Open category images and two thirds of entries were prints! This trend sets BPC apart from many other clubs where prints are giving way to PDI’s (Projected Digital Images).
Here are some of the different interpretations of the subject.
Helen Whitford – Hope
Di Gage – Deep Sea Folklore
Vicki Kramer – Alternate Dimension
James Allan – Sam the Man
Bruce Nankivell – Cosmic Walk
Ray Goulter – Born Again
Judy Sara – Dragonfly
Meredith Retallack – Through the Arch
Paul Hughes – Benjy on the Beach
Steve Wallace – Pnohm Penh Statue
Kerry Malec – Leisurely Walk on Crumpled Paper
Helen Whitford – Goddess of Nature
Vicki Kramer – Double Trouble
James Allan – Cool Gucci
Paul Hughes – Going for a Spin
James Allan – Front and Side
Our judge, Keith Seidel, shared many useful tips and suggestions, carefully explaining the reasons for the scores he gave. He appreciated storytelling, good composition and creativity when well executed. The most common flaws he noted were distracting elements such as bright patches or lines leading the eye away from the subject or out of the frame. It was encouraging to see the awards were spread among 10 of the 17 members who entered the competition.
Come back in a few days to see more of the Top Prints and you can find the Top PDI’s here.
13/03/2020 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Multiple Exposure – Competition March 12th
We were transported to a new era with some relatively new members flashing past the old guard in our Transport competition. With 100 entries we made a great start to the year and I’m pleased to see that we are one club in which Prints are thriving, comprising 60% of entries in this competition.
Judy Sara was not outdone, with many stunning images among the tops including Air Warfare, Turning and Duke of Edinburgh. Paul Hughes, Wayne Carruthers and Vicki Kramer also impressed with Ready to Go, Tucker’s Schooner and Vibrant Vespa.
Judy Sara – Air Warfare
Paul Hughes – Ready to Go
Wayne Carruthers – Tuckers’s Schooner
Vicki Kramer – Vibrant Vespa
Judy Sara – Turning
Judy Sara – Duke of Edinburgh
Di Gage made a cruise liner look small in Dwarfed, James Allan captured the splendour of a day on the water with Kayak, Eric Budworth made the mundane spectacular in Any Seat and Suzie Smith captured beautiful symmetry and detail in Moskova.
Di Gage – Dwarfed
James Allan – Kayak
Eric Budworth – Any Seat
Suzie Smith – Moskova
Our judge, David Rowlands, gave carefully considered comments on all images, providing many hints and tips along the way. Thanks David!
Bruce Nankivell demonstrated his talent for beautiful landscapes in the Open section of PDIs with Out There and Open Spaces.
Bruce Nankivell – Out There
Bruce Nankivell – Open Spaces
Come back in a few days for more Top Prints! And find all of the Top Projected Images here.
31/01/2020 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Transport – Competition January 30th 2020
Merry Christmas all.
I have just added an article to camera clips. A look at images on the theme of making an iconic Australian Christmas image. I wish you all well in the Christmas season.
James
22/12/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on An Iconic Australian Christmas
I have just posted the December edition of Camera clips. This is our end of year edition and includes images and explanations of the top images from our annual end of year competition. The Banner is derived from one of the entries, “invitation to siesta” by Paul Hughes. Note we are still receiving submissions for the top images article, so don’t panic if you are a bit slow in responding to the request.
Also we have quizzes. We have a brand new macro quiz. Can you identify familiar objects from their close ups? I have also posted the Camera clips quiz from the final meeting, along with links to the respective articles, so you can brush up on your camera clips facts.
Lastly a travel log from the red centre.
Have a Merry Christmas and enjoy this months articles. Don’t forget the 31 day challenge is still on, but has moved to January this year. For those who haven’t done this previously, you are required to take a photo every day for 31 days and post them on the club Flickr page. It’s OK to post even if you miss a day here or there. It adds to the fun of the exercise to have as many posting as possible. Previously we have done this challenge in December. I look forward to seeing your Summer snaps.
James
11/12/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on December 2019
The BPC Annual Exhibition and awards night was opened by Hon. Sam Duluk, our local MP.
Club President Julie Goulter with Sam Duluk MP
The Annual Exhibition entries were judged by Peter Maystrenko AFIAP FAPS, Tim Newbery AFIAP AAPS Hon EFIAP Hon FAPS and Brenda Rocklyn ESFIAP.
The Bill Templer Award for service to the club was awarded to Judy Sara who has given her time as Secretary – always a demanding role – and in collating the 2020 Calendar along with Di Gage and Bruce Nankivell.
Judy Sara receives the Bill Templer service Award
Other Awards were as follows.
ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Projected Images
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1st – Hutt Street Photos Award – Helen Whitford Oyster Catcher Treasure Hunt
2nd – Helen Whitford Preening Tern
3rd – James Allan Breakaways
Merits
– Kerry Malec Angle of the Sun
– Suzie Smith Insignificant
WEA Australiana Landscape Award – James Allan Breakaways
Monochrome Print Division
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1st – I’ve Been Framed Award – Helen Whitford Red Throat
2nd – Helen Whitford Curious Macaque
3rd – Duart McLean Iceberg Swirls
Merits
– James Allan Redbanks
– Paul Hughes Snowstorm at Snowshill, Gloucestershire
– Judy Sara Gelada
Colour Print Division
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1st – Fotoswift Award – Helen Whitford Wipe your Beak
2nd – Helen Whitford Got any more Mum?
3rd – Judy Sara Caught You!
Merits
– James Allan Reed Warbler
– Glenn Langley Scoop
– Helen Whitford Que?
Album Print Division
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1st – Edge Malpas Award – Helen Whitford Greet the Morning
2nd – Di Gage Picking Flowers
3rd – Helen Whitford Hey Baby!
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ANNUAL AGGREGATES
A sample of 2019 work from each place winner is shown.
Projected Images
1st – Photographic Wholesalers Award – James Allan
2nd – Judy Sara
3rd – Helen Whitford
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Projected Images – Novice
1st – Glenn Langley
2nd – Trent Riddle
Monochrome Print Division
1st – Blackwood Times Award – James Allan
2nd – Mark Pedlar
3rd – Judy Sara
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Colour Print Division
1st – Blackwood Photographic Club Award – Helen Whitford
2nd – James Allan
3rd – Jenny Pedlar and Judy Sara
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Album Print Division
1st – JV Spick Award – James Allan
2nd – Bev Langley
3rd – Gordon Lindqvist
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Thank you to all club members who entered regular competitions and the Annual Exhibition. By entering you challenge and inspire one another and everyone wins by gaining experience and insight into how others see our work. Congratulations to all award winners!
Click these links to view all Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images from all competitions in 2019.
A video slideshow of all of the Projected Digital Image entries in the Annual Exhibition 2019 can be found here.
23/11/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on BPC 36th Annual Exhibition 2019 – November 21st
Our competition on Thursday was all about Connections and the Set Subject was embraced by entrants, accounting for 60% of entries.
Several new members entered successfully with images among the top scores – well done Paul Hughes and Vicki Kramer!
Our judge, Robert Dettman, deliberated over every image, making a genuine effort to see the image from the photographer’s perspective and trying to understand the story they were attempting to convey. He seemed to like our work, leaning toward high end scores, but also carefully explaining how he felt images could be improved, particularly in technical aspects and composition.
The type of connections ranged from strong emotional images involving people and/or animals to physical/mechanical connections such as chains, links, locks, machinery and Huw Rosser’s clever image Connection, Old and New which combined the physical, invisible and metaphorical and clearly took a lot of thought to create.
Sisters – Helen Whitford
The Falconer – Paul Hughes
Connection Old and New – Huw Rosser
In the Open category James cleaned up with a record average score of 9.58 across a full set of 12 entries! (Yes, all 10’s or 9’s!) His images demonstrate remarkable versatility and creativity.
Bee Eaters – James Allan
Red Car – James Allan
Reed Warbler – James Allan
Arum – James Allan
Death Adder – James Allan
Come back in a few days for an update on this post, with more great images and to check out all of our Top Prints and Top Projected Images.
25/10/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Making Connections – Competition October 24th 2019
BPC members are invited to enter our Annual Exhibition which will be judged by a panel of three judges on November 9th 2019, (not a club night). The actual Exhibition and Awards will be presented on Thursday November 21st at our regular club meeting.
To enter, please fill in this form Annual_Exhibition_form_2019 and return it to blackwoodphotoclub@gmail.com and cc to bpcdigitalentries@gmail.com no later than 7pm Saturday November 2nd 2019.
Good luck!
25/10/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on BPC Annual Exhibition – Enter Now!
This edition features banners based on excellent spot colour photographs by Suzie Smith and Mark Pedlar. We have articles of travel to Borneo (Helen Whitford), Iceland (Duart McLean) and Scotland (Di Gage). Lastly we have a book review of a bird photographer, David Tipling. I trust that you will enjoy this months Camera Clips.
Here is the link. October Camera Clips
20/10/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on October Camera Clips
The notion of Spot Colour was embraced by members, with more than half of entries falling in this category, excluding mono of course which was excluded from the Set Subject. (That didn’t stop James from entering an all-red image and a suggestion of yellow in mono.)
There was a great variety of interpretations and applications of Spot Colour, ranging from a minor single element to quite a large amount of selected colour in some scenes. It was clear that a lot of thought went into all of the images which were selected for this subject and the results were impressive.
Meredith used architectural detail to create interest, complemented by a bright but worn-looking sign. Mark drew attention to the beautiful light falling through the window on apples with his touch of colour and Helen brought attention to a lion’s very effective grooming tool.
Rather Rustic – Meredith Retallack
Heligan Apples – Mark Pedlar
Grooming Tool – Helen Whitford
Suzie kept quite a bit of colour to draw attention to the river in an otherwise blue image of Paris, Di made us really look at the bumblebee and Kerry used pattern effectively to show a rainbow bow tie in a pile of CDs.
Summer Night in Paris – Suzie Smith
Yellow Bumble Bee – Di Gage
CD Rainbow – Kerry Malec
Judge, Susie Lipert, made thoughtful comments, giving time to each image, and gave lots of useful suggestions although she may be more fond of a tight crop than many of our members. Thank you Susie!
We had a very strong contingent of nature and animal images again and in the Open category it was great to see Kim Brumfield’s Luv U Mum and Gordon Lindqvist’s Open Wide and Just Resting among the top scorers.
Luv U Mum – Kim Brumfield
Open Wide – Gordon Lindqvist
Just Resting – Gordon Lindqvist
Want more? Go to Top Prints. The Top Projected Digital Images can be found here.
Our next competition is “Connections.” Tune in again after October 24th.
27/09/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | 1 Comment
I have been fortunate to score articles from Di Gage, Judy Sara, Mark Pedlar, Howard Seaman and Chris Schultz this month. I have all of the information presented at the recent Spot colour workshop. Howard and I swap RAW files to demonstrate how we would manipulate each others images. Chris talks about Accidental Renaissance. The Banner above is by Suzie Smith from the “lit from Behind” competition. All you could want and more from this months Camera Clips.
I trust you will enjoy this months edition. This is the link
James
07/08/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on August Camera Clips is released
We had a great turnout of both members and images on Thursday for our Lit from Behind competition, with roughly equal numbers of photos in our Set Subject and Open categories. It was great to see that Prints were strong, making up over 2/3 of entries.
Relatively new entrant Suzie Smith produced a beautiful study of light through trees with Misty Sunrise in McLaren Vale. Helen Whitford confused the judge, Geoff Smith, with Stuck Down but he liked it anyway. (Yes, it is a piece of down and it’s stuck.) Meredith Retallack’s Sailor’s Delight was the best received of the sunset images with lovely golden ripples in a panoramic format.
Misty Sunrise in McLaren Vale – Suzie Smith
Stuck Down – Helen Whitford
Sailor’s Delight – Meredith Retallack
James Allan’s Cocky Alarm was a delightful study in light and birds, Di Gage’s Italian Chapel was a beautiful composition and Suzie Smith’s Umbrellas of Carcassonne was impressive.
Cocky Alarm – James Allan
Italian Chapel – Di Gage
Umbrellas of Carcassonne – Suzie Smith
In the Open section Meredith Retallack’s Leave Nothing but Footprints, Judy Sara’s Echidna, Helen Whitford’s Wipe Your Beak and James Allan’s Mateship were among the top scorers.
Leave Nothing but Footprints – Meredith Retallack
Echidna – Judy Sara
Wipe Your Beak – Helen Whitford
Mateship – James Allan
It was great to see entries from 17 of our members in this competition, with a wide range of subject matter and styles.
For fuller coverage of the night come back in a few days to check out more of the images and visit the Top Prints and Top Projected Images pages.
04/08/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Lit from Behind – Competition August 1st 2019
The challenge was to capture a sense of movement and members embraced the set subject with enthusiasm with around two thirds of entries in the set category.
James Allan selected slow movement with star trails, Helen Whitford selected rapid movement with a shaking otter and Bev Langley took the middle ground with a waterfall.
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Looking to the West – James Allan
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Otter Shake – Helen Whitford
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Wonderwall – Bev Langley
We had a flock of moving bird photos including Judy Sara’s Gull Bathing, Glenn Langley’s Scoop and James Allan’s Swallow
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Gull Bathing – Judy Sara
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Scoop – Glenn Langley
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Swallow – James Allan
Some Open subject photos which caught judge John Hodgson’s eye included Gordon Linqvist’s Argyle Sunset, Don McLeod’s Bicycle in Italy and Judy Sara’s The Farmer and his Cheese.
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Argyle Sunset – Gordon Lindqvist
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Bicycle in Italy – Don McLeod
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The Farmer and his Cheese – Judy Sara
For more images from the night visit our Top Prints and Top Projected images pages!
23/06/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on A Sense of Movement – Competition June 20th 2019
I am dreadfully late putting out the May edition of Camera clips. Above, the banner is an image of Victoria Falls by Kerry Malec. This appeared in our Elements competition and the element in this case was water.
In this edition – Concept Photography – The elements – Negative Space – Smoke Photography – Stavros Pippos.
I have included articles that were written before the elements competition to stimulate ideas, and again I apologize that they are being published after the event. Regardless have a read and let me know what you think. I have received very positive reviews about some of the camera clips articles from last edition. Thank you to those who have taken the time to give me feedback.
Regards James
23/06/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on May in June 2019
Well we kinda sorta had a competition! As our scheduled judge had unfortunately fallen by the wayside our Vice President, Mark Pedlar, withdrew his images and stood in to give commentary and scores but, in fairness to all, the competition was voided and will not be included in Aggregate scores.
Members again supported the set subject well, with around half of entries each in Set and Open categories.
Judy Sara captured earth and fire in her excellent composition of Mining Sulphur. Meredith Retallack captured reflections in Still Water and Bev Langley caught the fire in the sky and the rage of the water in Tempest.
Mining Sulphur – Judy Sara
Still Water – Meredith Retallack
Tempest – Bev Langley
Heather Connolly captured earth and water in her simplistic Receding Sea, Helen Whitford caught a watery illusion with Running Man and Bev Langley’s Sunset caught the foamy waves on the sand nicely.
Receding Sea – Heather Connolly
Running Man – Helen Whitford
Sunset – Bev Langley
In the Open category wildlife images featured strongly, as is often the case in our animal-friendly club, with James Allan’s Hobby, Gordon Linqvist’s Australasian Gannett and Welcome Swallow and Helen Whitford’s Contentment all showing well.
Hobby – James Allan
Australasian Gannet – Gordon Lindqvist
Contentment – Helen Whitford
Welcome Swallow – Gordon Lindqvist
But it wasn’t all animals, Di Gage’s Cairngomes Hut was also impressive.
Cairngomes Hut – Di Gage
Some of the top print entries can be found here! and the top projected digital images can be found here.
Thank you to Mark for stepping in to judge and provide feedback on our images!
Members please note that as this competition is not being included in Aggregate scores, all images are deemed to have been withdrawn and are therefore still eligible to be entered twice in regular competitions.
10/05/2019 | Categories: Competitions | Comments Off on Earth, Wind, Fire & Water – Competition May 9th
There was a great standard of images presented in our “Shadows”competition on Thursday night. We were very appreciative of the constructive feedback from our judge, David Rowlands, who particularly encouraged creativity and “fine art” photography. James Allan’s Escher impressed, Jenny Pedlar’s Dog Shadow was simple but striking and Mark Pedlar’s Boots was another with a creative twist.
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Escher – James Allan
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Dog Shadow – Jenny Pedlar
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Boots – Mark Pedlar
Judy Sara found Wildebeest on the city streets and Don McLeod found apples tempting but out of reach.
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Wildebeest Bikes – Judy Sara
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Out of Reach – Don McLeod
Di Gage found intriguing multi-toned shadows in the cloisters, Heather Connolly’s simple piece of seaweed threw up an interesting twisted shadow and Kerry Malec’s minimalist pylon image demonstrated how shadows can actually enhance detail.
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Cloisters – Di Gage
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Seaweed – Heather Connolly
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Pylon Shadow and Reflection – Kerry Malec
There were some great images in the Open category with Bev Langley’s Tempest, Jenny Pedlar’s Looking for a Wave and Steve Wallace’s Stack of Yellow making an impression.
Tempest – Bev Langley
Looking for a Wave – Jenny Pedlar
Stack of Yellow – Steve Wallace
It wouldn’t be a BPC competition without a few animal images. New member Trent Riddle captured a great giraffe portrait (coming soon), Helen Whitford caught a gull catching a crab and Judy Sara got up close and personal with a beautiful kite.
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Those Eyes – Judy Sara
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Blue Swimmer Breakfast – Helen Whitford
Come back soon to check out more images from the night and you can find all of the top images at Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images.
01/04/2019 | Categories: Competitions | Comments Off on Coming out of the “Shadows” – Competition March 28th
This edition of Camera Clips is late. I apologize to the authors who had their articles submitted quite early in the piece. (Banner above by Helen Whitford) There has been a lot happening in the club. We have had the architecture competition, an invitation to hear Ken Duncan speak and we have hosted Stavros Pippos. There has been a peer review night and an excursion. Make sure you catch up on the events in this months edition of camera clips. We also have articles from Helen Whitford, Ray Goulter and myself. Here is the link: March 2019 Camera Clips.
Enjoy
James Allan
17/03/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on Mad March 2019
What a fantastic start to our competition year with 22 people entering images, including several new members!
We embraced the set subject of Architecture with more than 60% of entries in this category and a total of 93 images for the night.
Our outing to the North Terrace medical and entertainment precinct yielded a number of images and it was great to see many different interpretations of the same buildings.
Convention Centre 1 – James Allan
Contemporary Design – Ron Hassan
SAMHRI at Night – Don McLeod
Door 5 – Steve Wallace
Of course there was some international flavour with James Allan capturing contemporary architecture in Seville beautifully and Judy Sara taking us to the amazing Singapore Garden.
Seville Parasol – James Allan
Way of the Future – Judy Sara
Regular judge Peter Phillips gave useful feedback on each image, stressing the importance of good lighting to enhance composition and keeping us entertained with his bad jokes! He provided many helpful hints on technique both during capture and in post processing.
There was a wide variety of styles ranging from Jenny Pedlar’s abstract NGV to David Hope’s more traditional Inspiring and from Don McLeod’s high-key Tokyo Roof Skeleton to Judy Sara’s low-key Car Park at Night.
NGV – Jenny Pedlar
Inspiring – David Hope
Tokyo Roof Skeleton – Don McLeod
Car Park at Night – Judy Sara
For more images from the night visit our Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images pages.
15/02/2019 | Categories: Competitions | 1 Comment
Welcome to 2019. I have pulled together the January edition of Camera clips. In case you missed the recent events, this is your chance to see what happened in the 31 day challengeand the Architecture excursion. There are two additional articles, “perspective in photography” and “Steve McCurry“. Useful reading for the upcoming Architecture competition. Keep cool as the warm weather hits. Hope to see you in the coming weeks.
James Allan
29/01/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on Start of the year 2019
BPC will hit the city this Sunday, January 20th for a City Walk outing led by Ray Goulter, focusing on Architecture in preparation for our first competition. Meet at the River Cafe car park on the northern side of the Torrens weir on War Memorial Drive at 8am to capture the morning light.
Later arrivals contact Ray to find out the current location of the group.
It is anticipated that participants may split up during the course of the morning and then regroup for coffee at 11.30am at the NRAH Food Court.
Come and join us and see what architectural treasures you can dig up!
17/01/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on City “Architecture” Walk – Sunday January 20th
Check out our 2019 Programme !
We start the year with a sharing session on January 17th, so bring along some of your favourite images from the summer break either as prints or on a USB. Give a commentary or just show us what you took. Your choice!
We’ll then hit the city on January 20th for a City Walk outing led by Ray Goulter, focusing on Architecture in preparation for our first competition. Meet at the car park on the northern side of the Torrens weir on Memorial Drive at 8am.
Later arrivals contact Ray to find out the current location of the group.
It is anticipated that participants may split up during the course of the morning and then regroup for coffee at 11.30am at the NRAH Food Court.
Have a great year!
07/01/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on 2019 Ready to Shoot
Happy New Year to all of our members and to interested visitors to our website!
Our year kicks off on Thursday January 17th with a sharing night about what you photographed over the summer break. Bring along some of your images – digital on a USB or large prints to show. Talk about them if you wish or just show us what you came up with.
A few members completed the December “31 Day Challenge” on flickr and while they may share some on the 17th you can check out all of the challenge images on the Blackwood Photo Club Group flickr page.
We have a City Walk scheduled for Sunday January 20th as a lead-in to our first competition on February 14th – Set Subject: Architecture.
Before the competition we have a workshop on Thursday January 31st – “Preparing for Competitions” where you can find out how to prepare both digital images and prints as well as learning the correct procedures for entering.
The full year’s programme will be posted shortly.
Visitors and potential new members are welcome at all of our meetings! Enjoy your photography in 2019!
02/01/2019 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News | Comments Off on Happy New Year 2019!
It was great to see some new faces and names added to the awards in our Annual Exhibition where award recipients were announced on Thursday night, November 22nd. Huge congratulations to Bev Langley (you can’t call yourself a novice anymore!) for Honeyeater in Colour Prints, Judy Sara for Olive Grove in Mono Prints and Golden Morning in Projected Images and Di Gage for Sunset Lake in Album Prints.
Honeyeater – Bev Langley
Olive Grove – Judy Sara
Sunset Lake – Di Gage
Projected Image 1st – Golden Morning – Judy Sara – Hutt St Photos Award and WEA Landscape Trophy
Bev Langley – Colour Print
Judy Sara – Mono Print
Di Gage – Album Print
Judy Sara – Projected Image
We had two sets of ties for 2nd place, with Judy Sara – Huli Wigmen and Helen Whitford – Hello Sunshine! tying for 2nd in Colour Prints and Di Gage – Sydney Harbour and Anthony Kernich – Metro tying in Mono Prints. Glen Langley gained 2nd in Album Prints with Swallow and Di Gage – Madagascan Male Magpie Robin was 3rd. In Projected images Ray Goulter gained 2nd with Alignment V2 and 3rd with Peregrine along with Anthony Kernich who tied for 3rd with Up and Down.
Hello Sunshine! – Helen Whitford
Alignment V2 – Ray Goulter
Swallow – Glen Langley
Peregrine – Ray Goulter
Huli Wigmen – Judy Sara
Sydney Harbour – Di Gage
Up and Down – Anthony Kernich
Metro – Anthony Kernich
Merits were awarded to Helen Whitford for Lighting up the Rain, One Loose Cannon, Sunset through the Rain, Those Ears! and What? and to Judy Sara for Jaguar, and Seed Pod.
Sunset through the Rain – Helen Whitford
Jaguar – Judy Sara
Those Ears! – Helen Whitford
Seed Pod – Judy Sara
One Loose Cannon – Helen Whitford
Lighting up the Rain – Helen Whitford
What? – Helen Whitford
Thank you to our Annual Exhibition 2018 judges David Rowlands, Paula McManus FAPS and John Seidel EFIAP, FAPS.
The following gallery contains all of the Projected Image Entries. Enjoy!
01. Glen Langley_Blue Wren
Golden Morning – Judy Sara
24. Duart McLean_Valley Waterfall
23. Kerry Malec – Huddled in the Shade
22. Anthony Kernich – Duomo
21. Julie Goulter_Possum
What? – Helen Whitford
19. Ray Goulter_Phantom Skier
18. Judy Sara – Vulture
17. Duart McLean _ Resilient Cliffs
16. Kerry Malec – Dining Room Reflection
Up and Down – Anthony Kernich
14. Howard-Seaman – The Eyes Have It
13. Julie Goulter_Path To The Sea
Those Ears! – Helen Whitford
Alignment V2 – Ray Goulter
10. Judy Sara – Poppy Pollen
09. Duart McLean _ Glacial Breakaway
08. Kerry-Malec_Sturt’s Desert Peas- Mandala
07. Di Gage_Sunrise on the Murray
06. Anthony Kernich – City Lights
05. Howard Seaman – Ironbark Forest
04. Julie Goulter_Coastal Scene
Sunset through the Rain – Helen Whitford
Peregrine – Ray Goulter
Results for the 2018 Aggregate Awards were as follows.
Projected Images
1st – Photographic Wholesalers Award – Ray Goulter
2nd – James Allan
3rd – Judy Sara
Projected Images – Novice – Bev Langley
Monochrome Prints
1st – Blackwood Times Award – James Allan and Ray Goulter tied
3rd – Mark Pedlar
Colour Prints
1st – Blackwood Photographic Club Award – Helen Whitford
2nd – Jenny Pedlar
3rd – James Allan
Album Prints
1st – JV Spick Award – Gloria Brumfield
2nd – David Hancock
3rd – David Hope
Images of other Award presentations of the night.
Bev Langley – Colour Print
Julie Goulter was awarded the Bill Templar Award for service to BPC in 2018. Congratulations Julie on this recognition of your efforts throughout the year!
Julie Goulter – Bill Templar Award for service to BPC during 2018
To see more of our work visit our exhibition over Christmas in the Coventry Library, Stirling from December 16th 2018 to January 6th 2019.
25/11/2018 | Categories: Annual Exhibition, Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on BPC Annual Exhibition 2018
Blackwood Photographic Club of South Australia Inc. 