The results of our first competition for the year are in. We had the biggest pool of entires in recent years and our judge for the night, Paul Robinson, was highly impressed with the standard delivered. Read on to see the results.
News
Landscape/Seascape photography on a sunny day with no wind and no prospect of clouds to add interest to the sky is often not on the radar for quite a lot of photographers. However, these were the weather conditions presented for our photoshoot to The Blowhole/Elephant Rock (Flinders) and 16th Beach (near Rye ocean beach). The tide was out (it looks like the organiser misread the tides), and there was minimal, if any, action by The Blowhole.
Those who attend our photowalk around Williamstown had a lovely day out with seven members visiting from Colac Camera Club - sun shining, not too hot.
A highlight was the privilege of being allowed to wander the berths within the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria and see close up some fabulous (and some famous) boats yachts - thanks to Francoise and David Muller-Robbie.
We rounded out our day with some refreshing drinks at the Hobsons Bay Yacht Club - courtesy of Cas Bukor.
We did, of course, take photos earlier at the beach, the Williamstown Botanic Gardens, Time Ball Tower, and just generally around town. You can see the photos in the attached gallery.
We're starting 2018 off with the first week in our 52-week photo challenge. We're encouraging our members to take place in the challenge of taking a photo a week for 52 weeks around the theme of our choosing.
The hope is the themes and challenges will prompt members to make more photos throughout 2018 and to shoot with the intention of filling a brief. At times the brief will be a simple word prompt, other times it will be the exploration of a photography genre or method.
Until our new website is up and running, and after, the challenge will be conducted on our major Social Media outlets such as our public page at www.facebook.com/williamstowncameraclub, via Instagram (with the week's hashtag and tagging @williamstowncc), and on Twitter were you'll find us using @williamstowncc.
We look forward to seeing all the awesome images I'm sure you'll be making.
Visitors are also welcome to participate in the challenge, hence why we're running it via our public page rather than our closed group, so jump on in and share your photos with us.
Our first theme is "new" use the hashtag #WCC52_new to have your images included in our round up on Twitter and Instagram, or post your image as a comment to the original post on our Facebook page.
A new theme will be released each Monday and we'd expect final images in by midnight the following Sunday.
We had so many great images entered this year in both our club competition and our interclub comps, a testament to the wonderful work of our members. Below are the results of our end of year awards. Congratulations to our winners.
Aggregate Awards 2017
The aggregate awards are compiled over the year. Members are awarded 1 point for each entry, 10 points for a first place, 6 points for second place, and 4 points for third. These are aggregated over the year to form the leaderboard determining our winners.
Print aggregate
1st place - 78 points, Brett Ferguson
2nd place - 46 points, Neil Anderson
3rd place - 32 points, Karl Zeller
Digital aggregate
1st place - 48 points, Brett Feguson
2nd place - 28 points, Neil Anderson
3rd place - 27 points, Kathryn Hocking
Images of the year
The image of the year for print and digital categories are awarded by a panel of judges from another camera club. This year we welcomed a four-panel team from the Southern Suburbs Photographic Society who provided us with some valuable feedback on a range of images that were presented for consideration this year. Traditionally we only have a single print image of the year and digital image of the year, however, this year the team from Southern Suburbs Photographic Society awarded 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended awards to other images entered.
Print Image of the Year
"The Florist" by Brett Ferguson
Runners up
2nd place - "The Blue Dress" by Brett Ferguson
3rd place - "Lillian" by Brett Ferguson
Highly Commended
"Nardoo" by Sue Searls
"In Flight" by Trudy Purchas
Digital Image of the Year
"Flame Robin" by Kathryn Hocking
Runners up
2nd place - "Coke" by Andre Bellaire
3rd place - "Lucy the Barn Owl" by Phil Taylor
Highly commended
"Tell me a story" by Brett Ferguson
"Remember Us" by Kathryn Hocking
Print Open
- 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “Tom”
- 2nd Place – Ronald Clarke “An Australian Icon”
- 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Kayaking”
- Highy Commended - Françoise Muller-Robbie "Water Dragon"
Set Print – "Umbrella"
- 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Rainmaker”
- 2nd Place – Neil Anderson “Strawberry Cocktail”
- 3rd Place – Brian Obst “Umbrella Wedding”
- Highly Commended - Sue Searls "Through Water"
Open Digital
- 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “Form"
- 2nd Place – Neil Anderson "Yarra Twilight ”
- 3rd Place – Jamie Cifuentes “Splash”
Set Digital – "Umbrella"
- 1st Place – Robyn Bartlett “The Rains Are Here”
- 2nd Place – Gayle Tout “Coffee Anyone”
- 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “Windy”
Novice Digital
- 1st Place – Anne Malthouse “Umbrella”
We went to Castlemaine seeking gold. Our gold was not the precious metal discovered in the 1880s by miners digging, blasting and panning. Our gold was found in the light, the buildings, the people and the landscape of the historic goldfields town.
Open Print
- 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Blue Dress”
- 2nd Place – Ronald Clarke “White Faced Heron”
- 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “Foggy Morning”
Set Print – "Silhouettes"
- 1st Place – Karl Zeller “Dali Exhibit”
- 2nd Place – Gayle Tout “Inside Looking Out”
- 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Moonlight Flight”
Open Digital
- 1st Place – Neil Anderson “Pinnacles Sunset"
- 2nd Place – Kathryn Hocking "Flame Robin ”
- 3rd Place – Karin Volz “Set and Innocent”
- Highly Commended – Karl Zeller “Gone Fishing”
- Highly Commended – Andrea Sparks “Denise”
- Highly Commended – Tess Maddocks “Little snip here, little tuck there”
- Highly Commended – Françoise Muller Robbie “Resting”
Set Digital – "Silhouettes"
- 1st Place – Cathrine Stevenson “Sam Training Henry”
- 2nd Place – Jennifer Empey “Outliers”
- 3rd Place – Trudy Purchas “Is Anybody Out There”
- Highly Commended – Andrea Sparks “Contemplation”
- Highly Commended – Brett Ferguson "Reflection"
- Highly Commended – Kathryn Hocking "The Other Side"
- Highly Commended – Tony Arceri "Heading Home"
- Highly Commended – Kathleen Moyses "Werribee South"
- Highly Commended – Gayle Tout "As the Sun Goes Down"
- Highly Commended – Andre Bellaire "Corvette"
Open Print
- 1st Place – Robert Moyses “Pens, Pencils, Scissors and Stuff”
- 2nd Place – Akm Imran “Smoke”
- 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Baby Elephant”
- Highly Commended - Jennifer Empey "Dandelion"
- Highly Commended - Colin Lofts "Beach Bird"
Set Print – "Environmental Portrait"
- 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Seamstress”
- 2nd Place – Christine Dennis “Portrait of the Artist”
- 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “On the Edge”
- Highly Commended - Françoise Muller Robbie "Electric Iron Man"
- Highly Commended - Akm Imran "Fire Dancer"
Open Digital
- 1st Place – Akm Imran “Aurora”
- 2nd Place – Brett Ferguson "Chcolat Sec”
- 3rd Place – Andre Bellaire “Range Rover”
- Highly Commended – Cas Bukor “Morning Flight”
Set Digital – "Environmental Portrait"
- 1st Place – James Troi “Di the Collector”
- 2nd Place – Christine Dennis “Portrait Painter”
- 3rd Place – Robyn Bartlet “A Shoe In”
- Highly Commended – Brett Ferguson “Maintenance”
- Highly Commended – Akm Imran "Richard, The Sculptor"
- Highly Commended – Karin Volz "The Cameraman"
So, in the Web Whip this week I included a link to PixelPeeper.io, a website where you can upload a JPG image and, if it hasn't had its metadata stripped, see the Lightroom adjustments that have been made. Well seems the world of photography as a love/hate relationship with the site, that is largely unfounded... because... you've actually always been able to do this in Photoshop!
To confirm that PixelPeeper does what it claims to, I uploaded one of my images to the site to see the results.
Upcoming
Judging: Judging: Still Life and Open
Join us for the judging of our second competition Still Life and Open in A and B grades
Walker Close Community Centre
23rd April 2024 7:30 pm
Photo Shoot: Spudfest - Trentham
Details to be advised closer to the date. The annual Spudfest in Trentham will offer many photographic opportunities to our members.
Walker Close Community Centre
4th May 2024 10:00 am