Competitions in 2024 January Prints are closing soon!
Competitions in 2024 January Prints will close Sunday, 7th January 2024, 11:00 PM.
Entries can be made in the following areas:
- A Grade Open Colour Large Print
- A Grade Nature Large Print
- A Grade Open Small Print
- B Grade Open Colour Large Print
- B Grade Nature Large Print
- B Grade Open Small Print
- Advanced Open Colour Large Print
- Advanced Nature Large Print
All members are encouraged to enter.
January Competition Reminder
Entries for the January Print and Digital competitions (Colour and Nature) close at 11pm on Sunday 7th January. Please make your entries on the club website as soon as possible.
Some of the competition rules have changed, so please download the 2024 rules from the “Club Documents” part of the club website.
by Roy Killen, January 4, 2024
2024 – Here we Come
On behalf of your committee I wish everyone the very best for 2024. I trust that everyone had an enjoyable festive season with family and friends.
The new year is approaching rapidly and club activities will commence in January. Our website is ready to accept your entries for the January competitions which are due by 11.00pm on Sunday 7th January, with our first club night the following Wednesday, 10th January, 7.00pm at the Valentine Bowling Club.
As many of you may be aware I travelled overseas in November and December and whilst away was fortunate to see a number of photographic exhibitions in Turin and Bologna. This was complete chance but provided a great opportunity to gain inspiration and ideas for my own photography. Amongst our set subject topics for next year we have self portraits, reproduce an iconic photo, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). All of these topics were covered in the exhibitions I saw. In Turin there was a retrospective of the Hungarian photographer, André Kertész who is renowned for his contributions photographic composition and the photo essay. The following image from the exibition the power of composition in picture making –
Bologna was holding a number of exhibitions acrosss the city including a retrospective on the American photographer Vivian Maier, 1/2/1926 – 21/4/2009. Vivian was an amazing street photographer ” whose work was only discovered and recognised after her death. She took 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York city and Los Angeles” – Wikipedia. I took the following image at the exhibition in Bologna.
I would like to invite you to think about what you would like to achieve with your photography in 2024 and to let the committee know how the club may be able to help you. What challenges will you set for yourself in 2024? It could be as simple as taking at least one image every day. That’s how André Kertész started by photographing everything he saw around himself.
See you at Valentine Bowling Club on Wednesday 10th January at 7.00pm.
by Dennis Archibald, December 29, 2023
PSA Interclub Competition
Round 1 of the PSA Interclub competition has been finalised. Details of our club results, plus the six images that gained awards will be in the next club newsletter.
Our members who received awards were Lynda Beeston (Colour), Bill Chambers (Nature), Roy Killen (Nature), Alan Hinde (Photo Travel), David Richards (Photojournalism) and Helen Walker (Photojournalism).
Entries for Round 2 close on 15th January – so please upload your best shots for possible selection to represent our club.
If you have any questions about the PSA Interclub competition, please contact Roy Killen.
by Roy Killen, December 13, 2023
IMAGE OF THE YEAR
Congratulations to Chris Mannweiler! His image titled “Black shouldered kite” was voted to be Image of the Year for 2023.
by Roy Killen, December 5, 2023
