Karori Camera Club

Inside This Month’s Newsletter…

• Jul 30: Selection for the Regional Interclub battle
• Aug 6: No meeting…
• Aug 12: Wellington Regional Interclub Battle
• Aug 20: Exhibition planning PLUS member’s spot
• July’s events
• KAC winter challenge
• Exhibitions in Wellington
• Letter from the editor

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jul 30: Selection for the Wellington Regional Interclub Battle

This year‘s battle will be hosted by the Kapiti Coast Photographic
Society on August 12. We are selecting our club entries on July 30 (note
that’s not one of the standard 1st/3rd Wednesdays) so that we have more
time for printing and matting. Each of the five clubs participating will
enter one print for each of the following topics:

• Plumbing
• Clouds
• Night
• Abandoned
• Liquid
• Glass (not reflective)
• Rocks
• One Tree
• Glint in the Eye
• Wide
• Interior (Architecture)
• Orange

Aug 6: No meeting planned…

…seeing as we had one the week before. However if anyone wants a
tutorial/workshop in matting or anything else, tonight might be a good
opportunity to have an informal meeting (even more informal than usual,
that is). Please contact Stella or Mark or Bill if you have any ideas
for a tutorial.

Aug 12 (Tuesday): Wellington Regional Interclub Battle

Most of the hard work has been done on the selection night, so on the
actual battle night, all you can do is relax and enjoy. We’ll organize a
car pool from Karori on the night, and will give details closer to the
time. The battle is at 7:30 p.m. and the battleground will be the
Presbyterian Church Hall, Ngaio Street, Waikanae. (From S.H.1 at the BP
service station head toward the coast along Ngaio St. 0.5 km to the
church hall which is on the right, opposite Kaikomako Road.)

Aug 20: Exhibition planning PLUS member’s spot (the lucky person to
be confirmed)

The club annual exhibition will run on September 27 to October 12. Last
year there were suggestions for a much more active promotion and range
of accompanying activities that we ran out of time to implement. So what
do YOU want for this year? (The September 3 meeting is also likely to be
a planning meeting plus members’ slot). As for all meetings, if you have
problems, or new images that you want feedback on, feel free to bring
them along to these club nights.

JULY’S EVENTS

Jul 2: Selection of images for Hutt-Karori Battle

It certainly doesn’t get any easier as the years go by. We had a good
range of submitted prints and digital images, and after a second evening
of agonizing, made a good selection. The results are below. Thank you to
everyone who contributed pictures and/or helped with the selection.

Jul 16: The Hutt-Karori Battle

OPEN PRINTS – 72 (Hutt 72)

OPEN DIGITAL – 82 (Hutt 84)

PORTRAITS (PRINTS) – 72 (Hutt 80)

WEATHER (DIGITAL) – 78 (Hutt 84)

GRAND TOTAL: Karori 304 Hutt 320

Congratulations to the Hutt club, who romped home in three out of the
four categories, and scored four 10/10 places. We’ll try harder next
year. Meanwhile, there’s still a chance to do better than them in the
regional interclub.

Jul 5-11: Karori Arts & Crafts Art & Photography Exhibition and Sale

Not a huge photography turn-out – eight images by five people, and
the Best Photograph was a charming lakefront scene by Jennifer Keenan,
who isn’t a club member. Not yet anyway. Other photos ranged from the
essentially abstract pictures by Gary, Bill and Stella to the unabashed
eccentricity of Syd – “Queen Rock and one of her loyal subjects” - I ask
you, what is this man cooking up on his stove this winter?

That reminds me – Time magazine recently reported that Albert
Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, died recently. He remained a fervent
advocate of the drug’s positive effects to the end of his days – imagine
still freaking out at the grand old age of 102!

KARORI ARTS & CRAFTS WINTER CHALLENGE

“Show Us Your True Colours”

The KAC Committee invite you to join them for some fun with a Winter
Challenge on the theme of “Show Us Your True Colours”.

We would love members from all KAC groups (ie garden group, book
group, patchworkers, embroiderers, photographers, painters, walkers etc
etc) to join in, and interpret the theme in your own way. You will have
until Friday 12th September to complete your entry, and bring in to KAC
ready for display on Saturday morning. You are welcome to do a group or
individual entry. Please register your intention to enter with Stella
Mason as soon as possible.

Saturday 13th September we will have a “bring and share” morning tea
at 10.00am and view all the entries. It will be great to see you all and
how everyone has interpreted the theme!!

Camera club members: Note that we have the option of doing a group
entry. Let’s have your feedback on your ideas for a camera group
entry.

EXHIBITIONS IN WELLINGTON

Flanerie and figments

The series of lightboxes outside the St James Theatre, the
newly-opened Courtenay Place Park, feature photographs by Andy Palmer,
Shaun Lawson, Victoria Birkinshaw, Amelia Handscomb, John Lake, Steve
Rowe, Jessica Silk and Clare Noonan.

Photospace Gallery - 1st flr, 37 Courtenay Place (above Sahara Cafe)

Of Mana Island - Morag Stokes, 24 July - 16 August

Mixed Messages - David Boyce, 21 August - 20 September

Enjoy Gallery - Level 1, 174 Cuba St

A Disenchanted Playroom - Wolfram Hahn with John Lake, Virginia
Woods-Jack, Edith Amituanai, 16 July to 2 August

Settlers Museum – The Esplanade, Petone, Tues-Fri 12-4 pm, Sat & Sun 1-5 pm

Making the Cut – unforgettable images that made the Dominion Post; to August 3.

{Suite} - 69 Owen Street, Newtown, (cnr Owen/Constable Streets)

Toyland - Ans Westra 17 July-9 August; Hours: Thurs, Fri, 11-5, Sat 11-4.

Te Papa - Cable St

Toi TePapa - includes photographers Aberhart, Richard Collins, John
Johns, Noble, Peryer & Len Wesney, but also worth seeing for the Maori
art and European paintings, sculpture and ceramics.

New Dowse - Laings Rd, Lower Hutt.

Assume Nothing - Rebecca Swan, until August 31.

Sinfonia Antarctica - “Responding to life on ‘terra incognita’,
thirteen NZ artists, writers and musicians richly illustrate this
icescape with an artistic medley that touches on everything from the
global warming to the Erebus disaster. Experience the great white
continent as seen through the eyes of Dick Frizzell, Nigel Brown and
Grahame Sydney, ceramicist Raewyn Atkinson, writers Bill Manhire and
Chris Orsman, jeweller Kirsten Haydon, textile artist Clare Plug and
photographers Anne Noble, Andris Apse and Joyce Campbell.”

Thanks to the Photospace website, href="http://www.photospace.co.nz" title="photospace studio, photospace
gallery" target="_blank">www.photospace.co.nz, for the above
information.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

I’ve written from time to time about the wonderful selection of books
and magazines on photography at the Central Library, or even for that
matter at the local Karori Library. This month, I want to briefly
mention a book by Jim Krause “Photo Idea Index”, published by How Books
in 2005, and catalogued as 775 KRA in the Central Library. To give an
idea of the sort of information the book contains, I found the following
excerpts from the Portraits section very helpful:

“Take advantage of the fact that when you are photographing a person
(as opposed to an object or landscape) you are dealing with a subject
with whom you can interact. Communicate with, instruct, talk to, laugh
and collaborate with your subject as you take photographs.”

“Think of the person you are photographing as a noun, and what they
are doing as a verb. In these terms, a photo of a person doing something
becomes a complete “visual sentence.” And depending on how your image is
captured, this pseudo-sentence might be delivered with an exclamation
point or whispered within a set of parentheses.

Experiment with the different kinds of visual sentences you can
compose while taking pictures of an active subject. Note the difference
ways in which you can deliver messages of kinetics and movement through
your images.”

FOOTNOTES

The Karori Camera Club is part of the Karori Arts & Crafts Centre.
For information on all Centre activities, contact Stella Mason, 476-6817
during working hours.

Karori Camera Club meets on the first and third Wednesdays of every
month at the Karori Arts & Crafts Centre, at 7.30 pm. Our website href="http://karori.cameraclub.org.nz" title="Karori Camera Club |
Small, but meaningful">http://karori.cameraclub.org.nz lists current
and recent events, and links to individual members’ websites. For any
enquiries, or a copy of our 2008 programme/information to newcomers,
contact our co-convenors Stella Daniel (twinkle@paradise.net.nz) or Mark
Berger (photosoc_kcc@moothall.co.nz). For contributions to the newsletter,
contact Bill Leask at bill.sue.leask@paradise.net.nz.