November 2008 Newsletter
Inside This Month’s Newsletter…
- Nov 5: Club outing to fireworks
- Nov 19: Carol Anderson & Gayle Cullwick on Antarctica
- Nov 20: Hanging…
- Nov 21-27: …The annual Karori Camera Club exhibition
- Dec 3: Challenge followed by dinner or drinks
- October’s events
- Exhibitions in Wellington
UPCOMING EVENTS
Nov 5: Guy Fawkes: Club outing to fireworks
It's fireworks night, and presumably everyone would like to watch, if
not take photos. But we do need a brief meeting first to settle some
details for our exhibition. The main one is that we need to choose some
images (probably 3) for our publicity material, so please bring along
copies of the images you're planning to exhibit.
Then it's off to the fireworks. You don't have to be on the waterfront
to get a good view of the big bang put on by the Council. Top of the Bot
Gardens and Stellin Park in Northland are both good spots.
Nov 19: Members’ spot: Carol Anderson & Gayle Cullwick on Antarctica
PLUS discuss draft 2009 programme and choose club officers
This is our last meeting before our exhibition, so if you absolutely
can't make it to the hanging on Thursday 20th (4.45pm till however long
it takes), please bring your exhibition pictures to this meeting (though
of course we would prefer that you come and help with the hanging!).
We could also take a look at photos from our outing to Courtenay Place
on 1 October - just a small selection, say 6 max each.
Then Carol Anderson and Gayle Cullwick will treat us to a tour of
Antarctica. Carol and Gayle have enticed us with a few select images for
the interclub battles, so this is an opportunity to see a wider sample
of their work.
With the end of the year coming up, it’s time to think about the
programme for next year, and who the club officers are going to be.
Please let us know your thoughts on activities you’d like to see more
of, and anyone you know of that would be an interesting guest speaker.
And please put your hand up if you’d like to take a more active role in
the club management - surely someone would like to be the newsletter
editor?
Nov 20 (Thursday): Hang the annual Karori Camera Club exhibition
This year’s Karori Camera Club exhibition will be from Friday 21 to
Thursday 27 November, at Figaro Atrium, Malvina Major Retirement
Village, 134 Burma Rd, Khandallah.
Number of pictures: 3-4 per person, depending on size - all framed (each
exhibitor responsible for own insurance cover/risk).
We propose that a 10% commission on any sales will go to the Arthritis Foundation.
Hanging:
MMRV will hire free-standing panels which can hold pictures on both
sides. They are 2.3m high x 0.6m wide – which means two largish pictures
maximum for each side of each screen. We need to confirm hanging
mechanisms.
We need to hang the exhibition on Thursday 20 November, and at least
one person needs to get in there before 5.00 pm when the doors will be
locked.
De-hanging
This will probably need to be done on Thursday 27 November – again
someone will need to get there before 5.00 pm.
Labelling
Each picture needs to be labelled on the back with:
title
artist’s name
medium (e.g. archival print from digital image)
edition number, if any
price
Please also put these details into a Word document and email it to
twinkle@paradise.net.nz by 12 November.
We need to decide whether we should have printed labels next to each
picture or a catalogue instead.
Publicity
MMRV will get their head office people to produce posters and flyers
and advertisements for local newspapers. It would be good to have images
on them! Please bring along the images you are thinking of putting in
the exhibition to our meeting this Wednesday 5 November so we can choose
some (probably 3 total).
Dec 3: Photographic challenge followed by dinner or drinks / coffee
And before you know it, it’s the end of the year again. Last year, we
had a one-hour challenge in the streets around the KACC, and got a wide
variety of interesting images. Do you have any suggestions for this
year’s challenge?
OCTOBER’S EVENTS
Oct 1: Outdoor photoshoot to celebrate the extra hour of evening light
Stella says: Courtenay Place wasn't exactly jumping on a cool Wednesday
night for our photographic outing. No drunken lads or fights to
photograph, not even any buskers. However I managed to amuse myself
sufficiently by photographing various people at or near a bus stop and
making some other attempts to be arty. Look forward to seeing other
people's photos. Many thanks to Bruce Pool for providing a car pool.
Oct 15: Guest speakers: Robyn Greening & Bill Alp (“Going commercial”)
Robyn gave up her full-time job in the health sector in 2005 to do the
Massey diploma of photography, and then started up her own photography
business. Both the Massey course and the new business were weighty
undertakings, and I was impressed by the huge commitment that Robyn put
into them both. I was also impressed with her talent for people
photography.
Her partner Bill is a keen b&w photographer and has always done his
own traditional darkroom printing, including the prints for Robyn's
business. However he has since been seduced by the glories of modern
digital printing.
EXHIBITIONS IN WELLINGTON
Thistle Hall - cnr Cuba St/Arthur St - 4 to 9 November
Travel Rite - works by Michelle Donald
Hours: 10.30 am-7 pm
Photospace Gallery - 1st flr, 37 Courtenay Place (above Sahara Cafe)
17 October - 8 November
Pictures from the suburbs - Cathy Tuato'o Ross
North Facing - photographs from Scott Base, Antarctica - Phillipa Durkin
12 November - 2 December
Forty Years Ago Today : selected vintage photographs by John Fields
Hours: 10 am-4.30 pm Mon-Fri, 11am-3pm Saturdays.
Closed Sundays & public holidays
Thanks to the Photospace website, www.photospace.co.nz, for the above information.
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 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.