Karori Camera Club

Inside This Month’s Newsletter…

• November 7: Selection for Hutt interclub battle; plans for exhibition
• November 13 (Tuesday): Karori—Hutt interclub battle.
• November 15-30: Karori Camera Club exhibition
• December 5: Photographic challenge followed by pot-luck dinner or drinks/coffee.
• October’s events
• Exhibitions in Wellington
• Further interclub competitions
• Karori Camera Club Programme to end 2007

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 7 Selection for Hutt interclub battle; plans for exhibition

We made good progress with the battle selection at the last meeting, but this meeting will hopefully polish it up, particularly the open categories. We would like to complete our selection for the Karori - Hutt battle in half an hour flat so we can do justice to finalising planning for our exhibition! Feel free to bring your proposed pictures for the exhibition along. If you need to use the club frames for the exhibition, we have 39 available.

November 13: Karori—Hutt interclub battle.

This is hosted by the Hutt Camera Club, on Tuesday at 7.30 pm. Karori members might like to meet no later than 7 pm at the Arts & Crafts Centre to pool transport out to the Hutt.

• 10 prints - subject "Glass" (Use your imagination and whatever else you wish so long as the main feature of the image is glass)
• 10 prints - Open
• 10 projected images - subject "Purple" (Purple, purple and more purple. We are looking for images where the main interest is purple, not blue, not lilac, not mauve, just lots of purple).
• 10 projected images - Open

Battles at the Hutt Club are always good-humoured, entertaining and lively events, and we’d love you to come along to support our club.

November 15-30: KCC exhibition

Plans for the exhibition are underway, with the intention of a higher-profile event than in previous years. The basis for a successful and interesting exhibition is, of course, the images that you provide. This is a no-cost, no-drama opportunity to show the world what you can do. The blow-by-blow dates are:

• November 15 (Thursday): From 4 pm: exhibition hanging
• November 16 (Friday): 5.30-7.30 pm: exhibition opening do
• November 17 (Saturday): 10 am-4 pm: exhibition “have a go” day and club members on duty
• November 18 (Sunday): 10 am-4 pm: club members on duty at exhibition
• November 30 (Friday): From 4 pm: exhibition de-hanging

December 5: Photographic challenge followed by pot-luck dinner or drinks/coffee.

What do we mean by “photographic challenge?” I’ve got no idea either. Watch this space.

OCTOBER’S EVENTS

October 3: Workshop to develop ideas for Purple and Glass topics

The intention of the meeting was to provide a table top photography session for the set topics for the Hutt battle - glass and purple - to help people get ideas flowing and give them some help if they've never tried close-ups.

There was a good turnout of cameras, tripods and purple and glass objects at our creative hands-on workshop. Thanks to Heuchan and Mark for bringing their laptop computers so people could check results as they went. And special thanks to John Baber, who brought along some purple props and a tripod and light which he set up for other people to use, even though he had no intention of taking photos himself.

We saw some results at the following meeting, and it was fascinating to see how peoples’ thought-processes were displayed in the succession of images. Sometimes the process of taking the image - the experimenting with different angles and lighting - is more interesting than the final, static image, but it’s not often we get the opportunity to see other people’s ways of doing it.

October 17: Selection of images for Hutt-Karori Battle.

Digital projector: This was due to arrive on October 19. KACC has agreed to act as insurer for the projector, and we will probably be able to store it in a locked cupboard at the Centre once the renovations are finished early next year.

Selection for Karori-Hutt battle: People produced some wonderful images for this. We were spoilt for choice in terms of quality, but not with a wide representation of club members. We’re also light on entries for the two digital sections – open and purple. We’re hoping to rectify this at next week’s meeting (7 November). It was frustrating not to be able to complete the selection at that meeting, as we have a lot of work to do next week to get ready for our exhibition. So those of you who weren’t there, please bring along your images on Wednesday. You are so very lucky to be given another chance!

EXHIBITIONS IN WELLINGTON

Photospace Gallery

1st flr, 37 Courtenay Place (above Sahara Cafe)
Hours: 10am-4.30pm Mon-Fri, 11am-3pm Saturdays.

18 Oct - 10 Nov

Julian Ward - The Seventies Connection
Cathy Tuato'o Ross - Anywhere gardens

15 Nov – 1 Dec

Andy Palmer – Finding the right place to stop the world

Te Papa

Cable St, Wellington

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.

Pataka

Cnr Parumoana/Norrie St, Porirua, 26 August—18 November

STOPOVER, a story of migration — Bruce Connew.

Jens Liebchen

West foyer, Parliament Buildings, 8-23 November
(also at Goethe Institut, cnr Cuba/Garrett Streets, Te Aro, 1/12/07 to 31/03/08)
Politics & Art - Art & Politics - artists and their work in the German Parliament Buildings,

Bowen Galleries

35 Ghuznee St - 15 Oct-2 Nov
The Product of Progress / The Point - Shelley Jacobson

Thanks to the Photospace website, www.photospace.co.nz, for the above information.

FURTHER INTERCLUB COMPETITIONS

We sent off eight images to the Gisborne Camera Club for the interclub digital competition at the PSNZ Central Regional Convention, but have not been advised what the outcome was (or, for that matter, whether the CD even arrived).

The Wiltshire and Bledisloe Cup 2007/08 competitions for sets of six images will be organised by the Waikato Photographic Society. Entry information will be circulated in October/November and entries close in mid February. This year the Wiltshire Cup is for sets of six projected digital images only - it is no longer a slide competition. The Bledisloe Cup is for sets of six prints and its charter requires that each of the prints must be derived from images taken in New Zealand.

KARORI CAMERA CLUB PROGRAMME TO END OF YEAR

• November 7: Hutt battle section; Planning for Club exhibition
• November 13: Karori—Hutt interclub battle.
• November 17-25: KCC exhibition – date for opening do to be confirmed.
• December 5: Photographic challenge followed by pot-luck dinner or drinks/coffee.

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. Current and recent events, and links to individual members’ websites, are found on http://karori.cameraclub.org.nz. For contributions to the newsletter, contact Bill Leask at bill.leask@irba.co.nz or bill.sue.leask@paradise.net.nz. Thanks to Stella Daniell for input in this newsletter.