Karori Camera Club

Guest Speaker: Sue McKee

tramper, photographer, teacher & artist

Painting Nature through Photographs

Sue's passion is painting nature through photographs. She does this
through exquisite macro photography and extraordinary perceptions of
nature's beauty and diversity. A visual extravaganza.

Start time is 7:30 p.m.
Karori Arts and Crafts Centre (Newman Centre),
7 Beauchamp Street, Karori

The meeting this week is at the usual place at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre, 7:30 pm.

Items to be covered include

• Admistrivia
• Challenges - Portraits (including a self portrait). See Challenges section for more information.
• Short Talk - Frame Shape

See you all there.

Studio Photography

A reminder that Bruce Pool is running a session on Studio Photography. In Bruce's words:

A final reminder that this coming Wednesday night at the Karori Camera Club
we are doing studio photography. This is going to be a hands on
experiementation event.

Bring your camera, memory cards, batteries, tripods and anything else. If
you have a camera with a hot shoe bring this.

We need to move all furniture up one end of the room at 7.30pm and put it
back afterwards.

A real model called Stephanie is coming along to pose for us.

Guest Speaker: Brian Barrett

Brian Barrett is a skilled goldsmith and designer with many years’
experience in London and Wellington. As part of his business, he uses
the camera to photograph the jewellery he makes.

In this presentation, he is going to show samples of his work and
some of the methods he uses in his image making.

As usual start time is 7:30pm at the

Karori Arts and Crafts Centre (Newman Centre)
Beauchamp Street
Karori

The meeting this week is at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre, 7:30 pm.

Items to be covered include

• Admistrivia
• Challenges - Lines. See "Challenges" section for more information.
• Short Talk - Frame Dynamics

See you all there.

Meeting this week is at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre. Items to be
covered include

• Administrivia - Membership dues
• Introduction to Challenges
• Short talk on Gestalt
• Viewing images from outing on 3rd (say about 8 per member please)

Look forward to seeing you all there.

The first meeting is our summer outing, and hopefully the good weather will hold. If it does, the plan is to meet at the Botanic Gardens at the Glenmore Street entrance at 19:30 on the 3rd February.

If the weather turns to custard, then we will meet at the Karori Arts and Crafts Center instead.

As always, if you need to contact one of us, numbers are

Mark Berger 021-535-835
Heuchan Hobbs 027-327-5453

There is going to be an end of year activity. And guess what, cameras are not required. But it does involve photography!! All you have to do is turn up with your creative/thinking hats.

Can you indicate whether you think you will make it or not? And if you are coming along, can you please bring a plate?

The next and final club meeting for 2009 is going to be on Wednesday 16th December at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre. Further information will be made available in due course.

Note that there is NO meeting on the 2nd December.

We will use this meeting to view images from the Cuba Street outing and any taken at the PSNZ Central Convention. We will also be discussing what we are going to do next year.