Small but Meaningful
Well, what a stunner of a night it was – barely a breath of wind and a sunset to die for! It was well attended by club members and I’m sure many great shots were captured. Given that we were all in such close proximity to each other it will be very interesting to see, at the next meeting, the variety of photos that come out of this.
Tony Bridge is in town for this week and he has kindly offered to present to us. So
even though we normally only meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of a month, I
thought this opportunity for a ‘Tony Bridge Pop up’ is something not to be
missed.
Tony is a digital artist, professional photographer, photo educator, speaker,
published author and photographic columnist, along with being one of New
Zealand’s leading landscape photographers. He is a graduate of Canterbury
University, New Zealand, and a fellow of the New Zealand Photographic Society.
He holds a Diploma in Professional Photography with Distinction. He has
variously been a teacher, curriculum developer for the New Zealand government,
software tester and Kodak Professional Mentor.
He will be talking/discussing/showing landscape photography.
If you are curious, try the following google query.
When: Wednesday 22nd July 2015, 19:30
Where: Karori Arts and Crafts Centre (The Newman Centre), 7 Beauchamp St, Karori
To night we have two things to do
To Facebook or not to Facebook… isn’t really the question at all!
As an ‘excited novice’ Mary began her digital camera journey about a
year and a half ago.
And 54,000 images later, a course at Photospace under her belt,
a 100 day Challenge, many experiments, and various attempts at entries
and displays via the KCC, Mary has learnt heaps and is very much
an ‘aware’ photographer (ed. Mary prefers aware beginner).
Part of her journey has involved Facebook. Used wisely it has been a
great way of sharing her journey with friends, for making new
acquaintances with other enthusiasts and getting the occasional bit of
advice from some great photographers.
Mary has been ‘volunteered’ to talk about her photo journey so far and
the rewards/pitfalls experienced through reaching out.
And of course we are going to see some of her favourinte images. Having
finally learnt that less is more, Mary assures me that we won’t see all
54,000!
The Wellington Interclub is being held on Tuesday 8th September. We have
to end up with 10 printed images, 1 per topic, to represent the club.
As a reminder, the categories are below and full details can be seen at
wic.org.nz
We first view images for each topic using projector/laptop screen and
select up to three images that are to be printed for final selection.
Final selection is done from printed images. The prints should be at
presentation size, but don’t have to be matted. Presentation size should
fit in a matte of 20″ x 16″ (50 cm x 40cm).
There are three scheduled meetings before the the interclub. Here is a
proposed agenda for the three meetings
| 22nd July | Presentataion – Mary Livingston projector/laptop selection |
| 12th August | projector/laptop selection |
| 26th August | print selection |
For the 22nd July the topics are
And for 12th August we look at whatever we didn’t finish at the previous
meeting and the following:
So for this meeting, can people please bring up to 3 images max for
each of the following categories. At this stage digital is preferred,
but if you have prints we will also look at those.
If people can resize images so that they are 1620px on the longest side
that would be good.
And can we please name images as follows?
Whew, after that next time 🙂
It will be a surprise! Possibly looking at something to do with
Visual Rhymes.
A reminder that the 7th July 18:00 is the last time for
drop off of work at the centre.
The opening is on Friday evening. I am not sure of the
exact time. Last year it was 18:30. If this is different
this year, I will send out an update.
A few of the club members have entered photos. And with the photographic
judge this year being Cliff Threadgold, feedback will be enlightening and
informative.
There is always art work on display that is worth seeing. And it is also
good to meet other people that use the Centre.
Hope to see you there.
If you haven’t been to see the National Exhibition Exhibiton at
Expressions in Upper Hutt, do make time to go and see it. Suggest that
you go during the week if you can as it is very busy at weekends. It is
on until the 26th July when it then shifts to Palmerston North.
50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic
Olaf Willoughby writing at Luminous Landscape talks about The Art of
Noticing and a way we can improve it by Collaborating using Visual
Rhymes.
Looking but not Seeing
Perhaps this is something we can explore at a meeting or outing.
Hugh Davies will talk about his recent trip on the freighter/cruise ship
that trades between Tahiti and the Marquesas archipelago in French
Polynesia.
Using some of his images as examples, we will also talk about what the
photographer brings to the photograph e.g.
Two quotes from Elliott Erwitt, magnum photographer who IIRC spoke
at the 2004 PSNZ National Convention held here in Wellington.
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something
interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with
the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt
“You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things
and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and
have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”
— Elliott Erwitt
And his work on the Magnum site
Magnum PHotos – Elliott Erwitt