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Coastal Exposures November 2017 1
Breaking News• Share Night will resume on Wed. 14th February:
Prorgram TBA. See page 2.• Coffee and Critique will resume on Tue. 13th
February: Set Subject is “Doors, Gates, Knobs, Handles and Windows”. See page 2.
• Tewantin Shield DPI Results: Annette Wood takes First Place in Nature category See page 3.
• Our Annual Awards and Christmas Celebration: All annual competitions are closed and judging is under way. But you can still book places at the celebration if you hurry. Contact the Treasurer without delay.
• January Competitions — Set Subject and Closing Date: The January 2018 set subject is Scapes (see page 12 for the definition). The closing date for entries is Sunday, 31st December, 2017.
• “Coastal Exposures — To Be or Not To Be?”: Editorial Comment by Ed Anderson. See page 4.
U From the President’s Desk
PresidentRalph Brown 5479 2554
Vice-PresidentBruce Richardson 5492 [email protected]
SecretaryKeven Hyde 0422 238 [email protected]
TreasurerJane Weir 0437 645 [email protected]
DPI CoordinatorAnnette Scott 0439 034 [email protected]
Print CoordinatorJohn Roberts 0438 148 447
Share Night CoordinatorRalph Brown 5479 2554
External Comp CoordinatorLara Irvine 0423 517 608
Newsletter EditorEd Anderson 0447 801 [email protected]
Events CoordinatorAnn Bryan 0411 486 [email protected]
Committee MembersTroy Holland 0418 159 [email protected]
Issued monthly by Caloundra Camera Group Inc., ABN 80 235 726 988PO Box 369, Caloundra 4551. Web: www.caloundracameragroup.orgFeatures
2018 Committee VacanciesThe current holders of the following Committee
positions have announced that they will not stand at the 2018 AGM in February:
PresidentVice President
Print CoordinatorExternal Competitions Coordinator
Newsletter EditorThe club needs your support in 2018. I urge all members to carefully consider accepting nomination for one of these positions. Talk to the current office holders, find
out how you can sustain our activities in 2018.
November 2017 — Volume 21 Issue 11
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! Coffee and Critique 10:00 am, Tuesday 13th February, 2018
GO GOURMET, Little Mountain Central, 9/65 Pierce Ave., Little Mountain
Note: There will be no Coffee and Critique in December or January.
Please RSVP to Wendy by Friday 9th February if you plan to attend.Link to location on Google Maps.
Share Night 07:00 pm, Wednesday, 14th February, 2018
Note: There will be no Share Night in December or January.
PSQ Convention 2018 — Gems of the Outback
It is with great pleasure that Emerald Photographic Club
announces bookings are now open for Gems of the Outback - PSQ - 2018. We look forward to a great weekend of learning and photography fun on the 5th-7th May, 2018. There is a fantastic line up of speakers, including our keynote speaker, Steve Parish. Steve is also holding two separate one-day Photography As Fine Art workshops on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th May, 2018 in Emerald.
Early bird discounts are available now, so get in before you miss this great offer. For more information on presenters and ticket purchases go to:
https://www.emeraldphotographicclub.org/goto2018
Watch this space!February Share Night
Presenter to be announced soon.
News and Current Affairs
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Tewantin Shield Results, 2017
Peninsula Camera Club are the champions with 231 points. Out of a field of 10 clubs, Caloundra came fifth with 218 points. Congratulations to Annette Wood who took first place in Nature. Scores out of 15.
Nature People Pictorial Reflections
FIRST PLACE: Annette Wood: 14,“Fighting Petrels”
David Bryan: 12,“Kingfisher with Fish”
Ann Bryan: 11,“Western Bower Bird”
Helen Debnam: 11,“Proud Mamma”
Michelle Page: 9, “Just Chilling”
Maria Noonan: 13, “Ride”
Annette Wood: 11, “Village Children”
Ann Bryan: 10, “Fishing”
Annette Wood: 10,“Peruvian Weaver”
Helen Debnam: 9, “Tibetan Ladies”
Michelle Page: 12,“Bigger than Xmas”
Maria Noonan: 11, “Umbrella”
Ann Bryan: 10, “Sunflowers”
Lara Irvine: 10, “Autumn Ride”
Annette Wood: 10, “Lumanimum”
David Bryan: 12, “Caracal Drinking”
Helen Debnam: 12,“Canal Reflections”
Ed Anderson: 11, “Cleaning”
David Bryan: 10, “Painted Tree”
Maria Noonan: 10, “Abstract”
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Commentary
Editorial Comment by Ed Anderson“Coastal Exposures — To Be or Not To Be?”
Some time ago, amongst some Committee members, I informally and tentatively foreshadowed my desire to
relinquish the role of Newsletter Editor. There are several reasons for my decision, mostly personal, but I will confine my comments here to just one pragmatic reason, and explore some associated reverberations.
I was elected as Newsletter Editor at the AGM in February 2015 and published my first Coastal Exposures in March 2015. (Please excuse a small lapse into nostalgia here: That’s the cover page opposite — from conception, through design, layout, and birth, that first newsletter took about five months, and I was quite unsatisfied with the result [nostalgia comes from Gk. nostos return home, algos pain].) Towards the end of 2016, when we decided to use MYPHOTOCLUB to manage our competition procedures, I volunteered to participate in the MPC Subcommittee to help get the process under way. At some point, through a process little understood by science, I became CCG’s MYPHOTOCLUB Webmaster — a nebulous, nonexistent office. Indeed, the general feeling of the Committee was that there would be no need for such a position once the MPC implementation was settled. That was a misapprehended notion. MPC will continue to grow, evolve, and change into the unforeseeable technological future, so the necessity for someone to provide liaison between us and the MPC Administrator will continue. Therefore, I recommend that we create a Committee position of Technical Coordinator, to act as MPC Webmaster and coordinate related technical matters (including the fate of the CCG Website). I am willing to accept nomination to such a position in 2018.
While performing in both roles — Newsletter Editor and MPC Webmaster — over the past year, I have learned that the workload, and especially the mental acrobatics required, is more than I am willing to accept. I believe that my pre-retirement professional experience and skills in Information Technology are best suited to the role of Technical Coordinator.
Consideration of the role of Newsletter Editor has already raised the inevitable question: Given the scope and potential of the MPC website, do we actually need a traditional “newsletter”? During 2017, as Editor, I have systematically moved much of the content of Coastal Exposures to MPC. Indeed, the only remaining content of the Newsletter, that is not duplicated on MPC is the News and Current Affairs, Commentary, and External
Events Calendar. I believe that all this material can be accommodated within MPC, with many additional advantages — real-time news and activities reports, for example.
Should we then change the position of Newsletter Editor to “News Editor”, whose role would be to maintain a news function on MPC? I am willing to facilitate, guide, and act as mentor in such a change, but not take on News Editor duties.
For a long time, I opposed ideas that questioned the need for a newsletter, not because of egotism, but because I held the view that the Newsletter provided a non-ephemeral record of CCG history. Gradually, I’ve changed my mind; through properly maintained archiving processes in MPC, I believe a reliable club history can be achieved. A review of the websites of several prominent Queensland photography clubs suggests that news and activity reporting is a primary function of their online presence.
I urge members to consider these questions and to discuss them with Committee members and/or email ideas to the Secretary for Committee consideration.
Given the scope and potential of the MPC website, do we actually need a traditional “newsletter”?
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Competition Results View Honours images on the CCG website at www.caloundracameragroup.org
Members may view all entries on our Competition website at Competitions
November 2017Set Subject: Special Effects
Judge: Sue Gordon
Print - Colour - A GradeSCORE 8David Bryan: “Autumn wood”
SCORE 7Ann Bryan: “Leaving Bluebell Wood”Bruce Richardson: “Thru the ring”Murray Weir: “Reapers Litter”
SCORE 6Ed Anderson: “Taronga Teenage Mutant Spider”Jane Weir: “Palm Frond”
Print - Colour - B GradeSCORE 8Lorraine Brace: “Zebra Lights”
SCORE 7Nikki Stewart: “Golden Planet”
SCORE 6Michelle Page: “A Damp Ride”Michelle Page: “City Vibes”
Print - MonochromeSCORE 9 — IMAGE OF THE MONTHMurray Weir: “Coquette”
SCORE 7Nikki Stewart: “Charlie’s creative mind”Murray Weir: “Squatters Gate”
SCORE 6Keven Hyde: “The Tube”Michelle Page: “Swift and Shift”Jane Weir: “Misty”
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November 2017Set Subject: Special Effects
DPI - Colour - A GradeSCORE 8David Bryan: “Night Yucca”Keven Hyde: “The Mallard”
SCORE 7Keven Hyde: “Garba Dance”Maria Noonan: “Circumnavigate”Maria Noonan: “Lounging Around”Bruce Richardson: “Mountain falls”
SCORE 6Ann Bryan: “City Lights from Mt Cootha”Ann Bryan: “Elephant Dance”David Bryan: “Eight”
DPI - Colour - B GradeSCORE 8Helen Debnam: “Divided light”Lorraine Brace: “Moon Project”
SCORE 7Ken Brooks: “Fire Spinning fun”Nikki Stewart: “Sandman”
SCORE 6Lorraine Brace: “Blue Ghost”Greg Howard: “Moody night in Warwick”Greg Howard: “Pattermore House under the
stars”Paul Mellick: “Bright waterfall”
DPI - MonochromeSCORE 8Helen Debnam: “A Sneak Preview”Maria Noonan: “Time Lord”
SCORE 7Lorraine Brace: “Bird”Ralph Brown: “Zebra Chase”David Bryan: “Sandpiper”Keven Hyde: “No Evil”Bruce Richardson: “Saving who?”
SCORE 6Ann Bryan: “Snowflake 2”David Bryan: “Sydney”Rhonda Reynolds: “Evening Stroll”
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Moon Project
Divided Light
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October 2017
Print - Open - A GradeSCORE 8Murray Weir: “Fifty Shades of Grey”Murray Weir: “Symbol of Peace”
SCORE 7Ed Anderson: “Sunset Shower”Keven Hyde: “Forth Bridge”
SCORE 6Bruce Richardson: “We remember”Jane Weir: “The Forum”
Print - Open - B GradeSCORE 8Nikki Stewart: “Big lightning”Nikki Stewart: “Tattoo works”
SCORE 7Kathleen Lulham: “The end of the day”Michelle Page: “A Moody Sunrise”
SCORE 6Paul Mellick: “Colonial hut 1”
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November 2017
DPI - Open - A GradeSCORE 8Maria Noonan: “Layla”
SCORE 7Ralph Brown: “In Command”Maria Noonan: “Rope ’Em”Rhonda Reynolds: “Just sitting around”Bruce Richardson: “Don’t look down”
SCORE 6Ralph Brown: “Man and his dog”Ann Bryan: “Australasian Grebe”David Bryan: “Horse Guard- 1”David Bryan: “White-tailed Sea Eagle”Annette Scott: “Seanna ”
DPI - Open - B GradeSCORE 9 — IMAGE OF THE MONTHLorraine Brace: “Gold Finger”
SCORE 8Nikki Stewart: “Green on green”
SCORE 7Lorraine Brace: “The Old Shed”Nikki Stewart: “Sunset on Bellvista”
SCORE 6Terry Bradley: “Tamar in Flood”Colleen Brooks: “Glengallan Homestead”Ken Brooks: “Ocean Blue”Helen Debnam: “Stainglass depicting the birth of Jesus”Helen Debnam: “The Hen House”Troy Holland: “Candid Camera in Mooloolaba”Paul Mellick: “Cornwall view”Gary Taylor: “Maybe this time”
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Murray Weir: “Coquette”Monochrome Print, Open Grade, Set Subject: Special Effects
Print Image Of The Month
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Lorraine Brace: “Gold Finger”DPI, B Grade, Open Subject
DPI Image Of The Month
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2017 Calendars
2017 Calendar of CCG MeetingsMONTH DAY MEETING DETAILSJanuary 18 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.
25 Comp Night Minimalist Images. Due date: 31 Dec 2016February 8 Share Night Amateur Portrait and Lighting with Richie Johnson (at clubhouse).
15 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.22 Comp Night Dog’s Eye View. Due date: 25 Jan.
March 8 Share Night AGM & Smart phone photography with Phillipa Frederiksen15 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.22 Comp Night Amateur Portrait. Due date: 22 Feb.
April 12 Share Night Sizing, printing, and matting with Sam Budd19 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.26 Comp Night Bokeh. Due date: 22 Mar.
May 10 Share Night How to maintain your passion for photography with Ross Eason17 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.24 Comp Night Backyard Safari. Due date: 26 Apr.
June 14 Share Night Tips and tricks with club members21 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.28 Comp Night Sports (Interclub Subject). Due date: 24 May.
July 12 Share Night Awesome reasons to be a photographer with Victoria Purdie19 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.26 Comp Night Slow Shutter. Due date: 28 Jun.
August 9 Share Night Birth Photography with Selena Rollason16 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.23 Comp Night Reflections (Tewantin Shield subject). Due date: 26 Jul.
September 13 Share Night Qld International Digital Circuit with John North20 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.27 Comp Night Hands. Due date: 23 Aug. Judge: Noel Clark
October 10 Committee 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE11 Share Night Street Photography with Lisa Kurtz25 Comp Night Time. Due date: 27 Sep. Judge: Peter O’Brien
November 7 Committee 5:30 pm at caloundra Gardens. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE 8 Share Night Presentations by Murray, Ralph, Ed, Ann + Interclub Images22 Comp Night Special Effects. Due date: 25 Oct. Judge: Sue Gordon
December 9 Christmas Function
Christmas Celebration and Annual Awards:Don Attree Founder’s Award: DPI Nature.Robin Simpson Trophy: DPI Australian Landscape.Presidents’s Trophy: Print “Repetitive patterns with sin-gle point of interest”.All annual competitions now closed. Judge: Robyn Hills
Schedule: Share Night: 2nd Wednesday of the month. Arrive 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm start.Comp Night (Competitions): 4th Wednesday of the month. Arrive 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm start.Both held at Caloundra District Indoor Bowling Association Annex, Bourke St, Caloundra.Committee Meeting: 3rd Wednesday of the month. 5:30 pm at Caloundra Gardens.Coffee and Critique: 10:00 am, 2nd Tuesday of the month at GO GOURM ET.
(Share Night presenters subject to confirmation.)
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2017–18 Calendar of Other EventsMONTH DATE EVENT DETAILSMarch2018
Sun. 11th – Sat. 17th Top End “Green Season” Tour with Elite Studio starting from Darwin
More info…
May Sat. 5th – Mon. 7th PSQ Convention 2018Gems of the Outback in Emerald
Details and bookings…
June Mon. 4th – Fri. 8th & Mon. 11th – Fri. 15th
Far North Queensland Tours with Elite Studio, starting from Cairns
More info…
Reminder: 08:00 am Sunday following Comp Night
Deadline for submission of all material for Newsletter Publi-cation.
Contact Newsletter [email protected]
Image by Harfian-Herdi, Indonesia
January Set Subject
Scapes(Due 31st December)
Scapes: A scape may be defined as a vista or a broad view. The vista or scene may be landscape, seascape, city, urban, or any other scene, but the emphasis must be on the vista rather than featuring a specific subject.
Phase One 57.2 Megapixel image of San Francisco by CNET