Thru The Lens

Feb 2015

Our websitewww.parklandsphotoclub.org.au

Newsletter emailthruthelens@parklandsphotoclub.org.au

So our 2015 photographic year is underway and we had a good turnout to our 1st meeting last week. There was a good selection of images for our 1st competition. As is the case for our 1st competition each year, the theme was “open” and the judge had the difficult and unenviable task of judging them on the spot, on the night. Congratulations to all the winners and placegetters and I would like to especially congratulate Gail Crennan for her inaugural “1st” place. Well done Gail.

Keep Snapping,thruthelens@parklandsphotoclub.org.au

Club eventsHunt & shoot – next Thursday 26 Feb Our first outing for 2015 will be a "Hunt and Shoot" in the city, on the evening of Thursday 26th February. Peter Mollison has volunteered to be the main contact for the night.

Peter and Andrew Haysom’s mobile numbers was sent out in an email dated 16/2/15 by Andrew to all members regarding this event. I will repeat their contact numbers in the body of the email accompanying this newsletter.

For anyone who has not participated in a "Hunt and Shoot", the idea is that you will be given a number of different themes on the night and your assignment is to try to take some photographs to meet

those themes. Photographs will be displayed at a future club meeting (to be advised).Plans for the night are to meet at the top of the front steps of the State Library of Victoria (328 Swanston Street) at 7pm for a 7.15pm start. Then individually or with others, wander the city streets hunting for your themed photos, then meet up again for a drink at 8.30 at the Transport Hotel in Federation Square.

Hope to see some of you there.

Sydney Road Street Festival-Sunday 1 MarchAfter much “toing and froing” it was decided that Parklands would again participate in the annual Sydney Road Street Festival.

Sharon McDowall is co-ordinating the event and she asked that I convey this message to members:

The club is having a stall at the Sydney Rd Festival (Sunday 1st March) to showcase our work. Come and put in a couple of hours at the stall and take some time to do some street photography. It is a colourful and fun festival. Anyone willing to help supervise the stall can enter their available time on the link below.Please also deliver prints for display to my address by the end of Saturday Feb 28th. If I am not home they can be left at the front door behind the fly wire. Sharon’s address and telephone number is provided in the body of the accompanying email.

https://doodle.com/62ezudb5xspg69mceet87bpm/admin#table Thanks.Sharon

A few remindersClub facebook page For those of you who are on facebook, the club also has a facebook page. This is a great place for you to socialize, share photos and ideas and basically communicate with your fellow members in between meetings and formal events. To join, just do a search on “Parklands photo club” from your facebook search bar.

VAPS Interclub Competition Every year, our club participates in the VAPS interclub competition. Please take the time to read this message from our President, Andrew Haysom.The VAPS Interclub competition will be held at La Trobe Uni in Bendigo on the weekend of 23/24 May.As for previous years we would like to participate. The club is required to submit 15 prints and 15 digital images. It is an open competition with no set theme. We welcome members to submit digital images and prints for selection.Prints MUST be mounted to a maximum mount size of 16x20 inch, with max thickness of 5mm including mount, matte and print. All prints must have a title which must be no longer than 30 characters and be correctly labelled with the maker's name, title of the print and club name on the back of the print. Prints can be submitted at either the February 12th or March 5th competition meetings, Digital entries must be submitted via the website (choose "VAPS Digital Entries" in the Entry Theme field on the upload form) before March 5th.Please note the following requirements for digital images as they are different from our normal competition rules. Digital images MUST have a max dimension of horizontal 1920 pixels and max vertical dimension of 1080 pixels. Max file size of 5000kb. Each digital image file must be RGB JPEG format. Each file must be named club-member-title.jpg for example Parklands PC-Andrew Haysom-Golden bird.jpg. No other information is to be included in the file name, and no other special characters should be used other than the hyphens separating the fields. As we have a number of people who are members of more than one club, those members are allowed to enter images for each club as long as there is no duplication of images. No image that has previously been submitted to a VAPs competition can be resubmitted.Images are allowed to be enhanced or post processed but the original image and post processing must be made by the submitting member.Please note that according to VAPS rules only financial members are eligible to participate so you must have paid your 2015 membership fees before submitting your entries.If you have any questions at all you're more than welcome to post them on Facebook, or ask via email.

Winning imagesDigital – Novice – Feb Open

1st – Kath Kelly - ‘Love in the Laneways’

2nd – Kath Kelly - ‘Audrey’

3rd – Paul Scacco - ‘Walhalla Fire Station Vinterfest’

HC – Kath Kelly - ‘African Drumming in Brinswick’

Print – Novice – Feb Open1st – Gail Crennan - ‘The Youngest Monk’

2nd – Susan Martin - ‘Now I’m in trouble’

3rd – Susan Martin - ‘Feeling Blue’

Exhibitions, Events & CompetitionsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEGlobal photography competition showcasing the world’s bestlandscapes & seascapes

Entries Open February 16thThe 2nd International Landscape Photographer of the Year2015Sydney, Australia2014 saw the first year of the competition, and was a great success with 2233 imagesentered from around the world, culminating in a stunning first collection of the top 101 images.The collection was published in a beautiful coffee table book by Momento Pro.In this second year of the competition, we are again very pleased to have the depth andjudging experience of five of the world’s best photographers, including the overall winner ofthe 2014 International Landscape Photographer of the Year, Christian Fletcher.-David Burnett, co-founder Contact Press Images, USA-Tony Hewitt, 2013 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year-Jackie Ranken, 2012 New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year, New Zealand-Jim Goldstein, Fine Art Photographer and Author, USA-Christian Fletcher, 2014 International Landscape Photographer of the YearIn choosing such a high calibre of judges, the competition aims to set the gold standard andbecome the best landscape photography competition in the world by attracting the mostexceptional images being created globally, each year.The competition is open to all photographers with the aim of again finding the best 101landscape images from the past 12 months and publishing them in a beautiful coffee tablebook which will be available in a variety of formats, including a free e-book.The judges will also be on a search for the International Landscape Photographer of theYear (based on a folio submission of at least 4 images) and the International LandscapePhotograph of the Year.Each entry will be scored by all judges on the panel and receive a score out of 500. Prizeson offer include US$10,000 cash, trophies, limited-edition copies of the awards book andlarge framed prints of winning images.There are also some special awards to keep things interesting, which will change from yearto-year. This year the special awards are;The MIST & FOG AwardThe LONG EXPOSURE AwardThe AERIAL AwardThe ABSTRACT AwardThe SNOW & ICE AwardEntries for The International Landscape Photographer of theYear 2015 open February 16th

Competition closes May 15th, 2015www.internationallandscapephotographer.comFor more media information, contactmedia@internationallandscapephotographer.com**Images are available for publication on request**

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February 2015 Newsbrief

Hello,

We are pleased to inform you that the next edition of the VAPS Newsbrief is now ready and can be downloaded by clicking here. 

Any newsletter correspondence can be sent to editor@vaps.com.au

Best regards,

Karel ReusEditor: VAPS Newsbrief

More winning imagesDigital – Experienced – Feb Open

1st – Paul Grinzi - ‘Well Armed Boat’

2nd – Steve Lankshear - ‘Life’s better at the Lake’

3rd – Andrew Haysom - ‘Scarlet Robin’

HC – Rachael Rutkowski - ‘Edge of the Pier’

HC – Peter Mollison - ‘Ballroom-Government House-Australia Day”

Print – Experienced – Feb Open

1st – Rodney Wee - ‘Title unknown’

2nd – Sharon McDowall - ‘Approaching Cradle Mountain”

3rd – Mathew LaSala - ‘Title unknown’

HC – Charlie Scicluna - ‘London View’

HC – Steve Lankshear - ‘Maisie’s Tough Break’