Weekly MCC News #03 – 06-Feb-2022 – Melbourne Camera Club

This week’s newsletter is a little rushed as two-thirds of the editorial group was involved in a working bee on the Darkroom and Annex so that the APG can continue running courses under Covid constraints. And very successful it was.

As was said last issue, it would be nice to start the year by having the lead images in this newsletter reflect how members are extending their photographic thinking. This might express our movement out of the past two years.

What things are you trying out? Where is the experimental work? Or even irreverent thinking.

There has yet to be a response.

Image credit: .Lesley Bretherton: Hydrangea and Cosmos (EoY2021.Creative.Highly-Commended)

Trierenberg Super Circuit 2022

Every year, Melbourne Camera Club organises a club entry into the Trierenberg Super Circuit.
Over the years, many members have been awarded and the club has been remarkably successful in this competition.
2022 marks the final year of the Trierenberg Super Circuit.
Please provide Jim with your entries on either a memory stick or DVD along with completed paper entry forms.
Contact Jim O’Donnell, External Competition Coordinator, email: itsme21try@gmail.com
Website: https://www.supercircuit.at/Home
Entry Form: https://www.supercircuit.at/Entry-Form

The closing date for entries is very soon – Tuesday 1 March 2022, so please get your entries to Jim as soon as possible and let’s go out with our best year ever!

After time off for COVID, the Introduction to Photography Course is set to resume on Tuesday 15 February. There are still places available, so if you know someone starting in photography that needs to learn the basics, please suggest that they have a look at the course at https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/courses/itp/.

The assistance of some members to act as mentors for Lesson 1 on 15 February and the 3 Sunday workshops (20 & 27 Feb and 6 Mar) would help the course enormously. If you are able to assist on any or all dates, please shoot me an email at intro.course@melbournecameraclub.org.au.

Gary Richardson

The 2022 Competition series starts on 10 February with a Print Competition. The Set Subject is “Colour Contrast”. It is anticipated that this meeting will be in person in the Club, although the event will also be made available for people to join online. This date is also the deadline for submitting your PDI images for the competition on 24 February, so please ensure that you upload your images by midnight on 10 February.

https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/events/2022-02-10/

For those of you that enter Club Competitions, the 2022 Set Subjects have been announced and can be found on the Competition Pages

February 20. 3.00 to 7.00 PM

Grace Lock and Nature Outing to the Royal Botanical Gardens

Details on the website.

What’s On This Week

Monday February 7 7.00pm

The monthly Studio shoot

Thursday Feb 10 8.00pm

Print Competiton

News Updates

What’s On Outside the MCC

VAPS Newsbrief

The December 2021 issue of VAPS Newsbrief is now available online.

Virtual Meetings – Video Library

Video replays of most of last year’s Thursday night Guest Speaker’s presentations and PDI Competitions are available on the Members / Video Library page on the website.

To access the Members section you will need to login first. Any issues with your login please contact us: webcontent@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Video Library