Weekly MCC News #07 – 06-March-2022

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. – Eugène Atget

The newsletter will now be advertising exhibitions and competitions outside the club. If you have such an event you think might be appropriate please send it in. The description should be short and include a URL for basic access to the event.

Image credit: Shredded Vision – Kees Zonneveld (2021 EOY Creative)

Volunteer Opportunity: Archives Committee

The Board would like to thank outgoing Archives Committee Chair Ken Bretherton for his contribution to reorganise and catalogue the MCC collection of prints over the last few years.

We are seeking volunteers from the membership to form an Archive Committee. Volunteering gives members an opportunity to network with others and is a fantastic way to contribute to the success of the Club.

Expressions of interest or nominations/suggestions, please email Sally Paterson, Secretary secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Stairwell Exhibition Coordinator

The Competition Committee is looking for someone to volunteer to be the Stairwell Exhibition Coordinator. This person is responsible for organising the awarded prints from each print competition night to be put into frames and hung in the stairwell. Typically, there will be a few people at the end of the evening that will be willing to assist. To express interest, or to ask for further information, please contact the Competition Committee Chair, Ruth Woodrow – ruth@angrybluecat.com

PDI Image Sizes

For those people that shoot in portrait orientation, a setting in the Club’s competition upload system has been changed to allow portrait images to be uploaded with the same resolution as landscape images – ie. 1920×1200 (landscape) and 1200×1920 (portrait). This means that portrait images will be judged at the same resolution as landscape images. This setting was previously used, but had been reset inadvertently during a system update.

Emerald Hill Reimagined – Then and Now Exhibition

After being shut down twice last year due to COVID lockdowns, we have decided to mount this exhibition from Thursday 31 March and the following two weekends, 2-3 April and 9-10 April. More details on the website at: https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/emeraldhill2021/

VAPS Interclub Competition 2022

Every year the Melbourne Camera Club organises a club entry into the VAPS Interclub Competition and the Club has been very successful over the years.

Entries include both prints and PDIs – see the website for further details:

https://www.vaps.org.au/competitions/vaps-interclub-competitions.html

The closing date for entries is very soon – Tuesday 15 March 2022, so please get your entries to Jim O’Donnell, External Competition Coordinator, at itsme21try@gmail.com as soon as possible.

What’s On This Week

Thursday March 7 7.00pm

Portrait Group

Thursday March 10 8.00pm

Print Competition – Set Subject: People Portrait

Please note that this is also the deadline for submission of your PDI entries.

News Updates

Camera Clinic Closing Down

Camera Clinic has advised that it will close as of April 1st. Full information is available on their website:

https://camera-clinic.com/index.php/en/

Thanks to David Gilliver for notifying us of this.

What’s On Outside the MCC

Exhibitions and Competitions

“A Photographic Retrospective by Neil Roberts”

An exhibition of the non-contemporary photography works of Neil Roberts, a local amateur photographer and member of the Maroondah Photographic Society. Ray Oliver Gallery, Mont de Lancey Historic Homestead, 71 Wellington Road, Wandin North. Dates: Wed 9 March – Sun 20 March, 2022 (closed Mon 14 March and Tue 15 March). Opening times: 10am – 4:30pm.
More information

“Picture This: Nature Through a Gardener’s Lens”

This exhibition features Waverley Garden Club members’ framed photographs of plants and gardens and promises to be stunning. Some of the framed and unframed photos will be available for sale. It opens on 2nd March 2022 and finishes Sunday 13 March 2022. Exhibition opening hours are Mon-Fri 11am-3pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm. More information:

VAPS Newsbrief

The February 2022 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