Melbourne Camera Club

Virtual Meeting: Guest Speaker - Nick Rains "Heart of Australia"
2020-11-26 20:00 - 21:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | VIC
Heart of Australia
“In small towns across Australia you will find any number of whacky and wonderful events that regularly bring communities together throughout the year. From the dusty glory of the Deniliquin Ute Muster to Elvis impersonators lining the streets for the Parkes Elvis Festival, Heart of Australia is a many and varied collection of images that celebrates our community, all within in the covers of one beautifully presented book.”
“Nick Rains is a professional photographer specialising in travel and documentary work. During a career spanning over 35 years his photographs have been featured in publications such as Australian Geographic, Australian Photography Magazine, GEO, Sports Illustrated, Outback Magazine, Reader’s Digest and more. He has photographed a vast range of subjects, including sport, news, celebrities, commercial, industry, travel, wildlife, fashion and portraits. Nick is the author of 15 books, his most recent seven titles have been published by Hardie Grant.
He was named Australian Geographic magazine’s Photographer of the Year in 2001 and in 2014 was named Travel Photographer of the Year at the AIPP’s Australian Professional Photography Awards for his portfolio of Gold award prints.

Nick is a Master Photographer of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, the Leica Akademie Principal Instructor and for the past decade has been helping ‘committed enthusiasts’ take the photos they have been dreaming of on workshops held in far-flung locations around the world.”
www.nickrains.com

Virtual Meeting – Zoom details
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.
Visitors are welcome to join our Thursday night meetings – please email Vice President Lesley Bretherton for further information <lesley.bretherton@melbournecameraclub.org.au>

Virtual Meeting – YouTube details
Here is a link to this live simulcast of this presentation.

https://youtu.be/LOfeMI8-MSk

burning man

Shearer 53 years.Jim Haney, Tasmania

Images © Nick Rains

Projected Digital Image Competition - Set Subject - Industrial
2020-11-26 20:00, 2020-10-22 20:00 | Via Zoom
The monthly competition for digital projected images.
The images must be uploaded via —- by the previous Thursday

Virtual Nature Group Meeting
2020-11-24 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
EOY virtual meeting of Nature Group for discussion of next year program and sharing of images

Analogue Photography Virtual Group Meeting
2020-11-23 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-10-26 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
The Analogue Photography Group meets on the 4th Monday of the month. Members are encouraged to bring along their current work- either completed or in progress. Each meeting will have either a talk, a demonstration or an activity (or all of the above). The APG program can be found on the website.
Visitors who would like to attend can send an email to analogue.group@melbournecameraclub.org.au to obtain the Zoom details.

Virtual Meeting: Guest Speaker – Ricardo Da Cunha “A path towards more meaningful imagery”
2020-11-19 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.
Ricardo Da Cunha
My images aim to portray a world that I seek; one that is simple, silent and devoid of the noise that increasingly dominates our complicated and distracted lives. I like to give my subjects space for them to breathe, just like I need to find space so that my soul can breathe. Photography gives me the silence that I increasingly desire.

My images are often not true interpretations of what my camera sees, but more importantly to me, they are true interpretations of the stories that I want to tell. Ultimately I aim to produce images with a vision to inspire people to simplify their lives and appreciate the very few things that truly matter and bring us a feeling of contentment. It’s this underlying vision that guides the choices I make in my photography, along with my heart and intuition.

Ricardo will be speaking on a subject dear to his heart and true to his principles – ‘A path towards more meaningful imagery’. This presentation will endeavor to invite you to take your photography to a deeper place, and in doing so, deliver greater fulfilment in your photography.

Conceptual Photography - Member Presentations
2020-11-18 19:30 - 22:00 | VIC
Final meeting for group – Member presentations

Digital Editing Group - Guest Speaker: Ian van der Wolde (Virtual Meeting)
2020-11-16 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
Our speaker series continues with Ian van der Wolde discussing his personal work and his approach to processing, in particular his black and white workflow. Ian judged our PDI competition in early October. For those of you who tuned into that presentation, you will know that he offered insightful comments on all of the images. If you stayed around for his post judging presentation, you will also know that he has a wonderful portfolio of personal work that is in a totally different realm to his commercial work.

Bio:
An Accredited Professional Photographer, Life Member, Master of Photography IV, Honorary Fellow and Fellow of the AIPP, Ian has in recent decades accumulated numerous industry awards and titles.
Ian has been awarded the AIPP Victorian Landscape Photographer of the Year title twice, 2012 & 2017. He also took out the AIPP Victorian Illustrative Photographer of the Year in 2012 giving him 2 category wins that year.
Zoom meeting details will be emailed to MCC Members in advance of this event.

Print Competition
2020-11-12 20:00 - 23:00, 2020-10-08 20:00 - 23:00 | VIC
The monthly competition for printed images

A Covid Compromise: The APG 20th Annual Exhibition
2020-11-12 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
The opening of the APG 20th Annual Exhibition by Zo Damag

Club Night
2020-11-12 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC

Board Meeting
2020-11-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-10-14 19:30 - 21:30 | VIC
The MCC Board meets on the second Wednesday of the month. All Board items must be to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.auby the previous Wednesday.

Virtual Meeting: Paul Hoelen - "Men with Heart" documentary project.
2020-11-05 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Virtual Meeting – Zoom details
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.
Visitors are welcome to join our Thursday night meetings – please email Vice President Lesley Bretherton for further information <lesley.bretherton@melbournecameraclub.org.au>
For this meeting only we are extending our invite to all Camera Clubs in Victoria through VAPS and the public. This presentation will be simultaneously cast on Youtube. Feel free to join in using this link https://youtu.be/ZYeYk-Z6p80
Paul is a Grand Master of Photography fluent in a wide range of genres through his career with a strong conservation and humanitarian focus. He judges regularly at a state, national and international level, runs photography workshops worldwide and writes for numerous magazines and publications, He is a member of the progressive modern landscape photography collaborative The Light Collective, is an Ambassador for Asukabook Australasia and his fine art work is represented by One Fine Print in Australia and Source Photographica in Australia and the USA.
Men With Heart Description
In a time when much of the world’s media is choosing to focus on the darker side of what men are capable of, the Men with Heart project provides a refreshing, welcome and important counterbalance by portraying the open-heartedness, courage, and vulnerability of men coming together to face their issues and work on becoming better men. Better fathers, brothers, partners and sons.
Shot in complete confidentiality over almost two decades, this documentary exhibition presents a deeply unique body of work in both its intimacy and scope intended to both challenge and explore what defines healthy masculinity in Australian culture today. This powerfully moving multi-media exhibition has already won multiple awards for its impact on the health and well-being of both men and boys in Australia and is preparing to tour the country.
Paul will explore ideas and learnings about how to approach such intimate and long term documentary work as a photographer through the lens of this project.
You can view some of the work at www.menwithheart.com.au

Photobook 2020 Submissions
2020-11-05 19:00 - 20:00 | VIC
Rules
Submissions

Mid-Week Group (Virtual Meeting)
2020-11-04 10:30 - 11:30 | VIC
Note: This outing is on a Wednesday because of Cup Day holiday.
Click here for further details about the Mid-week Outing Group

Portrait Group
2020-11-02 19:00 - 23:00 | Via Zoom
Please Note
Until further notice Portrait Group shoots are being replaced with online Zoom Meetings.
For meeting details please make sure you are on the Portrait Group mailing list (email portrait@melbournecameraclub.org.au if you are not).

This is the monthly meeting of the Portrait Group – first Monday of each month. An excellent chance to practice portrait photography skills and grow your portfolio.
The meeting is a practical photography session. We use flash lighting in a studio setting. We will have 2 sets operating and 2-3 models, so there will be ample opportunity to shoot.
Open to all MCC members (and visitors may attend up to 2 sessions). If you want to shoot, please bring your camera (with a standard hot shoe on top for the flash trigger) and $10 for a shooters licence.
Please come along at 7pm to help set up. We start shooting at 8pm, and stop when the models say they’ve had enough (typically 2-3 hours).
Please remember that after the shoot you are required to send some photos back for the models.

Virtual Meeting: Guest Speaker - Adrian Whear “Lets time travel to Bangladesh”
2020-10-29 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.

Nature Meeting (Virtual) - Presentor Duade Paton
2020-10-27 20:00 | VIC
Nature Group Meeting
Presentation by Duade Paton, a passionate bird photographer based in the North East of Victoria.

Virtual PDI Competition
2020-10-22 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
PDI Competition
Set Subjects
Competition Scores
Rules
Rules for Monthly Competitions
Entry format & presentation rules
Competition entry rules

Conceptual Photography
2020-10-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Monash Gallery of Art, Australia
Gallery visit to Monash Gallery of Art – Opening and Winner announcement of Bowness Photography Prize (date to be confirmed)

Digital Editing Group: Guest Speaker – Rocco Ancora (Virtual Meeting)
2020-10-19 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
Our guest speaker for the October meeting of the Digital Editing Group is Rocco Ancora.

His subject: Image conception to Realization

Bio:
Italian born and Australian based photographer Rocco Ancora is one of the most prolific and awarded photographers in the wedding and portrait industry. His work is often described as emotive, dramatic, romantic and has reached a level of sophistication only possible by his pursuit of excellence over his 25-year career. Rocco has won the AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography) Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year award for an unprecedented four times. He’s one of only three people in the world to achieve Grand Master of the AIPP and WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) in the United States; where he is the third most awarded photographer of the organisation.
Zoom meeting details will be emailed to MCC Members in advance of this event.

Virtual Meeting: Guest Speaker – Len Metcalf “The Language of the Photograph – Composition”
2020-10-15 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Join us for our guest speaker event this week – the renowned and highly awarded, Len Metcalf. He will be presenting on “The Language of the Photograph – Composition”. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from an internationally regarded black and white photographer on this fascinating topic.
Len’s website: https://www.lensschool.com

Virtual Meeting – Zoom details
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.
Visitors are welcome to join our Thursday night meetings – please email Vice President Lesley Bretherton for further information <lesley.bretherton@melbournecameraclub.org.au>

Virtual PDI Competition
2020-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
PDI Competitions
Set Subjects
Competition Scores
Rules
Rules for Monthly Competitions
Entry format & presentation rules
Competition entry rules

Mid-Week Group (Virtual Meeting)
2020-10-06 10:30 - 11:30 | VIC
Click here for further details about the Mid-week Outing Group

Portrait Group - meeting cancelled
2020-10-05 19:00 - 23:00 | VIC
Please Note – there will NOT be a Portrait Group meeting in October 2020
Our October 2020 meeting has been called off.

MCC Annual General Meeting
2020-10-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Via Zoom

Nature Group Virtual Meeting - Guest speaker Roy Killen
2020-09-29 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
Virtual meeting of the Nature Special Interest Group.
Guest speaker will be Roy Killen, an award winning nature photographer who is based in Newcastle. Roy is also the Membership Vice President of the Photographic Society of America, and a regular judge and presentor at camera clubs.
