Weekly News #03 9February2025

This year we welcome some new Special Interest Group Coordinators: 

• History & Archives Committee Chair: Russell Spence
• Nature Photography Group Coordinators: Jo Kneebone & Julie Daniel

The Board thanks the outgoing coordinators for their hard work over recent years: Nicole Andrews who established the Nature Group more than 6 years ago; and Des Crossley who managed the MCC Archives. 

MCC has arranged a table at the upcoming Australian Photographic Collectors Society market on Sunday 16 March. The market is very well-known amongst collectors and photography enthusiasts, and is held at the Box Hill Town Hall.

We are looking for members who would like to sell some of their personal photography items on the MCC table, ideally 4-5 people would share the table cost ($60), and promote the club to potential members. Both Analogue and Digital camera items and accessories and photography books are acceptable. 

For further details and EOI, link below. 

MCC is again entering the Camberwell Camera Club Nature Interclub competition. Last year MCC did very well so we are under pressure to continue our high standard of Nature images. There are 7 categories as per last year:

1. Landscape/Seascape
2. Botany
3. Birds
4. Mammals
5. Invertebrates
6. Other Nature
7. Urban Wildlife

Upload will be via the MCC Competition page (not available yet). More details will be available in the coming weeks in MCC News.

Any questions, contact Marg Huxtable or Nicole Andrews.

Image: EOY Competition 2024: PDI Nature Highly Commended – Frances Egan – Maratus Speciosus

Welcome to the 2025 Monthly Competitions.

Starting from 1 February 2025 and following feedback from the survey and discussions within the Competition Committee, we have made some important changes to the monthly competition rules.  Please make sure you are up to date with all the changes by reading the rules on the website – you can find the Club Competitions page under the Members Menu once you have logged into the website. 

In summary:

• There are new guidelines pertaining to the use of Artificial Intelligence in competitions. In line with all APS competitions generative fill is not allowed on competition images, so please familiarise yourself with the details specified in the new rules.
• B Grade competitors no longer need to mount/matt their prints for the monthly competition.
• The Photographer of the Year award will no longer be based on monthly aggregates. The award will be given to the photographer scoring the highest number of points (print and PDI in all sections) in the End of Year competition. More detail is in the new rules.
• A total of three (3) images can be submitted to any monthly competition (Print and/or PDI): two competition images and one image critique; one competition image and two image critiques or 3 image critiques.

If you have any questions, please contact Lesley Bretherton or any member of the Competition Committee. Email:
mcc-compcommittee@melbournecameraclub.org.au

MCC is celebrating 2025 International Women’s Day by curating our 7th exhibition of photography from female photographers, to be on display 6-16 March in our clubrooms.

We encourage and invite all women photographers from the Club to exhibit your images alongside photographers from outside the club. If you are unsure about printing or matting your images, please get in touch and we can help.

For full information about the Exhibition and the Terms and Conditions: Click here.

Image: Rebecca Polonski

Discover the breathtaking beauty and fragility of our blue planet at the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 exhibition. Featuring 118 extraordinary images by world-renowned photographers, this exhibition celebrates the wonders of our oceans and highlights the urgent need for their protection.

• 29 January to 13 July 2025
• Open: Wednesday to Sundays 
• Adult $20 / Concession $15

Congratulations to the following MCC members on their successes in recent competitions outside the club:

• Rebecca Polonski: APS Australian Digital Photography Awards (ADPA) APS Silver Medal (Minimalism)
• James Mexias: Mono Awards 2024: Highly Commended in Places category; 3x Commended in Places and People categories
• James Mexias: Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 Honourable Mention in Abstract for Samurai