Weekly News #12 13April2025

2025 Theme: THIS IS AUSTRALIA

MCC will be entering a club entry in this year’s APS Australian Cup. The MCC Competition Committee are looking for 20 of MCC’s best images to represent our club in the annual APS Australian Cup.

Please submit your entries as early as possible – there have been some great images in this year’s and last year’s Monthly and End of Year competitions, which would be suitable for this competition.

We need your images uploaded by midnight Saturday 17 May, entries need to be submitted through the competition portal on the MCC website.

All information is on the entry portal on MCC Competition page 

Any queries, please contact the Competition Committee. Email: mcc-compcommittee@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Pinhole Workshop: How to build and use a pinhole camera.  Everyone welcome. Great fun activity for kids. Please let Greg know if you can help out.

If you want to get adventurous bring along a small box to convert to a pinhole camera. 

Or just turn up and we will supply everything.

• Date: Sunday 27 April
• Time: 10am – 5pm
• Location: Studio and Darkroom
• Registrations are required, link to register 

Any questions contact Greg Branson, email: analogue.group@melbournecameraclub.org.au

*Image World Pinhole Day 2023; taken by Santina Velo

Do you, like so many, have a filter kit floating around in your camera bag that you don’t use because you don’t know why or how?

Or have you always wanted to know how filters can enhance your photography before you purchase a set?

This hands-on workshop, led by expert photographer and MCC Member Greg Thomas, is designed to guide participants through the essential aspects of using photography filters to enhance their images creatively.

• Date: Saturday 10 May
• Time: 2pm – 6pm
• Cost: $20.00 per person, including refreshments
• Location: Port Melbourne

Further details on the Workshop Registration page.

Calling on all Nature photographers! Entries are now open to MCC members for this year’s nature exhibition.

MCC is celebrating its fifth nature exhibition which will be on display 19 – 23 June in the MCC Gallery. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Nature in all its Glory’.

All images must meet the Nature Guidelines as outlined in the terms and conditions. If you wish to submit creative images, please contact the exhibitions team. If there is sufficient interest we will create a separate section within the exhibition.

For full information about the Exhibition entries and the Terms and Conditions.

• Closing date: Sunday 1 June 2025, 11:59pm

Rippon Lea Estate in collaboration with our sponsor, Michaels Camera Hire are currently running a Bird photography competition.

Please find the link below that provides all the details.

https://www.ripponleaestate.com.au/event/rippon-lea-estate-bird-photography-competition/

Rippon Lea Estate would like to invite members of The MCC to Visit Rippon Lea Estate between the dates of the 10-25 of April at no charge to the member.

Members only need to show a copy of this email to staff at the estates entry point located at 192 Hotham St. Complimentary entry is for entry into the Estate’s gardens only.

In May 1968 the newly formed photography department of Prahran Technical School (known as Prahran College of Advanced Education (PCAE) from 1973) moved into the basement of a freshly completed art and design building on the corner of High Street and Thomas Street in Melbourne’s inner southeastern suburb of Prahran. Here, for the first time in Australia, photography was taught as an artform.

Featuring the work of approximately 60 artists, The basement brings to light rare vintage prints from the 1960s through to the early 1980s, key archival ephemera and folio work – from students and teachers of the College’s Diploma of Art & Design (Photography).

• Exhibition dates: 1 March – 25 May 2025
• Museum of Australian Photography
  860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill 

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