Kiama-Shellharbour Camera Club

April’s photo of the month winner was Suzanne Richards

River Shadow

Suzanne was standing in a muddy river in Western Australia when she noticed all the interesting colours around her shadow.

The POTM for March was from Allayne Foley.

Jazz Musician

Allayne said “I took the photo with my Nikon D70 while on holiday on Lord Howe Island last winter. I was staying at Pine Trees where they have jazz musicians in the winter as an added attraction because the weather is not so good. Its a great place to stay to relax, unwind and eat the fabulous food!

The photo was taken indoors at night (without flash) and the light was very poor. I put the ISO to 1000 in order to get the photo. The quality is therefore pretty noisy. I was hoping to get a photo where I could show the musicians close relationship to his instrument and his intensity of listening to the sound. I made the photo black and white so I could concentrate on just the strings of the double bass and the fingers and face of the musician. “

The March projected image of the month was “Off to Market” by Graham Tibbits. 

This was taken on Graham and Lorraine’s last trip to Vietnam with Spotlight on Asia tours.

February’s POTM is from Suzanne Richards.

Suzanne was walking by a river when she noticed a large 6cm bubble floating down stream. She asked her husband to wave to give the photo interest and they are also reflected in all the bubbles in the image, especially the one in the top left.

Our  annual exhibition of members’ prints is now on at the Old Kiama Firestation, Terralong Street Kiama.  Thirty-one members have 80 prints on display for sale.   The exhibition is open from 10 till 5 with the last day being Monday 16th February. Please drop in and say hello.

The exhibition was opened on Wednesday night by Dave  Hall from the Kiama Picture Company.  The Kiama Picture Company is one of our long term sponsors of the exhibition and for their very generous donation of a Kodak Easy Share camera for our raffle. Thanks also to Madsens in Wollongong for prize donations.

January’s Photo of the Months is Allayne Foley’s Notre Dame De Paris.

The photo was taken in the late afternoon in April from the small park at the back of Notre Dame.  It had been a very hot day and Allayne was cooling down in the park with a can of drink when she noticed the flowering trees in front of the cathedral. She took the photo with her Nikon D70.

Notre Dame de Paris by Allayne Foley

The FCC are holding a series of five workshops starting in March 2009- they are

Photography as Art

Translating Ideas Into Expressive Photographic Images

Contemporary Photographic Practice

Evaluating Your Development as a Photographer and Achieving Your Photographic Goals

Image Appraisal, Judging within the FCC, and Effective Communication.

You can download a copy of the  fcc-workshops-registration_form here.

This month’s Photo of the Month was Tom Daley’s “Out on a Limb”  Tom used his Pentax DL00 macro lens on f11 out in his backyard to get this shot.

Congratulations to Geraldine Lefoe for her image Metallic World which was selected by our guest judge Mark Kelly for PI of the month. Martin’s insightful commentary on the night was well received by the group. You can see Mark’s website at http://mkimages.com.au/ - check out his superb mono landscapes and infrared.

Gerry shot this image at the railway station in Auckland, New Zealand. She was using a tripod and just managed to get this shot in as a security guard asked her to leave - no tripods allowed inside but handheld fine. She used her Nikon D70s with settings of 0.005 sec (1/500) on aperture f/11. Well done Gerry!

Our Projected Images entry form has had some slight revisons including the email address for those who want to submit by email.  The new form is here:

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