PSA Interclub Update
The deadline for registering our club for the 2019/2020 year of inter club competitions is Oct 15 2019. For that year we will be entering four sections – Open, Creative, Nature and Travel. The closing dates and number of rounds will be standardised across all of the sections. The closing dates are Nov 15, Feb 15 and April 15.
I will be asking all members who want to participate to sign an image release so that PSA has permission to display your images on the PSA website.
I received a list of “Best of the Best” for the past year in the Creative Division and our club figured very well with one Gold Medal and three HMs out of ten awards.
by Ian English, August 8, 2019
PSA Interclub Travel (3) Results
These are the final results from PSA Interclub for this year and after coming third in round 2, we have come back to earth with a thud. Following are our individual scores, club score and club placings for the year in the Travel Section.
Thank you all for your participation in these competition and to the members who voted to select our images. I will be registering for the next year in October and we will then compete for a full year in 4 sections with all guns blazing.
Ian English ianenglish999@gmail.com 0411136571
by Ian English, May 29, 2019
PSA Interclub Creative (3) Results
Once again Wangi has excelled in the Creative Interclub. We achieved the top score in both A and B groups with a score of 83 points. The next highest was 79 points for the club which beat us in the last round. We achieved four awards and the lowest of our scores was 13 out of 15 so well done to all involved. There is a possibility that we may be promoted to the higher level group A next year.
These are the images entered by our members and you can see that our selection scoring is pretty consistent with the results above.
Ian English PSA Interclub Coordinator ianenglish999@gmail.com 0411136571
by Ian English, May 25, 2019
Scoring and Selections for PSA Travel (3)
Below are the judges who scored our images and the scores for all entries. Thanks to all members who scored and entered images. The six selected images are not necessarily the top six scores as we can only have one entry from each of six members.
The selected images are: Village activity – Colleen Price, Harbour Bridge on Display – Toni Conquest, Al Fresco Butcher – Dianne English, An Alternate View – David Hansell, The Pinnacles at Sunset – Ian English, Meeting on the Bridge – Lee-Ann Hattander
by Ian English, May 12, 2019
Online scoring (All Grades) PSA Interclub Travel (3)
I have opened the scoring to all members for this round as an encouragement for B Graders to judge and hopefully enter images in the rounds for the next year. To score, go online to Members, Competitions, then scroll down to PSA Interclub Travel right at the bottom, then click on the Scoring button with the star. Click on the darker blue button on the left and the images will be displayed and then you click the first image and then click on a score along the top row and then follow the prompts. Scoring guide – 1 = Does not meet definition, 2 = below standard, 3 = reasonable standard, 4 = above average standard and possible inclusion, 5 = definitely should be included in competition. You can score each image individually and not in comparison to any of the others. We will select the best six images from six different members.
Scoring will close tomorrow night (Sunday)
The PSA definition for Photo Travel is – A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally. There are no geographic limitations. Images from events or activities arranged specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment. Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable adjustments are removal of dust or digital noise, restoration of the appearance of the original scene, and complete conversion to greyscale monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared, are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural.
Ian English PSA Interclub Coordinator ianenglish999@gmail.com 0411136571
by Ian English, May 11, 2019
Results PSA Interclub Nature (3)
Another very strong performance from Wangi. Equal third in Group B out of 40 clubs. I want to thank all members who entered images and all the members who took the time to score our images. Congratulations to Colleen Price and Dianne English who both scored 14 and received HM Ribbons.
by Ian English, May 5, 2019
Judging Results PSA Creative (3)
Nine of our A grade and Advanced members voted and the six images selected this round are:
What Came First Lee-Ann Hattander 41 points Nigella Buddy Iced Dianne English 41 Points Apologies to King Kong Ian English 41 Points A splash of Art David Hansell 38 Points Fridge Raid Ian Nunn 35 Points Shakin Out A Sunset LR Ray Watts 35 Points
There were other images which scored highly but we are only able to submit one image from each of six members. Max possible score was 45. Thank you all for your entries and to the members who did the judging.
by Ian English, May 3, 2019
Online Scoring for PSA Creative (3)
All A Grade and Advanced members please log on to the website and go to competitions and scroll to the PSA Creative (3) competition and click on the star. Then click on the first image and click your score for that image in the bar at the top and wait for the next image to appear. Repeat the process and go through all of the images.
Score guide: 1 – Does not meet definition 2 – Below standard 3 – Average standard 4 – Above average standard and to be considered for inclusion 5 – High standard and should be selected
Remember that the PSA definition for creative is Altered Reality. Story telling or artistic interpretation carry a lot of weight in Altered Reality.
You have until Thursday midnight (tomorrow) to complete the scoring and I will then enter the top 6 images from six different people to the PSA Website. Thank you for helping our club selection process. We are starting to do well in these competitions and we must keep it going.
Ian English PSA Interclub Coordinator ianenglish999@gmail.com 0411136571
by Ian English, May 1, 2019
Lake Mac International Group – Varna Salon
The results are out for our first International Salon entered as a group. There were 17 Wangi members plus Roy Killen who entered a varying number of sections each and overall between us we gained 55 acceptances. This included a Salon Bronze Medal for Joy Thomas for her Landscape image and Colleen Price received a GPU HM for her Nature image.
Congratulations to all members who entered. I have drawn up a table for members giving breakdowns of where the acceptances came from.
This is a fantastic first up result and I will call a meeting to review the results and discuss future Salons. The link to the results is below:
Ian English Lake Mac International Group Coordinator lakemacig@gmail.com
by Ian English, April 23, 2019
Results PSA Creative Round 2
Well the results are in and we did extremely well. We came second in our Group B and third overall when you take Group A scores into consideration, we came third overall. Out of our six entries, our members achieved four awards, more than any club in our group. Congratulations Wangi. If you have not already done so, would you please submit two creative images in the PSA Interclub (3) comp and lets see if we can get to number one.
Ian English PSA Interclub Coordinator ianenglish999@gmail.com
by Ian English, April 17, 2019
