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Our club is based at the Wangi Workers Club at Wangi Wangi NSW

We meet at the Wangi Workers’ Club in the Auditorium at 6.30pm on the 2nd Monday of the month for our Competition Night.

We meet at 7pm on the 4th Monday of the month for Tutorial/Workshop night.

We also have Special Interests Groups meeting on 1st Monday of the month at 7pm

The club’s mission statement is:

“a shared enjoyment of the art and craft of photography in a learning environment”

Use the green About Us button for information on our club and what we do.

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The 2nd Monday of the month is our competition night.

  • Our Competition Program is available from our website.
  • There are 3 grades, Advanced, A and Open. Open Grade is usually for beginner photographers and for those members who just enjoy taking photographs without doing extensive editing.
  • We have photos presented both in print form as well as Digital (EDI) option. (EDI – Electronic Data Images)
  • Both Digital and Print contests require you to enter online on this website and include a digital copy of each entry. This will be displayed in an image gallery on the website
  •  All photographs are displayed and critiqued by the judge on the night. Most judges provide very beneficial feedback, from which we all learn
  • At the end of the year we run our “Photo of the Year”competition (POTY). The photos entered in this competition must be photographs that have been entered in competitions throughout the year.

The 4th Monday of the month is our tutorial night.

  • We have had many and varied tutorials and continue to do so every month.
  • Suggestions from members as to what tutorials they would like to have are very welcome.

The 1st Monday of the Month is Special Interests group night

  • Members choose their own interest subject to collect 4-10 images on.
  • This is not for competition but to allow members to explore their own photography journey.

Visitors are always welcome to come along however visitors cannot enter any competitions until they become a member of the club. Follow the link under About us for info on joining.

Fees are :

$40 for year if commencing in June -September; If join later the following fee applies: $30 October- December; $20 January to May

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Short BIO for Nicole Curtis

Hi All,
I have heard back from our February Judge Nicole Curtis with a little information about her journey with photography, which is as follows:

I first joined Maitland club in the mid 2000’s after I’d returned from India and Nepal with some images from my old canon camera. I have a visual art background but joining the camera club taught me a lot about the technical aspects of photography. I am interested in photography that evokes emotion or shows the viewer a new perspective of aspect of a visual concept. I am currently in the process of completing a PhD in visual learning and am also assistant principal at Rutherford public school. 

by Sue Winsley, January 22, 2024

PSA Interclub

The second round for PSA Interclub entries closes on Sunday Feb 4th.

Please support your club and enter your new images in the appropriate sections. They do not have to have been entered in the club comps, so any new images you have for upcoming club comps are welcome. If they have been entered in PSA Interclub on our club website, they are ready to go for the club comps and you do not have to recreate the images.

Thanks for your help.

by Ian English, January 19, 2024

2024 Competition will begin in February

Happy New Year to all our members.

Hopefully by now we are all starting to think about our entries for our first competition of 2024.

Our first competition night for 2024 is Monday 12th February. The set subject is “Effective use of blur”.

Our digital images for this competition need to be uploaded by 11:59 pm on Saturday 27th January and our print entries need to be uploaded by 11:59 pm on Saturday 10th February.

Our judge for February is Nicole Curtis. At this stage I don’t have a lot of information about Nicole. I am hoping that she’ll send me a short BIO before our competition night.

IMPORTANT:
Please note that all printed images entered in our competitions must match the digital image upload. If they are obviously different the print will be disqualified on the night.
POTY entries must be the exact same image entered earlier in the year and must also match the digital uploaded image. Entries will be disqualified if printed image displayed varies from the original entry or the digital image.

Have fun creating your images and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at Ian’s presentation on the 22nd. It sounds great.

by Sue Winsley, January 10, 2024

PSA Interclub Rd 2 call for entries

The comp buttons for Round 2 are open and appear under Year 2023 in the Members section on the website.

The five sections all close for entries on Sunday 4th Feb.

I have removed all of the selected images from Round 1.

Please go to the website and add some new images. You can delete old images and substitute with new/better images.

If you would like the current Master Interclub Entry spreadsheet, please email me for a copy. ian@bbsol.com

I just received an email this morning from PSA giving the End of Year Best of the Best results and huge congratulations must go to Megan for her winning Colour entry.

I would like to wish all of our fabulous members a wonderful Christmas and a safe and photographically prosperous New Year.

Cheers Ian 0411136571 ian@bbsol.com

by Ian English, December 23, 2023

HOCUS FOCUS – DECEMBER 2023

HOCUS FOCUS – DECEMBER 2023 edition is now available on the website under the NEWSLETTERS Button or directly on this link https://wangi.myphotoclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2023/12/HOCUS-FOCUS-DECEMBER-2023.pdf

by David Price, December 19, 2023

2024 Calendar and Competitions

The 2024 Competition/Tutorial Calendar has been updated with currently available information. There are quite a few TBAs in the Calendar, which will be updated progressively as information comes to hand.

The 2024 Competitions for February through to June have been set up on the website. These competitions are on the Members Page and become visible once you select the 2024 Button.

by David Price, December 14, 2023

Results PSA Interclub Rd 1 Photojournalism

Who would have thought that our best result in Round one came in PJ, traditionally not our strongest genre. We sit in equal second place.

Congratulations to Susan, Marie and David on their well deserved awards.

That wraps up the results for the first round. The Round two comp buttons are now active on the website.

Some eagle eyed readers may notice that Marie’s image scored higher than David’s yet received an HM award and not a Merit award. In the judging process, the three judges complete their scores individually and the top total scores are then considered for the awards. It is then that the judges discuss the images and distribute the awards and that can mean that a lower scored image can be elevated to a higher award.

by Ian English, December 12, 2023

Yearly Schedule of Events 2024 Updated

The Yearly schedule, which can be found in Club Rules and Documents, has been updated to reflect the change in April’s competition to “Australian Landscapes” for Set Subject and “This is Australia” for both Colour and Mono. August has been changed to “Leading Lines” please refer to this new calendar.

https://wangi.myphotoclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2023/12/Yearly-Schedule-2024-v2.pdf

by Rita England, December 10, 2023

Results PSA Interclub Rd 1 Mono & Nature

Our club is showing strong results finishing equal 10th in Mono and equal 8th in Nature. It is gratifying to see members from all three grades representing us in Monochrome with pleasing results. Well done to all.

Mono

Nature

by Ian English, December 5, 2023

PSA Interclub Rd 1 Travel Results

Congratulations to the two Davids, Whyte and Price on their awards.

We are sitting at 14th place out of 23 clubs in Group A. As many members are, have been travelling can we please have some great new travel images uploaded for round two?

by Ian English, December 3, 2023