New Domain Name for EPC Website

The website has finally been transferred to a new hosting server, and we now have a new domain name, so the website is accessable at either http://e-p-c.org.au or www.e-p-c.org.au. Over the next few weeks I'll be notifying sites and search engines of our change of address. Our old address doesn't work any more as I've cancelled the account.

Mike Connell Returns June 19

On Tuesday June 19 Mike Connell from Orange Lane Studios will be back for another informative and inspiring workshop on lighting. This time he will give members some pointers for lighting still life arrangements. Members are encouraged to bring their cameras as well as objects they wish to be photographed.

Club Outing Sunday June 3

The Club outing this Sunday will be at Old Tailem Town, Princes Highway, near Tailem Bend. Meet at Old Tailem Town at 11 am. Admission is $15 per person, which is the group discount price. Bring your own lunch as they only have cold drinks, tea & coffee at the venue, no food.

Old Tailem Town is a pioneer village with lots of old buildings (cottages, shops, a cinema, church, school) cars, trucks, trains etc. They provide ample opportunity for photography, especially Black and White.

Tailem Bend usually has less rain than the Adelaide plains, so hopefully it won't be too wet for photography.

Holland International Image Circuit 2008

Information just received: The Holland International Image Circuit will now include Digital or Slides! Closing date January 31st 2008.

You can download the entry form at http://www.hollandcircuit.nl If you find you can't read the site when you go there, look for the Union Jack at the top right hand side of the screen. Click on that and the site will reload in English.

Hunter Valley Gardens Photography Competition

The APS is pleased to support the inaugural Photography competition being offered by Hunter Valley Gardens.
Hunter Valley Gardens is the biggest display garden in Australia, located in Pokolbin NSW.
The competition will be run in conjunction with their Festival of Flowers and is open to all ages with a ‘flower/garden’ theme.
With great prizes to be won and Ken Duncan as one of the judges, this is a competition worth entering. APS judges who will be working with Ken are Andrea Robinson LAPS and Len Brown AAPS SSAPS.
Please go to this link for more information and the registration form.

Australian Photographic Society - Digital Photography Awards

The Australian Digital Photography Awards will be held in Canberra on the 18th August. As you already know this will be a most exciting competition. It is open to all, not restricted to APS members, and is free.

This is a reminder that the entries close on 17th June so please check out the website www.adpa.org.au for full details, including entry forms. Entries will only be accepted electronically and instructions are to be found on the website. It's not difficult so please take part and make this a great competition.
Judging Finalised: 7th JulyExhibition: 18th August
Reports: 20th August
Catalogue: 20th August
The Exhibition will be held in the Top of the Cross room at the Southern Cross Club, Woden, Canberra on the 18th August 2007 starting at 7 pm. Cost: $10 per person. Food and drinks are available at the Club prior to the exhibition and visitors are invited to move around while the photos are being shown. This exhibition will be held in 2 parts showing the photographs in the Open section first and the Creative/Altered Reality Photographs in the second section.

Website Changes

The current EPC website has been updated on the program page. Plans are underway to move the site to another hosting service, with our own domain name. We will notify you via this blog when the site has been moved.

First Digital Competition Results

Last night there were 95 entries in the first trial of the Digital (projection) competition. Here are the top entries:

By the Seaside, © Peter Cops

Don, © Keith Seidel

It's Still There, © Peter Phillips

Man o' Straw, © Tony Frizell


Surprise, © Raoul Parrot


The Bay, © Raoul Parrot

And the winning image of the night:

Storm Beach, © John Seidel

Digital Competition Rules updated

I've uploaded the updated file to a free file hosting site. You can download the file by clicking on the link below.

EPC Digital.pdf

Edited 15 August: The above link has expired. The new link on our new website: http://www.e-p-c.org.au/files/EPCDigital.pdf

Website problems and Digital Competitions Rules update

At the moment I'm unable to update the website with the update to the Digital Competitions Rules.

The main thing that has been corrected is the reference to the file name for your entries in the competition. An example for May 2007, of an image by Keith Seidel, in the Open section, his third entry, with a title of “Wondering”, would be “1-5-07o Wondering K1S3.jpg”. Have a space between the title and the code but NO spaces within the code digits.

A Pleasant Sunday Outing

A small group of dedicated photographers met at the Mount Barker for the Jazz and Heritage festival. It was an opportunity to see and photograph the Steamranger, as well as Jazz musicians, vintage cars, and various steam engines as well as the local area. The weather was fine although the wind was a bit cold, and the light was good for photography. Overall it was a good day, which was finished off with a light meal and coffee at a local cafe, while listening to an excellent young jazz trio playing outside.

SAPF Camera Club News

This email came from the SAPF:

"Over the past years the number of subscribers to the CC News has decreased and, conversely, the cost of printing and mailing has increased. Because of this the SAPF Management Committee has decided to email the CC News to the clubs and to place the CC News on the SAPF website http://www.sapf.org.au/notice%20board.html. CC News is a PDF file and a copy of Acrobat reader is required to read it. The reader can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html A printed copy of the CC News will still be posted to those club members who have already subscribed for this year."

Outing Sunday May 20

The outing for May will be at the Mount Barker Jazz & Heritage Festival on Sunday May 20. Meet at 11.00 am at the Mount Barker Railway Station.

A copy of the Mount Barker Jazz & Heritage Festival program can be downloaded here.

Program Update for Tuesday June 5

Ron Johnson will be our guest speaker on Tuesday June 5, giving a talk entitled: "Photography - A life's Journey".

2007 Digital Image Competitions

The trial procedures and guidelines have been prepared and is available to download from the EPC site. Our first Digital Image competition, where entries will be projected via a data projector, will be on May 29. This information will also be available on the noticeboard at the club meeting tonight.

SAPF Annual Exhibition 2007

Entry forms are available for the SAPF Annual Exhibition from their website. The closing date for entries is 24 June 2007 and the entries can be sent to PO Box 2204, Kent Town, or dropped in at Mullins Gallery, 260 Portrush Road Beulah Park, on the closing date.

The Exhibition will run from Friday 20th July to Sunday 22nd July 2007 at Mullins Gallery:
Official Opening: 7.45pm Friday 20th July 2007, doors open 7pm
Saturday 21st July: 10am – 4pm
Sunday 22nd July: 10am – 4pm
Slide screenings at 8pm, 10:30am and 1:30pm

Interclub Competition Tuesday May 1

The club will not meet at our club rooms this week as we will be going to Mullins Gallery for the Interclub Competition with Eastern Suburbs Camera Club. Mullins Gallery is located at 260 Portrush Road, Beulah Park. Meet there at 7.30 pm for an 8.00 pm start.

It's their turn to host the competition, which consists of 15 large colour prints, 15 monochrome prints and 25 slides from each club. At the start of each year EPC asks for slides from members to be duplicated for the club set, and this duplicated set is used for the interclub competitions.

Website updated

The EPC website has been updated on the Program page with the dates for May. I've also tweaked the CSS to place the vertical navigation bar so that Firefox displays it correctly. If you have trouble viewing any of the pages, please let me know.

April 24 Presentation/Workshop

On Tuesday April 24 Mike Connell of Orange Lane Studios will be running a workshop on studio lighting at the clubrooms. This is an exciting opportunity to see how one of the masters of commercial photography works. Members may bring along their own cameras to photograph the set ups as well.

2007 Great Photographic Challenge

The Great Photographic Challenge will be held this Sunday, April 22. This is where members are loaned a basic plastic camera, and given a list of subjects to photograph, and a time limit to photograph them in. Everyone has the same camera, so this means that the only difference between photos is according to how the photographer interprets the subject.

Meet at the corner of Edward Street and The Parade at 1.30 pm to collect your camera loaded with film. The cost is $10 to cover film and processing.