PROJECTED IMAGES
Harvest due. Late summer sunlight gives the wheat
paddock at home a wonderful tone. - Chris Hellyar
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.....
At the AGM back in November some changes to the club monthly competitions were put to the vote.
The significant change was the introduction of 'Projected Images' replacing the 'Slide' category for monthly competitions.
This means we will see Slides competing side by side with digitally projected images.
The PSNZ has published a help sheet on preparing images for digital projection, which I have attached to the newsletter this month.
The help sheet gives good basic guidelines for preparing your digital images. To enter your digital prints, email the re­sized image to Cheryl Peacock who will be handling the digital entries. Cheryl's email address is:
[email protected].
When sending the images to Cheryl please make it obvious which images are for what competition by naming them something like “child study chrish.jpg” or putting appropriate comments in the email so Cheryl can sort things out easily.
My mother always used to say, although four months late is probably a bit much, even for her.
This is our first newsletter since August, due entirely to your scribes over­commitment in other areas.
I'd love to say I was out taking wonderful photos of exotic landscapes and famous A list celebrities, but alas it was a calling of the occupational kind that held WHAT'S IN A LABEL?
up the works.
I hope you all had a good Christmas break, and A gentle reminder form Cecile to label your print managed to take lots of photos, I don't have many of entries on the back clearly. Some judges last year had my own to look at yet this year!
problems reading pencilled handwriting on black card, which is understandable.
TUTORIALS IN 2008
Please put at least your initials and title of the Following on from the excellent tutorial on Digital photo on the reverse side to make both Stuart editing we held in 2007, we've scheduled five dates in Brannigan's life, and that of the judges a little easier.
2008 for tutorial evenings. They are:
18th Feb – Preparing images for Digital Projection.
21st April – What judges are looking for, critiquing 50 YEARS YOUNG
your own photos.
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18 August – Topic TBA
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20 October – Topic TBA
Ellesmere Camera Club Newsletter January 2008
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A LETTER FROM MERL
Sadly last year we lost one of our longest standing members, Arthur Grayburn. At the final meeting of the year I mentioned that the club had received a letter from Merl, but I unfortunately did not have it with me to read to the club.
Here is Merl's letter:
The Secretary, Ellesmere Camera Club
ELLESMERE CAMERA CLUB OFFICERS
President
Paul Ward
ph: 329­1645
Vice President Cecile Tait
ph: 329­5665
Secretary
Chris Hellyar
ph: 324­4462
Treasurer Christine Summerville ph: 324­4216
Postal address:
Ellesmere Camera Club
C/­
PO Box 45
Leeston
Dear Chris.
Please extend to your members my grateful thanks for the lovely message I received following the passing of my dear husband Arthur.
If you've got something you'd like included in the next newsletter, email it to Chris at: [email protected], post it to the address above, or bring it along to the Arthur joined the club in 1964 in the early years of our next club meeting.
move to live in the schoolhouse at Dunsandel. In those days a number of interested photographers pooled cars and drove to Leeston on the first Monday of the month.
When our boys grew up I too joined the group. On moving into Christchurch some 30 years ago we chose to remain members of Ellesmere for we did not want to loose the friendship of our rural friends. We often told folk that you never came home from a meeting without having had a laugh and a joke about something.
A highlight of our membership would be the production of the book, “Selwyn From The Hills To the Sea.” This was a wonderful project, the small group of us who worked for a year combined so well with never a cross, can be very proud of the effort. Many people refer to the book as a valuable story of the Selwyn District. Don Heslop's photography was super and his filing system for the negatives was first class.
Thank you all for your love and care.
Yours sincerely,
Ellesmere Camera Club Newsletter January 2008
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