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We meet on Tuesdays @ 7PM; Face to face meetings are held at DeMolay – Margaret St Toowoomba Opposite Queens Park

Meeting information is emailed out to members by our website.

1st Tuesday Masterclass – The Digital Darkroom (Zoom)
2nd Tuesday Comp Night – DeMolay (DeMolay & Zoom)
3rd TuesdayMasterclass – The Digital Darkroom (Zoom)
4th TuesdayImage Review (Zoom) or Guest Speaker (TBA)
5th TuesdayNo meeting

We also try to have a field day each month. Locations will be emailed out via post from our website and you can see our planned outings on the calendar.

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About us

Our aim is to promote, improve, share and enjoy photography in Toowoomba and the surrounding district offering many services, all specifically designed to improve photography and photographic skills in a friendly social atmosphere. Membership is open to all comers regardless of whether you are a beginner, an amateur or a professional photographer.

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May
14
Tue
7:00 pm TPSI Monthly Meeting and Competi...
TPSI Monthly Meeting and Competi...
May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Members and friends are invited to our monthly meeting and competition night – 7pm at DeMolay House on the second Tuesday of each month.
7:00 pm Treasure Hunt 2024, Prize Presen... @ DeMolay House
Treasure Hunt 2024, Prize Presen... @ DeMolay House
May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Prizes will be awarded to the winning photographers and the best Treasure Hunt group during the May monthly meetings. Photos taken on the day will also be displayed.
May
19
Sun
8:30 am David Hack Classic @ Aerotec Hanger, Toowoomba City Aerodrome
David Hack Classic @ Aerotec Hanger, Toowoomba City Aerodrome
May 19 @ 8:30 am – 2:30 pm
 
Recent Posts Archives

TPS Field day, Picnic Point, Saturday Feb 8.

Weather permitting, we will hold a field day and BBQ at Picnic Point this Saturday.

The theme will be Forced Perspective, and the meeting point is the flag pole near the main entrance at 3pm.

The BBQ will be held at a place to be decided, but probably in the lower area past the main entrance and park. BYO your eats, TPS will have some cold softdrinks available.

by Account Deleted 1114, February 5, 2020

Graham Burstow “Photographer’s Retrospective”

Tuesday April 28 De Molay House, 90 Margaret Street.

Click on the link below for details.

https://toowoomba.myphotoclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2020/01/Toowomba-Burstow-flier.cdr_.pdf

by Account Deleted 1114, January 30, 2020

Jilly’s Cafe next Tuesday

Who started as a painter, was part of a menage-a-trois, nearly died of fever and a broken heart in West Africa, then returned home to found a leading movement in photography?

Find out decisively next Tuesday at Jilly’s Cafe, Margaret Street starting 6pm.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 29, 2020

Critique Corner

The Critique Corner aims to help members to fine-tune potential entries by gaining feedback from other members before the image is entered into a competition. 

All members, regardless of experience are encouraged to upload images and make comments on images.  The aim is to help each other to develop both your image capture and processing skills, and to take the judges’ point of view when assessing an image. There are no grades within this activity.

Each member can upload one image.  Once uploaded you can use this image in an upcoming competition.  You can remove the image and replace it with another image whenever you choose.

The critique corner is accessible from the Members page (use the grey Members button) as shown below:

This is a new MyPhotoClub feature so feedback to colin@myphotoclub.com.au is welcome. All members are subscribed to receive a once a day notification message when new images are submitted. Go to the Critique Corner to unsubscribe.

More information, including a video, is on the Critique Corner page.

Critique Corner demo video – Please watch this video on how to use this feature.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgITBx_uuMs

Kind regards

Colin Woods

e:  colin@myphotoclub.com.au 

m: 0419 624 347

w: myphotoclub.com.au

by Account Deleted 1114, January 21, 2020

Your chance to cast a cast a vote on your favourite image.

Our site has the option of allowing members to vote on their favourite image from a competition. To see if you are interested in getting right what a judge may have got wrong, I have opened up the January competition to voting.

You get 1 vote only for your favourite image. Before next competition night on Feb 11, I will remove the voting option, tally up the votes, and we can announce the Member’s Choice. If members show interest in voting for the Member’s Choice award, we can do it as a regular thing, and perhaps give a small certificate like the gold and silver award cards.

Go on, you know you want to. Get right what the judges get wrong and cast your vote today. Just go into the member’s area and vote.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 21, 2020

Image Challenge changes

Previously images for the Image Challenge held on Skills Nights were sent by email to Graham Harris. If you have already sent images to Graham, I can find these.

If you haven’t yet sent images, please go to the website and enter the Image Challenge competition for January. This is just the same as entering a club competition. You will find the same 3 sections as for previous Image Challenges – the image challenge theme (Christmas for January), favourites and field days. You can enter 5 images for each section, 15 in total as previously.

Cut-off date is Friday January 24, and the cut-off date for all future image challenges will be the Friday of the 3rd week before the 4th Tuesday when Skills Nights and image challenges are held.

I apologise for any confusion this may cause during the transition period, but putting the image challenges onto our Myphotoclub site was a change that was always intended.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 20, 2020

Results for competitions in January 2020

There were 36 entries that gained our highest award(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in January 2020

Silk Road cultural show Dunhuang
REDACTED – Gold
A Grade Open Digital
The points of things.
Robert Fox – Gold
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Graceful Tree Frog
Andrew Raguse – Silver
A Grade Open Digital
The waterfront
REDACTED – Silver
A Grade SetSubject Digital
Survival
Dean Mengel – Silver
A Grade SetSubject Digital
Rebel
Jason Wheeler – Silver
B Grade Open Digital
Play misty for me.
Stewart Dorman – Silver
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Guyra Nightscape
John Stewart – Silver
Salon Grade Open Print
HardLabour
Janine Waters – Silver
Salon Grade Open Digital
Parterre garden
Peter Granfield – Silver
Salon Grade SetSubject Digital
Dust Dump
Robert Brown – Bronze
A Grade Open Print
Street Companions
Sandy Adsett – Bronze
A Grade Open Digital
The painter of Crail_Scotland
Barry Whisson – Bronze
A Grade Open Digital
Tami 01
Graham Harris – Bronze
A Grade Open Digital
BULLSEYE Mate
Tim Dunn – Bronze
A Grade Open Digital
No Smoochies From You Thanks
Nicola Lancaster – Bronze
A Grade Open Digital
Shaped for Speed
Dean Mengel – Bronze
A Grade SetSubject Digital
Liliac breasted Roller
Terry O’Brien – Bronze
B Grade Open Digital
River Sunset
Jan Collings – Bronze
B Grade Open Digital
Fault
Jason Wheeler – Bronze
B Grade Open Digital
Twisted points.
Robert Fox – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Plugs
Roberta Edwards – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Trouble Twice
Jan Collings – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Blue zoom
Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Bubbles
Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Hot Air Ballooning
Cheryl Bellette – Bronze
B Grade SetSubject Digital
Indiana Steampunk
Leslie Rook – Bronze
B Grade Field Day Digital
A Hi set Queeenslander
Allan Rosser – Bronze
Salon Grade Open Print
Pavilion sunbeams
John Stewart – Bronze
Salon Grade Open Print
Restaurant Reflections
John Stewart – Bronze
Salon Grade SetSubject Print
Man From Mars
Graham Burstow – Bronze
Salon Grade SetSubject Print
Our pride rock
Sara Hedley – Bronze
Salon Grade Open Digital
GirlsWheatHarvest
Janine Waters – Bronze
Salon Grade Open Digital
LunchTime
Janine Waters – Bronze
Salon Grade Open Digital
Creation of woman
Peter Granfield – Bronze
Salon Grade SetSubject Digital
Cyclists
Pierre Boudib – Bronze
Salon Grade SetSubject Digital

by Account Deleted 1114, January 17, 2020

Changes to Skills Night

The first Skills Night for the year will be at De Molay House on Tuesday Jan 28. The theme is “Forced Perspective” ahead of a field day on that topic to be held in February.

The Image Challenge is “Christmas”. You may enter 5 images on this topic, 5 on field days and 5 for favourites as previously. Graham Harris is stepping down from his roles in TPS due to illness, and all of us thank him for his many years of hard work and service to our club. If you haven’t already sent images to Graham, please send to REDACTED at REDACTED@bigpond.com by FRIDAY 24th.

REDACTED is not as proficient with a/v software as Graham, and would appreciate the weekend before each Skills Night to prepare the Image Challenge presentation.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 15, 2020

Jilly’s Cafe Microskills Night

The first Jilly’s Cafe meeting for 2020 will be next Tuesday Jan 21st at 6pm. The topic will be “Holding the camera steady – from hand-held to tripod”, and will be presented by Tryg Helander. Jilly’s is at 181 Margaret Street, gold coin for notes.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 15, 2020

Alice Black – January 2020.

To perpetuate the memory of our late member Alice Black, the club has introduced the ‘Alice Black Memorial Trophy’ to be contested each year on a perpetual basis.

At each month’s Aggregate Competition the judge will select an image from all those entered as the monthly Alice Black Image – they will use their own criteria to select the image regardless of the score given.  All images submitted in the Aggregate Competition have the potential to become a possible winner of the Trophy as there is no restriction on the grade of the entrant or the medium in which the image is presented.

For January 2020 the Alice Black has been awarded to REDACTED for his image “The Silk Road at Dunhuang”.  This image was entered in the A Grade Open Digital section.

by Account Deleted 1114, January 15, 2020