This will be our End of Year Competition for the 2016-17 year.

We can gather near the car park at 2.00 pm and instructions will be given for the scavenger hunt a small prize will be awarded to the winners.

 From 3.00 – 4.00 pm,  those who are interested, there will be a social gathering and viewing of some of the images captured  during the day.

Refreshments – tea / coffee and biscuits will be available at Michael and Meegan’s residence on the back veranda at 7 Bothwell St Newtown (2 min drive from the park). 

Image Challenge: Circles

Open

Set Subjects;

1. Lakes, Rivers, Dams – Definition: must include water still or moving; it must be visble and must be enhanced by nature, man or made structures (N.B. the title shown in plural form – is just to cover more than one entry, but does not refer to multiples in the subject)
2. Joy of Life – Definition: must feature any living creature – human or animal.  Joy in any form must be evident in the image.  Any age of subject is acceptable and can feature one or more participants.

Judge: Graham Harris AAPS AFIAP PSQA

The next Toowoomba Photographic Society Field Day is being held in conjunction with the Toowoomba Field Naturalist Club on Sunday, 13th August 2017.  On this field day we will visit two properties in the Kingsthorpe District.  The sites provide plenty of photographic opportunities – rural scenery, birdlife, native vegetation and aboriginal scar trees to name a few.

The Field Day locations can be seen in the accompanying map – click on thumbnail for a larger image.

The agenda for the day is:

9:45am – Meet at the St Joseph College southern car park off Crown Road, Toowoomba

10:00am – Departure

10:30am – Nikki & Glen Lawes’ property (3 km north of the intersection of North St, Kingsthorpe with the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road – opposite the Wedgetail Winery).

1:00pm – Lunch at the Pioneer Arms Hotel, Goombungee Hotel ($15 counter lunch)

2:30pm – Evan & Russell Ehrlich’s property (on the Oakey-Meringandan Road, 600m east of the intersection of the Kingsthorpe-Haden and Oakey-Meringandan Roads)

5:00pm – Finish and return to Toowoomba

Please bring the following (along with your camera gear of course):

• closed in shoes
• hat
• water
• sunscreen
• cups (there will be a campfire billy boiling)
• $15 for your counter lunch at the Meringandan Hotel

We will be travelling to the Lawes property via Gowrie Junction (to avoid the Zims Corner turn-off to Kingsthorpe).  The directions are given below:

1. follow Bridge St west until the Gowrie Junction Road (turn north)
2. At the Gowrie Junction roundabout turn left into Gowrie-Tilgonda Road
3. After 740m turn right into Gowrie-Lilyvale Road
4. Take the Gowrie-Lilyval road for 1.1km, then turn left into Gowrie-Glencoe Road
5. Follow Gowrie-Glencoe Road until the T junction where you turn left and continue on the Gowrie-Glencoe Road
6. Follow this road into Kingsthorpe and turn right into North St and follow it until it meets the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road
7. Turn right on the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road and travel 3km to the entrance of the Lawes property (on the left)

• commencing 6:00pm for conversation and socialising
• Main meal served at 6:30pm
• End of Year competition photos on display
• Cash bar serving soft drinks, beer, wine and spirits
• Presentation of 2016-17 competition year awards
• Excellent door raffle
• Dress Code – Smart Casual

Cost: $40 RSVP by Tuesday 15th August 2017

Payments can be made in advance by direct deposit to:

BSB: 638070

Account No. 4278291

Alternatively, pay on Club Night at the door.

The Agenda for tonight includes:

• Dry and Wet Sensor Dust Cleaning (with Hudson Henry)
• Competition Pointers (with Peter Eastway)
• The Lightroom Interface (with Matt Kloskowski)

For this month the Image Challenge is “Far Away”.  Please send up to five images for this Challenge, together with up to five images for the Field Day and five for the Favourites to be included in the Skills Night audio-visual to me at graham_harris@westnet.com.au by 6:00pm on Thursday 24th August 2017.

Creative Flower Photography Field Day – further details to be provided closer to the field day date

TPS Annual General Meeting tonight

Open

Set Subjects:

1. Creative – Creative or experimental photographs display a novel effect because of an unusual combination of objects and /or unusual viewpoint.  Photographs in which the images have been modified during or after exposure by using an experimental technique are also eligible in Creative/Experimental sections.  The photograph must always have a basic photographic image.  Digital manipulation processes may be employed provided the original photograph was exposed by the entrant.
2. Recycled – something that has been used before and then put through a process so that it can form a new product.

Judge: Mykl Devlin

The Agenda for this night includes:

• Image Processing with FastStone (Allan Rosser)
• Portraiture (Graham Burstow)
• Posing App (Graham Harris)
• Use of Gradient Filters (Margaret Kebble)
• Using the TPS MyPhotoClub website (Graham Harris)

For this month the Image Challenge is “Music”.  Please send up to five images for this Challenge, together with up to five images for the Field Day and five for the Favourites to be included in the Skills Night audio-visual to me at graham_harris@westnet.com.au by 6:00pm on Thursday 24th August 2017.

Open

Set Subject: Travel

A photograph that captures the feeling of a time and place, and portrays a land, a people or a culture in its natural state.  Photo Travel has no geographical limitations.  Ultra close-ups which lose their identity, studio type model pictures or obviously manipulated work do not qualify as Photo Travel and should not be submitted.  Photo Travel is not limited to other lands or countries and may include pictures of domestic origin.

Judge: Brian Kenny PSQA

We will meet at the Neil St Carpark next to the Wonderly and Hall Building, Neil St at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

We will be touring the First Coat Street Art and taking night photography shots until around 9:00pm.  Experienced photographers will be on hand to assist with camera settings.

Please bring your camera, tripod, shutter release, speedlights and torches.

Guest Speaker: Pippa Ellis, Universal Drones – using drones for photography and cinematography (TBC)

Image Challenge: Perspective

Participants need to register for this event by the 27 October 2017 Skills Night with Graham Harris.

Participants need to bring:

• their computer with Lightroom loaded on it (if you do not have a copy of Lightroom you can download a free trial version for 7 days from the Adobe website – www,adobe.com/au)
• A camera with some of their images on their SD card
• $25 to pay for the workshop

The workshop will run from 9:30am to 12:30pm – please arrive from 9:00am in order to set up your computer before the workshop.

Open

Set: No caption required

The message of the image is clearly illustrated by the image itself – there is no need of a title to explain the message of the image.

NOTE: You will have to put a title on the image in order to upload it for competition.

Judge: Tryg Helander