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
Deadline for August 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set Subjects;
- 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)
- 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.
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:
- follow Bridge St west until the Gowrie Junction Road (turn north)
- At the Gowrie Junction roundabout turn left into Gowrie-Tilgonda Road
- After 740m turn right into Gowrie-Lilyvale Road
- Take the Gowrie-Lilyval road for 1.1km, then turn left into Gowrie-Glencoe Road
- Follow Gowrie-Glencoe Road until the T junction where you turn left and continue on the Gowrie-Glencoe Road
- Follow this road into Kingsthorpe and turn right into North St and follow it until it meets the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road
- 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.
Deadline for September 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Creative Flower Photography Field Day – further details to be provided closer to the field day date
TPS Annual General Meeting tonight
Open
Set Subjects:
- 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.
- Recycled – something that has been used before and then put through a process so that it can form a new product.
Judge: Mykl Devlin
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Lightroom for Beginners Workshop 2
10:00 am
Lightroom for Beginners Workshop 2
@ Toowoomba Regional Library Community Rooms
Aug 3 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
TPS Field Day – Nightscape Photography
4:30 pm
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TPS Zoom – Camera Q&A
7:00 pm
TPS Zoom – Camera Q&A
@ Zoom Session
Aug 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Toowoomba Photographic Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: TPS Zoom – Camera Q&A Time: Aug 6, 2024 07:00 PM Brisbane Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5857960052?pwd=bXdRalhQc1MzeUxYUUZMYURGQVNaQT09&omn=86944054939 Meeting ID: 585 796 0052 Passcode: q8X1Yw1
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TPSI Monthly Meeting and Competition Night
7:00 pm
TPSI Monthly Meeting and Competition Night
@ DeMolay
Aug 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Members and friends are invited to our monthly meeting and competition night – 7pm at DeMolay House on the second Tuesday of each month.
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Photo Walk – World Photography Day
4:30 pm
Photo Walk – World Photography Day
@ In a Dash Coffee
Aug 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Join us to celebrate World Photography Day – park at Grand Central and join us for a photography walk in the Toowoomba CBD
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Image Review Night – 7pm 20 August 2024
7:00 pm
Image Review Night – 7pm 20 August 2024
@ Zoom Session
Aug 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Enter up to two of your images for review by our members in this Zoom Session – you might like to submit images your thinking about entering or those already judged that you want another[...]
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Speaker – Helen McFadden – Photographic Creativity
7:00 pm
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