December 2007 Issue - Christchurch Photographic Society
December 2007 Issue - Christchurch Photographic Society
December 2007 Issue - Christchurch Photographic Society
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<strong>December</strong>, <strong>2007</strong> Established 1890<br />
The Chequers Game by Ian Walls, Honours in 6th Projected Images<br />
CPS Members have Success in Antarctic Competition<br />
As part of the celebrations of 50 Years at Scott Base the City Council and Leigh's Construction ran a photography<br />
competition. In the Cold Snaps section of Antarctic entries Annette Preen and Ron McKie were finalists. Congratulations!<br />
New Members<br />
There are three new members this month: Gay Clearwater, Mark Fuller and Fleur Wiig.
CPS FIELD TRIP ' Urban Views - Lyttelton' which was not held on October 14th and did not<br />
leave from Van Asch College at 8.00 a.m.<br />
Due to somewhat unpleasant weather conditions I cancelled the trip. I was most gratified that one<br />
good keen man did turn up and I was reluctant to turn him away. However! The rain was just<br />
starting and the wind was reasonably ferocious and I felt that even the heaviest tripod would<br />
have trouble staying vertical.<br />
I have found a piece of poetry which I feel says everything about the day - and it is as follows :-<br />
When the hounds of Spring are on Winter's traces<br />
The mother of months in meadow or plain<br />
Fills the shadows and windy places<br />
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.<br />
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 - 1909<br />
Those present on this non-field trip were Brian Milner and Chris Newman. The Quiz wasn't but will<br />
be next time - perhaps.<br />
ULYSSES<br />
CPS FIELD TRIP TO SUMNER HELD ON SUNDAY 4TH NOVEMBER <strong>2007</strong><br />
We met at 7.00 a.m. on a sunny Sunday morning at the Wind Surfers' area off Linwood Avenue. The<br />
light was past it’s best but there were some swans swanning and some rats - er - ratting I was<br />
informed by a passer-by that the rats were over half a metre long, so the ones I saw must have been<br />
just babies! Tahi - Dave and Nancy's bull mastiff hunter/killer was shown a nice fresh rat hole and<br />
ignored it with spectacular disinterest! The swans did what swans do. It was low tide and even the<br />
mud was only muddy and just slightly pongy. We<br />
moved on. Tidal Way with it’s uncompleted multistory<br />
appartment block and big crane was more<br />
interesting. The dribble of water running over the<br />
mud was worth a shot or two. Moving on again<br />
we stopped briefly at the Yacht Club where<br />
nothing was sailing because it is hard to do so<br />
successfully in mud - or so I'm told! On to<br />
McCormacks Bay where there was bound to be<br />
birdlife to photograph, or at least people, or even<br />
dogs. Birds, yes, two paradise ducks and<br />
seventeen grey ducks, white faced herons nil;<br />
people one, dogs two (with the one person). Nice<br />
walk though.<br />
Sumner clock tower with CPS loungers lounging, Photo by<br />
Dave Robertson<br />
Next move was to Monks Spur lookout. Big ship<br />
off Godley Head but too far away to photograph well. Nice view across the water to Shag Rock - with<br />
sun straight into the lens! Down from Monks Spur to Shag Rock with Peacock's Ride on the other<br />
side of the road. With an incoming tIde, we had to make reasonable haste to photograph the rock<br />
with all its homing pigeons and no shags. Then we adjourned across the road to Peacock's Ride for<br />
morning tea.<br />
Our next stop was the clock tower beside Scarborough Fare in deepest Sumner where some persons<br />
were able to photograph board riders, and other people other people. Some, like me, just lolled<br />
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against the wall! Then it was up to Nicholson Park on top of<br />
Scarborough Hill where we were able to shoot flowers and people,<br />
loll about, think about having lunch and the quiz, do the views,<br />
walk, play with the cat and walk to the vehicles to get things, then<br />
walk back again for the forgotten things and then back again for<br />
the forgotten, forgotten things, then finally sit down to have lunch<br />
and then amend the quiz because it was the Coastal Views quiz<br />
and didn't quite fit for Sumner.<br />
After all this eating and wandering and playing, we went over to<br />
Captain Taylor's Mistake where we were amazed by the number of<br />
bodies spread out over the sand and the many people walking the<br />
tracks. The trip ended here.<br />
Lesley Tuffley won the single pen - single brain section of the quiz<br />
with Percy Acton-Adams coming a close second. The multi brain -<br />
single pen section was won by Dave and Nancy Gibb.<br />
Those attending this trip were the aforementioned four plus Judy<br />
Reij, Chris Newman, Brian Milner, Dave Robertson, Dave<br />
Rushworth and Diana and Ian Andrews.<br />
ULYSSES<br />
From Nicholson Park, Photo by Dave<br />
Robertson<br />
Dunedin Festival Salon of Photography <strong>2007</strong><br />
Georgie McKie continues her winning ways with 2 Acceptances in Open Prints, Honours and 5<br />
Acceptances in Natural History Prints, Honours and 5 Acceptances in Natural History PI.<br />
Dianne Calvert again had successes, this time in the Dunedin Salon with 3 Acceptances in Open<br />
Prints, 4 Acceptances in Natural History Prints, 4 Acceptances in Open PI, and 3 Acceptances in<br />
Natural History PI.<br />
Ron Willems has achieved again with 3 Honours and 3 Acceptances in Natural History PI and 3<br />
Acceptances in Open PI.<br />
Newell Grenfell won Honours and an acceptance in Open PI.<br />
Annette Preen gained an Acceptance in both Natural History Prints and in Open Prints and 3<br />
Acceptances in Natural History PI.<br />
Chris Newman received 2 Acceptances in Open PI.<br />
Chris Newman also received 3 Acceptances in Southern Regional Open PI - not previously noted.<br />
Ron McKie gained 3 Acceptances in Open PI.<br />
Judy Reij was awarded 2 Acceptances in Open PI.<br />
Frank Green won an Acceptance in Open PI.<br />
Robin Wood won an Acceptance in Open PI.<br />
Congratulations to you all<br />
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BELGIAN ART PHOTOGRAPHY 1900<br />
I had a totally charming experience recently. A friend lent me a book of autochrome images by a<br />
Belgian photographer, one Laendert Blok (born in 1885 and died in 1986). He was in the vanguard of<br />
early photographers who in 1907, worked with early colour. At this time there was the first debate as<br />
to whether photography was or was not an art form. Autochrome has a pointillist, soft romantic look<br />
quite beautiful to behold. Blok was ahead of his time in another aspect of his work. He made large<br />
panaroma landscapes up to two metres wide and large format photographs. But his true passion was<br />
for autochrome. This was an early type of coloured slide made by baking wafer-thin emulsion of<br />
different coloured starch grains onto a glass negative. A laborious process where the optimal mixture<br />
could ultimately be viewed as a colour slide.<br />
In addition Blok used spectracolour, where each shot produced three negatives in colour and then<br />
three colour positives. These were laid one on top of the other to produce a composite slide. So<br />
sandwiching is not new!<br />
Other photographers such as: Hector Collard, Edmond Sacré, Gustave Marissiaux, Léonard Misonne<br />
and Edouard Hannon along with Leendert Blok wished to use photography for reproducing beauty<br />
and express their inner feelings and thoughts. Their vision had been disputed by painters and art<br />
critics, who were of the opinion that photography, being a product of a technical device, did not<br />
belong in a museum. The invention of the ‘fuzzy rendering process’ and the introduction of the<br />
manipulated image moved photography closer to the contemporary art movements in painting.<br />
Previous objections gradually disappeared.<br />
Some of those named above were not enamoured with autochrome, because it could not be<br />
manipulated in any way, but Gustave Marissiaux certainly used the technique as did Blok.<br />
Alfonse van Besten around 1900 coloured his black and white plates by hand and became enthused<br />
with the artistic possibilities of autochrome. To him it meant at last there was a means to recreate on<br />
a glass plate the colourful world of pictorialism.<br />
Paul Sano’s interest lay in exploring the limits of the autochrome process. He created collages and<br />
experimented with multiple exposures and microphotography. Charles Corbet delighted in creating<br />
delicate images of his beloved posing in naturalistic and outdoor settings.<br />
Florent van Hoof in September <strong>2007</strong> expressed, on seeing autochromes by Charles Corbet, “I was<br />
awed by the delicate colours, the pointillistic effect – and of course – by the images. The drawing<br />
power of an autochrome pulls one inside its image and the intimate feeling creates joy which is<br />
endlessly fascinating. Autochromes take you back to another age with sheer delight and pure<br />
nostalgia – I confess … I lost my soul.” She claims that autochromes deserve a rightful place in the<br />
photographic pantheon, I share her wonderment in this medium and as a purist I am very much at<br />
home with the concept and execution of the works.<br />
Virginia Clegg<br />
"Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high.<br />
Behave honourably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs<br />
all you can give."<br />
-----Edward O. Wilson, Author and Biologist<br />
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."<br />
-----Duke Ellington (1899-1974), Musician and Composer<br />
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COMPETITION RESULTS<br />
6 th Open Print Competition<br />
Judge: Elizabeth Carruthers FPSNZ<br />
Awards: 25<br />
Honours<br />
Trish Brown<br />
Dianne Calvert<br />
John Doogan<br />
Allan McGregor<br />
Grant Hewett-Hawker<br />
Kaye Serra<br />
David Slaten<br />
Accepted<br />
Nicky Kerr<br />
Georgie McKie<br />
Annette Preen<br />
Witta Priester<br />
Rebecca Sandford<br />
Philip Schroeder<br />
Catherine Smith<br />
Raewyn Wright<br />
Dean Farrow<br />
Yvonne Marshall<br />
Terry Stevens<br />
John Watt<br />
Lynda Acton-Adams<br />
Wayne Collins<br />
Sally Cron<br />
Anne Lambe<br />
Mark Lee<br />
Nola Sumner<br />
Entries:45<br />
Rolled Up For Next Winter<br />
Sea Trickle<br />
Last Tree<br />
High Country Rail Track<br />
Red Wings<br />
Frosted Splendour<br />
Venus Rising<br />
Pier After The Storm<br />
Rainforest<br />
Southern Yellow Billed Hornbill - Botswana<br />
Lyttelton Cemetery<br />
Boulderful<br />
Winter White<br />
Lucy<br />
Just Dreaming<br />
Shapes<br />
Mystic Sunrise<br />
Waiau River Terraces<br />
Winter Reflection<br />
Early Morning<br />
Glass And Light<br />
Tranquility<br />
The Dark Side Of Camelot<br />
Flying South, Broad Bay<br />
Good Morning Reefton<br />
Competition Secretary: Sally Cron Ph: 384 4947<br />
COMPETITION RESULTS<br />
6 th Projected Image<br />
Judge: Peter Wise FPSNZ<br />
Awards: 31<br />
Honours<br />
Barbara Burry<br />
Allan McGregor<br />
Ian Walls<br />
John Watt<br />
Accepted<br />
Lynda Acton-Adams<br />
John Barnes<br />
Barbara Burry<br />
Wayne Collins<br />
Bruce Denton<br />
John Doogan<br />
Dean Farrow<br />
Frank Green<br />
Newell Grenfell<br />
Margaret Hatton<br />
Bruce Jensen<br />
Mark Lee<br />
Patti Madsen<br />
Entries:49<br />
Eyes Wide Open<br />
Ice Fingers<br />
The Chequers Game<br />
The Distillery<br />
Busselton Jetty<br />
Frozen Fern<br />
Winter Trees<br />
Good Times<br />
Thunder Mustang<br />
Cross<br />
Glow<br />
Artist Paints Artist<br />
Towards Lake Wanaka<br />
Once On A...<br />
Pastoral Pattern<br />
Sailors Cutting Morning Mist<br />
Mollymawk Meal<br />
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Jeffrey Mahn<br />
David McKay<br />
Georgie McKie<br />
Sandy Odell<br />
Annette Preen<br />
Dawn Radcliffe-Taylor<br />
Harry Ruffell<br />
Graeme Stewart<br />
John Suckling<br />
Karen Talbot<br />
Jeremy Town<br />
Lorraine Wagg<br />
Tania Way<br />
Ron Willems<br />
Seventh Inning Stretch<br />
Patterns<br />
A Crisp Start<br />
Castle Point Races<br />
Japanese Wind Flower<br />
Winter Icicles<br />
This Way<br />
Tunnel Vision<br />
Early Morning Blues<br />
Central’s Big Skies<br />
Southern Light<br />
Race Face<br />
Dressed To Impress<br />
Rainmaker<br />
Competition Secretary: Georgie McKie Ph: 339 6170<br />
COMPETITION RESULTS<br />
2 nd C Grade Competition, Prints<br />
Judge: Francis Green APSNZ<br />
Awards: 34<br />
Highly Commended<br />
Lynda Acton-Adams<br />
Stuart Clook<br />
Grant Hewett-Hawker<br />
Mark Lee<br />
Mark Lee<br />
John Suckling<br />
Scott Suen<br />
Scott Suen<br />
Lorraine Wagg<br />
Commended<br />
Lynda Acton-Adams<br />
Percy Acton-Adams<br />
Bridget Banks<br />
Wal Cattermole<br />
Stuart Clook<br />
Bruce Denton<br />
Sharlene Evans<br />
Sharlene Evans<br />
Dave Gibb<br />
Grant Hewett-Hawker<br />
Gloria Hsiang<br />
Gloria Hsiang<br />
Anne Lambe<br />
Anne Lambe<br />
Yvonne Marshall<br />
Yvonne Marshall<br />
Barry McKay<br />
Joanne Meadows<br />
Graeme Stewart<br />
Graeme Stewart<br />
John Suckling<br />
Nola Sumner<br />
Nola Sumner<br />
Lorraine Wagg<br />
Tanya Way<br />
Entries:46<br />
Early Morning<br />
Southshore<br />
Red Wings<br />
Hanmers Winter Lights<br />
Icy Reflections On Benmore<br />
Governors Bay Wharf<br />
A Brand New Day<br />
Amour<br />
Go Girl<br />
Sand Yacht<br />
Lake Alexandrina<br />
Keep Them Closed<br />
Sailing Days Are Over<br />
Black And White<br />
Forecast Rain<br />
Storm Pending<br />
Early Morning On River<br />
Harrier Hawk<br />
Lake Lyndon And Beyond<br />
Winter Scene<br />
Living Water<br />
Out With Friends<br />
Garden Lines<br />
Catch A Trade<br />
Man In Blue<br />
Not Mush Room<br />
The Cat<br />
Flying High<br />
Still Life<br />
Nikau On Heaphy<br />
All Tied Up<br />
Wood, Wharf, Water<br />
Big Surf<br />
Waiting<br />
Competition Secretary: Carolyn Green Ph:960 4997<br />
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COMPETITION RESULTS<br />
2 nd C Grade Competition, Projected Images<br />
Judge: Francis Green<br />
Awards: 48<br />
Highly Commended<br />
Terry Casey<br />
Wayne Collins<br />
Michaela Hanke<br />
Richard MacDonald<br />
Richard MacDonald<br />
Rob Norman<br />
Dave Slaten<br />
Dave Slaten<br />
John Suckling<br />
Scott Suen<br />
Scott Suen<br />
Commended<br />
Percy Acton-Adams<br />
Percy Acton-Adams<br />
Lynda Acton-Adams<br />
Grant Allan<br />
Grant Allan<br />
Bridget Banks<br />
Bridget Banks<br />
Terry Casey<br />
Wal Cattermole<br />
Wal Cattermole<br />
Catherine Clark<br />
Stuart Clook<br />
Bruce Denton<br />
Bruce Denton<br />
Shona Dey<br />
Sharlene Evans<br />
Eso Fan<br />
Peter Garrett<br />
Jim Helsel<br />
Jim Helsel<br />
Anne Lambe<br />
Mark Lee<br />
Mark Lee<br />
Jeffrey Mahn<br />
Jeffrey Mahn<br />
Yvonne Marshall<br />
Yvonne Marshall<br />
David McKay<br />
Rob Norman<br />
Julian Smith<br />
Graeme Stewart<br />
Nola Sumner<br />
Jeremy Towns<br />
Taju Ullrich<br />
Taju Ullrich<br />
Lorraine Wagg<br />
Lorraine Wagg<br />
Entries:68<br />
Waiting For The Ball<br />
Landmark<br />
Rainbow Downs<br />
Tango<br />
Alleys And Secrets<br />
Overflow (Slide)<br />
Nepali Wisdom<br />
Islands In The Storm<br />
Tunnel To Love – The Beatles<br />
Wanaka Sunset<br />
Rays Of Gold<br />
Lake McGregor<br />
Lake Pearson<br />
Lone Tree Lake Wanaka<br />
St.Clair Old Pier<br />
Central & Mid-levels From The Peak<br />
V For Victory<br />
Danielle<br />
On The Wing<br />
Funk Art<br />
Rust Never Sleeps<br />
Bumble Bee On Dahlia<br />
Sliders<br />
Silver Wings<br />
Conflict<br />
My First Words<br />
Mitchell<br />
As Above So Beneath<br />
Shaped By The Wind<br />
Are You Done Yet<br />
White Lights<br />
Sunset Over The Motorway<br />
Elvis In The Woods At Night With Fairy<br />
Springtime Butler’s Dam<br />
Wistful Looking<br />
Angela’s Lost Shell<br />
Mashi Mashi<br />
Sun On Two Men<br />
The Lighthouse (Slide)<br />
Verdant (Slide)<br />
Glazing Vision<br />
Sky Tower Reflected<br />
Lyttelton Bright<br />
City Blur<br />
Southern Alps<br />
Water-Colours Pebbles<br />
Watery Grave<br />
Night Lights<br />
Competition Secretary: Carolyn Green Ph: 960 4997<br />
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there<br />
seemed to be no hope at all."<br />
------Dale Carnegie<br />
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Eyes Wide Open by Barbara Burry,<br />
Honours 6th Projected Images<br />
The Distillery by John Watts, Honours 6th Projected Images<br />
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Ice Fingers by Allan McGregor, Honours 6th Projected Image<br />
NEW ZEALAND REGISTERED<br />
NEWSLETTER OF THE<br />
CHRISTCHURCH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY<br />
P.O. BOX 1789<br />
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
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