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If you are not already a member of the Pittwater Camera Club Facebook group, its time to join. 

Click here to take you to the group page where you click to join the group.

www.facebook.com/groups/pittcameraclub/

Our Facebook October challenge was "Rhythm"

Congratulations to Mark for last months winning entry followed closely by Corinne and then Bill.

November's challenge is "Panorama"


Tuesday 24th November 

Annual General Meeting

We will be meeting in "The Meeting Place" at Pittwater RSL Club.
Next to the downstairs reception area.
7.30 pm
Please come along to decide your Club's future

" Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality."
Mary Ellen Mark

Seeing in Sixes

After a year of advertising the benefits of the concept of Seeing in Sixes it was rather disappointing to only have a small handful of members participating.
To those who committed to the idea and submitted images, thank you.
Our Club is about learning and participating in events and competitions.
No participation, no club!

The Leura Retreat

I am so pleased to announce next years Abstract Photography Retreat at Leura in May 2021.
https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/the-leura-retreat
Many of you won’t know, but Leura is my home town. A place full of fond memories. Of snow thick and deep in the front yard. My birth place. Actually my mother and fathers first place of residence was a mere few hundred meters from the old Leura Dairy in the same street. So it will be incredibly special for me to launch our retreat series in my home town. As you can imagine I know the area like the back of my hand.
Shirley Steel and I have been working on an abstract workshop part two for a long while now. What we have come up with isn’t really a part two though. It’s completely new and rather different to anything we have done before. We started with the premise of what would we like to go on to take our abstract photography further? The answer was a retreat. To be in a facilitated environment that stimulates amazing work. A safe environment that makes us feel supported, so we can push ourselves and take bigger risks. Of course we take the elements from our teaching that we know works and love, so much will be familiar, as we hope we will be.
Shirley and I are both stimulated and find art inspiring. So we thought we’d bring you to the heart of the NSW’s first City of the Arts, and introduce you to the artists and their work in various mediums that will blow your mind away. Imagine having dinner with an inspiring painter, then seeing their work in person and hearing about how they find their inspiration and about their creative practices? I can and it’s exactly what I’d want to do.
Imagine being taken to fantastic locations at the height of autumn colour. The intense oranges and yellows of exotic gardens and streets lined with trees turning for winter preparing to drop their leaves. Imagine staying at a venue so visually stimulating you actually don’t even need to leave to create amazing work. Or how about being a stones throw away from the largest town in the mts full of fantastic urban material for abstract photography.
What about a retreat where you actually have time to return to that stimulating location to photograph it again?
How about a retreat that has an exhibition built in. Yes we will hang a show as the final event of the retreat. That means you will be printing exhibition quality prints during the week.
This is the place to take your work further. Experienced or still getting your head around abstract photography this is for those that would love to take their abstract photography further. Both Shirley and I are there and available to teach and mentor you. We will also stimulate you with our work and work of others in our amazing presentations too.
An all inclusive retreat at a luxurious eco venue. Your own private room. All your meals catered for. There is nothing better than the intense pleasure of being totally immersed in a live in retreat.
Places are limited. We take COVID seriously too and will follow our Covid safe plan as outlined by the NSW government.
https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/the-leura-retreat
Facebook
Not a member of our Facebook page yet? You are encouraged to join - this is the place to get lots of tips, advice and help, to see what other members are up to and  be able to stay in touch between meetings.
Just follow this link.
 www.facebook.com/groups/pittcameraclub/

FCC Newsletter August

The latest edition of the FCC ( Federation of Camera Clubs) NSW newsletter is available by following the link

fccnsw.myphotoclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/143/2020/08/FCC-F-August-2020.pdf

52Frames Weekly Photography
Challenge .
Frame your week.
Frame your world.

52Frames offers a guided weekly photography challenge, designed to help you improve your skills.
Every week, we send you a new assignment.
You have 7 days to take your shot and share it with the community.
Together, we give feedback and guidance to help you grow. Oh, and it’s totally free.
Thanks to David for this information.
52frames.com/

Don't forget - Momento offer a 30% discount to our financial members off their first order then all subsequent orders will receive an automatic 10% discount.
Hop over to ​http://www.momentopro.com.au/ to sign up.

$30,000 Photographer of the Year 2020 is open for entries

The biggest competition for amateur photographers in the Southern Hemisphere, winners and runners up in Photographer of the Year 2020 will share in a huge prize pool of more than $30,000 in cash and prizes, and have their work published in the special Photographer of the Year issue of Australian Photography magazine in February.

www.australianphotography.com/poty
If you have any items of interest that you would like to share with your fellow members please email Bill at [email protected].

                      Other bits and pieces which should be of interest.


Sydney International Exhibition of Photography  www.siep.org.au  

Len Metcalf  lensschool.com

Adam Williams ( for inspiration and workshops)  www.australianphotographer.com

Luke Tscharke, (for great astrophotography tips and workshops)  luketscharke.com

Pamela Pauline ( local fine art photographic artist ) www.pamelapauline.com

Peter Coulson  (inspiration for fashion photography, great studio lighting and workshops)
 www.peter-coulson.com.au

Greg Benz Photography for tutorials and newsletter  www.gregbenzphotography.com   

Alfonso Calero ( for travel photography workshops)   www.alfonso.com.au/sydney-photography-courses/
 
Mark Galer, Adobe Ambassador  www.markgaler.com

Photoshop Cafe ( loads of free tutorials )  photoshopcafe.com

Phlearn (easy to follow tutorials, many of them are free, you don't have to subscribe ) www.phlearn.com

www.beckhamdigital.com.au  (go to more , then newsletter) for some awesome tuitions. Thanks Alan for this one!

For a different perspective and inspiring photography, have a look at Erika Zolli Photography  www.erikazolli.it

Just click on the links or google any of the above for more information.


Other items of interest are also being posted directly to our Facebook page, so please like us and share with your friends.