Competition Winners — May 2009

Here are the winners of the May competition for which the set subject was City Life. Please note that only digital images are available for display. Prints Set Subject Living HighBrenda Botha Creeping Mist in the CityNeels Beyers City DogPaddy Howes Open Quiver BarkJohan Beyers Sacred IbisNeels Beyers Double LandingNeels Beyers Projected Images Set SubjectContinue reading “Competition Winners — May 2009”

Audio-Visual Meeting Wed. 29th April ‘09

Nettie was not able to attend the April AV meeting so writing this has fallen to me, hence the delay in posting it. I didn’t make any notes that I can draw on for writing this so please excuse any omissions or errors I might make. We started off watching an AV by Noeleen Kutash,Continue reading “Audio-Visual Meeting Wed. 29th April ‘09”

Environmental Photographer of the Year

CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) runs the Environmental Photographer of the Year, which is one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world. In 2008 we received over 1,400 entries from over 40 countries –we are hoping to increase this in the 2009 competition.   This is a serious competitionContinue reading “Environmental Photographer of the Year”

‘Picnic Outing’ – Saturday 2nd May ’09

Bring along a little picnic, something to sit on, your camera AND its manual, possibly your laptop (which will have to run on its batteries), and make a space for yourself on Paddy and Graham Howes’s lawn (from 2pm).  This will be an interactive, informal get together at which we can help each other understandContinue reading “‘Picnic Outing’ – Saturday 2nd May ’09”

Evaluation Meeting Wed. 8th April ’09

Some 40 members and guests arrived for the meeting. After the ‘Notice Board’ (during which we congratulated an understandably absent Nicole on her special birthday), we allowed Michelle Barnard to ‘Get her Feet Wet’, which she did with great ease – showing us her particular interest in ‘textures’.  Evaluation of prints and digital images was doneContinue reading “Evaluation Meeting Wed. 8th April ’09”

HPS Outing to Gansbaai …. by Paddy Howes

HPS OUTING: ‘SUNRISE, SUNSET, SEA, SAND AND SUNBURN’ 20-22 Mar’09 Walker Bay Nature Reserve, sunrise at Danger Point, then on to the lighthouse, Kleinbaai to see the shark-cage-diving boats, Franskraal for sunrise, Gansbaai harbour, De Kelders for sunset. It was just one of the most productive photographic weekends – our first for HPS’09. Having justContinue reading “HPS Outing to Gansbaai …. by Paddy Howes”

Cape Photographers Tsitsikamma 2009

We received this e-mail with some updated information about the Cape Photographers Tsitsikamma 2009. Attachments received with this e-mail can be found here. Dear fellow photographer My apologies should you be receiving this more than once; the reason is that I have updated the registration form and split it into separate documents. The update affectsContinue reading “Cape Photographers Tsitsikamma 2009”