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PGCC NEWS

Prince’s Grant Camera Club Newsletter March 2017

Best Senior Winner: Pam Beaty 5 Star “Double Exposure Palms”— MERIT

Category : Altered Reality

Page INDEX

1 What’s in this issue

1 This Months Best Images

2 From the Chairman’s Desk

3 Closing dates for Forth-

coming Set Subjects

3 PGCC Annual Awards

Competition 2017

Rankings

3 The Independent on

Saturday

4 Dates to Remember

4 Comings & Goings

4 Club Refreshment

Roster

4 PSSA Club Best Images

Competition Results

4 This Months Set Subject

4 Competitions

5 Salon Standings Table

5 Salon Awards

5 Competitions—continued

6 New Resizing Require-

ments

6 News from the PSSA

6 Your Committee

Best Junior Winner: Karl Horngren

4 Star — “Home time ” MERIT

Category : Monochrome

Barry Payne 3 Star— “Right hand” MERIT

Category : Set Subject—Hands & Feet

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From the Chairman’s desk

First of all, apologies for the lack of newsletters in 2017 but we are now back on track and I will bring you up to speed with all the news and results in this March 2017 edition. As you are aware, as usual, we did not hold a club meeting in January but have since held the February and March 2017 club meetings. The February meeting was attended by 11 members, including Hennie and Peter Heetman from The Netherlands and the images were judged remotely by Darryl Beneke from the Hibiscus Photographic Club. The set-subject was “Rainy Days” and only 27 images were submitted. No “Merits” were awarded but Darryl awarded 9 “Golds” and provided detailed com-ments on each image. The best junior image was awarded to Johan van Niekerk for his image “Barcelona” in the open cat-egory and the best senior image was awarded to Mark Gillie for his image “The Force in Action” which was also in the open category. Well done to both our winners. The March meeting held last Thursday evening was attended by 9 members an 2 guests and was judged remotely by Nor-ma Hush from the Bluff Camera Club. The set-subject for the month was “Hands & Feet” and a total of 46 images were submitted, an improvement on the previous month but by no means a record month. Norma who awarded a total of 4 “Merits” and 17 “Golds” gave written feedback on all the images. The “Best Junior Image” for the month was awarded to Karl Horngren his image “Home time” and the “Best Senior Image” for the month was awarded to Pam Beaty for her image “Double exposure Palms” . Well done to both our winners. As usual, our club’s winning images for March will be entered in the PSSA Best Club Winning Image Competition and all the club results and images, together with comments from the judge, can be viewed on our club website. Special congratulations go to Mark Gillie who has been promoted from a 5 Star to a Master Bronze— well deserved Mark. The set subject for the coming month is “Low Angle” and we need your participation in submitting your images by mid-

night on Monday, 3rd April 2017. The results will announced at the next club meeting which will be held on Thursday, 13th

April 2017.

Remember that all images must be uploaded in the sizing for HD format see page 6 for more details.

We have a number of competitions on the go at the moment, two of which come to an end in April, and we urgently need

your support.

The KZN PSSA Interclub Competition which is currently running and will close for members submissions on Thursday 27th

April 2017. Details on the rules are set out on page 5

The PSSA Up & Coming Competition run by the PSSA, which is available to 1 star to 3 star club members is also currently

on the go and details are available on page 4. This competition is designed to introduce club members to the Salon submis-

sion procedure. There is no charge and PGCC will award you much sought after salon acceptance points for each of your

images that qualify as an acceptance in the competition. The closing date for this competition is Saturday, 29th April 2017

The annual PGCC/DCC Interclub Challenge between our club and the Durban Camera Club is also open and details of the

rules and topics for this challenge are available on page 5.

We are also looking for images from you to feature in our clubs “one page” presentation in KZN’s Mercury Saturday edition.

the “Independent on Saturday” . This is a good opportunity to showcase our club in the local paper. See the require-

ments on page 3. The closing date for submission is midnight on Thursday, 6th April 2017.

And finally Prince’s Grant will be sponsoring a photographic competition to promote Prince’s Grant, with a great prize for

the winning image. The competition will be open to all KZN clubs and full details will be forthcoming shortly.

There is plenty for members to do over the next few months so lets get those images in !

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The PGCC Annual Awards Competition—2017

Awards for this competition will be announced at the December 2017 Club Meeting for the following:

- The Best Overall Image (“Member of the Year”)

- The Best Category Image (Best image in each of the club categories)

- The most number of Club Points Earned in the year (If you don’t submit images you don’t earn points)

The best Overall and Best Category winners will be selected from all the Merits and Golds awarded during the year (from Dec 2016 to

Nov 2017) and the “Club Points Earned” award will be given to the member with the most club points earned for the same period.

The result for the “Club Points Earned” Competition (inclusive of the March 2017 results) is as follows

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1 Mark Gillie 101 74 11 Cheryl Edworthy 29 29

2 Barry Payne 85 58 12 Peter Heetman 27 27

Joint 3 Dave Miller 47 25 13 Pam Beaty 26 0

Joint 3 Barry Edworthy 47 26 14 Vee Dench 23 23

5 Candy Chandler 43 43 15 Maria Horngren 22 22

6 Natalie Benet 36 36 16 Tony Hesp 18 18

Joint 7 Johan van Niekerk 35 35 17 The Rest 0 0

Joint 7 Karl Horngren 35 30

Joint 7 Ray Burger 35 23

10 Jenny Reid 31 15

Closing Dates on PhotoVault for forthcoming Set Subjects

Low Angle 3rd April 2017

Sensational

Streetscapes

1st May 2017

Glass Bottle/s 29th May 2017

Side Lighting 3rd July 2017

Wildlife in Action

(including Birds)

31st July 2017

Frame it 4th September

2017

Country Life 2nd October

2017

Geometric

Shapes

30th October

2017

Halloween &

Scary Subjects

4th December

2017

Patterns in

Nature

1st January

2018

Square Photo

Crop

29th January

2018

Bokoh 26th February

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The Independent on Saturday Newspaper

The Independent on Saturday has offered PSSA affiliated KZN clubs an opportunity to showcase their club in their news-

paper by publishing a brief tutorial on their club together with a selection of photographs provided by the club members.

The images must reflect subjects taken in KZN. We need to submit 10—15 images. You can submit via PhotoVault .

Size requirement is 1024 x 768 . The closing date for inclusion in the selection process is Thursday, 6th April 2017.

We desperately need your images to take advantage on this opportunity

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Dates to Remember:

National Salons:

Krugersdorp CC Salon (Closes11/3/2017)

Bosveld FC Salon (Closes 25/3/2017) Tygerberg PS Salon (Closes 8/4/2017) Hibiscus Coast Salon (Closes 13/5/2017)

Club Submissions for April 2017

Closing date this month for club sub-missions for “Low Angle” & other cate-gories:

Monday, 3rd April 2017 (mid-night)

Next Club Meeting will be held on: Thurs, 13th April 2017

“Independent on Saturday”:

Submissions for inclusion in the arti-cle on PGCC in this week-end newspa-per has been extended and images must now be submitted via PhotoVault by Thurs, 6th April 2017

(see page 3 regarding sizing require-ments etc. for this submission)

Competition Deadlines:

Up & Coming Competition Closes: Sat, 29th April 2017 KZN PSSA Inter-club Competition Closes: Thurs, 27th April 2017 PGCC/DCC Inter-club Competition Closes: Fri, 15th September 2017

“Comings & Goings”

No new members or resignations since the last meeting

PSSA Club Best Images Competition Results (All the images can be seen on the PSSA Website)

PSSA Club Winning Images Competition Results for February 2017 are:

PSSA Winners: The Best Junior Winner – was awarded to Hibiscus Photographic Soci-ety for the image “Ballroom Dancing” (39/45), The Best Senior Winner went to Westville Camera Club with the image “Skye” (40/45 points). Our PGCC’s Best Images: Our best image in the Senior Category, “The force in ac-tion” (by Mark Gillie was awarded 36/45 points and Junior Category “Barcellona” by Johan van Niekerk. Was awarded 30/45 points.

Club Refreshment Roster:

Volunteers are requested to provide a light snack / soup / anything

at our 2016/17 club meetings

Please submit your name & preferred month to Jenny Reid: gadgetgirl53@gmail.com

13th April 2017 Peter Laverick 14th September 2017 Candy Chandler

11th May 2017 Volunteer required 12th October 2017 Volunteer required

8th June 2017 Maria Horngren 9th November 2017 Volunteer required

13th July 2017 Vee Dench 14th December 2017 Barry Edworthy

10th August 2017 Volunteer required 8th February 2018 Volunteer required

Competitions

The Up & Coming Competition: This PSSA competition is designed to give junior star grades 1 to 3 an opportunity to experience the process of submitting images to salons without incurring the expense of a submission fee. The competi-tion is judged by qualified assessors and “Acceptances” and “Certificates of Merit” are awarded to quali-fying images. The categories for the competition are “Nature & Wildlife” and “Open” and 2 images may be submitted per member in each category. Images are submitted via PhotoVault and a brochure setting providing further details is available on the PSSA website. www.pssa.co.za The PGCC will credit you with club advancement points for any acceptances (1 point each) or Certifi-cates of Merit (2 points each) awarded to you in this competition. This competition closes on 29th April 2017 (Continued on following page)

This Months Set Subject is : Low Angle

(Colour Only –Digital Manipulation is not Allowed)

We are looking for images taken with the camera placed in a position below

and pointing upward at the subject. Use your creativity in composing your

image. Google the internet for ideas

Images for the set subjects must have been taken no earlier than 1 year prior

to the closing date for submission for that particular set-subject.

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Salon Standings Table

as at 9th March 2017 Set out below is the latest Salon Standings Table Please

note that, provided you insert our club name when sub-

mitting to local salons, we will pick up all local salon

awards from the PSSA website on a monthly basis.

Should you earn an award in a foreign salon or elsewhere

please notify us and provide proof of the award received

(bar.anne&mweb.co.za)

Rank Name Star

Rating

Salon

Points

1 Mark Gillie Bronze

Master

138

2 Pam Beaty 5 55

3 Barry Edworthy 4 25

4 Peter Heetman 4 13

5 Vee Dench 3 3

5 Dave Miller 3 2

7 Peter Naylor 3 1

8 Barry Payne 3 1

8 Jack Gillie 2 1

Salon Awards

During the past 2 months 17 acceptances were awarded to PGCC members:

Pam Beaty (3):

Suikerbosrand Salon: “Busby” and “Snowbird” in the Open Section”

Lowveld Salon: “Sunkissed” in the Open Section

Mark Gille (10):

Suikerbosrand Salon: “Avon Decent” and “Through the Rapids” in

the PJ & Sports Section, “Flower & Water” in the Open Section and

“Underground Miner” in the Monochrome Section

: Lowveld Salon: “Alex” in the Human Portraits Section and “Racing

Through the Rapids” & “Underground Miner” in the Monochrome

Section.

Sandton Salon: “Dog vs Drone” in the Open Section and

“Underground Miner” in the Monochrome Section

Barry Edworthy (5):

Suikerbosrand Salon: “Misty Road” in the Open Monochrome Sec-

tion

Lowveld Salon: “Hombre 1” in the Human Portraits section,

“Keeping up” in the Nature Section and “Shades2” in the Mono-

chrome Section.

Sandton Salon: “Boardwalk” in the Scapes Section.

Competitions - continued

The KZN PSSA Interclub Competition: The closing date for members submission is Thursday, 27th April

2017. The categories are “Nature” and “Wildlife”. Members may submit as many images as they like in

each category for selection, but only 3 images per member will qualify for submission in each category for our

clubs final entry in the competition. In total 20 images will allowed in each category for the club submission.

PSSA definitions for the categories apply and must be named as follows: “category_imagename_ your name”

and must be resized to a max size of 1027 x 768 and 500kb .We will open an event on PhotoVaullt for you to

upload your images. Awards will be made by the PSSA for the winners.

The DCC/PGCC Interclub Challenge: This competition is in progress and will be judged at the end of the

year by a panel of external judges live at Prince’s Grant. The subjects for this year are “Wildlife in Action

(including birds)” (Colour Only) and “Frame-it”. (Colour or Monochrome) The rules are:

No digital manipulation

Images must have been taken between 8th December 2016 and the closing date (15th September 2017)

Images must have metadata attached - including date of capture

Images will be judged 50% on impact & 50% on composition / layout / balance / technical

Selections for the club will be done entirely in-house by each club

An event is open for this competition in PhotoVault and you may submit as many images as you like for the selec-

tion process

The final entry for each club will consist of 15 images per subject with a maximum of 2 images per member

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Your Committee: please feel free to contact us anytime !

Barry Edworthy / Chairman: 032 482 0062 / bar.anne@mweb.co.za

Dave Miller / Deputy Chairman: 032 482 0190 / dmillerconstruct@gmail.com

Pam Beaty / Technical & Hon Secretary: 032 482 0122 / pamelabeaty@mac.com

Jenny Reid / Treasurer: 032 482 0203 / gadgetgirl53@gmail.com

Ray Burger / General: 071 146 2062: rayburger49@gmail.com

News from the PSSA

The KZN Regional Congress 2017 is to be hosted by Scottburgh Camera Club – 9th to 11th June 2017

The KZN Regional Congress 2018 will be a one day event to be held in June 2018 . The PSSA are

looking for a club to host the event .

The FIAP International Congress is scheduled from 11th to 17th August 2018 The PSSA National Con-

gress 2018 is scheduled from 17th to 19th August 2018 (after FIAP Congress)

The Sizing Requirement for PGCC Club Submissions

All images for our Club Meeting must be submitted via PhotoVault in HD format which is

Max width 1920 x Max Height 1020 with a maximum file size of 1.2 mb.

Please note that Salons and other competitions may require you to submit images in differ-ent sizes.

Equipment for Sale

We have the following items for sale at bargain prices.

A brand new unused SLIK 350 Monopod — R550.00

A lockable aluminium carrying case for a Swarovski scope—and we will throw in a scope strap. This could easily be adapted to house your camera equipment - ideal when travelling —R660

Contact Barry at bar.anne@mweb.co.za for further details

Best Junior—Feb

2017

“Barcelona” by Jo-

han van Niekerk

3 Star — Gold

Best Junior—Jan

2017

“District Church

by Jenny Reid

3 Star—Merit

Best Senior Feb 2017

“The Force

in Action” by Mark Gillie

5 Star—Gold

Best Senior—

Jan 2017

“Langley Park”

by Mark Gillie

5 Star - Gold