Reminder to members we will need tripods for the Intro course members for next Tuesday night at club rooms if you can help.

Results of Competition 2, see Members section.

Next Meeting 17/5/12-talk titled Playing with Light, by visiting speaker

Wally also welcomed members from Ivanhoe, Essendon, Diamond Valley and Knox Photographic clubs, as well as a number of other guests.

News

1. Our next meeting on Thursday 1^st March, is an outing for night photography at Southbank.  7pm, Melbourne Exhibition Centre (Jeff’s shed) on the steps facing Crown is the rendezvous point.  For those that may be running a little late, the group will then be heading in the direction of Polly Woodside.  Some members will meet at the food court between 6-6.30pm for a quick bite prior to departure. One member states there is free parking in Lorimer Street, and then a short walk to the centre.

2.Saturday 24th March is a workshop at Ocean Grove.  Numbers needed to be finalised by the 15^th March. More details to follow.

3. VAPS Ballarat May 19-20^th May, accommodation has been booked at the Big 4 Caravan Park.  Please let Gerry as soon as possible know if you are interested in attending.

4. Deadline for uploading digital images for Competition 1 is Sunday 4^th March. You are also encouraged to upload a ‘copy’ of your print for Competition 1, to enable it to be shown on the new website.

5. The password provided recently with the launch of the new website, is ONLY for use in the members section of the new website.  It is NOT for uploading images for digital competition.  Please upload images in same way as previously.

Guest Speaker

Gerard Saide is the president of the Photographic Society of Queensland and treasurer of the Toowoomba Photographic Society.  His photography interest started in 1980 in his 1^st year of teaching.  He will be presenting at VAPS and APSCON this year.

This talk took 2 years to put together, the criteria for image selection was based on the significant impact in & on history.

10 GREATEST IMAGES

1. Room with a view by Nicephore Niepce                                                              1826

In Le Gras, Southern France.  8 hour exposure, image is a heliograph.

2. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California by Dorothea Lange                                 1936

Hungry and desperate mother, Florence Thompson, with 3 of her 6 children located in a farm labour resettlement program.

3. Moonrise over Hernandez New Mexico by Ansell Adams                               1941

2 discourses: religion and music

4. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal                                                1945

Only 3 of the 6 men depicted in this image survived the war.  The image won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946.

5. A Human Foetus at Three Months by Lennart Nilsson                                     1965

A pioneer in medical photography

6. Tomoko in Her Bath by William Eugene Smith                                                   1971

A mother is bathing her 16 year old daughter who has Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning, first discovered in Minimata Bay in Japan in 1956.

7. Children Fleeing Napalm Attack by Nick Ut                                                    1972

9 year old Kim Phuc, and 2 brothers fleeing. The image won the Pulitzer Prize

8. The Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry                                                                    1984

13 year old Sharbat Gula, was living as a refugee in Pakistan during the time of the soviet occupation of Afghanistan.  She was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the image is referred to as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’.

9. The Child and the Vulture by Kevin Carter                                                      1993

In Ayod, southern Sudan, an emaciated child. The image won the Pulitzer Prize.

10. Pale Blue Dot by NASA                                                                                    1990

An image of Earth, taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft, at a record distance of 6.4 billion kilometres. Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space

To end the presentation on a ‘warm’ note, this last image:

The Boy and the Cop by Bill Beall                                                                          1957

An image of a 25-year-old Washington cop and a 2-year-old toddler. During a Chinese festival, officer Maurice Cullinane stooped down to coax tiny Allen Weaver back onto the curb to avoid the spluttering fireworks. The picture, earned the photographer a Pulitzer Prize.

After a thought provoking evening, a wonderful supper was enjoyed by all.  Thank you to all who assisted in the night, and a special thank you to our guest speaker.

NB Next meeting night 1/3/12 at Southbank-meeting time 7pm on the steps of the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, 2 Clarendon Street

Please contact our club secretary for any further information:

secretary@rosannaphotoclub.com