Last night was the presentation of the results for the 2025 4-Club Interclub, which is a competition between Camberwell Camera Club, Caulfield Photographic Society, Maroondah Photographic Society and us.

The judge was Sam Mariani and we are pleased to announce that we came out first overall, also being first in the Colour EDI and Monochrome EDI sections.

Special recognition to the following award winning images:

Print – First Place – Leanne Poole – Mayfly

Monochrome EDI – Second Place – Geoff Shaw – Look deep deep into my eyes

Colour EDI – Third Place – John Crawford – Windows and a few Doors

Monochrome EDI – Third Place – Tim Keane – Soft Encounters

Colour EDI – Merit – Jen Fawkes – Feed me

Colour EDI – Merit – Jenny Adams – Rainbrella Painting

Colour EDI – Merit – Sim Chong – Trees Birds and Moon

Print – Merit – Jenny Adams – City Enigma

All of our entries can be viewed in our 4-Club 2025 galleries.

Judge: Lyn Haywood

Set Subject EDI

Intermediate: Eddie Teh – Ancient Modern

Advanced: Jenny Hartman – Village in the Sky

Open EDI

Intermediate: Fiona Jones – Life well lived

Advanced: John Morter – The Eyes Have It

Open Print

Intermediate: Alan Mackinlay – Welcome Swallow feeding

Advanced: Stephen Jude – Flow

Set Subject definition:

Use your phone to take/made photos. All processing must be done in the phone. Consider the use of some phone appllications such as Snapseed, Slow shutter, ProCam, PhotoSplit or Distressed FX. Any Apps that introduce third party textures such as Distressed FX must be notified when loading the image, but are allowable.

Entries for our end of year competition are due on Tuesday 28 October 2025. This is a best of images entered throughout the year, members select from their previous entries to enter the end of year competition sections:

• Two images for Open Print
• Two images for Colour EDI
• Two images for Monochrome EDI
• One image for Creative EDI

The entry must have been entered into:

• Open Print images were entered in the Open Print sections of a 2025 monthly competition.
• Colour EDI and Monochrome EDI images were entered in the Open EDI and Set Subject EDI sections of a 2025 monthly competition.
• Creative EDI image is any image featuring creative photo techniques (in-camera or post production, including multiple exposures, composites and highly manipulated images) that was entered into a 2025 monthly competition (EDI or the EDI version of a print) or the 2025 interclub creative competition.

Select your entries through the Competition upload system. As well as selecting your print entries in the upload system, also ensure that your print entries are placed in the print box on Tuesday 28 October 2025 at our November competition night.

We allow images to be altered prior to entry in the end of year competition (eg to incorporate comments from the judge).

5.c.1. Alterations are limited to ensure that the altered (EOY) version is clearly recognizable as a revision of the same image as entered in the monthly competitions. Conversions from colour to monochrome (or vice versa) are allowed.

To enter an altered image:

1. In the upload system select the image from the monthly competition as normal, then indicate via the dropdown that it will be altered for end of year.
2. Email your altered entry to the competition steward at comp@waverleycameraclub.org.

Judge: Paul Robinson

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Jim Thorne – A splash of colour

Advanced: John Crawford – Echoes

Open EDI

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Soft as a dream

Advanced: Kerry McFarlane – Graceful Encounter

Open Print

Intermediate: Stef Wendler-Canning – Casein print red mica Hanne

Advanced: Jen Fawkes – Quiet repose

Set subject definition:

An arrangement of colours and shapes which are not recognisable as known objects, although they may suggest any object or scene. (APJA)

Last Wednesday we participated in the 34th Eastern Interclub run by Maroondah Photographic Society, three members of our club attended the competition awards night.

Nine clubs were involved, with Waverley coming 3rd in both the Open EDI and the Black and White EDI sections. Congratulations to all our members with an entry.

We were thrilled when Stephen Edmonds was awarded 2nd place in the open EDI section for his stunning image of an owl in flight. Congratulations!

Open EDI – Second Place – Stephen Edmonds – Launch

All of our entries can be viewed in our Eastern Interclub 2025 galleries.

Judge: Ian Van der Wolde

Set subject EDI

Intermediate: Joanne Rowley – Roman Cobbles

Advanced: Jen Fawkes – Mid Winter

Open EDI

Intermediate: Ingrid Makowski – Fork

Advanced: Stephen Jude – Wood for the Trees

Open Print

Intermediate: Alan Mackinlay – Birds in a pond

Advanced: Tim Keane – Peril

Set subject definition:

Street images taken after dark.