Industrial Landscape An image of an industrial environment e.g. construction sites, ports, factories.

Streetscape An artistic representation of a street.

Street Photography Street Photography: photography that features the chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment.

Weather Capture the various weather conditions, sun, wind, rain, cloud movement or capture the spirit of the earth, air, fire or weather.

Trees A landscape in which one or more trees are the important feature. A study of a tree or a portion of a tree.

People A photograph of a person that may range from a head study to a full body length. This topic includes candid photographs and formal portraits.

Creative/Altered Reality Creative photographs or altered reality covers photographs that display a novel effect because of an unusual combination of objects, viewpoint or post processing techniques. These images must have a photographic base with the original work and backgrounds, etc. being taken by the entrant.

Sports Action Images which capture sport or portray someone or something in motion or action. Methods often used include fast shutter speed to freeze action, slow shutter speed to empathise action or panning the subject to create motion blur in the background.

Landscape A photograph of natural scenery with land and sky based elements displayed in a pictorial fashion. It may include evidence of man, people, animals and even part of the sea provided that none of these additional elements dominate the photograph.

Seascape A photograph of natural coastal scenery. a wave study or a picture of the open sea, provided that the sea is always the central interest of the photograph. People, boats and man-made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph.

Macro A photograph where the image on the sensor is as large or larger than the actual object.

Close-Up Small details of a larger subject if those details dominate the image.

Lines & Curves A photograph where the use of lines and curves are the main feature and compositional element.

Another great night for WCC at the Eastern Interclub which just keeps getting better and better every year thanks to Adrian Smith of Maroondah PS. The judge Paul Robinson gave a quick run down of his thoughts on the entries before handing over to Adrian for the usual slideshow of entries and winners. Nine clubs had been invited to participate, one of which missed the entry and one didn’t reply leaving seven clubs to contest for the trophies as follows:

Ringwood B&W, Yarra Ranges PS, Waverley CC, Knox PS, Eastern Suburbs PS, Maroondah PS & Doncaster CC.

As the images scrolled through on the slideshow, it became clear that competition was going to be quite strong and we could only hope that we had strong enough entries. The contingent of WCC Members sat with eager anticipation as the results came up one at a time. We didn’t need to worry that much because Vicki picked up 2 merits in the Print section for Foggy Dawn Val D’Orica & Eildon Morning Mono. In the EDI section, Felix picked up 3rd place with his image SAND but Paul Spence trumped that with a 1st Place for CHIVALRY. In the all new B&W EDI section Anthony placed 2nd with ALVIN but was unfortunately pipped by Stephen with a copy of my image  RIDING THROUGH which picked up 1st Place.

Well done to these individuals for their excellent results but, don’t forget that this is a team competition and Waverley picked up the trophies for the overall scores in EDI and B&W EDI the points being as follows:

Thanks again to everyone who entered and the image selection crew who made this all possible.