ASIA PACIFIC AWARDS 2024
Mieke Boynton recently posted on Facebook about the amazing images in the Asia Pacific Awards for 2024. With my curiosity sparked I couldn’t help but go into the site and have a look.
Unbelievable, stunning, jaw-dropping!!!!!
If you would like some pure magical inspiration, then visiting the Asia Pacific Awards Website is well worth your while. https://asiapacificphotoawards.com/
Once on the home page, scroll across and click on the Winners Gallery Tab. This will give you a drop down menu that will give you access to all categories and also past years.
You will see some familiar names such as Peter Eastway, Matt Palmer, Mieke Boynton, Robin Moon and Nilmina de Silva (I presume the same Nilmina from Hornsby Heights club). I am sure you may recognise some more names.
Hope you enjoy and hopefully get some inspiration and ideas.
by Janne Ramsay, 4 April 2024
THE MONO AWARDS 2024
The Mono Awards are now open (25th March) and close on the 5th May 2024. Now in its 6th Year the awards are open to photographers from around the world.
As well as acknowledgement, winners, runners-up and People’s choice share in a prize pool of $18,000 dollars. Price per entry is $30.
Here is the link if you are interested and would like more information or just want to read a few informative articles on black and white photography – https://www.themonoawards.com.au/
by Janne Ramsay, 2 April 2024
APS Australian Cup 2024 -Update
On behalf of the committee I would like to acknowledge the club members for the many amazing images that were uploaded for consideration in the APS Australian Cup 2024.
I am excited about the quality of the images and the commitment shown by the members of our club.
The selection of the final 20 images to be entered into the competition is going to be quite a task for our selection team. In the meantime many of the images will also be considered for the FCC Interclub later in the year.
The photographs will be chosen over the next month and I will let you know early in May if we will be entering some of your images in the Australian Cup 2024.
Once again a massive thank you…
Regards
Janne
by Janne Ramsay, 2 April 2024
Australia Cup 2024
Keep those entries coming in!!!
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded entries into the Australia Cup 2024 entry page. From the look of it we should have a very strong entry collection of photographs for the Australia Cup Competition.
In the meantime, if anyone else has any other images that they would like to enter please do so by 11.55pm on Sunday 24th March.
If anyone is interested in still getting another image, reminder that the Berowra Fauna Fair will be held on Sunday 17th March, 10am to 3pm, at the Berowra Community and Cultural Facility, The Gully Road, Berowra. The Fair kicks off with A Smoking Ceremony at 10am.
Looking forward to seeing your entries.
Regards
Janne
by Janne Ramsay, 9 March 2024
Australian Cup 2024
Hi all, just a reminder that entries for the Australian Cup entries for our club to collate, close on March 24th.
As mentioned at our first meeting, the Australian Cup is run by the APS and the topic is “This is Australia” which incorporates anything Australian from family gatherings, people doing things, buildings, landscapes, wildlife etc.
We have already starting compiling a catalogue but with so many amazing photographers at our club, I am sure that many of you have an image or two (or more) that has not fitted into any category for our club competitions but is indeed an amazing image of “This is Australia”.
The entry page has now been upgraded to take anything from 1 to 12 entries per member. We will be able to use up to 3 images per member. We’ll be choosing the images that we believe best suit the topic.
You will find the entry page on the entry page for our regular competitions. The tab is labelled Australia Cup and works like any other upload of photographs for our competitions.
Good luck everyone, looking forward to seeing your images.
by Janne Ramsay, 7 March 2024
Reminder – First get together for 2024 on Saturday 3rd Feb at 11.00am
SATURDAY 3RD FEBRUARY AT 11AM
UPPER MCKELL PARK, BROOKLYN
Hi Everyone, just a reminder that our first get together is this Saturday 3rd February at 11.00am at McKell Park, Brooklyn
There are many options for lunch, including bring something to barbecue, bring a picnic or even walk down to the local fish & chip shop to pick up some takeaway. Family and friends are welcome and encouraged to come.
If you care for a wine or beer please be discreet as we are not supposed to have alcohol at the park. There is always an opportunity for a glass at the pub after.
Remember to bring your camera as there will be an opportunity to go for a walk down to the marina and around to Parsley Bay. It is a club outing so there will be plenty of opportunities to grab some photographs for the “Our Club” competition later in the year. You may be able to get a photograph or two for the upcoming APS “This is Australia” competition.
Looking forward to seeing you all.
Regards
Janne
by Janne Ramsay, 1 February 2024
WELCOME TO 2024 – PICNIC/BARBECUE, SATURDAY, 3RD February, UPPER MCKELL PARK, BROOKLYN
SATURDAY 3RD FEBRUARY AT 11AM
UPPER MCKELL PARK, BROOKLYN
Welcome to 2024 and looking forward to catching up with everyone for our first meet-up of the year.
Please note the change in venue from the calendar provided at the end of last year.
The venue is now at Upper McKell Park, Brooklyn
There are many options for lunch, including bring something to barbecue, bring a picnic or even walk down to the local fish & chip shop to pick up some takeaway. Family and friends are welcome and encouraged to come.
If you care for a wine or beer please be discreet as we are not supposed to have alcohol at the park. There is always an opportunity for a glass at the pub after.
Bring your camera as there will be an opportunity to go for a walk down to the marina and around to Parsley Bay. It is a club outing so there will be plenty of opportunities to grab some photographs for the “Our Club” competition later in the year.
Parking can be limited but we are at the upper level of the park away from the parking rush for the boats and the pool. There are two ways into the park area via Karoola Street. I am presuming that most of you are familiar with Brooklyn. You can access Karoola Street by either going to the end of the marina the taking the right fork (turn off up the hill and follow it to the end, or you can turn right at the pub, then follow that road as it turns left, then first on your left (William Street) then at the end of that street turn right into Karoola. (Arrggh, that all sounds messy), look at the map below or use your car/phone navigation system. Alternatively it is approximately 250metres from the rail station with a short but steep set of stairs to the top.
WELCOME TO 2024! – PICNIC/BARBECUE
3RD FEBRUARY AT 11AM
UPPER MCKELL PARK, BROOKLYN
Welcome to 2024 and looking forward to catching up with everyone for our first meet-up for the year.
Please note the change in venue from the calendar provided at the end of last year.
The venue is now at Upper McKell Park, Brooklyn
There are many options for lunch, including bring something to barbecue, bring a picnic or even walk down to the local fish & chip shop to pick up some takeaway. Family and friends are welcome and encouraged.
If you care for a wine or beer please be discreet as we are not supposed to have alcohol at the park. There is always an opportunity for a glass at the pub after.
Bring your camera as there will be an opportunity to go for a walk down to the marina and around to Parsley Bay. It is a club outing so there will be plenty of opportunities to grab some photographs for the “Our Club” competition later in the year.
Parking can be limited but we are at the upper level of the park away from the parking rush for the boats and the pool. There are two ways into the park area via Karoola Street. I am presuming that most of you are familiar with Brooklyn. You can access Karoola Street by either going past the marina the taking the right fork (turn off up the hill and follow it to the end, or you can turn right at the pub, then follow that road as it turns left, then first on your left (William Street) then at the end of that street turn right into Karoola. (Arrggh, that all sounds messy), look at the map below or use your car/phone navigation system. Alternatively it is approximately 250metres from the rail station with a short but steep set of stairs to the top.
Hope to see you all there.
Looking forward to an exciting and fun year together with lots of wonderful photography memories.
Regards
Janne
Hope to see you all there.
Looking forward to an exciting and fun year together with lots of wonderful photography memories.
Regards
Janne
PS As you can see there is plenty of room to improve this photographer to improve on this image. (Ha, ha)
by Janne Ramsay, 25 January 2024
Results for 2023 FCC Interclub
Hi All, please find a detailed breakdown of our results from the FCC Interclub 2023. A big congratulations to everyone. We have achieved our best results ever with a high number of Acceptances.
Results for Pennant Hills Photographic Club Inc are as follows:
| Competition | Title / Photographer | Results | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Colour Digital 2023Your club entry’s total online score is: 90 . | |||
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Spiral Staircase / Omid Mazloomi | Accepted | 12 |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Mardi Gras / Jonathan Holliday | Accepted | 11 |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Dragon Fly / Janne Ramsay | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Phoenix in New York / Prasad de Silva | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | The Snakeman / Janne Ramsay | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Loves Light Cobar / Tony Strasser | 8 | |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Curved Stairway / Don Dickins | 8 | |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | Taste Dig / Philip Weir | 8 | |
| Open Colour Digital 2023 | City Street / Don Dickins | 7 | |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | |||
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Waiting In the Rain for a Bus / Don Dickins | Accepted | 11 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Lighting Up / Philip Weir | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | The Roof / Omid Mazloomi | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Man in Robe / Don Munro | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | What’s Inside / Philip Weir | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | River Scenery / Reena Cheng | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Sydney Opera House Outside / Judy Ly | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Skylight / Jonathan Holliday | 8 | |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Balcoln Avenue / Don Dickins | 7 | |
| Open Mono Digital 2023 | Lines / Larry Armstrong | 3 | |
| Nature Digital 2023 | |||
| Nature Digital 2023 | Gulfoss One / Chris Barlow | Accepted | 10 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Grubs for Lunch / Nancy Morley | Accepted | 10 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Suckling Between Play / Nancy Morley | Accepted | 10 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Northern Lights / Chris Barlow | Accepted | 9 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Barking Owl / Ruth Penman | Accepted | 9 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Lorikeet Feast / Richard McMullen | Accepted | 9 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | New Borns / Larry Armstrong | Accepted | 9 |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Hairy Caterpillar / Don Dickins | 8 | |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Teal / Prasad de Silva | 8 | |
| Nature Digital 2023 | Pink Flannel Flower / Sue Crowe | 7 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | |||
| Creative Digital 2023 | Experiment in images / Philip Weir | Accepted | 11 |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Crash Landing / Don Dickins | Accepted | 8 |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Help is on its Way / Philip Weir | Accepted | 8 |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Cape Hillsborough / Janne Ramsay | 7 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Glass Ball Reflection / Judy Ly | 7 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Luna Park Hair Raiser / Graeme James | 6 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Rolling The Glass / Nancy Morley | 6 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Historic Buildings Parramatta Park / Graeme James | 6 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Burwood After Dark / Judy Ly | 6 | |
| Creative Digital 2023 | Wineglass Bay / Janne Ramsay | 6 | |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | |||
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Knobbys Beach / Michael Frost | Accepted | 10 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Lamington Sunset / Sue Crowe | Accepted | 10 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | The Giants Above / Nancy Morley | Accepted | 9 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Reflections near Blowhole / Omid Mazloomi | Accepted | 9 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Early Morning in Perisher / Janne Ramsay | Accepted | 9 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Megalong Valley / Larry Armstrong | Accepted | 8 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Snowgum / Tony Strasser | Accepted | 8 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Lockhart River / David Mellefont | Accepted | 7 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Coila Bay / Ruth Penman | Accepted | 7 |
| Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 | Camel Rock / David Mellefont | 6 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | |||
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Uni Spiral / Chris Kenyon | Accepted | 12 |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Sunset Strip Menindee / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 11 |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | King of the Mardi Gras / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Modern Architecture / Omid Mazloomi | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Desert Storm / Robin Levin | 8 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Left and Right / Chris Kenyon | 8 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Seiler / Graeme James | 8 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Best View In Town / Robin Levin | 8 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Boat Race / Graeme James | 6 | |
| Open Colour Print 2023 | Peace Lily / Larry Armstrong | 6 | |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | |||
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Circular Interior / Don Dickins | Accepted | 11 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Granny having a Cup / Philip Weir | Accepted | 11 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Egg Fork / Jonathan Holliday | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Still Life Tulips / Don Munro | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Take Me to the Church / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Grassy Headland / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | The Lennox Parramatta / Graeme James | 9 | |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Two Trees / Don Dickins | 9 | |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Third Eye / Don Munro | 8 | |
| Open Mono Print 2023 | Heading for Shore / Nancy Morley | 8 | |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | |||
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Mount Buffalo / Chris Kenyon | Accepted | 12 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Flannel Flower / Don Dickins | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Splendor in the Grass / Larry Armstrong | Accepted | 10 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Covid Like Fungi / Don Dickins | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Hungry Darter / Prasad de Silva | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Stripping Bark / Larry Armstrong | Accepted | 9 |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Coming Home / Tony Strasser | 8 | |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Zebra Finches / Tony Strasser | 8 | |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Road Kill / Max Pegler | 8 | |
| Open Nature Print 2023 | Beside the River / Nancy Morley | 6 | |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | |||
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Arizona / Richard McMullen | Accepted | 14 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Streams of Gold / Jonathan Holliday | Accepted | 14 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Flames of Tyrell / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 14 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Salt Junction / Sonia Conn | Accepted | 12 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Rolling Waves / Nancy Morley | Accepted | 12 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | North Curl Curl Rock Pool / Elaine Holliday | Accepted | 11 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Netting / Jonathan Holliday | Accepted | 9 |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Kati Thanda One / David Mellefont | 7 | |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Lady of Lake Wakatipu / Sonia Conn | 6 | |
| Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 | Olgas Uluru / Menno Kipper | 4 |
Award Certificates: You can generate award certificates to save or print out from the website click here.
Acceptance scores
Open Mono Print 2023 : 10
Open Colour Print 2023 : 9
Open Nature Print 2023 : 9
Open Colour Digital 2023 : 9
Open Mono Digital 2023 : 9
Nature Digital 2023 : 9
Creative Digital 2023 : 8
Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital 2023 : 7
Drone/Aerial Photography 2023 : 8
Whether an entry has been awarded an acceptance is determined by the acceptance score set for each competition. After the first round of judging the top scoring images in each section were reviewed by the judges to determine the awards.
A catalogue showing all awards and acceptances will be available on the website soon.
by Janne Ramsay, 5 December 2023
POST ABOUT OUR ICM COMPETITION NOW POSTED ON ICMPhotoMag Facebook
Christopher Weeks mentioned that he would publish some of our results within the ICMPhotoMag community. So it was quite exciting to find this post on their Facebook page this morning. Hopefully most of you have Facebook and will be able to access it (not sure if you can get access without Facebook, but give it a go).
Regards
Janne
by Janne Ramsay, 2 October 2023
AERIAL/DRONE/NATURE IMAGE FOR THE FCC INTERCLUB
WE NEED YOUR HELP
It’s that time of year again. We’ve been selecting the images that we will be submitting this year in the FCC Interclub NSW. We are fortunate to have so many excellent images that you all have submitted over the last 12 months with a few being selected from the previous year.
We do not have enough images for the digital aerial/drone category and also perhaps a couple in both print nature and digital nature.
If you are using a drone for photography we invite you to choose a couple of your images and upload them via our webpage under the FCC Interclub tab (competition entry page) into the aerial/drone category.
If you have been on a helicopter or light plane and have taken some photographs we invite you to choose a couple of these images and upload them via our webpage under the FCC Interclub tab the aerial/drone category.
Also, we will most likely need a couple more Nature photographs and also invite you to upload any Nature images via our webpage under the FCC Interclub and into the Nature category (you will see one for Print and one for Digital, we’re after a couple of each.
You will see a list of potential categories but we are just after aerial/drone and nature.
I’ll be in contact with the owners of the selected Nature images to ensure that they fulfil the rules. (Not allowed are photographs of human-created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals domesticated animals, human-created hybrid animals and mounted or preserved zoological specimens. Processing or editing must be limited to making the images look as close to the original scene as possible, except that conversion to greyscale monochrome is allowed.
I’ll also be in contact with the owners of the selected Print images to check that the images can be provided in the required size with a mount 40cm x 50cm and not exceeding 5mms.
Looking forward to seeing any aerial, drone or nature images that you can provide for this competition.
ENTRIES TO BE SUBMITTED BY MONDAY 11TH MIDNIGHT
Regards
Janne
by Janne Ramsay, 7 September 2023
