Welcome to the Pennant Hills Photographic Club

We welcome all photographers to join and participate in its events and by sharing knowledge to improve and enhance photographic skills. Our club aims to mentor, support, and educate its members, and to foster skills and passion for photography in a collegiate and enjoyable atmosphere.

Meeting Address only: Uniting Church Hall – Corner of Boundary Road and Bellamy Street. Parking is on a grassed block of land opposite the church in Bellamy St., and the entrance we use is facing Bellamy St.

For information on the club please view this link.

To join please download and complete the Membership Form (PDF fillable): Download Membership form

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About Us

PHPC is a medium-sized club of around 40-50 members. Our members range in skill from enthusiastic novices to experienced photographers. The club has a few members who are judges.

We have a number of members who run the mentoring program for our newer members to learn the capabilities of their camera(s). We are large enough to support the growth of members but small enough to be a community, where all members can know each other. The club is here to challenge us to get the best from ourselves and our cameras

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Apr
1
Mon
7:30 pm Easter – No meeting @ Uniting Church Hall
Easter – No meeting @ Uniting Church Hall
Apr 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm
Easter weekend – no meeting
Apr
10
Wed
7:30 pm ZOOM Presentation – Street Phot...
ZOOM Presentation – Street Phot...
Apr 10 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Joint presentation with Hornsby Heights Camera Club.
Apr
15
Mon
7:30 pm Comp 03: Open and Set – Nature @ Uniting Church Hall
Comp 03: Open and Set – Nature @ Uniting Church Hall
Apr 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm
Per the Australian Photographic Society definition. See https://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/nature-definition
Apr
27
Sat
11:00 am Outing: City Walk @ Central Station
Outing: City Walk @ Central Station
Apr 27 @ 11:00 am
Outing: City walk starting from Central Station 11am (NOTE: No meeting Monday 29th April)
May
6
Mon
7:30 pm Comp 04: Open and Set – Architec... @ Uniting Church Hall
Comp 04: Open and Set – Architec... @ Uniting Church Hall
May 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm
Comp 2404 – Open and Set – Architecture.  Images showing the design of buildings, bridges etc.
Recent Posts Archives

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).

(12) ICMPhotoMag – ICM Photography Magazine (Group) | **Hornsby Heights & Pennant Hills Photography Clubs** | Facebook

Regards

Janne

by Janne Ramsay, 2 October 2023

November W/E away

by Chris Kenyon, 29 September 2023

Photo Rally to Balmain

Great day was had by those attending the Photo Rally to Balmain.

Apart from a mix up with which wharf to meet at, there are three wharf’s in the area, so much to see in this area and all agree that additional visits will be necessary. Great views of the city from the Balmain East wharf area and spectacular architecture and history in the area. Don’t forget that you have a month to visit and take photo’s for the Photo Rally and my Photo Club comps

by Chris Kenyon, 23 September 2023

Results for competitions in Comp 8 Open and Set – Street Photog

There were 15 entries that were rated the highest by our judge(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in Comp 8 Open and Set – Street Photog

click here to see a pdf catalog of all competition results

Best View in Town.
Robin Levin – Set – Top Shot
Set Subject Colour Large Print

Angel Place with bird cages
Don Dickins – Set – Top Shot
Set Subject Mono Large Print

Dark Spectrum Wynyard Tunnels
Judy Ly – Set – Top Shot
Set Subject Small Print

Patient dog
Richard McMullen – Set – Top Shot
Set Subject Digital

Down Town
Chris Kenyon – Set – Merit
Set Subject Colour Large Print

Master of Levitation
Reena Cheng – Set – Merit
Set Subject Colour Large Print

The music man & the kid
Omid Mazloomi – Set – Merit
Set Subject Colour Large Print

The Rosary Prayer
Elaine Holliday – Set – Merit
Set Subject Mono Large Print

Street person
Graeme James – Set – Merit
Set Subject Mono Large Print

The Interview
Graeme James – Set – Merit
Set Subject Mono Large Print

On A Slide
Chris Kenyon – Set – Merit
Set Subject Small Print

Smoking Ceremony
Chris Kenyon – Set – Merit
Set Subject Small Print

Going home
Jonathan Holliday – Set – Merit
Set Subject Small Print

Animal Abuse Protest
Michael Frost – Set – Merit
Set Subject Digital

Going Home
Janne Ramsay – Set – Merit
Set Subject Digital

by Don Dickins, 18 September 2023

Photo Rally

by Chris Kenyon, 18 September 2023

Photo Rally & Blue mountains W/E away

If you haven’t already put you r names down for the Photo Rally, 23rd of September, and the Blue Mountains week end away, 4th & 5th of November, and you intend to attend please sign the sheets at the front desk on Monday night or let me know so that I can finalise numbers.

Photo Rally location will be announced next Monday Night

Chris

by Chris Kenyon, 12 September 2023

Canyoning Photography

Pennant Hills Club members are invited to an inspiring presentation on Canyoning Photography presented by the Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club Camera Club. 

Canyoning photography – a unique form of Nature photography – requires fitness, wetsuits, and potentially abseiling down waterfalls whilst carrying your camera gear.  

This presentation tells how three members of the Ryde-Eastwood Camera Club – two experienced canyoning photographers, and a novice in his seventies – prepared for, implemented and succeeded in their aim: to photograph sunbeams coming through the mist of the Rocky Creek Canyon in the Blue Mountains.  Their story and the photographs they captured were recently published in the magazine of The Royal Photographic Society in the UK.

This free presentation takes place at 7:30pm on Monday 9 October at the Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club, 117 Ryedale Road, West Ryde.

We thank the Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club Camera Club for their kind invitation.

by Don Munro, 8 September 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

Tonight’s Meeting 7.45pm

Meeting time is our usual 7.45pm

It is showing as 6.30pm on the calendar on the webpage. The system seems to want to default to that time but it is not correct. Working on fixing that.

by Janne Ramsay, 4 September 2023

Skills Development Night

The Club meeting on Monday 4 September will focus on important skills for successful photographs.  (i) Phil Weir will discuss the best ways to crop photos: bring along some of your own photos to see how they could be improved with alternative formatting. (ii) Chris Kenyon will talk about making better prints.  (iii) If you have questions on how to operate your camera or take better photographs, we’ll provide answers or refer you to members who can help. (iv) Finally, a list of possible competition topics for 2024 will be circulated on the night – come and vote for your preferences.

by Don Munro, 29 August 2023