While our chairperson, Henrik, was away from HK, Jeff and Michael were leading this lighting tutorial session as our club night activity held on 6th, May, 2013. They illustrated how to use of light in shooting with different gears, slides, as well as on site strobes’ setup with our volunteer member as model (thanks Uzma for being the volunteer). It was a fun and enlightening tutorial. The punchline of that day was from Jeff when he responded to the expensive Bonical trigger, “the sky is your free light source!”
Thanks so much for Jeff and Michael for generosity of their time as well as for bringing in heavy gears to show us.

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We were so grateful to have someone who specialised in panoramic photography to be our judge on this panorama competition night. Mr. LO Tan showed us before the competition his several big size panoramic photos (see attached photo to get the idea of the size). Thanks Patrick for inviting him for this competition evening.

Henrik, our chairperson, said in his Facebook, “Great competition night yesterday. Mr. LO was very inspiring and what awesome landscape photos he showed us. It certainly served as an inspiration to me:)”

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On the 8th of April, members gathered to attend the “ABC training in basic camera and photography skills”, leaded by Henrik, our chairperson, and Michael Lee, our friend as well as a commercial professional photographer. Jeff as well as other senior members chipped in their contribution on how to understand the basic techniques and skills of the camera and photography. Below are quotes from some of the members’ comments from FB:

Uzma said, “Henrik, Thanks so much for taking out the time and making such an effort last night. It was really helpful to me as a newbie.”"Michael,Thank you as always .it was good to have you up there as well”

Klaus said, “Dear Henrik, Thank you for the great tutorial last night. It was a night I was waiting for since I’ve joined the club 4 years ago. I’ve learned more in these 2 hours than I’ve learned in 20 years on my own. Thanks for your patience in answering all my questions and thanks to Jeff for his help and comments. Hope there’ll be much more to come and there’ll be more attendance of other members.”

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We had Jeff Mein Smith (former chairperson, facing us) and Henrik Olesen (present chairperson) to act as our judges in prints and digitals competitions respectively that evening. Their comment were well received. Although there were a lot of submissions, the timing was well organised and proceeded.

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Ike Eichensehr was invited as judge for the theme of “Hong Kong Life Style” competition night on 18th January, 2013.

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It was a surprisingly full house that night. A lot of new faces, either guests or newly joined members, were seen. Thanks Gareth Jones who was our special judge, who gave us presentation of his recent work and then spent the whole evening judging and giving us valuable comments on our competition photos. It was a grateful evening.

Thanks also Wesley being our official photographer that evening. Please click here to see his photos regarding this competition evening.

Please click here to view the 2013 whole year club program.

AGM was held on 15th Jan, 2013 and was run smoothly. There are a lot of participation to the working committees from the members. Here is the line-up of the new executive of the club:

Chairperson: Henrik Olesen
Vice-chairperson: Sandy Rie
Secretary: Brett Craig
Treasurer: William Tam

Congratulation and hope that in the new year with the new EC, new changes will be seen.

“Thanks for joining us for a great End of Year and Awards Dinner last night, it was a goodie. Thanks to all who donated Raffle Prizes, especially Alan, Anthony, Eric, Frank and Laurence. Photos of the evening have been posted on the Facebook as well as this website.
Big Congratulations to all the winners:

Part one of all the photos
Part two of all the photos
Part three of all the photos

There were 24 members exhibiting their photos.

“Lorenza Mazzucco, as always, did a great curatorial job mixing and matching the prints for display. Ably assisted in setup by Diane Quick, Andrew Mo, David Morris Au, Eric To, John Meldrum and William Tam. There will never be an Exhibition without our generous volunteers assistance.

Thanks also to Jeff for printing and bringing the banners and extra bottle of wine and Patrick for the sandwiches – which disappeared fast!”

And thanks also all the friends, and people who paid the visit and left their comments. These truly added to the success of this exhibition.

Best of Exhibition has been voted by members and the convincing winner is Benjamin Moldenhauer with his “Swallows Cave, Tonga 2012″ (quoted from John)

Click to view enlarged flyer.