Our Sport Comp Night was held in a “new” venue due to the Studio under renovation. We were so glad that our former member, Victor Bautista , who has been involved part-time professionally in corporate photography, was our special guest judge for this evening competition.

Before the start of the competition, Ali and John led us having discussion on some business, esp. regarding the 30th anniversary of our club. 36 members and guest joined this evening, which proved to be good comp night. Especially thanks our member, Dhiraj, helped holding the photos for judging.
Please click here to view more images of this evening

Before the feature “Wildlife Presentation”, EGM regarding two motions was held. The result was to delay after discussion and by show of hands from the present of members.

Then we had Henrik Olesen presented his work on “Wildlife Photography”. The audience were entertained by his interest, rules, gears of the wildlife photography he has been engaging.

Besides the above agenda, we also watched a short video titled “Stunning Time-Lapse Portrait of Portland Created with 300,000+ Photos” (searched by yourself if interested), suggested by member S.H. Ha, who challenged if our club could do similar for HK. This was followed immediately by photo presentations from members Andrew, Bing, Eric and Wesley.

We were glad that Jonathan Jay Lee and Kitmin served our special guest judges that night 16/4/2012.

see more images of that night here.

From Hasselblad XPan Panoramic Camera to Fuji GX617 panoramic camera, Brett Craig, member of CCC, who got full scores (20) on two images and almost full score (19) on one image last competition night featuring symmetry, humbly shared his evolution of his gears as well as his technicality of panoramic photography. We did enjoy his talk and learned somethng, esp. the composition of panoramic images, which is somewhat different from 4×3 or 3×2 or portrait photos.

Followed Brett’s sharing, Sammy, Alan and Ali shared their digital images and printed images respectively from their perspective, which were also inspiring. At the same time, Wesley passed around collection of his work in a clear folder. He also got a number of admiration from our members.

It was also nice to see our “old” members-Ben and Henrik showing at the night; and Ali presented the trophy of winning the best picture of the exhibition 2011 to Ben.

On the 3rd of March, 2012, a group of 14 people, including members, spouses, and friends came along to the within Hong Kong territory but far north east Ping Chau Island (Tung Ping Chau or other name distinguished from Peng Chau Island). The following paragraph is written by Bing, one of our members, who organized this outing:
“We all got up early for this outing and had a wonderful time. Thank you everyone for making this a super outing. The boat ride was a warm up prelude to this island of many interesting things to see. One of the nice things about this island is the limited ferries therefore there were not a lot of people like other outlying islands so it was a photographers paradise. I`m sure many of us will have fond memories of this excursion and one of the most common comment was “This place is an oasis from the hustle and bustle of HK and I will return again.” Like I always say about this place and that is one trip is never enough and I plan on making a camping trip to this place some time in the future. Cheers everyone!”
Although the weather that day was quite cloudy, our members were happy to be able to take their favorite photos. The following nice photos, including those in the gallery of this particular outing are also contributed by Bing:
 

more pictures here

As is our tradition, we hold a special “Vice Chairman’s Christmas Competition” with the theme determined by our Vice Chairman, this year’s Competition will be held on Monday December 3rd. The details have been drafted by Sandy, our vice-chairperson, as below:
“Portrait of an Icon”
Here’s your opportunity to make contact with your favourite idol, hero, celebrity, or a special someone who inspires you. For our End of Year Christmas Competition, we would like to call for submissions of portraits of an icon. The icon represented in the photograph should be a person who has made substantial contribution to a certain field. The icon does not need to be a famous person that everyone knows; it just needs to be a person who has made a significant contribution worthy of praise.
Please also submit a couple of sentences to explain who your icon is and their contribution via email and we’ll print it out to accompany your image. The explanation will also be read out when we review the submissions.
Each person can only submit two images, and we allow prints and digital entries but no slides.
The prize is something super amazing and will be announced in due course.

Here are the winners for 2011:

As announced at the Annual Dinner, our 2011 Competition winners are:

Open Print
First – Wesley Heung
Second – Ali Ghorbani
Third – Eric To

Special Print
First – Eric To
Second – Bernhard Goschin
Third – Lorenza Mazzucco

Open Slide
First – Eric To
Second – Lorenza Mazzucco
Third – Jeff Mein Smith

Special Slide
First – Jeff Mein Smith
Second – Eric To
Third – Billy Leung

2010 Best of Exhibition
Best – Ben Moldenhauer
1st Runner Up – Rick Behl
2nd Runner Up – Patrick Wong

Vice Chairman’s Christmas Competition
First – Bernhard Goschin
1st Runner Up – Bernhard Goschin
2nd Runner Up – Eric To

Congratulations to all.  With the exception of the VC Competition, all winners received a crystal glass trophy.

Final Excel scores are posted over at Google Docs

For 2012 term

Chairperson  - Ali Ghorbani
Vice chairperson – Sandy Rie
Secretary – John Meldrum
Treasurer – William Tam
Committee Members – Bernhard G., Bing, Brett Craig, Eric To, Lorenza, Wesley, Diane, Rick.

Membership fee remain – HK$275 full time students; HK$550 Individuals and HK$825 Couples

AGM was held at The Studio, 7:30pm 16th, January 2012.

The following highlights was drafted by John, former Chairperson as well as Secretary:
“We welcome Ali Ghorbani as our Nominated Chairman for 2012.

Ali will be ably supported by Sandy Rie as Nominated Vice Chairman.

William has retained the Nominated Treasurer position for a further term, many thanks William for all your past work as Treasurer.

John retains the position of Nominated Secretary but is open to and encourages other members to apply for this position!
It is his fifth year and needs a change!

Nominated Committee Members for 2012 are:
Bernhard G., Bing, Brett Craig., Eric, Lorenza, Wesley and we further nominated Diane and Rick in their absence.

Nominated Workgroup Members were chosen as well but we seek more:
Exhibition: Diane, Jeff, Lorenza and S.H.
Inviting Speakers / Judges: Ali, Jeff, Sandy plus all can assist with this during the year
Social, PR, Annual Dinner: Diane, Irene plus need more!
Website: Eric took over from Mart but anyone else interested to assist is welcome.

Meeting venues were discussed, retain the Studio for Comps but seek free venue for Club Nights if possible.

Membership Fee proposed to remain the same in 2012 – $550 Individuals, $825 Couples and $275 full time students.

Preferred Exhibition Dates selected for Cultural Center, we need to notify the L&CSD ASAP for October/November booking.

Continue with Slides, introduce Digital images for competitions.

Special Motion unanimously passed subject to ratification on the 30th -Recognize Mart van de Ven as an Honourary Member for 2012 for his work on the website revamp.”

Members attending: John, Jeff, William, Ali, Andrea P., Bernhard G., Eric, Sandy, and Wesley;
Past members attending: Bing Hum, and Brett Craig
Guests attending: Jenny, Pauline and Sammy

Due to not having a quorum of financial members, decisions taken at this meeting will be confirmed at our next meeting on January 30th