We have produced a book that celebrates our 125th Anniversary and the history of the Society and it’s members.
Cost $25 (excl postage) We are doing a strictly limited run, so get in quick 
If you are interested in purchasing a copy, you can purchase either through this website or you can email us at impact@wps.org.nz.
WPS Impact – Official Newsletter of the Wellington Photographic Society
This month featuring updates about our membership survey, an article on Star trails and an interview with WPS Photographer Jenny O’Connor.
There is no Thursday meeting this week due to the 125th Anniversary Exhibition Opening Night on Friday 17th November.
WPS Impact – Official newsletter of the Wellington Photographic Society.
This month featuring updates about our 125yr Exhibition, an article on scanning with your DSLR and an interview with WPS Photographer Mary Hutchinson.
There was a very high standard of entries again this year and I would like to thank everyone for your entries.
Overall:
Open Category:
Creative Category:
Also special thanks to Jordyn O’Keeffe for her detailed analysis/critique of each entry. It was a very impressive critique and we all learned a lot from her.
WPS Official newsletter of the Wellington Photographic Society
During this meeting WPS members at the AGM are to elect the officers of the Society, that is the President, Secretary and Treasurer, and up to five committee members. Committee members take responsibility for different areas of the club’s work.
At the AGM Gail Teale finishes her two year term and will hand over to a new president. Tom Zink, Hilary Troup and Lesley Moyes are leaving their positions. Gail Teale is leading the preparation for a new committee. If you would like a role on the committee or want to propose a member for a committee role, please contact Gail Teale at President@wps.org.nz
Gail has the full revised committee position descriptions and is happy to discuss nominations.
WPS Impact – The official newsletter of the Wellington Photographic Society
Congratulations to the Hutt Camera Club who won the 2016 Wellington Interclub Battle. WPS gave them a good chase right to the finish line but in the end HCC lead with a 2 point advantage.
Thanks to APPS for organising a great event and Helen Mitchell for judging such an exciting competition.
Well done to all the WPS photographers who provided the ten images and especially to Ian McIlraith and Dave Roberts whose prints got first place in their respective categories.
As usual, it was a fun evening of good club rivalry and socialising.
Funding the Programme WPS President Gail Teale and Treasurer Thomas Zink reviewed the past year and set out the club’s plans to make the coming year a great one. The AGM decided that the 2016-2017 subscription will be $84 for individual members and $48 for student/unwaged members with no discount for early payment. The new rate (up from $78/$42) will help fund the club’s activities as we go into 2017, the 125th anniversary of WPS. It will go some way towards covering costs of upgrading our equipment and our ongoing costs like rent of the meeting hall, with less reliance on dipping into our reserve buffer. The Committee intends to apply for grants to cover major events, such as the annual exhibition and a key note speaker. It will drive to recruit new members.
The 2016-2017 Committee is: Gail Teale (President), Hilary Troup (Secretary), Thomas Zink (Treasurer), Kerry Whittaker (Programme), Julie Brixton (Competitions), Brendon Lang (Webmaster), Lesley Moyes (Impact newsletter) and new member Shannon Doyle, who is keen to focus on communications and marketing. Clive Pigott is the Immediate Past President. Jenny O’Connor is continuing in the role of Exhibition Officer.
Thomas Zink was unanimously voted in as our newest life member. President Gail Teale detailed Tom’s work as a longstanding committee member, who has consistently gone beyond the call of duty to keep the club going. He has been a steady hand at the wheeel in his role as Treasurer.
WPS was presented the Wanganui Cup at the Central Regional Convention as the winning club in the 2015 Central Regional Interclub Projected Image Competition.
Clubs from throughout the Central Region were required to submit a set of eight images, each image must be by a different photographer (click here to view the WPS set of images). The history of the Wanganui Cup dates back to 1959 and was originally awarded to the best set of slides but with the development of digital photography, the cup is now awarded to the best set of projected images.
WPS has now won the Wanganui Cup on ten separate occasions however this is the first time since 2009 so the news was received with great excitement.
Congratulations to the WPS photographers behind the winning set of eight images: Ross Collins, Ian McIlraith, Barry Mahon, Jenny O’Connor, Peter Rodgers, Gail Teale, Mike Timmer, and Glen Wheatley.
A presentation of the cup and certificates to the photographers will take place at the WPS meeting on 26 Nov.
