Wellington Interclub Battle

Interclub Battle date: Sunday 18 October

  • Location: Plimmerton Hall, 9 Sunset Parade, Plimmerton, Porirua
  • Lunch start time: 1.00pm
  • Competition start time: 1.30pm

We (Porirua CC) will be arranging a programme of entertainment as follows:

Saturday 17 October

  • 1.00pm – Meet at Groundup Café, 15 Paekakariki Hill Road, Pāuatahanui
  • 2.00pm – Visit the following locations:
  • St Alban’s Church, Pauatahanui
  • Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
  • Camborne Boatsheds.
    The are situated at the south end of the Camborne Walkway and easily accessed via the car park on the north side of the Paremata Bridge.  The boatsheds date from 1949 and were developed from small boatsheds to more substantial structures.  Poet Sam Hunt lived at Boatshed No.5 in the 1990s.
  • 5.30pm – Dinner at the Porirua Photography Clubrooms, The Attic” of the Woolshed at the historic Gear Homestead, 1 Okowai Road, Papakōwhai, Porirua.  Bring your own takeaways.  We will provide tea, coffee, juice and ice cream.  We stoll this idea from the Whanganui Club!

Sunday 18 October

We are still in the planning stages for what to do in the morning.  These are our thoughts so far:

  • Pataka and Porirua walkabout
  • Titahi Bay boat sheds
  • Paremata bridge sunrise and walk along boat sheds

Topics

  • Freeze the action – action shot which captures the sense of motion but with minimal or no blur. Panning shots which show background blur are not valid.
  • Facial expressions – a facial expression which captures and conveys emotion
  • Fire and / or Frozen – an image that captures either or both senses of heat and cold
  • Food glorious food – A shot which makes the mouth water and the stomach rumble
  • Fellowship – a photo which captures a sense of community, togetherness, shared concern or care for others
  • Fashion, flair, flamboyance – anything goes as long it is conveys the theme
  • Fungus, Fruit, Flowers – From the natural setting to a formal arrangement, a photo which incorporates one or more of the themed items
  • Flight – An object, bird, person, in the act of flying through the air
  • Forces of Nature – Earth, Fire, Water, Resilience of nature
  • Festival – the image should convey the sense of fun, colour, activities of an event.

Interclub 2022

2022 Wellington Interclub Print Competition
Each year, photography clubs from across the Wellington region come together to compete for bragging rights and a trophy for best print.

Technical skill doesn’t necessarily guarantee a place in the top 3, but a good eye and submitting a photo deftly encapsulates the theme will take you far.

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Wellington Interclub Themes – Week Two

Week Two (Just Illusion)

Just Illusion is an intriguing topic for one of the ten themes that make up this year’s Welllington Region Interclub Print Battle.  We are looking to submit a cracking entry on behalf of the Society so get out there and start taking photos! 

You can submit three images on any theme at any time up until 23 August but please don’t leave things to the last minute!

Send your entries electronically to wpscomp@gmail.com in .jpg format (Under 10mb please)

Wellington Interclub Themes – Week One

Week One (Earth, Sea and Sky)

We are underway with our search for some outstanding images to be part of the club’s entry for the 2020 Wellington Region Interclub Print Battle.  In fourteen weeks time, we will be choosing the best images on each of ten themes that make up this year’s challenge.

One of the themes is Earth, Sea and Sky which will be of interest to the landscape photographers out there. Send your entries electronically to wpscomp@gmail.com in .jpg format (Under 10mb please)

The full list of themes is here:

  • Earth, Sea and Sky.
  • Just Illusion.
  • Mono Portrait*  
  • Musical Image.
  • Once Was Home.
  • An Emotion.
  • Macro Life.
  • Levitation
  • Luscious Liquid
  • In the Style of Andreas Gursky***