Jaqui Dean Presentation, Photo Rally Judging and Sunrise Shoot

Join us online on Tuesday 7th June from 7:30 as we hear from Jaqui Dean.

Jacqui Dean is a Sydney based professional photographer who specialises in commercial and architectural photography. 

Jacqui’s work has appeared in multiple Australian and International publications including: The Good Weekend, Australian Geographic, Architectural Review, InDesign, Monument, Black+White, Photofile, Nikon Life and Gourmet Traveller.

Jacqui is a multi award winning Grand Master of Photography and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. 

Jacqui sat on the Board of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography from 2002-2010 and was National President from 2006-2008.

Jacqui will also be judging our 2022 Photo Rally Competition on the night.

Sunrise Shoot Saturday 11th June

We venture up to the Central Coast on Saturday June 11th to Terrigal to capture a spectacular sunrise. For more information, download the attached flyer.

by Tom Carlos, June 2, 2022

31st May Social Night

We are thrilled that our awarded and valued member, Nil De Silva, has offered to share with us some of the stories behind the images in her book, Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion. Prints from her previous exhibition will be on display also which will provide a great opportunity for discussion. Nil’s book will also be available for purchase at a heavily discounted price of $20, with all proceeds going back into the club so that we can continue to provide our members with great speakers and events. We are very thankful to Nil and her generous donation to the club.

But wait, there is more! 

Corinna has also kindly offered to talk about what a “portfolio” might be and how we can all learn from working on a project like this. With any luck, Sonia will be well enough to join us and display some of her past portfolios for us to view and discuss.

Don’t miss this fun and interesting night we have in store for you!

Place: Mount Colah Community Centre

Time: 7.30pm

Bring: MUG & a small plate of food to share

Remember: Don’t be the one who misses out

by Tom Carlos, May 31, 2022

31st May Social Night

Further to the email sent out yesterday about Nil’s talk on 31st May… Peter Eastway was due to join us but is unfortunately unable to present as planned, so we look forward to seeing him in 2023. Instead, we have decided to turn the evening into a long awaited social event, where we can chat with one another and nibble on some yummy food. 

We are also thrilled that our awarded and valued member, Nil De Silva, has offered to share with us some of the stories behind the images in her book, Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion. Prints from her previous exhibition will be on display also which will provide a great opportunity for discussion. Nil’s book will also be available for purchase at a heavily discounted price of $20, with all proceeds going back into the club so that we can continue to provide our members with great speakers and events. We are very thankful to Nil and her generous donation to the club.

But wait, there is more! 

Corinna has also kindly offered to talk about what a “portfolio” might be and how we can all learn from working on a project like this. With any luck, Sonia will be well enough to join us and display some of her past portfolios for us to view and discuss.

Don’t miss this fun and interesting night we have in store for you!

Place: Mount Colah Community Centre

Time: 7.30pm

Bring: MUG & a small plate of food to share

Remember: Don’t be the one who misses out

by Tom Carlos, May 24, 2022

HHCC Presentation – Fate or Destiny

Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion and Finding Your Why
with Nilmini De Silva

Next Tuesday 31st May, our club member Nilmini De Silva will share with us some of the stories behind the images in her book, Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion. Fate or Destiny is a collection of photos and stories that aim to inspire people to make conscious choices in life. Nilmini launched this photo exhibition together with her photo book at the Hornsby Library in 2014 which then travelled to many venues around NSW.

If you make it on Tuesday, Nil has promised you will get a free copy of her book. This exhibition was created after Nilmini completed two important journeys. The first was a solo journey where she travelled and volunteered around the world for a year in her quest to rediscover happiness, reinvent herself and also complete her goal of spending quality time on every continent before turning 50.

The goal was accomplished with her arrival in Antarctica for Christmas in 2010 after being on the road for much of that year. The second journey was undertaken with her partner Steven Liaros in 2013, when they spent 6 months in Europe and Sri Lanka, volunteering in intentional communities and eco-villages to better understand what drove people to think and live differently. In her photo book Nilmini raises questions on many aspects of life that are often taken for granted and challenges her audience to examine life more carefully. Her photography is inspired by her love for the natural environment and her desire to share stories of the extraordinary people she has met.

Nilmini is an Engineer (Water Management) and Director of the Town Planning Consultancy she runs with her partner Steven Liaros. In her spare time, she is a Documentary Photographer who specialise in using images and words to highlight the social issues she cares about. She has always loved writing but discovered her passion for photography while volunteering as a Conservation Photographer in South Africa during her 2010 solo year of travel while on a sabbatical from her then local government job. Nil
is now an internationally awarded photographer with National and International Photography Honours. Her most recent claims to fame is that she placed in the Top 20 of the Art Category of Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographer 2022 (Capture Magazine) and in the Top 20 Aerial Category
of Photographer of the Year 2021 (Australian Photography Magazine).

You can find more info on her website or follow her on social media:
Nil’s Documentary Photography website: Narratives4Change
Nil and Steven’s Publication on Medium: Ecoliving Journeys: stories from an emerging future Nil’s Photography Facebook page: Nilmini De Silva Photography

by David Curtis, May 23, 2022

Vale Alan Torrens

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Hornsby Heights Camera Club founding and life member Alan Torrens on Tuesday 17th May, 2022. The following tribute by long time friend and fellow founding club member, Doug, sums up all of our feelings. We offer our deepest sympathies to his wife Jenny and his family.

A Tribute to Alan Torrens

Alan joined Hornsby Heights Camera Club at the first meeting of the club on 15 February 1983. In those days we met in the private home of the first President David Hewitt in Somerville Road Hornsby Heights.

Alan was a very competent Black and White worker as well as taking beautiful colour slides. Alan had a good eye for patterns and shapes. I remember some of his early prints of city buildings and especially panoramas of the city taken from the harbor bridge pylon lookout. He made a number of these over the years showing the development of the City.

Alan had a strong commitment to the club and was a regular participant in all its activities. He was elected Vice President a few years after he joined the club and continued in that role until last year. He was always ready to lead when needed. He entered the black and white section and the colour slide section throughout the film era. In recent times he unfailingly entered the colour print and digital projected image section as well. He regularly came early to help set up for meetings and did this consistently over the years.

Alan was involved in a number of photography related activities.  He also was a member of Pennant Hills Photographic Club and was equally committed to that club. He was a regular attender at the FCC Annual Yarramundi Weekend Camp and always encouraged others to attend. He taught a photography course at Hornsby for a number of years. Along with Alan Logan he organised the photographic exhibition at the St Ives Show for about 15 years. He was a volunteer to help organise the Sydney International Exhibition of Photography for a few years until it went completely digital. He was the club’s FCC delegate for many years.

Alan was also involved in a group that built a chalet at Charlotte Pass and he encouraged members of our club to join with Pennant Hills Club for a week there in the summer walking and taking photos. This occurred annually for about five years.

Alan loved nature and the Australian landscape. He enjoyed photographing frogs, fungi and bark patterns a well as the great Outback. He also enjoyed going on bus camping tours especially photographic ones. We went on tours to Tasmania, Outback Queensland and the Northern Territory. He also went on Camping Tours organised by the FCC and also many commercially operated tours. Always taking photos.

When the club had an Exhibition in Hornsby Library Alan was always there to help prepare and arrange the prints on the walls. When the club entered the Audio Visual Challenge Alan was the one who learnt the program and made the images come together in an outstanding way that enabled the club to win.

Alan Torrens was a quiet person but was always ready with a reasoned answer based on his knowledge as a science teacher and as an experienced photographer. He was always ready to help and worked quietly behind the scenes. His commitment to his hobby of photography and to our club was unwavering. I could always count on Alan. He will be greatly missed.

Doug Carley

Alan’s funeral will be held on Monday 30th May at 11.15am at Northern Suburbs Cremitorium, North Ryde in the North Chapel.

Tom

by Tom Carlos, May 22, 2022

Results for competitions in May – Nature & Open

There were 29 entries that gained our highest award(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in May – Nature & Open

click here to see a pdf catalog of all competition results

Making Honey Sonia Conn – Merit – Set SetSubject Digital	04 Eye to Eye Doug Carley – Merit – Set SetSubject Digital
Mutual Benefit Nilmini De Silva – Merit – Set SetSubject Digital	Sunset over the Living Desert Melinda Sexton – Merit – Set SetSubject Digital
Sunny Mushrooms Bob Sendt – Merit – Set SetSubject Digital	Enjoying a Feed Nilmini De Silva – Merit – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Giraffe Snack Time Nilmini De Silva – Merit – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print	Dinner on the wing Marion Anstis – Merit – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Comforting Margaret Fagg – Merit – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print	River runs red Jon Holliday – Merit – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Bird on a leg Jon Holliday – Merit – Set SetSubject Small Print	Gone fishing Marion Anstis – Merit – Set SetSubject Mono Print
Eroded Landscape Margaret Fagg – Merit – Set SetSubject Mono Print	Joanna goanna Elaine Holliday – Merit – Set SetSubject Mono Print
BusyBee Stuart ANDERSON – Merit Open Digital	Water Dragon Paolo Pizzin – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital
Mating Season Nilmini De Silva – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital	Blink and you miss me Marion Anstis – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital
Fungi Nick Speyer – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital	Turtle in Vanuatu Bob Sendt – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital
Together Margaret Fagg – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Digital	Lava Contours Margaret Fagg – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Juvenile King Elaine Holliday – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print	Keeping an eye on the babies Elaine Holliday – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Lake Sculptures Sonia Conn – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print	Lake surface exploding Jon Holliday – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Colour Large Print
Katydid dinner Marion Anstis – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Small Print	Home Builders Bruce Williams – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Small Print
Swans Love Leo Darby – Highly Commended – Set SetSubject Mono Print

by Elaine Holliday, May 17, 2022

Sport Photography Opportunity

Sean, our old president has reached out to us to give the club an opportunity to practice some sports photography. Here’s his letter:

“I’m part of the coaching squad in Hornsby Heights Football Club, each
year we have a Female Football Festival, designed to showcase and expand
female participation in football. I’m involved in organising the day
which is happening on Sunday May 22nd.

For many years I’ve been the primary photographer and may be again this
year; however I would love to extend an invite to members who have an
interest in sports photography, or just photography, that may wish to
get some practice in. The event runs from 9am until approx 4:30pm –
games will run across 5 fields during this period. No expectation of
someone to be there all day – even though I usually am when I am the
only photographer.”

If you are interested, let me know and I can put you in contact with Sean.

Tom

by Tom Carlos, May 10, 2022

Nature Workshop Video

G’day all,

This is the link to the Roy Killen Nature Tutorial recorded in March. It’s a recording of a Zoom session. The link below will take you to the club’s Google drive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rbr-8HFXfR3Rktbjh9P7tiEaF8562nQc/view?usp=sharing

Don’t forget that our Nature round closes on Saturday evening.

Tom

by Tom Carlos, May 10, 2022

HHCC 2022 Photo Rally Brief

Hi All,

Welcome to today’s photo rally. You’ll find the brief for this attached here! Have a fun day!!

by David Curtis, May 7, 2022

HHCC – 2022 Photo Rally

STOP PRESS – IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN – 7th MAY 2022 PHOTO RALLY

As this is our main outing of the year, we hope you’ve put it in your diaries and that most of our members will join us for our biggest social event of the year.

Hi Everyone,

It’s that time of year again and we are heading to Barangaroo, The Rocks and Darling Harbour (see map attached) where there are some amazing photo opportunities! And the weather looks good too!! We’ve expanded the area this year as most of us haven’t had many opportunities since
covid hit to get out and about in the city with our cameras. Details are attached, please see our flyer.

The brief will be given out on Saturday morning when we meet at 10.30am,
those that can’t make it, there will be an email sent out as well after 11 a.m.
It is important that anyone attending send an email with their phone number just in case any details change, to elaine.holliday@ymail.com or
secretaryhornsbyheightscameraclub@outlook.com, or you can text or call so that I know who is coming. I have made a WhatsApp Group so we are able to connect with each other.

Don’t worry if you don’t have WhatsApp as we can communicate by text. Anyone who has already let me know they are coming doesn’t need to let me know again.

See you on Saturday.
Elaine

by David Curtis, May 6, 2022