Next Set of compt May 2012 onwards

Comps open Monday of each week and are popular vote.  Challenges (which are in red) go for two weeks to allow the photographer time to snap that image, and are judged by pro photographers within the group and administration. 

May 2012
Monday 21 Flowers
Monday 28 Food and Wine
June 
Monday 4th Silhouette
Monday 18th Orange
Monday 25th Moment of Reflection 
July 
Monday 2nd Black and White
Monday 16th What is that?
Monday 23rd Architecture
Monday 30th Shoes 
August
Monday 6th Leading lines
Monday 20th In motion without motion
Monday 27th He's a crazy...............



The comp and challenge rules are on the Face book page and if you need to ask question please always do as we're all learning together.

Rule of Thirds

This comp was published in the Newman news I was so excited for the person that won.  First of all the Rule of Thirds was a challenge the challenge being can you take an image that represents the Rule of Thirds.  There were some great shots and much debate about if some of the images represented the Rule of Thirds or if they were just nice images.  The comp was not the usual popularity contest that every one could vote on but was instead voted on by professionals within the group.

The winner of the comp was Dave Curtis who found out while on holiday to Bali (Lucky Dave).  The image of the famous Lions Park Emu perfectly represented the Rule of thirds with the eye of the emu on two intersecting lines and its necks following one of the Vertical axis.

RED comp

RED

Winning image by Rusty Baker, Hand Rail Pool, Karijini

Simone Pes

Red could mean so many things in a comp, and the Pilbara Photography Group showed many forms of Red it was a very popular comp and members of the group loved the varying interpretations that were presented in the competition.   The winning image was taken at the amazing Hand Rail Pool by Rusty Baker.  Rusty is a regular entrant into competitions and always has a high standard to work.  Well done Rusty we all look forward to seeing more of your images in future comps and challenges.

Jess Fenwick Red Balloons - Miners Park Reserve Newman

Dave Curtis (Fire works at Capricorn Oval)

Chillax the Theory of chilling out and Relaxing comp

Chillax is a combination of words chilling and Relaxing.  Its important to always do a bit of both especially in the Pilbara where we do work those long hard hours.

The images were great in this competition and travelled Australia and the world to find the images.  The Winning image by Normandie Meyer one of the pro Photographers.  Normandie said it was taken in Paternoster, Western Cape, South Africa on a family holiday.  The long photo was cropped and looks wonderful.  Well done Normandie your Medellin will be sent to you once they are made.

www.facebook.com/pages/Normandie-Meyer-Photography/10594650951694

Daily Toil

Competition 4 Daily Toil 

Daily toil could mean so much, it was a great comp with some fabulous images.

The winner and for good reason was Jessica Brockwell, whose image of a rodeo was stunning. Jess said her shot was taken with a point and shoot.  This image is an amazing example on how changing the perspective can make the image POP.

Special mention was given to Andrea Church who's image of rocks falling from a conveyor belt showed off her obvious talent in photography. 

Well done


Next weeks comp is RED looking forward to the amazing images

Diary of dates

Competitions and Challenge Dates
This is not a definitive list of what the competitions will be as they may change as the group develops.

1 Everything Pilbara
2Pilbara animals Done
3 Plants done
4 Daily Toil done
5 RED Starts Monday 21st Nov
6 'Chillax The concept of Chilling out and Relaxing' Starts Monday 28th Nov
7 Rule of Thirds Starts Monday 5th Dec (Photoshop) Challenge
8 'Action shot' Starts Monday 12th Dec
9 Summer Starts Monday 19th of Dec to 11th Jan
10 Our volunteers Starts Monday 16th Jan
11) Self Portrait Starts Monday 23rd Jan Challenge
12 One Image Many Scapes  (Photoshop) Starts Monday 30th Jan
13 Brilliance Starts Monday 6th Feb
14 Geology Starts Monday13th Feb
15 Food Starts Monday20th Feb
16 Advert (Photoshop) Starts Monday27 Feb Challenge
17 Blue Starts Monday5th March
18 Love your Town Starts Monday 12th March
19 Kissing the stars Starts Monday 19th March
20 Storm Show (photoshop) Starts Monday 26th Challenge
21 Most Prized starts Monday  2nd April
22 Natural Landscape starts Monday 9th Arpil
23 Weather starts Monday 16th April
24 Joy starts Monday 23rd April
25 Abstract (Photoshop) Starts Monday 30th April Challenge


More to come :)

This weeks theme for the photography competition was Pilbara Animals and it was a double vote due to a 4 way tie.  The winners for the comp with 10 votes each were Katrina Anne McCann, Melita Masterman, Kelly Johnson AND Partiesby Imagination also known as Helen Finn ,well done to all of you for putting in such wonderful images.  The second vote which decided the overall vote was made by the professional photographers in the group and the admins.

The end winner was an amazing image by Helen Finn who took this while wading through reeds.  Jody Ellis,  photographer and one of the expert judges stated that she loved the depth of field. 'You have the subject in focus, and there are no distractions from your photos stars, but also the moment that you have managed to capture is one of the reasons I give you my vote.  Dragonflies, especially this particularly small species, are hard to catch at the best of times. But here, you have them mating as well. A hard shot, and you nailed it. Well done'.

Helen is a Newman Icon who produces fabulouse cakes for all events and loves taking photos or anything but people.  

Well done helen 

Katrina Anne McCann

Kelly Johnson

Melita Masterman

The runner up images which were all as stunning. I would like to thank everyone for participating. voting and most of all loving the competitions and being so helpful