Tuesday 14/02  Presenter, Luke Tscharke, Astrophotography.
Luke Tscharke – Landscape and travel photographer.
We kicked off the first meeting for the year with Luke Tscharke presenting Astrophotography.
It was an exciting evening for the members, this was the first ever presentation on Astrophotography. A fantastic evening by Luke and inspirational images.
Luke specialises in composing and capturing wide field Milky Way images and runs workshops in different locations.
Feedback:
Luke’s presentation was fantastic! Very nicely done and super interesting!  Jochen Hess
Excellent presentation by Luke.  Les Atkins

Tuesday 28/02 Competition – Open.
Competition got off to a great start with a large number of entries. in all categories.
Judge Dennis Jones is well experienced at camera club judging and gives a very good critique on competition images aimed at being helpful to members learning.
Feedback:
Thanks Dennis, you do a great job!

Online subject – Curves judged by Luke Austin

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We are the first camera club to introduce presentations LIVE via Skype.
We have had two wonderful LIVE presentations with Tin Man. He is so interesting and funny at the same time. The evening went from telling us about himself, what camera’s  and lenses  he uses, inspiring images taken on location Yellow stone National Park, Mount Evans, Colorado, Katmai National Park, Alaska, funny stories whilst out in the field  and his famous bear image that won the 2014 Nature’s Best, Grand Prize displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington DC.

Feedback: Well the members just couldn’t get enough of Tin Man Lee, he was so humble, interesting and funny. We could have sat through another few hours of his stories.

2014 our first Skype we invited Sean Bagshaw from Oregon USA. A professional landscape, nature and travel photographer. Sharing the vision and spirit of his images, as well as techniques used to create his photos. Sean is a fine art outdoor photographer, digital image developing enthusiast and photography educator based in Ashland, Oregon.
We had two brilliant presentations by Sean.
Feedback: Hey Sean, Thanks again for another terrific evening for our members, glued to the screen and ears and eyes open wide that’s how it was. Some took oodles of notes.
I feel for you, early hours in the morning but I know everyone is inspired by your work and very thorough way of going through your work flow.
This new way of presenting certainly has the edge over other clubs.
I hope one day you can come down under for a visit and join Glen’s sunrise group for early morning shoots and breakfast.
Reply: You are most certainly welcome. I always enjoy it despite the late hour. I love how active and enthusiastic your club is. It is on my life list to make it to Australia one day. A sunrise shoot with Glen and the gang would be a first priority. Cheers,