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2019 Award winners

Image of the Year

Fay Renton

Grade Winners

A Grade – Lyn Craggs

A Grade Encouragement Award – Marg Pannan

B Grade – David Godden

B Grade Encouragement Award – Jan Hannermann

C Grade – Leona Broekman

C Grade Encouragement Award – Paul Brial

Congratulations to all our winners. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

by Kevin Craggs, December 8, 2019

Don’t Forget the Christmas Party next Sunday 8th December 2019.

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Ho, Ho, Ho

It’s Christmas Party Time again

Sunday 8th December 2019

At Noon

This year club members and their family are again invited to attend a BBQ lunch and annual presentation of awards at; Cheryl and Bill Randall’s at

“Glenrockie” 88 Rushes Creek Rd Manilla.

Turn left at the BP into South St, then left at the T intersection onto to Rushes Creek Rd (the road to Gunnedah) then “Glenrockie” is 880 metres on the right.

President Cheryl encourages you to bring the whole family, husbands, wives, partners, big kids, little kids and even the grandkids as she has arranged a special visit from Santa at about 3pm.

Cheryl & Bill will supply the meat, members are requested to bring their own drinks and a salad or a sweet to share.

We ask that you please make a $10 donation for adults and a $5 donation for littlies to our fundraising for Variety, the Children’s Charity, there will be a box available. If you place the donation in an envelope with your name on it, I can arrange a Tax Deductable Receipt for you.

If parents could supply a small gift-wrapped book with their child’s name on it for each of their children/grandchildren, it can be smuggled into Santa’s bag for distribution.

Please RSVP by 6^th Dec advising NAMES and numbers attending to Cheryl via email: presidenttamworthcameraclub@outlook.com

by Kevin Craggs, November 30, 2019

Tamworth Camera Club Xmas Break.

Tamworth Camera Club is now in recess until the 4th February 2020.

The next Camera Club meeting will be the AGM at 7pm, 4th February 2020, followed the normal club meeting.

The executive of Tamworth Camera Club wishes all members a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

See you all again in February.

by Kevin Craggs, November 30, 2019

Results for competitions in September

There were 0 entries that gained our highest award(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in September

by Kevin Craggs, October 2, 2019

October Club Meeting

Just a reminder that the Tamworth Camera Club’s next monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday evening the 1st October at West Diggers Club at 7pm.

All visitors are welcome.

by Kevin Craggs, September 28, 2019

Results for competitions in August

There were 0 entries that gained our highest award(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in August

by Kevin Craggs, September 4, 2019

Club Meeting Night 6th August

Just a reminder to all club members that our monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday night August 6th at 7 pm upstairs in Diggers.

Visitors welcome.

Basic training will be held between 6 – 6.45 pm for those who wish to attend.

by Kevin Craggs, August 4, 2019

Training Night 23rd July 2019 – ASTRO EDITING

Craige Watson from Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club has again kindly offered to give up his time to help club members…. this month he will be tutoring members in editing astrophotography images.

The evening will start at 7pm, make sure and bring writing material to take notes for later use, when using your own editing software.

Looking forward to seeing as many as members as possible on the night.

by Kevin Craggs, July 20, 2019

Astro Training Notes

A huge thanks must go out to Craige Watson from the Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club for giving up his time to conduct the Astro training evening on the 25th June. 15 club members attended and spent nearly 2 hours being tutored by Craige and taking photos.

Craige has sent to the club a summary of setting to use as a base line to explore and adjust for great astro shots.

Tripod, cable release or a timer release, manual mode on your DSLR or Mirroless camera, use your widest angle lens eg 14mm, 24mm or 50mm, sutter speed 15 – 20 seconds, aperture set to the widest possible eg f2.8 or 3.5 or 4 etc and ISO 1600 – 6400.

Focus on an object such as the moon, distant light or bright star and switch camera lens to manual focus.

Apps for your phone to assist with times for astro events. Planetarium software for your Android phone or Sky Safari, Stellarium for IOS. some apps may cost. PhotoPills is another app but does cost to purchase.

Software to process your images. DeepSky Stacker (free), Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Lumiar, GIMP.

A great resource: Alan Dyer – AmazingSky.com

by Kevin Craggs, July 7, 2019

Club results from the Northern Zone Conference 2019

Well done to the following members who achieved awards at Zone.

Monochrome Digital :- 2nd Place – Fay Renton “Ariana”

Merit Awards :- Fay Renton “The Ball” – Large Colour Print. Cheryl Randall “The Pelican” – Small Colour Print. Chris Miller “Ebor Falls” – Colour Digital.

The Ball
The Pelican
Ebor Falls

Honourable Mentions :- Harry Hausfeld “Roma’s Flower” , Terese Johnston “SCB” and Jenelle Germon “On The Beach” – Small Colour Print. Phil Ennis “Platform” and Angelina Nelson ” The Game” – Monochrome Print. Angelina Nelson “Fried Eggs” – Set Subject “Still Life”.