Dear Club members,

This is a reminder to submit up to three photographs from the Hunt & Shoot at Edwardes Lake Park to the Competition Steward, Sonya O’Brien. Although the Hunt & Shoot was not a competition, Sonya will create a slideshow to show off our best pictures at the next meeting on 24 February. Email her your images at competition@prestonphotographicclub.net

A big thanks to Sonya for organizing such a fun event.

It wouldn’t be summer without a barbecue!

The President’s BBQ is coming up this weekend.  It will be held at Deb’s place in North Fitzroy this Saturday, 15 February, from 5pm. Please bring your own meat and drink.

All club members and prospective members, their partners and families are welcome.

Please contact us for more details and to let us know numbers.

You want to take a long shot, but you don’t have a wide angle lens. What do you do?

Take multiple overlapping exposures and stitch them together to create a large stitched image. Not a whiz with with Photoshop? Try Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE).

ICE is a free, advanced panoramic image stitcher. Download the software, drop your image files into the program, and it will do all the work for you. ICE seamlessly combines your images to create a high-resolution panorama. It can even do an automatic crop to give you the biggest possible rectangular stitched image. When you are finished you can save it, or publish it on the web using Photosynth.

The Preston Photographic Club is kicking off the year with a new look for our website.

The website has a new design and new features including links to our Friends and Partners, a new page for our newsletter, Shutterbug, and a new gallery featuring digital photos from 2013.

A big congratulations to all our 2013 Competition winners!

Also, 2014’s first issue of Shutterbug is now up.

The Club’s first meeting of 2014 is Tuesday, 28 January. Member fees are due. We’ll be talking about our plans for the year and the handbook will be distributed. Be sure to bring a photo or two that you took over the holiday break. Guests are welcome to come and learn more about the Club.

About the image: Sea of Fog by Deborah Keir is the 2013 Image of the Year.

The Preston Photographic Club is proud to present an exciting program for 2014!

Competition subjects this year include Nature, Portraits, Up Close, Monochrome, all kinds of Scapes and much more and we will welcome back many of our favorite experts to critique them.  We’re also planning a number of exciting workshops on lighting, editing image software, and more, as well a number of social events such as the President’s BBQ and a weekend away. See our Program page for more information.

The Preston Photographic Club meets twice per month, usually on the second and fourth Mondays, at the Preston Library located at 266 Gower Street, Preston (Melway reference Map 18, G12). To find out more, see our about About Us page.