White Night Melbourne returns this month promising to be bigger and better than last year’s inaugural event.

White Night is a global celebration of art in public spaces. In Melbourne, city streets, laneways, landmarks and cultural institutions are transformed into a cultural playground from dusk-till-dawn. It’s an urban adventure of exhibitions, street performances, fashion, lighting installations, film screenings, multimedia projections, concerts, dance and interactive events. Here are some scenes from last year:

White Night Melbourne is on 22 February from 7pm to 7am. It’s mostly free though there are some ticketed events. Please visit the White Night Melbourne website for more information.

White Night Melbourne is a wonderful opportunity to take some unique photos of a Melbourne transformed. I recommend arriving early as it’s a huge draw and take plenty of water. See you there!

The Preston Photographic Club’s exhibition at michaels camera video digital store opens tomorrow. The store is located on the corner of Lonsdale and Elizabeth Street in the Melbourne CBD.

Members of the Club will be in the store from 2pm setting up and the photos will be on view until December 6th.

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For members attending Monday’s meeting, please bring your end-of-year entries as well as your entries for the Assignment:

Annual Club Assignment – Photos taken with a portable digital device other than a dedicated camera, e.g. smart phone, iPad, Android tablet. This is just for fun and to see what’s possible, but don’t forget the judge will still be looking at image quality and composition.

The Preston Photographic Club is holding an exhibition at michaels camera video digital store.

The exhibition runs 8 November – 6 December. Opening night is Friday, November 8th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm.

We hope that you are able to come along, and please bring friends and family. There will be snacks and refreshments and you’ll be able to vote for your favourite image.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to see some terrific photography and catch up with other members, family, and friends.

We are very pleased to invite you to our November Exhibition at Michaels Photographic Gallery – Level 1, cnr Lonsdale and Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.

Our Opening Night is Friday 2nd November 5:30 – 7:30 – please come along and help us celebrate.  Could members please bring a plate of nibbles to hand around.

The Exhibition is then open until Friday 30th November during store hours.  Please invite all your friends and family and colleagues to come along.  It showcases some great work by members.

The Preston Photographic Club will hold an exhibition at michaels Camera Video Digital store.

Club members are invited to participate.

Guide for exhibitors:

Club members may submit one or two open images in digital format.

All submissions must be provided as a JPEG or flattened TIFF files, with colour profile of Adobe RGB.

All submissions should have as fine a resolution as possible as they will be printed on A3 paper at 240 dpi.

As a guideline submissions should aim to be in excess of

• 3863 pixels on the long edge OR
• 2711 pixels on the short edge

Smaller images can still be submitted and may be printed in a smaller size but will be displayed in the same size mount.

Please do not resize your prints to meet these requirements.

Submissions are due 24 September.

With the aim of getting a consistent looking exhibition, we will be arranging the printing for all images in the exhibition.  We have arranged favourable terms for printing.  They will be printed at up to A3 size by Michaels Fine Art Printing at a significant discount on good quality bartya paper and presented with a white mount (20X16 inches).  The size of the final mounted print will be eligible for club or VAPS competitions.  If you want them framed after the competition, they should fit into a standard size frame.

The cost for each image submitted will be $35 including printing and mount. This is a significant discount. We will allow members to submit additional images for printing/mounting at this great rate.

We are asking everyone to pay for their prints in advance.

If you would like assistance with finalising your image in Photoshop or Lightroom, please let me (Deb) know and we’ll arrange someone to help you.

Each print will be exhibited with a label with the photographer’s name, the image title and we will also indicate Standard or Novice to indicate the competition class that the photographer competes in.

Popular Competition

As part of the exhibition we will be asking visitors to vote for their favourite image (in standard and in novice).  We will be selecting one entry at random and giving them their choice of image printed up as it is for the competition paid for by the club.

We will also be awarding a $50 printing voucher for the overall popular vote in both standard and in novice.

Time frames

All images must be provided by 24 September, but I will be seeking an indication if you will be participating by next meeting.

The exhibition will run from November 2^nd to November 30^th, with an opening night event on Friday 2^nd.

We’ll like some assistance in hanging the exhibition from 4-6pm on Thursday 1^st and Friday 2^nd November.

We may also be running a working-bee to assemble the photos.