PSNZ Workshop series 2022

News from Karen Moffatt-McLeod LPSNZ, PSNZ Councillor for Workshops

We are about to embark on our second workshop of the 2022 Workshop Series, the South Island Astro Workshop with Joseph Pooley at Lake Tekapo. I look forward to seeing the Astro images from this weekend and the “exploration” images that this location lends itself to during the day.

Then we have the rescheduled 2021 North Island Landscape Workshop with Meghan Maloney on the Coromandel Peninsula on 11, 12 and 13 June. Meghan’s South Island Landscape Workshop follows this in Queenstown on 15, 16 and 17 July. These workshops fill up quickly, indeed! We have also been trialling the “residential” type of workshop with PSNZ arranging the accommodation. We look forward to feedback after these workshops to see how people feel about this.

In late June/early July, we will release the next lot of Workshops:

• Street / Urban with Helen Westerbeke FPSNZ, 5 & 6 August in Wellington ̶ exploring Cuba Street and surrounding areas. A reasonable level of fitness is required for a lot of walking.

• Astro Photography with Greg Stevens FPSNZ, 26 & 27 August. To be held in an area slightly north of Auckland.

• Bird Photography with Steve Attwood – spring, in a location around Christchurch. Easy access for people, details to be confirmed.

• Creative Portrait Photography with Karolina Ferbei, 1 & 2 October in Tauranga. Attendees will need laptops with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for the editing section.

• Novice Landscape with Graham Dainty FPSNZ, 22, 23 &24 October, Buller. This workshop is for first-time workshop attendees and those who regard their level of photography as beginner/novice.

• ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) workshop with Judy Stokes APSNZ, 26 November, Miranda. Birds, seascapes, etc.

In addition to the 2-3 day workshops, we hope to bring a couple of one-day learning experiences to the Auckland area this year. The PSNZ website will have information about each workshop and its price. An email will go out to PSNZ members when registrations are open, as well as a notification on the PSNZ Facebook page. Once you have registered, you will receive in-depth information on the workshop.

If anyone is keen to run a workshop in 2023, please contact me at workshops@psnz.org.nz We are starting to plan the 2023 series and looking for more facilitators and new subjects (as well as the always popular ones). Thanks to my team, Nicole Tai and Jayne Parker, and all the workshop facilitators who make these workshops memorable.