Photo Opportunities

By Paul Whitham APSNZ

Since 2019 PSNZ has been running a very successful series of workshops each year. We started with six and now have more than ten each year. In order to spread the opportunity around, workshop registrations are limited so that you can only attend one each year. Also, in order to maximise the participants' experience the number on each workshop is capped. While we have run some at 30, the majority have had between 10 and 15 participants.

Given the amount of time and effort necessary to organise workshops, we are almost at the capacity of what we can provide within a year. That means that in any year there will be a lot of members who miss out.

We are looking into the feasibility of running some additional events which will take the form of photo opportunities. They would not replace workshops but rather be run in conjunction with them.

We will look to gain access to locations that may not be easily accessible to the general public and then provide the opportunity for photographers to shoot there. We want to make it clear that these are not workshops and therefore will not be run by tutors. They will also not be catered.

We believe that in this way we will be able to expand the opportunities for all of our members to simply get out and shoot. While there will be no tutor, when you shoot with other photographers there is always the opportunity to share knowledge.

Before we proceed with this notion we would appreciate feedback from the membership. Those on Facebook could use the private group and those who are not could email their feedback direct to:

President@photography.org.nz