Club liaison news

Club Liaison

Jane Muller, PSNZ Councillor

In the spirit of travel, and with us all embracing New Zealand travel enthusiastically, PSNZ is working on a new service to members. It’s called Good Photo Spots or GPS. It’s been in the pipeline for a while, but we’re starting it in earnest now.

We’re aiming to provide a place, probably the Members Only page on the PSNZ website, where members hunt out ideas for good photo spots when they’re away from home, along with some useful photographic information about those spots. So, when you’ve suddenly got a half-day to yourself while you’re at a conference, or while you’re on holiday with your family and can sneak away for some photography time, or you’re just lucky enough to be able to plan a photography holiday ̶ you’ll be able to consult the website for some ideas.

Soon we’ll be asking folk to tell us about the good photo spots in their own town, city or region, to help us develop the resource. Over time we hope it will become increasingly useful as more information is added.

The plan is not intended to cover those secret and special spots; they need to remain secret and special. We don’t want to run the risk of damaging them with too many visitors. It’s just for those spots that are well known to locals, but not necessarily well known to “out of towners”. For example: Te Mata Peak at sunrise in Hawkes Bay, Wingspan in Rotorua, or the Classic Car Museum in Nelson.

I’ll send an email to all members soon and start gathering information.

Thanks, and happy shooting. You can contact me at jem.psnz.org.nz or 021 0278 9286.