Regional Convention News

Speed It Up and Slow It Down!

PSNZ Central Regional Convention 2021 - You’re Invited!

JOIN US IN celebrating the art of photography at the PSNZ Central Regional Convention in Taupo from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2021.

Our theme highlights the many technical and artistic elements that we photographers use to create great images. There are so many ways to Speed It Up and Slow It Down in our photographic work.

Do you want to capture the feeling of speed by slowing the shutter speed down and panning to evoke the sense of movement? Or capture the height of the action by upping your shutter speed and freezing the moment? As one of the country’s top sports photographers, John Cowpland knows all about working at high speed and under intense deadline pressure, making quick decisions about the feeling he wants the image to evoke and what settings to use.

Perhaps you prefer life at a slightly slower pace, taking your time. Taupo is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy the view, to make those beautiful landscape images, long exposures with beautiful milky waters as you look across to the mountain. Perhaps you like your images to have a more painterly look and want to try impressionism, the art of combining slow shutter speeds with movement, expressing emotion through photography. Both Annette Johnston APSNZ and Eva Polak LPSNZ have this down to a fine art.

If you’re keen to return to where photography started for you, the way it used to be, you will enjoy listening to Michael Bradley (left) as he tells us about his personal project using wet plate photography.

If you’re a traveller, someone who likes to get off the treadmill of everyday life and escape to another country, see other cultures, tell stories of other places and times gone by through your images, then Jeremy Bright APSNZ is your man (right).

Our programme will be a mixture of high energy and chill, opportunities to catch up with old friends and make new acquaintances, learn about and share our passion for photography - all in and around Taupo, the wonderful and beautiful place that members of Taupo Camera club call home.

PSNZ is very grateful to Taupo Camera Club for their generous involvement and support in organising and volunteering to make this fantastic event possible.

The convention will be based at the Suncourt Hotel and Conference Centre, an established and full-facility convention centre with easy walking distance to lake and town. It has an on-site restaurant and bar, and our convention dinner will be held on site. High quality accommodation is available at the centre, and Suncourt have agreed to hold all rooms for us until the end of May 2021.

Check out the Suncourt facilities at https://suncourt.nz/ and when booking please phone 07 378 8265 and quote the reference ‘2061 PSNZ’ for convention accommodation rates.

Registrations for the convention will open shortly after the Vision 2021 National Convention being held in Christchurch in April.

Mandeville Fly-In

The Gore Camera Club is holding an exhibition of members’ photos at the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre at Mandeville, just out of Gore in Southland. The exhibition will open in mid-February and can be seen during the Mandeville Fly-In on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 February 2021.

For more information email gorecameraclub@gmail.com and www. croydonaviation.co.nz/events-happening-at-mandeville will tell you more about the Fly-In.