have thoroughly I enjoyed my first year Sally Paterson as a member of MCC. a profile Photography is a relatively recent hobby technical side of the camera and for me, so I’ve been composition basics, but I also met some very surprised to fabulous people that I remain in touch discover I have an eye with, including my teacher Deb Dorman. for creating images. Receiving an award At the end of my Level 2 course, or two in my first MCC competitions Deb talked about ‘what’s next’ for my gave me the encouragement needed to photography journey, suggesting joining continue entering each month. Receiving a camera club as a way to remain active two aggregate awards in the End of Year in photography. The MCC was on her competitions – second in Novice and list of possible options to consider. I had third equal in Set Subject (Print) – made lived in Port Melbourne for more than the year so very rewarding. 10 years, regularly driving past the MCC I work for an investment bank in clubrooms, but never really knew what the city by day (and they can be long happened inside. I thought it was about days!) – I run administration and time to find out. My first experience executive support across our offices in with the Club was the inaugural MCC Australia and NZ in the corporate Photowalk in 2017, around the streets of

One of my goals for 2018 was to enter the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Salon in November. The experience of submitting my work to a gallery outside of the MCC and offer it up for sale was simply excellent. It was also the first time I had my work printed on fine art paper. I’ve always loved the feel of paper and the finished product was amazing. To top it all off, I was stunned to receive an award for one of my entries – the Vanbar Best Street Photo for my Naples Shadows image. The image was taken in Italy earlier in 2018 when I spent a day with a local photographer exploring the back streets advisory division. After nearly 9 years South Melbourne. It was such a fun within the historical heart of Naples. I with the firm, I wear many hats and afternoon chatting with like-minded had asked him to help me out with street troubleshoot lots of queries navigating people in a relaxed environment – I was photography ideas as the genre was new around such a large global machine. In hooked! to me. He taught me a lot of patience, my ‘spare’ time I try to spend as much time as I can continuing to learn, see and practice photography. Although I have worked in the financial markets industry most of my working life, I have always been creative and crafty in my spare time. Prior to photography I had an online shop with Etsy designing, making and selling handmade journals, but I was looking for something more that would get me out and about, seeing the world. My photography journey only began in early 2017. I had bought my first DSLR and wanted to know how to make the most of it. I started out with a complimentary course from Michaels camera shop, then ventured to RMIT to complete Level 1 and Level 2 Technical & Aesthetic Photography short courses. Not only was I intrigued learning the

Page 2 Exposure together with spending quite a bit of new images, either on my own or with within the MCC and further afield. I’m time finding the light and shade, waiting others. Beaches, cities and architecture keen to continue to learn on this for the right person to walk through the are my favourites, as are flowers and photography journey, and love being frame. The shaft of light in my winning gardens. I’m hoping to get out and about actively involved with the MCC on the photo makes it one of my favourites more with my analogue camera and Education Committee and with co- from that day – I love the strong contrast attend more of the MCC Analogue organising and building on the success between the light and shade. We waited Group meetings to learn about playing of the Monthly Photowalks. I’m working around 10 minutes for the man to walk with film, pinhole cameras and towards eventually selling my images, by, yet I only had a fraction of time to alternative processes, and experiment although I do need more hours in my capture 3 images of this man before he with my favourite so far – making day to fit everything in! disappeared on his way. Cyanotype images. I enjoy exploring the environment I am looking forward to my around me as often as I can to capture photography year ahead in 2019 both

Naples Shadows 2019 - 1 Page 3 End of Year Competition Results

Photo Essay - Print Best Figure Study - Print Best PDI Best Photo Essay The Dr Geoffrey Smith Trophy Peter Walton Melissa Jane Cachia Jane Clancy Lotus Flower Asylum Walkthrough Study with Viola The Queenie Gatt Award Highly Commended Land, Sea or Cloudscape - Print Jim Weatherill Richard Faris The Charles Seymour Trophy 2018 Photographers of Tannery at Fez Gary Richardson the Year New Member, Half Dome Sponsored by Bond Imaging Novice - Print Highly Commended Ken Bretherton Best Novice Print The Mal Jane Clancy Kadri Elcoat McKay Trophy Tuscan Fog Mary Willis Mark Devaraj 2018 PDI Aggregate Masseria Potenti, Puglia Dawn at Callala Bay, Scores Highly Commended Jervis Bay NSW A Grade Daryl Groves Kadri Elcoat st Midnight Blue Fire Under Ice 1 Jane Clancy – The Albert R. Benjamin Lee Jerzy Alexander Lau Andrews Trophy 2nd Susan Brunialti Korean Feast Banquet Two Port Phillip Bay rd Susan Brunialti 3 Lesley Bretherton Creative - Print Lake Amadeus B Grade Best Creative Print st Melissa Jane Cachia Open - Print 1 Kadri Elcoat – the Norton Hobson Trophy Frozen Poppies Best Open Print nd Highly Commended Lesley Bretherton 2 Anne Seddon 3rd Richard Faris Melissa Jane Cachia Winter Birch Hokkaido Frozen Iris Highly Commended Set Subject Mark Devaraj Lesley Bretherton 1st Jane Clancy Just Checking - Carbon Print Mist in the Veidivon 2nd Kadri Elcoat on Aluminium Susan Brunialti 3rd Tuck Leong

Photojournalism - Print Escherian Stairwell Judi Mowlem 2018 Print Aggregate The L.A. Baillot Trophy Scores Mark Deveraj Roadway to Peace Sally Paterson Novice Print Birthday Time st Naples Shadows 1 Benjamin Lee – The Peter Highly Commended Hunter Trophy Marg Huxtable The Print of the Year, Sponsored 2nd Sally Paterson Looking to the Future by Borges Imaging rd 3 Belle Tweedale Nature - Print The Charles Du Rieu Trophy Judi Mowlem A Grade Print The Crosby Morrison Trophy 1st Ken Bretherton – The Len Judi Mowlem Kati Thanda From Above #1 Mullumby Trophy Kati Thanda From Above #1 Photography is Fun, 2nd Gary Richardson Highly Commended The Bockey 3rd Judi Mowlem Marg Huxtable Melissa Jane Cachia The Power of Nature Frozen Poppies B Grade Print st Jerzy Alexander Lau 1 Kadri Elcoat nd Cooling Off Awards Sponsored by 2 Angela Brown rd Jerzy Alexander Lau Michaels Camera Video 3 Suzanne Martin

Little Wattlebird and Digital Set Subject st People - Print Special Novice 1 Suzanne Martin nd The H. McConnell Trophy Daryl Groves 2 Ken Bretherton Still Night 3rd Kadri Elcoat and Sally Paterson Marg Huxtable

Run Kids Run Special Subject, Multicultural PDI Competitions Highly Commended Melbourne Creative – PDI Suzanne Martin Suzanne Martin Best Creative My Mum The Magician Susan Brunialti Jim O’Donnell Best Monochrome Print Fibonacci Spiral The Blacksmith Marg Huxtable Highly Commended John Parkinson Aliens Have Landed Kees Zonneveld Margaret Best Colour Print Blue by You Judi Mowlem Kadri Elcoat Centre of Attention Dragon Play

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Photojournalism – PDI People PDI The Alan Elliott Trophy The Wilf Broadhead Trophy Susan Brunialti Tuck Leong Excuse us While we Change The Appearance Highly Commended Highly Commended Melissa Jane Cachia Angela Brown, Jane Barnes, who won the Harry Brian Seddon Cleveland Trophy for the best Land, Sea and Snooze Time Train Gang Cloudscape PDI, Tuck Leong and Jane Clancy Susan Brunialti Marg Huxtable receive awards for their entries Bring the Children Here Black Beanie Ken Bretherton Nature - PDI Smoko The Ted Rotherham Trophy Anne Seddon Gary Richardson Watchful Malachite Kingfisher, Botswana Highly Commended Best Projected Image of the Year Anne Seddon The Alan G. Gray Trophy Forest Loop Susan Brunialti Excuse us While we Change Graeme Diggle Flying Past Book Competition Sue Rocco Highly Commended Bat Anatomy Annette Donald Kadri Elcoat Japan, a Different Perspective Benjamin Lee,Daryl Groves, and Mary Willis Shake your Tailfeather David Ellis who won the Best Novice Print The Shed Land, Sea or Cloudscape PDI The Harry Cleveland Trophy Commended Jane Barnes Ian Bock T Intersection This too, is Chaos Highly Commended Melissa Jane Cachia Richard Faris Beechworth Asylum c1867 Undulations Gary Richardson Tuck Leong Yosemite Valley Barchan 1 Brian Seddon, president Peter Tredrea, Sue Jane Barnes Audio-VisualBest Open AV Brunialti and her son Jack Sykes, with Alan Beyond Elliot who presented Sue with his Alan Elliot Linda Zwierlein Trophy for photo-journalism Ken Bretherton Scoresbysund Laguna Amarga Patagonia Highly Commended Angela Brown Robert Cutting Dragon’s Head Victoria Falls - The Smoke That Jane Clancy Thunders The Power of One Barb Butler

Open PDI Yawuru Welcome Grace Lock Trophy Jane Clancy Richard Faris Lady Thornrose – Modern Pinnacle Day Seamstress

Highly Commended Best 3.21 AV Jane Clancy Linda Zwierlein David Ellis on the left gained a Highly Com- Agapanthus Bud mended for his book, The Shed, while Ian Bock All Roads Lead to Deni and Melissa Jane Cachia were Jane Clancy Highly Commended commended for their entries Abandoned, Isle of Mull John Spring Peter Walton Historic Pyalong Fair Crack of the Whip Trestle Bridge Belle Tweedale Jane Clancy Buddy The Ballet Dancer Lesley Bretherton Peter Tredrea Winter Tree Hokkaido 1 The Battle Melissa Jane Cachia Mare and Foal Kees Zonneveld Hibiscus Kadri Elcoat right came first in the Print B Grade Aggregate, with Angela Brown, centre second and Suzanne Martin left, third

2019 - 1 Page 5 Graeme Diggle, Anne Seddon, Sue Rocco and Kedri Elcoat line up to receive highly com- mended awards for their Nature PDI entries. The section was won by Gary Richardson who was far away

Jane Clancy, Suzanne Martin, Jim O'Donnell and Marg Huxtable with their People Print awards

Puglia_Masseria Potenti won Mary Willis the Mal McKay Trophy for Best Novice Print Tuck Leong with the Wilf Broadhead Trophy. Anne Seddon, Marg Huxtable and Melissa Jane Cachia with their People PDI awards

Still Night, Daryl Groves received the Michaels Special Novice Award Benjamin Lee right won the Peter Hunter Trophy for the top Novice print, Sally Paterson centre came second, with Belle Tweedale third.

Page 6 Exposure Run Kids Run. Marg Huxtable won The H.McConnell Trophy for Best People Print

Study with Viola The Appearance. Jane Clancy won The Dr Geoffrey Smith Trophy Tuck Leong won The Wilf Broadhead Trophy for Best People PDI for Best Figure Study 2019 - 1 Page 7 The Awards Sponsored by Michaels Camera Video and Digital

The Magician Suzanne Martin's entry won the Special Subject section, Multicultural Melbourne

Aliens Have Landed, Marg Huxtable won Michaels' Best Monochrome Print

Peter Michael left, presents the awards to Suzanne Martin, Daryl Groves, Marg Huxtable Centre of Attention and Peter Walton Judi Mowlem won Michael's Best Colour Print and also won the Charles du Rieu Print Trophy

Cover Photo

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Susan Rocco

Peter Walton's Lotus Flower Michael's Best PDI

Page 8 Exposure Photography is Fun The Queenie Gatt Trophy The Photography is he Queenie Gatt Trophy is a perpetual trophy that is Fun trophy, known T awarded by Charles Gatt in memory of his late mother as ‘The Bocky’, is Queenie Gatt. It is intended to honour MCC members for their awarded to an non-photographic work in support of the Club. image which The award winner receives the trophy, to be returned in demonstrates how much fun time for the next trophy holder to receive it, and a medal, photography can which is for him/her to keep. be. It is named for Ian Bock who, in his many years with the club, has inspired club members with his fantastically creative photographic images. The award winner receives the trophy which is in two parts. A brass key which is passed on to the next winner and the key tag which the winner gets to keep.

Jim Weatherill was recipient of the 2018 Queenie Gatt Award. Jim joined MCC in 1966 went to PNG for 4 years and re- joined MCC 1992. He was President in 2005. He has always been an active member and has judged and presented at MCC several times over his years of membership. He started, and ran the MCC Midweek Outings and combined them with Camberwell CC outings when he retired in 2006. He has been the Chairperson of the Competitions sub-committee for some years. In 2018, Jim took on the joint role of Exhibitions Coordinator with Sue Brunialti. MCC held 7 exhibitions in 2018, all of which were very successful and have attracted Frozen Poppies many new members, and made us friends in the local Melissa Jane Cachia won Best Creative Print and also won community. Jim was involved in the organisation, publicity, The Bockey Award for Photography is Fun installation and the manning of the exhibitions. Jim also rejuvenated the Stairwell Exhibition in 2018 by Melissa-Jane photographed the poppies frozen in a block displaying the awarded images from the monthly print of ice. It is an old technique but I haven’t seen it for a long competitions. Each month the newly awarded images are time and this has been done very well. framed and hung to replace the previous month’s images. Part of the secret is having the flowers stay in the right The exhibitions and the stairwell exhibition have contributed position in a large glass dish while the water freezes. You greatly to a new and encouraging spirit in the club. Now we then have to photograph it with a light shining through the have ways of displaying our images, not only in the monthly block of ice. The selection of flowers and the light shining competitions, but in a neutral environment. We have through them is what gives this such a delicate result while remarkable photographers in the club and the exhibitions are the ice gives it an element of abstraction. well accepted by our visitors. Jim is a peace-maker and his cheerful and generous Congratulations to a new club member. personality contributes a great deal to the friendly atmosphere Ian Bock in our club.

2019 - 1 Page 9 Winter Birch - Hokkaido Best Open Print by Lesley Bretherton Photographer of the year Joint Winner of Photographer of the Year award, Ken Bretherton was not present. He was somewhere in Antarctica with cold feet.

Photographer of the year Joint Winner of Photographer of the Year award, Kadri Elcoat

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Susan Brunialti with son Jack, Jane Clancy, Mark Devaraj, Kadri Elcoat and Jerzy Alexander were awarded highly commended for their land, sea and Fibonacci Spiral cloudscape images. Sue Brunialti Best Creative PDI

Malachite Kingfisher Botswana, Gary Richardson won the Ted Rotherham Trophy for Nature PDI

2019 - 1 Page 11 Birthday Time. Mark Deveraj wins The L.A.Baillot Trophy for Photojounalism Print Half Dome Gary Richardson won The Charles Seymour Trophy for Land, Sea or Cloudscape Print. Gary was away in the Antarctic on the night.

T Intersection Jane Barnes received The Harry Cleveland Trophy Land, Sea or Cloudscape PDI for this image

Page 12 Exposure The President’s Report fully booked and is running well. great success and, thanks to Thanks to Gary, Gail and Peter Selby’s organisation and Kadri’s Chapple and the many club catering, set the club on a strong members, for your support for this footing for further improving our important club activity. activities from a new members After a shaky period in 2018, perspective, as well as generally our WEB site is now stronger than improving the way we serve our elcome to the New Year! ever and should make even more members’ needs and expectations. W Congratulations to everyone progress this year. If you see areas The following are a few elements who entered last years End-of-Year for improvement in the WEB site, from Selby’s summary of the day’s competition and to the award and in fact any area of the club’s achievements and should be seen winners across our many categories. operation and administration, please as a start to the club development This year has hit the ground feel free to discuss with Board process this year. running, with a record number of Members, Special Interest Group  Website Group’s overall entries for our first print Leaders and Club Facility recommendation was that there competition this February. Managers. be more web site functionality Our first Introduction to The Club Planning Day held at for members. Photography Course for 2019 was the beginning of this month was a (Continued on page 15)

Peter Tredrea. John Spring and Jane Clancy received highly commended for their 3.21 presentations with Linda Zweirlein who won the Section

Best 321 AV All Roads Lead to Deni, a lively look at the Deniliquin Ute Muster by Linda Zwierlein

Linda Zwierlein won the Open AV section. Robert Cutter and Jane Clancy received highly commended award., Barbara Butler was absent. Best Open AV Scoresbysund images from her time in Greenland by Linda Zwierlein

2019 - 1 Page 13 Benjamin Lee - My Photography Journey

My journey with photography has not been a particularly long one. Despite having a curiosity in photography since I was a child, my actual adventure into photography did not begin until I acquired my first digital mirrorless camera, Sony NEX-6 in 2014. My family owned a manual point-and-shoot camera which I believe was Pentax PC35AF when I was young, however, I was restrained from operating the camera let alone touching it as it was considered almost like a family treasure. The first ever camera that I owned Southbank After Sunset was the Nikon E995 in 2001. It was a three-megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera with basic manual exposure settings. Despite having the camera to myself, largely due to my lack of understanding of the photography basics, I was unable to operate the camera beyond its automatic mode. The results from the camera were quite unpleasing with a large majority of the shots being out of focus or blurry. Now I think back, it would have been due to its tiny 1/1.8- inch sensor which is smaller than the Southbank During Sunset sensors commonly used in modern-day smart phone cameras, that would have obviously was focused around producing away from the set-camera and to fulfil slowed down the shutter speed contents for film and television, my eagerness to do something creative significantly to compensate for the however, the basic rules in on set, I got my camera out and started exposure. Furthermore, the results from cinematography in terms of camera capturing intriguing moments of the cast automatic colour balance were often operation, framing, lighting and post- and crew. In terms of the landscape incorrect producing outdoor photographs producing were very much applicable to photography, my interest began with me with warmer colour cast. photography. driving out to various destinations Frustrated by my lack of While at film school in 2014, I within Victoria with friends taking fundamental understanding of digital bought my first mirrorless camera a photographs of the scenery, trying out camera operation and photography and, Sony NEX-6 initially to make use of the the tips and tricks offered by various how I was always constrained to the video feature, however, as the time went photographers on YouTube. In terms of automatic mode on cameras, in late 2013 by I ended up using the camera the food photography, my interest began I finally enrolled myself in the bachelor’s primarily for photography. After five with me learning to take photographs for course in film and television at a film years of owning the camera my current the menu for my family restaurant school in South Melbourne, not far from passion in photography lies in business. Two photographs of the the camera club. As it was a film school, portraiture, landscape and food banquets I have taken for the restaurant not a photography school, the curriculum photography. My interest in capturing posters were awarded ‘highly portraiture commended’ at the end-of-year and began with me monthly-print competitions at the club taking last year. photographs of Since graduating from the film the candid school, I have been working with like- moments on minded filmmakers in a production film sets and company called Mad Alice Media as a behind the camera operator specialising in camera scene. Initially operation and camera assistance. In as the camera recent years, I have been involved in the assistant on creation of several narrative films both student short and feature length, music videos, projects, I had documentaries, television series as well a lot of time as live sports broadcast – in which I

Page 14 Exposure my car to fetch my (Continued from page 13) camera only to  The Fund Raising Group discover that the covered a wide range of batteries were all material and included flat. The only other Workshops and courses, camera that was in outside sources, sponsors, my bag was the club projects/ventures, a club Canon 300X with a spare roll of calendar, on-line sale of Fujifilm Provia 100 prints, public events, and – colour reversal competitions with entry fee film that was in my and Grants from the bag for quite some Government. time. Combined  The Exhibition Group Fishermen At Elwood with the gold hour recommended that a training/ lighting and slide orientation document be played a variety of roles including film’s ability to render colours, the produced for all members cinematographer, camera operator, photographs turned out shockingly assisting at an exhibition. camera assistant, camera grip and sound amazing with colours that are difficult to Also suggested was that there recordist. Most recently I worked as a replicate with digital images. be an electronic rostering remote camera operator for the Although I enjoy shooting portraits, system for manning Australian Open 2019. landscapes and food photography for exhibitions and this may be Ever since I laid my hands on a personal fulfilment, my medium to long- possible within the current Canon 300X, 35mm film SLR which term ambition in photography is to get booking system. was gifted to me by a generous member into the realm of professional  The New Member Group of a group on Facebook two years ago, I photography shooting more live-events was able to report from the have been trying to shoot more and such as concerts, festivals as well as position of strength as most of more with films, living by the popular sports. I understand that sports require the grpup were new members. phrase, ‘shoot film and stay broke’. The specific lenses and techniques, therefore, The primary recommendation reason for shooting on film despite its I hope to find a mentor who I can from the group was that a new inconvenience and quirks is because I shadow and learn the art of capturing member orientation program believe it produces photographs that are fast action, and hopefully take more realistic and authentic over digital photography to the next level making it be set up. images, capturing images that appear slightly more than my hobby.  Output from the Gender closer to the real subject. I have noticed Currently at the club, I enjoy Balance and Succession that when I process digital raw files in attending the Monday night’s portrait Group was diverse and Photoshop the majority of the time, I photography group and Wednesday included a revision of our unconsciously grade the images to night’s photographic lighting group. constitution to improve the replicate the traditional film-look. I also This year, I plan to participate in more way the club operates. enjoy experimenting with different groups and events at the club such as the  The New Revenue Group types of films with varying colour tones traditional darkroom photography group attempted to look at the wider and speeds. and learn how I can develop my own issues around gaining Since my discovery of colour films. revenue. Some of its focus reversal films, the statement has been I would like to take this opportunity was on generating more even more true for me with each roll to thank the members of the club for funding from the building. costing anywhere between $15-30. My giving me enormous encouragement and  The Floor Planning Group first experience with a roll of colour confidence in photography and hope to ran over both sessions with its reversal film (E-6) was last November continue being involved for many years. focus on the Archive Group at Elwood beach. I simply stopped by at and its storage needs. the beach to get myself an ice-cream In several of the areas from the van that covered, issues related to our was at the “not-for-profit” status, and carpark. It was at limitations in our current that moment I constitution, suggest that further noticed a group of fisherman investigations are needed before fishing at the pier some of the suggestions can be while the sun was implemented. setting behind The process of Club Review them. Not should be seen as an on-going one wanting to miss and I would encourage all the golden photo members to participate. opportunity I Regards to all, dashed back to Korean Banquet Peter Tredrea

2019 - 1 Page 15 IMAGES OF THE YEAR

Excuse us While we Change. Sue Brunialti won The Alan Elliott Trophy with this image, it was also awarded the Allan G. Gray Trophy for PDI of the year

Kati Thanda From Above #1, the image which won Judi Mowlem the Crosby Morrison Trophy for Nature Print, and the Charles Du Rieu Trophy for Print of the Year