February 2025 Competition Winners

Welcome to 2025. Our first competition for the year challenged us to raise perspective and create an image where the camera position was higher than elements of the scene being photographed. It didn't need to be an overhead shot, but it had to be clear that the image had been created from an elevated position. The degree of elevation wasn't crucial, but it had to be clearly evident. Aerial shots (drone or aircraft) were fine, but narrow fields of view where the camera was looking down on a small subject (macro, tabletop, etc.) were excluded.

Open Awards

Set Subject Awards (Looking Down)

Images of the Month

December 2024 End of Year Competition

The End of Year competition for 2024 is a wrap. Club members showcased their best work, submitting up to two images per section. All entries (except for the Field Trip section) were submitted during the year in the monthly competitions.  Field Trip entries were captured during the current syllabus period. This year, for the first time, participants had the option to fine-tune images entered earlier in the year, provided they stayed true to the original. A good chance to take on critique from the judges during the year.  Take a look at the winning images and be sure to go to the bottom of this post to see the Image of Year.

Image of the Year

November 2024 Comp Winners

This month we’re looking for images that show heat at work or the effects of heat, whether man made or natural. There can be a positive or negative message and the source of the heat does not necessarily need to be shown, but it must be clear that heart has had a part.

Open Awards

Set Subject Awards (Heat)

Images of the Month

October 2024 Comp Awards

Our guest judge for October was Wolf Marx, a long time friend of CPS. The set subject was “Lets eat”, and the brief was:

Create an image that expresses the joy or the essence of food.  This can be in the preparation and/or eating of food, by a single person or in a group, in a commercial environment or in the home.  We’re not looking for styled food shots, still life or (especially) a snap of your breakfast.

Open Awards

Set Subject Awards

Images of the Month

September 2024 - Comp awards

Our September comp was our annual Club judged event where club members assume the hot seat and score and critique the images. As usual it was all done in good spirits!!

Our set subject for the month was “Autumn colours”. The brief given to the members was:
Russets, yellows, reds, oranges are the colours of Autumn. Provide an image that captures the essence of Autumn colour. While you can go down the obvious route of shooting Autumn leaves, why not challenge yourself and find a subject which highlights the colours of autumn in a different and creative way. Fashion, portraiture, even abstract a just some of the alternative directions you could explore.

Open Awards

Set Subject Awards

Images of the Month

August 2024 Paul Robinson Trophy

This year, Paul, the founder of the Caulfield Photographic Society challenged members to photograph Abstract Architecture. The winner is awarded a perpetual trophy. The images was to be derived from a human-made structure with an arrangement of colours, shapes, forms, light, texture and perspective that are not recognisable as the structure itself, although they may suggest the structure. Take a look at this years winners.

TROPHY WINNER

Paul Robinson Trophy Winner 2024: Karen Morley, With a twist

Awarded Images

July 2024 Comp Winners

The irony that a photograph is silent, but the world we capture isn’t. This months challenge was to capture a moment of noise. Images were to capture a moment of noise - the louder the better!

Image of the Month

Open

Set Subject - Noise

June 2024 Competition Winners

Images for this months competition needed to bend light to make the subject appear very large, very small, or distorted. This could be done with a glass, liquid, water droplets or some other surface such as a prism or lens ball. The subject had to be something physical and not edited in. View our awarded images for this months comp meeting this critera for Refraction, along with those from our open competition. Enjoy.

Image of the Month

Open

Subject - Refraction

May 2024 Competition Winners

Give in to the dark side and let dark tones dominate with just enough light to illuminate the subject. This is not an excuse to underexpose the subject as the lighting on the subject is to be correct. That is the challenge for the May competition - Low Key. Enjoy the awarded images including those from our Open Competition

Image of the Month

Open

Subject - Low Key

April 2024 Competition Winners

Upside down. That is the theme for out April Comp. The subject had to be actually upside down and not be an inverted image. Take a look at our winners for this month

Image of the Month

Open

Subject - Upside Down

March 2024 Competition Winners

Shoes, we all need them whether for walking and running. Shoes was our set subject competition for February. A single shoe; multiple shoes; in use, or not. Either way, the shoes had to be clearly the primary subject. Take a look at our awarded images for both shoes and our open competition.

Image of the Month

Open

Set Subject - Shoes

February 2024 Competition Winners

Welcome to 2024. Our first competition is over and as usual we have some great images to share. This month our Set Subject competition is Seascape. Instructions to the competitors were

photograph natural coastal scenery, a wave study or a picture of the open sea, provided always that the sea is the centre of interest of the photograph. People, boats and man made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph

Images of the Month

Open

Set Subject - Seascape

December 2023 End of Year Competition

2023 was marked by a move to new clubrooms at the Caulfield RSL and more time in person than on zoom, particularly as the year progressed. The 2023 End of Year competition has now completed with a number of categories for digital and print - as usual the standard was high. Take a look for yourself.

Inage of the Year

Image of the Year: Smooth Dancer by Gary Beresford

John Commin Memorial Trophy (Print)

John Commin Memorial Trophy Winner: Barefoot Walk by Kath Gillies

Monochrome Print

Portrait Print

Open Print

Nature Projected

Field Trip Projected

Open Projected

November 2023 Comp Winners

As the end of the year approaches. our last monthly competition before the End of Year comp sought to create a flower portrait; a single bloom or a single stem containing blooms of one type of flower (like a gladiolus or hydrangea). Not a bunch of flowers, or even a whole plant – a single bloom or stem, whether cut, or still attached and growing.

Images of the Month

Open

Set Subject (A Flower)

October 2023 Comp Winners

Traces of things or people no longer there; imagine a scene where people or some other being or object has been. They leave traces to show where they’ve been and perhaps even what they were doing. This thought provoking set subject brief encouraged us create an image that showed the traces, but not the source and to find the story within the traces that remain.

Images of the Month

Open

Set Subject

August 2024 Paul Robinson Trophy

Each year Paul Robinson, the founder of Caulfield Photographic Society sets members a challenge to compete for the perpetual trophy on offer. This year the topic was Architecture. The intent was to focus on buildings and other human built structures, highlighting their character, features and architectural style. Whether it be one or multiple buildings, interior or exterior, representational or near abstract. Incidental elements such as people can be present and may even help to give a sense of scale, but the structure had to be the focus of the image. At its best, architectural photography expresses the vision of the architect in an artistic manner. Take a look at the winners.

Paul Robinson Trophy Winner 2023: Carol Brandt, Eureka Tower Melbourne

Awarded Images

July 2023 Comp Winners

For this comp, our Set Subject competition set the challenge to create a Triptych Create comprising three separate images (not one image divided into three). The images were to be related and work together to form a harmonious, but not necessarily sequential whole. The images did not need not be the same size, but any size difference should accentuate the overall effect. The images were to be presented linearly, either horizontally or vertically

Images of the Month

Open

Set Subject - Triptych

June 2023 Comp Winners

This month we went Abstract. We ere looking for images that don't have an immediate association with the physical world. Technique that could have been considered include perspective, movement, light and shadow to transform the world we see into an unexpected and unrecognizable image. Overall we were looking for an image that draws the viewer in and holds their attention, but doesn’t really give any clues as to what the viewer is seeing.

IMAGE OF THE MONTH

Image of the Month: Andrea Maloney. Oasis

Image of the Month: Jean-Philippe Weibel, Flowing

Image of the Month: Linda Donald, Hooded Plover

Image of the Month: Mario Mirabile, Thats just grate

OPEN

SET SUBJECT - Abstract

May 2023 Comp Winners

Repetition. That’s the theme for our Set Subject competition this month. We were looking for repeating shapes, patterns or themes. Repetition, repetition, yes, you get the picture.

IAMGE OF THE MONTH

Image of the Month: Andrea Maloney, Best seat in the house

Image of the Month: Carol Brandt, Goodbye Cruel World

Image of the Month: Gary Beresford, Old Crystal

Image of the Month: Mario Mirabile, Pink Rush

OPEN

SET SUBJECT - Repetition

April 2023 Comp Winners

In April we explored a set subject of People Moving, with a focus on an artistic interpretation. The person or people in motion do not need to dominate the image, but there is no question they are the subject. The motion can be shown through any technique including slow shutter using blur or panning, or the subject can be sharp as long as it is clear they are in motion.

IMAGE OF THE MONTH

Image of the Month: Andrea Maloney, I would too!

Image of the Month: Carol Brandt, OOPS

Image of the Month: Mario Mirabile, In the Pink

Image of the Month: Philip Bassett, Long way home

OPEN

SET SUBJECT - People Moving