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We held our AGM dinner at a brand new venue, the recently-completed kitchen and lounge area of the Eden
Community Church in Mt Eden. This always-popular event drew about 56 people, and this year climaxed the
Club’s inaugural photo competition.
The evening began with the usual mix ‘n’ mingle at 5:30pm
where people were invited to vote on a Members’ Choice prize for the photos on display. Photos from the
five finalists in the five categories of the competition were on show; each entrant had to provide at
their own expense an 8x10 or A4 copy and the heading to go with it.
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We sang For Life And Health twenty minutes later before sitting down to a yummy dinner of chicken,
ham and roast vegies followed by a dessert of cake, icecream and sweet sauce.
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At 7:15pm we gathered in the lounge where guest photographer and competition judge Robyn Forran presented
the prizes and gave comments on each winner’s photo. The winners in each category received a $50 cheque
and certificate; the runners-up received a certificate. Paul and Ruth took away the prizes for the Overseas
category. The photos of alpine snow scenes had high contrast, were sharp and had a person or a distant
building to give scale. Katrina won the top prize for the Inspirational category with a photo of a tarn
on the Humpridge Track taken at sunrise. There was a gorgeous foreground, a distant view, clouds, bands
of colour and a pastel background. The runner-up, Ted O, was rewarded for making a great image out of
something mundane, dirty tramping boots. John’s early-morning photo of Ngauruhoe from the Tama Lakes
track took the first prize in the Scenic category. The mountain was a small landform in the bottom left,
wearing a curved cap of cloud, and the blue sky dominating the whole picture. Katrina’s second win for
the evening was the runner-up with her picture of Mt Richard Hut at sunset with its composition, beautiful
light and dramatic sky. Marian’s powerful and dynamic vertical shot of Saw
cut Gorge with a person
for scale won her the first prize for Natural History. Alasdair took the second prize with his photo
of the basalt columns on the Chatham islands, with their colours and textures. Rosalind won the top prize
in the Human Interest category with a candid shot of the devotions break on a Sunday afternoon trip to
Sanders Reserve at Paremoremo. The runner-up, David K, had a photo titled Kepler Track ambulance taken
on that track. Ted won the Members’ Choice prize.
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The AGM followed at 8pm. John presented a 10-minute slideshow of photos of trips over the past
12 months set to jazz music, and Phillip put on a slideshow of the recently-completed Club trip to the
Larapinta Trail in Central Australia set to Aaron Copland’s Hoedown. After the various reports were
presented, the new Executive was elected. All twelve nominations passed the confidence vote by secret
ballot, and the new Executive members are:
President - Barbara Langridge
Vice-President -
Helena Gane
Secretary - Eileen Jacobsen
Treasurer - Joy Whitehead
Committee - Mark Gibson, Gary
Thompson, Linda Sutton, Roger Donnell, Nelson Young, John McCarthy, David Walker, Stephen Calley.
Barbara concluded the meeting by presenting a scenic reflections slideshow of members’ photos with Bible
verses, set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
COST: $25
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