Philatelic Society
While continuing to operate in a restricted environment, the club has managed to expand its membership to 30.
This is partly due to the interest generated by postal auctions and ongoing enthusiasm of members.
Where collectors are unable to present in person, the ability to bid for items in these auctions has been greatly appreciated, not only throughout Victoria but interstate. Bids have come from Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.
Many thanks to the two Johns and Sue for their sterling work to detail items for the catalogue, making it available to other groups, and correlating bids, payments and postage.
Not being able to have a meeting for months has made communication harder, but not impossible, thanks to modern electronics. However, they still miss the personal, friendly contact with other members.
The club thank Jeanette in particular for acting as a hub for transmission of information to all. This has been a real boon in keeping members together.
To members and family who are not well, best wishes and trust everyone can be in touch soon.
The circuit books are still circulating well thanks to Brian, allowing members access to a choice of stamps and other material from different countries.
Quite a few members have taken the opportunity to tidy and improve their collections in this stay-at-home time of enforced lockdown.
The club is looking at holding another auction on February 25, with items being called for now due to the large amount of time needed to prepare the catalogue. If anyone in the community has either stamp or coin collections they want to sell or have valued, contact the club. Who knows, you may have a treasure or two hidden away. Be quick, with items needed by Saturday, October 31.
In normal times, meetings are held at Warragul North Primary School on the second Friday of most months, starting at 7.30pm.
For further information, call Stan on 0428 254 568 or Jeanette on 0409 793 081.
Evening VIEW Club
The club has not met since February but thank all women who gave donations toward funding for its 10 “Learning for Life” students with the Smith Family.
VIEW Clubs are celebrating their 60th Anniversary InStyle.
VIEW Club of Australia has partnered with Australian women’s fashion brand Black Pepper to celebrate the club’s 60th anniversary while helping out children experiencing poverty.
A limited-edition scarf designed for VIEW’s Diamond Jubilee will be available online at blackpepper.com.au and in Black Pepper stores throughout Australia this October, with $10 from each sale going towards children and young people supported by education charity - The Smith Family.
VIEW, which stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women, has over 15,000 members nationally across 300 clubs.
This network allows women to connect with each other in the community while exclusively supporting the work of The Smith Family in providing long term educational support for Australian children and young people living in disadvantage.
Joining VIEW Club is the perfect opportunity to make new friends and develop skills and take pride in the fact you are helping young Australians in need by supporting their education.
Last year VIEW Clubs raised $1.2 million for The Smith Family and are proud to be the largest community sponsor of the education charity’s flagship program Learning for Life. The clubs collectively support more than 1400 students.
Aside from fundraising efforts, VIEW women volunteer their time in other ways, including reading with local children to advance their literary skills, helping with homework at The Smith Family Learning Clubs, acting as mentors for students, making library bags, and donating funds for toys and books for children in need at Christmas time.
The club hope the limited-edition scarf will appeal to many women and they will wear it proudly knowing they have given life changing support to Australian children and young people who need it the most.
Anyone interested in finding more about VIEW Clubs can visit view.org.au or Narelle from Warragul Evening VIEW Club on 0410 615 939.
Warragul Camera Club
The club’s October general meeting on Zoom link attracted 32 club members on Monday, October 5.
The monthly competition, themed “Black and White”, attracted a total of 71 images to be judged. They could be any subject using only black and white and values of grey.
Mike Moore was the club’s competition steward and David Woodcock directed the digital processes to bring the monthly meeting and presentation of images to the members on Zoom and club’s website.
All the “Black and White” images are now available to the public to view as a slide show on the club’s website.
The images were appraised by guest judge Greg Earl.
Greg is a self-taught photographer who began learning from books and magazines in his late teens, long before the days of internet courses. He purchased his first serious camera, a Single Lens Reflex (SLR), some 54 years ago.
Greg joined the Bureau of Meteorology, initially training as a weather observer before followed on in later years as a technical officer, using his photography skills as OIC of the Satellite Cloud Photography Department.
Greg’s photography has always moved with the times, from the days of black and white film and darkroom work, to colour slides and colour film, and eventually to the digital age, which he has enthusiastically embraced.
Greg has gained several international awards and gold medals for his work. Competition results:
Digital A grade: 1st and 2nd: Ruth Burleigh, 3rd: Carol Monson, HC: Linda Keagle, Terrie O’Dwyer, David Barton, Gary Smith, Geoff Smith, Marshall Cock.
Digital B grade: 1st: Jake Trotman, 2nd: Andrea McVicar, 3rd: Geoff Croucher, HC:
Irene Coates (two), Kayren Browne, Robyn Rosenboom, Andrea McVicar.
Digital Creative A grade: 1st: David Woodcock, 2nd: Bruce Langdon, 3rd: Linda Keagle, HC: Terrie O’Dwyer, Paul Robinson (two).
Digital Creative B grade: 1st: Jake Trotman, 2nd and 3rd: Christina Robinson.
The meeting commenced with a tutorial demonstration on how to upload images to the club’s website for competitions, presented by president Bruce Langdon. Marg and Andy Tylee were especially welcomed to the Zoom meeting.
Forthcoming events: the club’s special interest groups meetings commenced October 6; the monthly tutorial – today (Tuesday) on Zoom with Len Metcalf "Critiquing Photographs Len's Way"; digital entries for the annual Gippsland Inter-Club Competition are due Friday; and the final results and presentation by Latrobe Valley Camera Club will be via Zoom link on Sunday, November 15.
The annual competition “PakWag” between the Pakenham and Warragul camera clubs will be held on Wednesday.
The Warragul Camera Club will host the results and presentation on Zoom, and Theo van der Meulen is the judge of the competition.
The club’s next general meeting is Monday, November 2 on Zoom. It is also the deadline for digital entries of “Image of the Year” and “Photobook” competitions.
Bruce and Mike Moore announced an extra “feedback only” section to all club competitions will commence from January 2021. This will be an excellent way of providing all members the opportunity to submit their images for critique and feedback without the intimidation of competing with other members.
Bruce acknowledged and thanked Ron Paynter and Robyn Wright for their work to run September’s “out and about” event and AV .
Meetings are held the first Monday of each month and will be presented online for members to view.
For further information, call the membership manager on 0413 025 949 or visit the club website at warragulcameraclub.org.