The Castle Hill RSL Photography Club is a diverse club catering for all levels of photographers. The objectives of the club are to:-
Enable those with a mutual interest in photography to meet, share and develop such interest.
Foster and develop the photographic knowledge and skills of its members.
Enable members to exhibit their work and have it evaluated.
Promote the activities of the club within the local community and the parent club.
Foster ties with other photographic clubs and societies, state and national bodies.
Instructions to join the Castle Hill RSL Photography Club can be found by clicking ‘General Information – Contact Us‘ button and selecting the option ‘Join Our Club‘.
ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS LEFT TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP.
To access the Membership Renewal page, which includes the membership options that are available and the instructions to renew memberships:
Login to MyPhotoClub
Click the Members button at the top of the page
Select the Membership Renewal option from the dropdown list
Follow the instructions on the Membership Renewal page to complete your membership renewal
Note: If your Castle Hill RSL Group membership expires this year, ie 2024, you must renew your Castle Hill RSL Group membership before renewing your CHRSL Photography Club membership.
ANY MEMBER WHO HAS NOT RENEWED BY 16TH FEBRUARY WILL HAVE TO JOIN AS A NEW MEMBER WHICH WILL INCLUDE AN EXTRA $10.00 JOINING FEE.
Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year – NZIPP Iris Awards 2022, 2023, 2024 Nature/Landscape Category Top 10 (Team Australia) – World Photographic Cup 2023 Maitre de la Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (MFIAP) 2021 International Photographer of the Year – NZIPP Iris Awards 2021 Photographer of the Year – Epson International Pano Awards 2019
Mieke Boynton is a full-time landscape photographer based in the picturesque alpine township of Bright in Victoria, Australia, where she and her husband Matt Palmer own their “Alpine Light” fine art photography gallery. Together, they showcase photographs from their stunning local area and their many travels around Australia and overseas.
Mieke’s landscape photographs celebrate the artistry of Nature and its breathtaking beauty, and her distinctive abstract aerials are taken from chartered helicopters and light planes, flying over some of the most remote and fascinating areas of Australia, Iceland, New Zealand and Namibia.
Mieke’s achievements include becoming the first Australian and first woman to win the prestigious Epson International Pano Awards in 2019, and being named NZIPP Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Mieke is a Master with Distinction of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP), a Master of the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP) and a Grand Master of the Australian Photographic Society (APS).
As a former teacher, Mieke enjoys mentoring other photographers and her educational skills have helped her to become a respected judge and presenter both in Australia and overseas.
Please ensure that you only enter 2 images in total.
NOTE: February Competition Set Subject is MONOCHROME (See details in the following post)
Nature Guidelines for Competition
“Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Colour images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct captures or derivations, are not allowed. Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.”
Please ensure that you only enter 2 images in total.
NOTE: Nature Competition is in March NOT February
Monochrome Guidelines for Competition
“A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category. On the other hand, a black and white work modified by partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) and cannot be classified as monochrome.”
