We are exited to have Sandra Dann present to us about all things textures. We are looking forward to seeing how this can help in our own photography.

Sandra has an online shop with many great resources and products. Check her out at:

https://www.sandradimagery.com/sandrad-shop

Using textures to enhance your images is way of bringing life to photos that would be otherwise sitting in the archives. Using Textures is more than putting a texture over a photo at the end of the processing workflow. You can use textures at the beginning, to add depth of colour or add a tactile appearance. I love creating art, mixing textures and elements together and working in photoshop is the way I can do this. I get excited when I have a photograph and I start adding textures, changing, and bringing it to life in ways I never imagined. This really makes my soul come alive and gives me direction in my art. This workshop is for the Photographers, any creatives – who want to learn to combine colour and texture to create Creative Images.

In this workshop we will cover:

• When to use Textures for your creative images
• What photos work or not work for Textures?
• What kind of Textures to use for your creative images?
• What texture to choose for a tactile appearance
• Creating Texture Art – using multiple textures, brushes, and other techniques

Here are some images where I have used Textures in my workflow to create Texture Art, the possibilities are endless.

Established in 2002, Momento Pro was Australia’s first and finest on-demand book service dedicated to producing photo books of exceptional printing and binding quality.

Our customers range from professional wedding and portrait photographers to fine artists, corporate marketers, self-publishers and students from Australia and New Zealand.

We offer a range of premium book, album, box and stationery products to suit all budgets and styles, with a minimum order of one copy for hardcover books, and 25 copies for softcovers, up to a maximum of 250.

You have a choice of design tools to create your layouts, and ICC profiles to proof your file before submitting them to our fully colour managed production workflow.

Our craftsmanship has been awarded locally and internationally, and all products are lovingly crafted and manually quality checked, in our production facility in Sydney.

We proudly support the photographic industry through partnerships, events and hosting the annual Australian + New Zealand Photobook Of The Year Award series, and offer advice on the business of photography, and the art of design in our blog and social feeds.

We’re a family business with a passion for photography, and we continue to research technologies and processes that allow us to craft products with maximum quality and longevity.

Join us for a wonderful presentation by Tony Zannino about Getting to know your camera and how to maximise its potential.

This presentation is for beginners and advanced as Tony shows us how to maximise our cameras!

Matt Palmer is an award-winning photographic artist based in Alpine Victoria. Passionate about our natural world, and photographs that tell a story or establish a sense of place, Matt has won over 200 awards across documentary and landscape photography categories.

Matt runs the Alpine Light Gallery located in Bright, Victoria with his partner, landscape photographer Mieke Boynton.

Join us at the club where Matt will be zooming us all the way from Victoria!

We are very excited to have our former Patron John Swainston join us for another follow up presentation on his wonderful project of Sydney in Lockdown.

“Since March 2020 John Swainston has documented ‘Sydney Locked Down.’ After two waves of COVID ran through NSW in 2020, he thought the project might be done. As 2020 flexed into 2021 and then Omicron heralded-in 2022 the project kept being extended. In this presentation John reflects on a broader message of documentary record as well as updating part of the presentation he gave St. George in 2021. He will also use other documentary projects he has undertaken to illustrate the talk.

He’s started revisiting the people and places in Sydney Locked Down to tell more of the stories of what happened since his original photographs were made. John shares thoughts on how he might have approached things differently, given what this more than two-year project involved and with the benefit of hindsight. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the planning and decisions required to cover a major story or documentary record of something or someone. The presentation will be followed by a facilitated discussion in which members can share their own experiences, learnings and the changes that have been involved in subsequent work.”