In this Issue:

l Bluedog Photo News

l Photo Competition

l Workshops

l Exhibitions

l Checking Out Websites

l Photo Tip: Landscape

l Photo Trivia/Dedication:

l Thanks to our Sponsors

Keep Those Fingers Clicking!

What's On: Workshops:

Registration and receipt of place is essential as numbers are limited. We want the workshops to continue to be very personalised so that you may gain the maximum from the workshops. One-On-One classes continue. Please send in your requests for workshops and we will always do our best to accommodate you.

l Photography Retreat
These two days retreats will be held on Tamborine Mountain - set in magical rainforest in the hinterland to the Gold Coast. Trained professional photographers will undertake workshops on various subjects including portrait, landscape, nude, digital and wildlife. For more details Contact Us

One-on-One Classes
l Understanding Your Digital Camera
Designed for those who want to gain a better understanding of how to their digital camera.
Date: Open - you contact us and we arrange a mutually suitable time.
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Cost: $77.00 per person/per hour
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "One-On-One Camera Use"

l Photoshop
Designed for those who want to learn Photoshop and enhance their digital editing skills.
Date: Open - you contact us and we arrange a mutually suitable time.
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Cost: $77.00 per person/per hour
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
"One-On-One Photoshop"

Competition

l My Backyard Critters - A Celebration of Native Wildlife
In support of the important work Landcare do, we continue to feature the wonderful photo competition the Tamborine Mountain Landcare are holding - 'My Backyard Critters'. Everyone, no matter where you live around the world can can enter! There are many categories available check out:
http://tamborinemtnlandcare.org.au/critters/main.php

To Enter: Simply e-mail your photo to
president@tamborinemtnlandcare.org.au

'Snakes Mating'
Photo by Danielle Lancaster ©

l Beginner Workshop - "Let's start"
The last for 2007! Understand what all those buttons and dials mean - interpret the jargon and learn important composition skills.
Date: Saturday 12th May and 8th September 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive,
North Tamborine 4272
Time: 9.30am-4pm
Cost: $147.00 Includes - small class sizes, notes.
Limited numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "Let's Start! "

l How to Photograph Wildlife
Learn through a series of photographs of wildlife how they have been taken; what techniques were used, lens and things you can simply employ to achieve terrific results yourself. A real live carpet snake will be on hand to photograph on the day!
Date: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive,
North Tamborine 4272
Time: 10am-2pm
Cost: $97.00 Includes - small class size, notes and live wildlife!
Numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "Wild"

l Christmas in July
What a great fun-filled day this is going to be! Something for everyone - The Bearded Dragon's famous Croc and Reptile Show; two practical photographic sessions, a photography presentation, morning and afternoon tea and a sumptuous 2 course buffet luncheon.

And, to keep the kiddies occupied; for each child accompanying a photographer they will receive a free colouring in sheet (prize awarded on the day for best artist), an hours entertainment and activities with the bearded Dragon's resident artist Tracey, have their face painted and in the arvo, there will be a 'Kids Toad Race' (BYO toads welcome!).

Monique and Mark Gregory of also kindly donated two terrific prizes:
Best Adult Photo - Dinner for Two valued @ $80 and, Best Kids Photo- Bearded Dragon Gift Pack @ $25!
Details of how to enter and conditions of entry will be given on registration.

Additional option available:
The Bearded Dragon is set on 110 secluded acres in the foothills of Tamborine Mountain and have available for those that may wish to stay, The Country Lodge - 18 luxury rooms, full wheelchair access and two rooms with facilities for the disabled. For more information and the great rates being offered contact
"The Bearded Dragon" and visit www.beardeddragon.com.au

Date: Saturday 14th July 2007
Venue: The Bearded Dragon Hotel, Tamborine
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: Photographers: $99.00
Non Photographers: $50.00
Children under 14 years: $25.00
Numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
"Christmas in July"

l It's Spring
A terrific morning out to celebrate the arrival of Spring!
Date: Saturday 1st September 2007
Venue: Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens
Time: 9.30am-11.30pm
Cost: $33.00
Numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "It's Spring "

Photo Tip:
What makes a great landscape image?

One of the most important factors is composition. Compose your image correctly and you are half way there. Get to know the principles of composition - once you can master them, you can break them!

'Culgoa National Park'
Photo by Danielle Lancaster ©

What's On: Exhibitions

l World Press Photo 2007: This exhibition features award-winning photographs from the 50th annual World Press Photo contest. This year 4460 professional photographers from 124 countries entered 78 083 images in this prestigious competition for press photography. Prizes were awarded in 10 theme categories to 58 photographers of 23 nationalities, including two Australian photographers: Craig Golding and Steve Christo. The international jury selected a colour image by the US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images as World Press Photo of the Year 2006. World Press Photo is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT.
Venue: Mitchell Galleries; Macquarie Street Sydney NSW
Date/s: 11 to 31 May 2007

l State Library of New South Wales: Max Dupain - Modernist
This exhibition celebrates the modernist idiom as well as Dupain's photographs of Australian modernist architecture.
Venue: Mitchell Galleries; Macquarie Street Sydney NSW
Date/s: 9 June to 23 September 2007

Checking Out Websites:
Peter Lik - one of Australia's finest landscape photographers. "Mother nature sets the scene, I simply capture it." View stunning images by Peter at http://www.peterlik.com

Photo Trivia: Did You know?

Arnold Newman (3 March 1918, New York, NY — 6 June 2006, New York, NY) is recognised as the Master of Environmental Portraiture.

He photographed many famous personalities — Marlene Dietrich, John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Mickey Mantle — and always maintained that even if the subject is not known, or is already forgotten, the photograph itself must still excite and interest the viewer.

He was commissioned by The Sunday Times to photograph 75 leading British personalities for NPG exhibition, The Great British (1979) of which this image of T. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead by Arnold Newman bromide print, 1978, is from.

Arnold once asked Danielle, a director of Bluedog, while on a shoot, "What is available light? We know you need it to make a great image, but what is it? He answered, "Anything I can get my #@**#@ hands on."