Photography exhibition

The KZNSA Gallery is hosting a photograhy exhibition by Dale Yudelman from 13 February to 4 March 2007. The press release says the following:

’Reality Bytes’ - are images that portray decisive moments in a collective still, embracing fictive "truths" which retain the raw quality of real moments without compromising the authentic ethics and precepts required by photographic naturalism. Imbued with story-telling innuendo, satirical humor and social commentary - within a global fabric, this collection of images aims to deflect the psyche from its usual ratlin, to challenge and provoke the assumptive mind. Fable and fact blend to create a new reality that dwells within the eye of the beholder.

Dale Yudelman’s career in photography has led him through two eras of South African history as well as across several continents. Born in Johannesburg, he began photographing at a young age under the tutelage of his father and was barely out of his teens in 1979 when he landed a job as staff photographer at South Africa’s largest daily newspaper The Star.

Darned if I know what 'ratlins' are but, in any case, the exhibition does sound interesting. Dale will also be visiting the Bluff Camera Club at their meeting on 15th February at 19H00 and all are invited.

Action Boy By Dale Yudelman

2007 year planner

Your committee went through the hardship of a meal and beer at Hillcrest Station and came up with a calendar of club events for 2007.

The whole thing is too big to reproduce here so we have put it up on the Internet as a web page that you can view and print out. Just click here to view the page.

You will see that there is also a link to the calendar on the right, just under the 'About Us' section.

Dusi outing

The outing to the Dusi last weekend went very well with quite a number of members coming along, and then meeting for breakfast at Crinkly Bottom.

Meeting: January 2007

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 9th, at 7pm, at the Hillcrest Sports Club. We will be discussing what we're going to be doing this year and then looking at members' pictures as usual. The set subject is 'My holiday snaps'.

We will have a meal beforehand at 6pm if there are enough people interested. Please reply to me at my usual address with your booking.

Fees will be due at the meeting and are R100 for the year. The rate for photographic families is R150 but non-photographic spouses don't pay anything extra.

The outing this month will be to Inanda Dam on Saturday morning, January 20th, to watch the Dusi paddlers start the last leg of race to Durban. The race starts at 7pm and we will aim to be at the start at about 6:30am, which means leaving the Hillcrest Sports Club in convoy at 6:10am. We will follow the race for a little while downstream and then go for breakfast at Crinkly Bottom at 10am.

We are considering moving our website to another venue. Please look at this entry on the blog for details. It would be appreciated if you could come to the meeting with some opinion on the best way to go forward with the site or, even, if it should go forward at all.

Old Farm by Harry Lock

The picture was taken by Harry during a scouting visit to an old abandoned farm we found near Hammarsdale. We will doubtless go there on an outing sometime this year, but don't be too surprised if isn't exactly as portrayed in this pic.