Monday 16th June
Portraits, Family & Weddings Presentation
With Christal Mai

Christal Mai is a Brisbane-based award-winning photographer and the founder of Twin Lotus Production, a boutique photography studio established in 2012. With a Fine Art background and two Master’s degrees in visual communication from the Queensland College of Art, Christal brings a creative, thoughtful, and empowering approach to her photography.

Her studio specialises in portrait, and wedding photography, known for creating elegant, timeless imagery that celebrates confidence, connection, and individuality. Over the years, she has photographed hundreds of women through empowering boudoir sessions, families, children, and couples across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and beyond – even capturing destination weddings in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Christal is passionate about helping people see their own beauty and strength through her lens. Her work has been recognised with 14 national and international awards through AIPP and WPPI, and she continues to mentor and support women through transformative photography experiences.

Monday 2nd June
Image Critiques > Black and White
with Graeme Watson EFIAP/D3 APSEM/S ESAPS GMPSA

Monday 5th May
Image Critiques > Minimalism & The Colour Purple
with Craig Parker

Monday 14th April
Beginner Video for DSLR / Mirrorless Cameras
With Jason Joseph

This evening we're very pleased to present Jason Joseph. Jason will provide helpful and practical information on shooting video with mirrorless and DSLR cameras. He will discuss some of the technical differences between shooting video and photos, as well as the best practices for capturing the most usable video content.

Jason will cover standard settings for delivering video to social media platforms and touch on storytelling and crafting a video piece. There will also be a brief section on post-production and delivery.

Introducing Jason Joseph
Jason Joseph is a Commercial Director with over 20 years of experience in the commercial advertising industry. Specialising in commercial video and filmmaking, Jason has worked with clients such as BMW, T2, and Optus.

He started his career as an editor in his home country of Singapore and quickly evolved into the role of an on-set Director. Since moving to Australia, Jason has lectured at film schools and is currently the Digital Video Lead at a media agency. Being both technically skilled and creatively minded has allowed Jason to transition from the traditional landscape of TV commercials to the world of digital video marketing.

Visual storytelling to meet clients' needs is Jason's specialty, leading to numerous filming opportunities across the globe. Jason also has a great passion for knowledge sharing and is often called upon for guest lecturing spots and judging panels. On weekends, he enjoys a good meal with friends or diving into his newfound passion for portrait photography.

Monday 7th April
Image Critiques > This is Australia
with Keith Seidel EFIAP/b GMAPS

Saturday - 22nd March
Street Photography Workshop
With Peter Mitchelson and Elayne Geltch

Monday 17th March
Photography and The Simple Art of Visual Storytelling
With Giulio Saggin

Giulio Saggin began his career as a news photographer in 1989.
In 1992 he headed off for Scotland on a one-way ticket with the intention of finding fame and fortune as a freelance photographer. At the start of 1998 he packed up his life in Scotland and hitchhiked all the way around Australia photographing everyone who gave him a lift and writing about each hitch.
He returned to Brisbane in 1989 and worked as a freelance photographer, before joining ABC News Online in 2007 as their inaugural photo editor. In 2016 Giulio left the media.
He has published three books and held several photographic exhibitions.

Part 1:
Using images, Giulio willl show how photos and stories are structured the same as the stories we write and tell, using the same techniques. He will translate photography into a universal language we can all understand ie. story telling, using lots of visual example.
This presentation is based on a course he gave to ABC reporters and journalism students when he was the photo editor with ABC News Online.

Part 2:
Just as in life, not everything goes to plan when taking photos and Giulio will use his photos as a backdrop while explaining the interesting and funny stories behind how they came about.

Monday 3rd March
Image Critiques > People/Portrait or Scapes
with Chrissie Robinson EFIAP FAPS QPSA

Monday 17th February
Master Series Presentation
With John Swainston

John Swainston, is a former President of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and the Photo Imaging Council of Australia (PICA). A former MD of Nikon in Australia for 23 years, and an international executive for Lowepro over a decade, John has spoken to camera clubs around Australia for more than forty years, has judged and has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne and the Southern Highlands.

His work is in a number of private collections. He is a past Advisory Board member of the HeadOn Photo Festival and is a former deputy-chair of the Australian Centre for Photography, based in Sydney, now part of the Powerhouse.

When the NSW lockdown edict was passed in law on March 28th, 2020, John and his wife were moving house from Sydney to the NSW Southern Highlands. With a long association with photo-journalism, he decided to record the City of Sydney; without its people, its traffic, its reason for being. The project expanded into a 2.5-year documentary effort; Sydney-the-place and then its re-emerging people.

The result was a book, Sydney Locked Down, published in October 2022. It turned out to be the only publication of its type on Sydney! It stands as a unique photographic record of a dark period in Australian life.

In this one-hour talk he details the planning, legal obstacles, learnings, the technical execution required and things he might have done differently. He'll show some images from the 150-page book, the gear used, the planning documents. The book will be available for purchase on the night

In the second half of the evening, John will talk about an altogether more complex documentary project, the photography of over 60 English, Welsh and French cathedrals. It's for an upcoming book due out this year.

The work, made since 2016, builds to a detailed historic story of Cathedrals - from the Norman Conquest to the present day. In rich geometries, the talk illustrates the interiors and architectural features of some of the most awe-inspiring spaces of worship across a thousand years. The talk concludes with an audio-visual of all the Anglican cathedrals in England & Wales.

Saturday - 15th February
Flash Photography Workshop
With Steven Fraser AAPS

The second half of the activity will be a practical session; where participants will put some of the theory into practice.
The training is an intro course and the detailed use of multiple flashes, wireless flash, studio strobes, etc is not the goal.

There will be some experienced club members to assist attendees.

Monday 3rd February
Image Critiques > Open Colour or Street Photography
with Glenn Rossiter LAPS

Currently using Sony Digital SLT Camera systems, Glenn has a keen interest in producing travel photography-based digital audio-visuals, using the latest PTE-AV-Studio 11-Pro software.
This passion for photography extends to a variety of pursuits, including photo travel, macro-nature, sports action, landscapes, and altered reality, as well as creative and contemporary photography.

On this evening, Glenn will offer insightful critiques of photos submitted by members in Open Colour and Street Photography topics, helping photographers enhance their skills and creativity.

Monday 2nd December
End of Year Celebration & Awards

Wednesday 27th November
Master Series Presentation
Street Photography With Adrian Whear

Join Adrian Whear, documentary and street photographer from Melbourne who will share his philosphies and approaches to street photography when walking the streets of Melbourne and further afield. Adrian’s tips are designed to help sharpen your visualisation and storytelling skills when embarking into the world of street photography!

Adrian has attained the honour of APSEM from the Australian Photographic Society, awarded both FIAP and PSA gold medals, and been a finalist in street photography competitions in Gothenburg and Autralia. Adrian's works has been exhibted in Australia, Sweden, Slovenia, Vietnam, Croatia, United Kingdoma and Bangladesh. Come along to join us for a terrific evening of Street Photography!

Come join us and immerse yourself in the artistry of Adrian's streets and clever imagery!

Monday 4th November
Image Critiques > Portfolios of 5 Themed Images
with Lisa Kurtz

Lisa is a Brisbane-based photographer, whose work explores concepts of memory, place and time.

Lisa’s most recent exhibition was 'Porous' exhibited at firstdraft Gallery - Woolloomooloo, NSW. Other recent exhibitions include a commission by Outer Space for Location, Location, Location, on the façade of the Judith Wright Art Centre in Meanjin | Brisbane. Lisa has been a finalist in the Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, Clayton Utz Art Awards, Head On Photo Awards, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, and the CLIP, Milburn and Lethbridge Landscape Prizes.

Lisa teaches Contemporary Photomedia at CQU and has a passion for encouraging photographers to be open to new ideas about the medium.

Tuesday 29th October
Day Outing > Bellthorpe

Monday 21st October
How to get the best out of your Landscape Photography
with John Doody AFIAP AAPS CAPS/b

John Doody is a photographic artist living in Brisbane, Australia. From a very early age John was introduced to and educated in the techniques of photography by his father, a keen amateur photographer. The love of photography has endured throughout his life. In the 1980’s John focused on black and white film photography and the processing of images in the darkroom. Since that time digital colour photography has improved to such an extent that it is now his preferred medium. The possibilities with digital postprocessing allow for an enormous range in artistic expression.

John’s photographic interests cover a wide range of subjects but in the main they are centred around two main themes. One of these themes is conventional landscape photography and the second is digital art that is derived from this landscape photography. In presenting a landscape image John aims is to give the viewer the feeling that they could step into the scene and thus experience the sense of what it was like to be at that place at that time. In John’s digital art the aim is to more acutely focus the message that the landscape carries. The digital art sometimes uses sophisticated post-processing skills and techniques to allow the image to speak its message. Themes of our connection to the land and our effect on the land are important in John’s work, especially the effects of climate change.

John’s influences are many and varied. They range from the family connection to photography through his great-grandfather Christopher Roggenkamp, who migrated from Germany in 1863 and set up a photographic business in Warwick, in rural Queensland, down to his late father, to the great monochrome photographers of the twentieth century such as Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Henri Cartier Bresson; to modern day photographers and digital artists including John Paul Caponigro and Australian landscape photographers Peter Dombrovskis, Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher, and Murray Fredricks.

John is heavily involved in Queensland’s photographic community. He is a registered photography judge with the Queensland Photographic Society and is regularly invited to judge Australian and international photographic competitions. His background as a physicist has meant the John is in high demand to give presentations on the science behind the art of photography and has lectured on subjects as diverse as “The Art of Photography, Astrophotography, printing techniques and colour management. He is an internationally awarded photographer, a member of the Australian Photographic Society through which he has attained his AAPS and his AFIAP (Artiste FIAP) through the FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE L’ART PHOROGRAPHIQUE. He has most and recently obtained his Bronze level (CAPS/b) in the Conceptual Art Portfolio Awards through the Australian Photographic Society.

John has staged three exhibitions of his work. The first exhibition “A Legacy of Light – Five Generations of Photographers 1863 – 2012” was initially staged at the Warwick art gallery in 2012 and then various galleries throughout Queensland in 2013 and 2014. This was a family exhibition covering family history as well as the art of photography. The second exhibition of his work in 2021 was entitled "Layers in the Land - An Exploration of the Landscape image from Interpreted Reality to Abstraction". Most recently in April 2022 John has completed his third exhibition "PALYA - Reflections on Landscape and Place". The two most recent exhibitions were held at the Richard Randall Art Studio at the Brisbane Botanical gardens. John intends to continue to expand his repertoire and to refine his digital art skills. Images from the exhibitions can be seen in the portfolios in this website.

Monday 7th October
Image Critiques > Flatlay or Photo Travel
with Paul Tilley FAPS

Monday 16th September
The magical art of storytelling composites
With Hayley Roberts

Introducing > Hayley Roberts

I've always searched for magic on the fringes of reality - a fairy in my backyard, a world in a wardrobe, a genie in a lamp.
And I finally found it with Photoshop along with the creativity I desperately craved but never believed I had.

Three months into learning Photoshop compositing I created an artwork that won several local awards, in month 4 I was a finalist in esteemed national awards, in month 5 I created my best-selling print, and within a year I had my own solo exhibition.

Since then I make 5 figures a year selling my storytelling composite artworks that I created using myself as a model, inexpensive gear, cheap accessories and my own library of photos. Now I'm sharing my secrets so you too can create this beloved and popular style of photographic art and experience the magic it invokes.

Monday 2nd September
Image Critiques > Minimalism and Star Trails
with Lyn Romano

I began judging for PSSA (photographic Society of South Africa), but found it difficult to pursue with the dangers of night driving. I re-entered this circle with PSQ and enjoy artistic reality/creative photography. I embrace life with gusto and one of my favourite sayings is; "Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow” – Imogen Cunningham.

Monday 19th August
Presentation with Sue Gordon

We're very pleased to welcome Sue Gordon back to Redlands Camera Club!

"Creative pursuits has always been a part of my life, whether practical or purely for my own pleasure. Photography was an interest as a teenager, but was put aside for many years in the midst of life, motherhood, work etc. It was the empty nest that led me to again pick up a camera. There the journey really began, with camera club, a diploma, international competition and much learning and growth.

Fast forward to 2022, where I find my focus moving forward on exploring photography as art, combining techniques learned in other artforms such as papermaking and encaustics, and exploring alternative and traditional practices.

My interest is in exhibitions, teaching what I have learned along the way and continuing to learn as my interest is drawn."

Monday 5th August
Image Critiques > People / Portrait or Juxtaposition
with Margaret O'Grady EFIAP/s GMAPS Hon FAPS

"I'm a passionate amateur photographer who lives in South East Queensland. I've been interested in photography for most of my life and joined the Ipswich Photographic Society in 2004 after completing a short photography course at TAFE. I am an active member of the Australian Photographic Society and held the position of President from 2020 to 2022.
I have extensive experience in judging a wide range of topics in club, National and International Exhibitions. I enjoy all types of judging and love to appreciate other photographer’s images.

I compete in National and International competitions on a regular basis and have earned my EFIAP/s and GMAPS honours.
I particularly enjoy outdoor photography including sport and wildlife. I was contracted to join the team photographing the Asia Pacific Master Games on the Gold Coast, Australia in 2010, 2012,2014 and 2016."

Each club has submitted four entries in five topic catergories:
- Open Colour
- Open Black and White
- Open Animals
- Portrait
- Open Non A Grade

Monday 15th July
Scapes with Mel Sinclair BVIS DIP.FINEART

To Mel, it's not just about capturing a scene, but about immersing herself in the moment, breathing in the fresh air and truly connecting with the beauty of nature. We feel so fortunate to have Mel Sinclair speak to us this evening about scapes and sharing her tips and techniques.

Introducing Mel Sinclair
Landscape Photography is my Zen, my passion. I love nothing more than time with my camera and a moody, ephemeral scene to capture and translate into something magical.

My visual career began with undertaking University study in the Fine Arts, and in turn, I have had a lot of exposure to different disciplines within the creative industries. This creative training has allowed me to develop my attitudes and styles within Contemporary and Traditional Fine Art Photography. This is a lot of words to say that I love both a traditional landscape and what I'm discovering to be my style - a mix of both. I'm really enjoying exploring Queenslands' regional areas for new and never-before seen content. Less about the destination, more of the journey.