The Australian Photographic Society is Australia's own national photographic organisation. The aim of the Society is to promote, improve, share and enjoy photography in Australia offering many extensive services, all specifically designed to improve photography and photographic skills. Membership is open to all - international exhibitors, beginners, amateurs and professionals.

Emerging from the embryonic and highly successful Daylesford Foto Biennales of 2005 and 2007, the Ballarat
Festival aims to enlarge and expand on the concept into a truly world-class, global event.

To be held from 4th September to 4th October 2009 the Biennale will bring some of the very best international and Australian photographers to Ballarat for a month long celebration of eclectic and exciting photographic exhibitions. All told the 2009 Biennale will comprise somewhere between 120 and 150 separate photographic events, including workshops, seminars, portfolio reviews, multi media presentations and special events as well as a series of Fringe Festivals in Ballarat and the outlying region including Daylesford, Creswick, Trentham and Clunes.

CALENDAR
Closing date for entries 1st April 2013
Judging—Color & Altered Reality 13th to 14th April 2013
Judging—Monochrome & Nature 20th to 21st April 2013
Reports 1st May 2013
Catalogue & Awards 30th June 2013

CALENDAR
Closing date for entries 03rd September 2012
Judging 15th to 16th September 2012
Judging 22nd to 23rd September 2012
Reports 03rd October 2012
Catalogue & Awards 26th November 2012

What Is VAPS?

VAPS is an affilliation of Victorian camera clubs and an incorporated body.

VAPS is a Committee of Management, elected each year at an Annual General Meeting, by the membership of affiliated camera clubs. It is a "not for profit" organisation, put together principally to manage the promotion of photography for Victorian camera clubs, to give Victorian amateur photographers, through their respective clubs, a collective voice and provide the management facility to stage and participate in large and small-scale events that would normally be beyond the administrative and financial capabilities of any one small group.

VAPS as a body, runs an annual Interclub competition. Entries, while created by individuals, are presented for judging as a collective represention of their particular camera club. Merits are awarded to the top images in small and large print, slide, digital media and audio-visual divisions. The small print division is where most novice workers start their pilgrimage toward bigger and better things, moving up to large prints as they progress. The digital division is for digitally projected images. There is no novice section in the digitally projected image division. The A-V division gives workers an opportunity to display images in a continuous, 'sophisticated slide-show', story-telling environment, with accompanying voice-over narration and music.

VAPS also runs an annual Muster, a convention-style gathering staged at varying locations throughout Victoria, for members to attend seminars and practical worksops presented by photographers and speakers of renown. It is also the place at which the Interclub Exhibition is held, giving attendees the opportunity to view the prints, digital images and AV's that gained Acceptance level in the VAPS Interclub Competition.

VAPS, with it's direct links to Australian and international clubs and organisations, provides Victorian camera clubs with the knowledge, initiatives and incentives to promote and expand the art and craft of photography.

The VIGEX Committee conduct an International Photographic Competition and Exhibition in the State of Victoria, Australia.

This is an International Salon which has all six sections approved by both the Australian Photographic Society Inc and the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique and five sections approved by the Photographic Society of America.

It is held once every two years and is open to both professional and amateur photographers.

Camberwell Camera Club is an active club that meets in the heart of
Camberwell!
We offer members a wide range of photography experiences, including a
portrait, outing, audio visual and digital group, alongside our
general monthly meeting.
The members at Camberwell Camera Club range from beginners to highly
credited photographers. We welcome visitors to the area to come along
to a monthly meeting and meet our friendly bunch of photographers.

Corio Bay Camera Club was formed by a group of Ford employees as the Ford Camera Club on 3rd June 1954. Our aim is to promote the art of photography among our members and in the wider community, and to provide a friendly atmosphere where members and visitors can make, present, view and discuss their images and learn from each other.

The Geelong Camera Club meets 7:30pm
each Wednesday evening
Barwon Valley Activity Centre
Barwon Heads Road, Belmont
(opposite K-Mart).

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month, starting at 8.00 pm at the Kohinoor Community Centre on the corner of Sebastopol and Errards Streets, Ballarat.

Gallery on Sturt / Accent Framing
421 Sturt St, Ballarat
P: (03) 5331 7011
F: (03) 5331 7022



• Wide format fine-art giclée printing
• Limited edition, short or multiple runs
• Artist’s canvas, cotton rag and specialist photographic papers
• Canvas stretching
• Custom framing using extensive selection of mouldings and mattboards
• Contemporary art gallery with works by award winning local & regional artists




We invite you to visit our spacious on-site facilities that are centrally located in Ballarat CBD.


www.accentframing.com.au
www.galleryonsturt.com.au

Regional university with both Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training sectors. Two campuses in Ballarat and three in the Wimmera region.

Castlemaine Gold is a proud sponsor of the Ballarat Camera Club National

Crumpler Australia - Laptop Bags, Camera Bags, Notebook Bags, Messenger Bags and heaps more in the online store.

HEWITT & WHITTY PTY LTD
ABN:46 004 226 082
Reg Office: Cnr Carngham Rd & Wilshire Lane
Ballarat Vic 3350
PH: 03 5336 1344
E:info@hewittandwhitty.com.au

Hewitt and Whitty Pty Ltd have been established in Ballarat for over 70 years and they offer a wide range of product and equipment to suit the largest farmer to the small hobby farms.

Shop 13 Norwich Plaza
Bridge Mall
Ph 5332 1867
Email: norwichframing@hotmail.com
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm
Saturday
9am to 12.30pm

UBC Web Design has been operating successfully for the past 18 years,
primarily in the Ballarat region, but in the last few years our quality
and valued services have taken UBC Web Design right across the country into
Western Australia and the Eastern States.
We have worked with large corporate companies such as Telstra and many small
and medium based businesses as well as schools and community organisations.
UBC Web Design was until recently known as 'Universal Business Computers',
but due to our huge success with delivering easy to use, quality and value
for money websites, with all the Back Up Support needed and with over 20+ years experience,
the core now of our business in Web Site Development.

W&D Finance is a wholly Australian owned Company, locally owned and operated in Ballarat since 1966.
W&D Finance has 3 office locations for your convenience. In Ballarat, we are located at 44 Armstrong Street South, and 9 Lydiard Street North. In Daylesford, you will find our office at 56 Vincent Street. We are part of the highly respected Provic Group (Provincial Finance Association).

Address: 211 Sturt St, Ballarat, VIC 3350

Phone: (03) 5331 1283

N.L. HARVEY & SONS
123 STURT STREET
BALLARAT 3350
PH 5331 2742



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Proud sponsors of the
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Address: 123 Sturt St, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350
Phone: (03) 53312742

Address: 416 Sturt St, Ballarat, VIC 3350

Phone: (03) 5331 1633

Thornton Richards Camera House was founded by George Richards in 1872 and is the oldest studio and camera store in Australia and has been owned by the Lewis Family since 1955.
Despite the age of the company and its regional location, Thornton Richards Camera House has always been a leader in the photographic industry, implementing the many changes that have occurred within the industry, as they happen. Merv Lewis was the first to process colour prints in 1962 and in 1973 installed the first daylight operating lab.

In 2001 present owners Gerrard and Sue Lewis installed the latest and largest state of the art technology west of Melbourne in a Fuji Frontier, which prints from all photographic media and is renowned as the sharpest and fastest machine available today. This has enabled the store to process (film and digital) for many professional photographers and graphic artists who would normally send their images out of Ballarat.

Thornton Richards Camera House has embraced the change to digital photography and installed six digital photo centres within the store enabling customers to print photographs while they wait from their mobile phones, blue tooth devices, and memory cards.