GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2010

Fellow Members,

We would like to announce that our GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2010 will be held on :

Friday 19th at 12:00 - 14:00
at the Salle de Press.

Our Agenda :
1. Give Status Report of last year's activities and finances
2. Discuss and plan the activities for 2010
3. Elect the Club Committee for 2010
4. Announce the results of the last photo contest for 2009 entitled 'Kids' and the 2009 Annual Photo competition entitield "Portraits of Life", in collaboration with CERN PhotoClub, UN Club Photo International and Photo Club ITU-WIPO. Discuss other matters
6. Introduce new members

Reminder : For those who wish to pay their 2010 membership can do it directly through the post office and let us know so that the ITU Club Bagde can be prepared.

For Henri Spagnolo and Tina Sutriesno, as winners of the "Kids" Photo Contest 2009, they will have this year's membership for free as prize. So, that's another good reason to submit photos for contests.. don't you think? See you on the next contest then !

PHOTO COMPETITION RESULTS

BRAVO ITU PHOTOGRAPHERS !

We are proud to let you know that for the 2009 Annual Photo competition entitield "Portraits of Life", in collaboration with CERN PhotoClub, UN Club Photo International and Photo Club ITU-WIPO, the top 3 winners went to our dearest committee members!

1st Prize - Cessy Karina
2nd Prize - Laurent Ciavalino
3rd Prize - Henri Spagnolo

Congratulations to the winners and to all of you who participated in this annual competition! This year, it will be our turn again to organize and host the competition.

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Monthly Internal Photo Contest - November 2009

With a bit regret, we didn't get much admission as we hoped for the Monthly Contest, which for the month of November, the theme was "Kids". This theme was supposed to be the most easy and fun to get.

Hoping for more anthusiasm and participants for the next Internal Photo Contest. !

YEARLY GATHERING

Dearest Members,

The Photo Club Committee would like to wish you a Happy and Photo-sperous New Year! May this year be more fruitful and bring lots of photo opportunities for everyone!

Since we didn't have the chance to get-together last year before the holidays, let us now take the time to welcome the new year and meet-up for our annual Club Gathering.

So please join us this coming FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010, at 12H00 at the PIZZA ROMANA ( just beside CICG Center).

NOTE: Kindly confirm your attendance so we can book the table, thank you very much.


Have a good week,
Aurea
Photo Club Committee

MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST

Last photo contest of the year 2009

Theme : " K I D S "


Submission deadline : 6 NOV. '09


Send in your digital photos ASAP
- maximum 3 photos per member
- jpg format approx 1200 x 1600 pixels

to ContestUITOMPI@gmail.com

For more details,

send your queries to William ( william.effah@itu.int)

Monday's Agenda Rectification

Don't forget to come to our monthly meeting..

on 12th October

at 18h00

in the Meeting Room A
(can be entered from Tower A, at level minus 2)

Rectification for Monday's Agenda :

Photo Presentation by Véronique
Announcement of our next Photo Contest
Collection of Photos for the Earthquake Donation
Small workshop : Flash Photography by Hon Fai

" SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING "
Doctoring digital photos is easy.
Detecting it can be hard

Info from Simao Campos about an interesting article that he read on the (engineering) IEEE Spectrum Magazine, "Seeing Is Not Believing".. about ways to recognize manipulation ("doctoring") of digital pictures.

Check it out at:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/seeing-is-not-believing/0


For a collection of doctored images, some of which you may know, see the "Online collection" linked from:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/a-tour-of-photo-tampering

Simao

It's time for our monthly meeting again..

on 12th October

at 18h00

in the meeting room A
( can be entered from Tower A, at level minus 2 )

Our guest speaker will be Mr. Jesse Morgan

who is an awards winning photographer

He will be sharing his knowledge on videos and multimedia, to see his works.. click on his link :

http://jessejmorgan.com/

REMINDER !!!

Hi members,

We're sorry to say, the vacation has ended.. time to get back to the old routine job, routine life.. but hope you all had fun and had lots of good memories.. well here we are to refresh your memories of the events in the future.

1. The PHOTO CONTEST 2009 theme : Portrait of Life.

Last submission is 30th september, the winner photos may have the chance to be exhibited at UN (current main organizer is UN Photo club). Check out the detail at the website

http://life.itu.ch/photo/contest.html

2. Those who are photosuisse members, should prepare the color photos by the end of september, for printing or digital format. (last submission to cessy 1st october)

One more announcement :
Show us your holiday pic ! Members are very much welcome to show where they spent their summer or vacation. Maximum 8 photos per memeber, in digital or prints. Or.. if you didn't go) anywhere and was simply esperimenting with your camera, come show that as well ! Don't be shy and share them with us !

See you then, at the next club meeting, on the 24th of September.. we'll be waiting for you!!

MONTHLY MEETING

Thursday, 24th September from 18h to 20h
at : Room M2 , Montbrillant Building

Guest Speaker : Mr. Alistair Scott
an award-winning professional photographer.

Topic : WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

A bit of information about our Guest Speaker, Mr. Alistair Scott :

Mr. Scott is an award-winning professional photographer and writer, living in the Geneva region. His recently-published book, The Greatest Photography Tips in the World, is a steady seller and has received excellent reviews.

He is also an accomplished public speaker, having won many awards and, a few years ago, representing Switzerland in an International Speech Competition held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

To find out more about Mr. Scott, you can see examples of his photography (much of it local), and get photographic advice and tips from his website:

http://www.alscotts.com

Photo Competition 2009

Hi Everybody,
Enjoying most of your vacation time, I presume.. well, take as much photos as you can during your leisure time because there will be a Photo Contest for the upcoming month of September. This will be the annual photo contest organized together between ITU-WIPO Photo club, UN Photo club, and CERN Photo club.


Photo Competition 2009
" PORTRAITS OF LIFE "

Club Photo International, PhotoClub ITU-WIPO and Photo-Club-CERN are organizing a photo competition for staff of the international organizations, CERN and Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

Theme of the Competition : " PORTRAITS OF LIFE "

People in thier environment : How they live, work and interact.

People and their place in the world are surely the most enduring subject for art. This year's competition theme - "Portraits of Life" - offers photografers the opportunity to continue in that noble tradition, documenting people in their daily lives.

Type of image : Black and white or colour prints.
Format : 20 x 30 cm or A4 (image without frame)
Deadline for submission : 30 September 2009
Submission to be sent to :
Suroor Alikhan
Club Photo International
Palais des Nations
UNRISD, D.213
CH-1211 Geneva 10
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CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Participants must agree to the following conditions:
1. All photos submitted must have been taken by the participant himself/herself.
2. Photos should neither violate the rights of a third party, nor contain offensive content.
3. Each participant may submit up to three photos.
4. Digital editing is limited to: sharpening, levels adjustment, conversion to black and white, hue/saturation, resizing/rotation/cropping, curves adjustment, noise reduction and colour correction.
5. Images must not be watermarked.
6. The organizers have the right to exclude photos if they do not conform to the above conditions.

For more information, please contact :
1. Sergio da Silva
Email: clubphotointernational@unog.ch
Phone: 022 917 2733
2. Cessy Karina
Email: ClubPhoto@itu.int
Phone: 022 730 5534
3. Arie Van Praag
Email: a.van.praag@bluewin.ch

JURY
The jury comprises representatives of the joint committee of Club Photo International, PhotoClub ITU-WIPO and Photo-Club-CERN and professional photographers. The jury’s decisions are final.
USE OF IMAGES
The organizers may use the images on their websites, in which case they will credit the photographer. However, copyright resides with the photographer.
RETURN OF ENTRIES
Participants wishing their photos to be returned to them should provide a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Results of 'Team Challenge' Event

We have just had our Photo ' Team Challenge ' last Sunday, 14th June 2009 organized by our club, for the club members and their families which ended with a Picnic.

The Photo Team Challenge is like ‘Amazing Race’.. if you know the show?!? Each team will be given instructions to execute and earn points on their way to the next clue until the end of the race. The only difference with our challenge is that they don’t travel around the world but just in and around the site, which was at the Museum Naturel Histoire, Malagnou. The first time the event was held, was at Bois de la Batie.

Among the photo skills that they were tested are :
- the art of seeing
- looking for and capturing the subjects rapidly
- composition
- creativity
- taking pictures in different light situations
- making photo story
- team work

These skills are tested in different kinds of challenges - where timing is also a main factor.

This event is not only to test each person's photography skill and dicipline but gives the opportunity to get to know the other members, strengthen their relationship, develop teamwork and learn photo skills in a fun way. That was the aim of the Photo Team Challenge. We even found out that " TARZAN " is in Geneva now.. hahahaaa..

There were 16 participants devided into 3 groups, and the winning position is :
1st Blue Team :
Jean Marie Mc Adams, Didier Christinaz, Henri Spagnolo, William Effah, Anita Mensah
2nd Red Team :
A A Gede Trisna K, Indah Savitri, Harun, Rudi Frakarsa, Achmad Suyanto
3rd Yellow Team :
Ivan Babovic, Moose Babovic, Tina Sutriesno, Dhony Sutriesno, Yasmin Afina, Hana Harun

Thank you so much for everyone who has participated. We are sure that you all enjoyed the process of the team challenges and the results are all excellent and wonderful. See you again next year, and hoping for more participants !

Photo results can be found at : Photo Team Challenge

Have a very nice vacation to all ! Enjoy your sunny days and don't forget to take photos during your holidays for the next PHOTO COMPETITION! To be announced.. soon !

Fundraising Event for Uganda

FUNDRAISING EVENT.
Raising Hope in Uganda!
Join us in Geneva (Old Town) - June 23

Fellow Photographers,

I hope you will join this event next Tuesday, 23rd of June to raise funds for this worthy cause. Wine and cheese will be served at the Galerie Mimesis at the Old Town with photos of the Uganda Village, that is the bebeficiary of this event, on display for sale. 100% of the event proceeds will go to this community centre in Uganda.

If you plan to come, please kindly confirm to Leydorf, Deborah Mary, mailto:leydorfd@who.int
Also, please feel free to invite others for this occasion.

Invitation from :
Dede Leydorf
External Relations Officer
Department of Reproductive Health and Research
World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Tel: +41.22.791.1068
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/hrp/publications/hrp_brochure.pdf

Dear Members,

Summer is just around the corner and what a great time to go out and play and have fun!... and so it's now time again to have our exciting Photo Team Challenge!!!

For those of you who don't know it yet or unfortunate enough to have not joined us last year :D, this is a half-day PICNIC OUTING and TEAM PLAY for the members and their families. It's like Amazing Race, if you know the show, where each team will be given clues to execute and earn points on their way to the next clue until the end of the race. But only difference is they won't be traveling around the world :D.

This will also give us the opportunity to get to know the other members, develop teamwork and learn photo skills in a fun way! And of course not to mention EXCITING PRIZES await the top 3 teams :)

So for those who are up to the challenge, mark your calendar for Sunday, June 14.

Registration is now officially open until Monday, June 8. Please send an email to fagela@who.int to register. Registration Fee: 10CHF per participant.

Good luck and hope to see you there!

Bon Weekend,
Aurea
Photo Club Committee

Equipment for Sale

Bonjour,

Je vends le matériel suivant :
Boitier Bronica Zenza AE-II ETRS
+ Objectif Zenzano EII Seiko 1:2,8/75mm
+ Dos 220
+ Dos polaroïd
+ Bague allonge pour macro

L'ensemble est en très bon état : 500 euros négociables.

Je joins une photo et je reste à votre disposition pour plus
d'informations.

Cordialement,
Niels
Niels.Dupont-Sagorin@cern.ch

PS : Objectif Mamiya-Sekor Macro : 80 mm 1:4 à vendre également.

Worlds Largest Photography Project Ever

Hi there,

We have had a few photographers and clubs suggest I contact other photography clubs and professionals in your country also and see if you could assist us in inviting your friends, your club members or readers to be part of the Largest Photography Project ever to be undertaken.

Project "Once Click One Pic"

Have a look at www.heapfo.com/oneclickonepic.htm for all the details. BE PART OF SOMETHING HUGE.

Don’t forget to let others know about the project too. Share this information on Facebook, Youtube, Gmail, MySpace and all other networks. Anyone that can shoot across a boarder into a neighbouring country (only if its free for you to do so) would be helpful also. This way we can get even more coverage.

Also if you have a logo please send it to us so we can add you to our “Heapformation” page as a supporter of the project.

If you are a professional photographer or club and wish us to put your logo up on our site please send it to us with your link. Would love to promote you as well.

One last thing to which is really cool. I have received confirmation from SPOT Imaging Services who own 3 satellites – SPOT 2, SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 and have graciously offered to take a photo from up there for us.

We are also looking for people to help me make this project a success, so if your interested please let me know.

Its free to be part of this exciting project.

Hope your able to join the project.

Thanks

Gaven

Heapfo.com Creator

PHOTO EXIBITION !!!

The photo club will hold an official " Photo Exhibition " this coming May 2009.

Members are invited to send their best photos for display or exhibition. This is your chance to show your BEST PHOTOS..
so simply send in 4 low-resolution JPEG photos to contestuitompi@gmail.com - please indicate in the subject -
FOR EXHIBITION.

Deadline - As Soon As Possible

Don't forget !!! Our next photo evening session :

on 28 April 2009
at 18.00 - 20.00

Salle de press

Speaker : M. Andre Dupont

Sorry for the Update and News of last month's contest winners..

We'd like to congratulate the Winners of photo contest " L O V E "

1. Liliana Migliore

2. Ivan Babovic

3. Rae Paladin

Special 4th prize of this contest : Jean Marie McAdams

The photos can be seen at :

http://picasaweb.google.com/ContestUITOMPI/Love?feat=directlink

3rd Photo Contest

Theme : " Telecommunication "

Deadline for submission :

April 21st, 2009 at 7 PM

This might not be an easy subject so lets show your creativities ! Ok then.. set your cameras and shoot.. we'll be waiting for your results!

General Rules :

• Open to members of PhotoClub UIT-OMPI
• If you're not a member yet or need to renew your membership, please click on Membership
  

• Submit 3 images max. per person in jpg format approx. 1600 x 1200 pixels
• Images must have titles (eg. my_winning_photo.jpg)
• Images submitted must be taken by members
• Judge’s decision is final
  
• Send digital images to : ContestUITOMPI@gmail.com

We are now accepting member entries -
PLEASE ENSURE YOU PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE :)
For any questions and contest submissions, please send to :

contestuitompi@gmail.com.

Exciting gift vouchers to be won !!!

Winners of photo "love"

1. Liliana Migliore

2. Ivan Babovic

3. Rae Paladin

Special 4th prize : Jean Marie McAdams

The photo entries can be seen at :

http://picasaweb.google.com/ContestUITOMPI/Love?feat=directlink

Photoshop basic course

Learn the basic techniques in photoshop to enhance your photos. The photoshop course will be given by Cessy Karina. You do not need any photoshop knowledge to attend this course and materials will be distributed during the course.

Date: 20th March 2009
Time: 18H00 - 20H00
Location: ITU Tower, Minus 1 Level, Press Room
Cost: CHF20.- per member
Places: Limited
Email: cessy.karina@itu.int to register

Free Studio Lighting Seminar

André Dupont of Rencontres Photographiques du Genevois will be offering a free studio lighting seminar using the club's brand new studio lights. No experience not required. Just come along to learn even if you do not own studio lights.

First session
Date: 14th March 2009
Time: 15H00
Location: ITU Tower, Press Room, Level minus 1
Cost: Free for members
Places: Limited
Email: ng@itu.int to register

Second session
Date: 17th March 2009
Time: 18H00
Location: ITU Tower, Press Room, Level minus 1
Cost: Free for members
Places: Limited
Email: ng@itu.int to register

Our next photoclub meeting :
Tuesday, 24th March 2009 at 6 pm.
at room H, ITU Montbrillant Building.

The guest speaker for this session is
Mr. Eric Boillat.

As journalist of the Escalade event, he will present us, from a journalistic point of view, about photos of the Escalade. This meeting is open to everyone, so feel free to bring friends...

2nd Photo Contest

Theme : " L o v e "

Deadline for submission :

March 17 th, 2009 at 7 PM

General Rules :

• Open to members of PhotoClub UIT-OMPI
• If you're not a member yet or need to renew your membership, please click on Membership
  

• Submit 3 images max. per person in jpg format approx. 1600 x 1200 pixels
• Images must have titles (eg. my_winning_photo.jpg)
• Images submitted must be taken by members
• Judge’s decision is final
  
• Send digital images to : ContestUITOMPI@gmail.com

We are now accepting member entries -
PLEASE ENSURE YOU PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE :)
For any questions and contest submissions, please send to :

contestuitompi@gmail.com.

Exciting gift vouchers to be won !!!

Previous activities.

Results of our 1st monthly meeting :
We were lucky to have 2 guest speakers this time :


Mr. Aurélien Garzarolli talked about B/W photos and dark room lab printing. He is willing to give a course, for those who are interested, with maximum 5 person per course. The person will learn by doing everything himself as from taking the photo, developing, then printing it. The cost of the course is approx. sfr.300,-.

For any contact :
ACTINIC - Mr. Aurélien Garzarolli
Email : aurélien@actinic.ch ; telephone number +41 78 720 6848. Website : www.actinic.ch






Mr. Andre Dupont talked about lighting techniques, in global, as
an 'apetizer' before the course.
He will do a course on Lighting Techniques on Saturday, 14th May 2009. The course is open to all members.



We would like to congratulate the Winners of the 1st Photo Contest, with the theme " SKY ".. to see the Competition entries click Sky :
1. Neptali Castillo
2. Henri Spagnolo
3. Jean-Marie McAdams..

Monthly Contest # 1

Prior to the 1st monthly meeting
which will be held on the 23rd of February,
we would like to invite you to our photoclub's

1st Monthly Photo Contest

Theme : " S k y "

Deadline for submission :

February 16, 2009 at 7 PM

General Rules :

• Open to members of PhotoClub UIT-OMPI
• If you're not a member yet, choose link on the right of the homepage and register yourself.
  
• Submit 3 images max. per person in jpg format approx. 1600 x 1200 pixels
• Images must have titles (eg. my_winning_photo.jpg)
• Images submitted must be taken by members
• Judge’s decision is final
  
• Send digital images to : ContestUITOMPI@gmail.com

We are now accepting member entries -
PLEASE ENSURE YOU PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE :)
For any questions and contest submissions, please send to :

contestuitompi@gmail.com.

Exciting gift vouchers to be won!!!

General Assembly Meeting

General Assembly of the ITU-WIPO PhotoClub
January 27th 2009 - 12:30 at salle de presse ITU

New commitee members have been appointed and we wish
them all success for the year 2009!

Left : President : Cessy Karina
Right : Vice President : William Effah

- Secretary & Publisist :
- Equipment/Software Librarians :
Liliana Miglore and Aurea Fagel

Exibition Organizers :
Cessy Karina and Henri Spagnolo
















Contest Organizers :
William Effrah and Mary Fisher

Course & Workshop Coordinators :
Hon Fai Ng and Laurent Ciavalino

Lab Room Managers :
Liliana Miglore and Bery Acosta

Website Manager and Reportage :
Tina Sutriesno

We still have some positions to fill that is :

- Treasurer (1 position)

- Events Organizers (2 Positions)

If any of the photoclub members have any interest in this position, please come forward and announce your candidacy! Thank you..