Pinnacle Studio 11

Pinnacle have release a new version of Studio, I've been playing with this for about a week and it does seem to have fixed the major problems previous versions had. Although not the usual AV a few of us create with our photos, below is a couple of music videos I created for an online competition. They have lost a LOT of quality hosted on YouTube, but it looks good at DVD quality on a widescreen tv.

If your still in dinosaur mode (dial-up speed), you may be waiting for a few minutes once you press the play button.

I liked it that much here is another
Bob

Third go
Bob

Tidal River

A second shot at an image from our Venus Bay holiday.
Bob

Photoshop lessons

There will be no PhotoShop lessons for now, of course anyone else is welcome to continue on.

If you have any suggestions about future topics let me know.

Mark..

Photo Albums

Below you can see a preview of my Vietnam album, I posted it on our Vietnam site but forgot to put it here. Also I have just had printed albums from the two previous trips; China and Disneyland (Hong Kong).

October Results

The judge for October was Sharon Cruise, a teacher from Catholic College Bendigo. Once again there were large numbers of entries but Sharon did a fine job of selecting the top scorers as;

OPEN COLOUR PRINTS
All the following entries scored top marks of 15 points.
Mark Fairbairn for "Paddle Boats"
Mark Fairbairn for "Katie #4"
Liz hatcliffe for "Lisa"
Mal Whitehead for "The Moorings"
Kate Fitzgerald for "A Bit Fishy"
Kate Fitzgerald for "The Boy"
Norm Stimson for "Liffey Falls, Tasmania"
Garry Paterson for "Shifting Sands, Mungo **IMAGE OF THE NIGHT
Ralph Densworth for "Man in Hat"

SET SUBJECT PRINTS - ABUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Mal Whitehead for "Speed Kills" 15 points
Boyd Robertson for "Global Warming - Whats' That" 12 points

BLACK AND WHITE PRINTS
Liz Hatcliffe for "Shadow Play" 15 points
Mal Whitehead for "Heaven Sent" 15 points
Liz Hatcliffe for "Other Side of the Law" 14 points

COLOUR SLIDES
All the following entries were awarded 15 points
Cynthia Watkins for "Femaile Bower Bird"
Cynthia again for "Crovie Village"
Cynthia again for Autumn Leaves"
Norm Stimson for "Mount Buffalo #2"
Norm again for "Remote beach"
Norm again for "Sun Orchid"

SET SUBJECT SLIDES
Coral Symons for "Desecration"
Coral again for "Air Pollution"

Well done to all of the above photographers, unfortunatley we do not have a big selection of the above entries featured on the blog this month.
Please email your top scoring files to Vicki after judging for inclusion here.

BCC news update

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Vietnam Travellers Return

For more photos and stories checkout our Vietnam blog site.

August Competition Results

Another great competition with plenty of entries and some very close scores in all categories.
Top Scorers were;
Colour Slides
Cynthia Watkins "Splash Down" 15 points
Coral Symons "Striking Flower" 14 points
Wilma McCormick "Medieval Square" 14 points
Norm Stimson "Cat's Claws Cactus" 14 points

Set Subject Slides
"Breaking the Boundaries"
Cynthia Watkins "Trees at Mungo" 15 points
Wilma McCormick "Munich Mannerism" 14 points
Cynthia Watkins "Lighting the Night" 14 points

Small Prints
Judith Mundy "Malmsbury"

Black & White Prints
Liz Hatcliffe "The Other Half" 15 points
Wilma McCormick "Precious Michelle" 14 points

Open Colour Prints
Mal Whitehead "Port Franklin" 15 points & Image of the Night
Mark Fairbairn "Carol-Anne"15 points
Norm Stimson "The Cathedral, Mt Buffalo" 15 points