State Service Award

State Service Award

Margaret Zommers

Margaret has been an active member of KPS since joining in 2008.In 2014 she joined the committee, assisting in many committee tasks as well as taking on the responsibility as the supper coordinator. In 2013 she joined the VAPS committee and in 2014, after Fred Everett retired from the VAPS Committee, she took on the position of Badges and Awards Secretary. In the same year she also started judging at VAPS affiliated clubs throughout Victoria as well as being on the KPS judging panel and selection panel for interclub competitions. She has assisted at several Nationals, VAPS Interclubs, judged one VAPS interclub and also this year was invited to judge at the Maitland International. In 2017 she was asked apply her extensive skills as a judge to manage the VAPS Interclub Print judging.

Margaret took on the position of secretary when the Australian Photographic Judges Association was formed in 2015 and is still serving in that position. As a member of the judge’s association she has been one of the lecturers since 2016 and has also presented a presentation “What Judges Look for” to many clubs in Victoria either as a guest speaker or in conjunction with her judging assignments. Recently she has also started mentoring several trainee judges from KPS and other VAPS clubs.

Margaret has given various presentations on photography topics at KPS, other VAPS affiliated clubs and at APJA meetings.

In 2014 Margaret assisted with the organisation of the KPS 40-year exhibition, the KPS exhibition at the Bakery in Fern Tree Gully as well as exhibiting some of her images at these exhibitions.

Since she joined KPS she has often written articles for the club’s monthly and weekly newsletters, revised the KPS Code of Conduct document as well as assisting with the rewriting of the VAPS Constitution.

Since 2014 Margaret has assisted in teaching,at KPS, the Beginners Camera Courses, Basic and Advanced Lightroom coursesas well as teaching Lightroom to another VAPS club in 2016. In 2016 she was a volunteer photographer at the Boronia West Primary SchoolCulture event.

This year, being passionate about going to the zoo to photograph the animals, she started organising outings to the various zoos in Melbourne for KPS members.

Margaret has supported the Australian National and International exhibitions either assisting or judging. She has been very successful as an exhibitor both Nationally and Internationally and has gained several honours in recognition of her photographic skills. For her contribution to photography the Knox Photographic Society and VAPS wish to honour Margaret with the State Service Award.

Peter KewleyAlfred Zommers

Vice PresidentVice President