SaltSpring Photography Club

                 September 2024 Newsletter

Country Grocer:

Showing now is Claudia Schroder-Adams

November is Julianna Slomka

Next year Country Grocer is available for January, March - Pierre, May is available, July - Colton, Sept & Nov are available.  You could do a collaborative show with three or four members showing in the same month.  Please send me an email if interested.  jhmcphee@shaw.ca

Country Grocer receipts: we collected $155 worth of tapes.  Thanks to Anna collecting and adding up receipts for the club.   Look for the photo club box at Country Grocer to deposit your receipts.

BC/Yukon Series will not be happening this year due to no club to take on the organizing role.    There is a bonus presentation on October 18th courtesy of the North Shore Photographic Society.  Speaker Sheldon Boles, on Artificial Intelligence in photography and image making.  Registration will be emailed at a later date.

October 9th meeting will be over Zoom and I will be sharing two 20 minute videos from David deChemin's 'Shoot What It Feels Like".

Canadian Landscape Exhibit: Claudia sent out an email recently about the images for the show - which will be shown at the library in March.  This will have the medium sized  images, around 12 x 18.  She would like to showcase the beauty and diversity of Canada's landscapes and Canada as a country.  Select 10 images & send to Claudia and Pierre, who is helping with the image selection process for the exhibit.  

cschroderadams@gmail.com      pierre.mineau2@gmail.com

As this exhibit is in March, we have plenty of time to work on it, but do keep in mind that time goes by fast, so start looking now in your archives for any images that might work for this show. 

FALL FAIR

The fall fair was a great this year, although we had few entries.  Possibly due to the fact that the fair is the first weekend in September with a holiday Monday.  Tuesday was the drop off for photos and there was a mixup with the drop off dates in the catalogue which also was the fact that we had lower entries this year.  Photography has usually 250-300 entries this year only 197 photos entered in total.

Thank you to members Marcia, Johanne, and Howard for volunteering your time.

The club gave out a prize for best macro/closeup for youth and the photographer has accepted to be our student to show in Eclectic Visions this May.  His name is Greg Evans,  He also won the high aggregate trophy.

Gwen put together her notes from last meeting about 'Launching a photo show at the SSI Public Library' and a list of places to put up posters.  This will be posted on our website.

The Club has reserved the program room at the library for next year, April through to September - cost is $60 per meeting ($30/hour)  We get a discount of 25% if we pay in advance for 6 months.  Regular cost is $40 per hour. We paid for 7 nights which includes our December 2024 meeting.

CAPA

If you are interested in any of the competitions through CAPA please visit their website at https://capacanada.ca/capa-competitions/current-competitions-2/

If you want to compete in any of the competitions, the images are to be sent to me and I will forward them on behalf of the club.

Pacific Zone competition deadline is October 1st

Nature and Wildlife competition deadline is October 15th

Black and White deadline is November 15th

It has also come to my attention that the CAPA speaker series are only available to individual members of CAPA and not available to clubs.

We can send in stories to have published in their magazine.  Anyone wanting to have something published, please contact me and I will give you the details.

They do have a link to our website on their members page.

You can also join CAPA Clubs FACEBOOK page 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/capaclubs

Theme Slideshow

Avril will be away for next month's slideshow - Pierre will be accepting photos for October's meeting.

Theme for October:  SHAPES

Other news:  Seth Berkowitz is showing his 'Clear Cut Landscape Photography' - Presented by West Vancouver Community Arts Council 'Hundreds and Thousands'

https://kaymeek.com/events/hundreds-and-thousands-2024-10-27-400-pm/

The exhibition is from September 10th to October 27th, at the Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver.

Howard talked about his showcase exhibition at Mahon Hall this summer titled 'Flower Child'  He gave a wonderful talk explaining how he got his models to move while photographing them.   He also talked about lighting -  natural and artificial, setting a stage for portraiture photography as well as shared images  from his fashion photography days.  Thank you Howard for sharing!

Meeting adjourned at 8:45pm