Hotmail has done me in again so I am going to change my primary email address to gykelly2@gmail.com so will everyone please make note of that.

Thank You

Cliff

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/us/seeking-perfect-sunset-at-yosemite.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130226

This URL describes photography and its passion in Yosemite.  I took some early 1970s photos there and still believe that it is one of the most photographic environments in the world.

Transition Salt Spring is holding Resilience Fair on March 23 at Mahon Hall form 1:00 - 4:00 pm.

"Transition Salt Spring (TSS) is a local group within the Salt Spring Island community, committed to working together with all existing groups to address the urgent and critical issues of global climate change and declining fossil fuel supplies. Climate change makes carbon reduction essential and peak oil makes it inevitable. Transition Salt Spring is part…

This article has some good tips for those who usually use their built in flash and tend to operate their camera on automatic.

http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/improve-dslr-flash.html

Sorry for the delay.... too much going on - the Opera, tennis, just playing around.... but here you are... it was a great meeting.... 

SSI PHOTO CLUB

Feb 13, 2013  - Minutes

OPENING REMARKS: No Jambo Jambo tonight Bob was running the show..…

Tonight the Club was…

To all the ladies in our club I wish you a Happy Valentines day today - when I was a child it used to be "will you be my Valentine" and that is my wish also today - we are all so lucky to have you - the prettiest and most talented photographers in all of BC to boot!   

Darryl Snaychuk, a non club member, who is a Vancouver photographer and a Salt Spring resident is selling a variety of equipment.  This is a partial list:

A large high quality library of photo books, a series of 8 30" x 30" custom frames with glass and a shipping crate to fit, lenses for a Mamiya 645 system, light weight travel cases for equipment, lighting, stands, Gitzo carbon tripod, ball heads, Nikon D-90 with lens etc….

If you are interested in his flyer, email him…

If anyone would like these they are free to a good home - set of cyan, magenta, yellow.

Rob Watt, local well know photographer, has sent us this link as a point of interest.

Ian Ruhter is a Los Angeles-based photographer who creates massive wet plate photographs using a giant camera van.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/30/ian-ruhters-wet-plate-photography-with-a-giant-van-camera/…

Congratulations, Trudy.

The Comox Valley Camera Club publishes an extensive monthly newsletter in four part harmony.  Trudy's photo of her family enjoying the snow at Christmas makes the front page.

If you are interested in seeing the newsletter, let me know and I will forward the PDF file.

Curt

On November 1, I Posted the Country Grocer Deli Hanging for 2013. Apparently some of our members have not checked the Blogs and I try to give remind members of how the schedule stands at our monthly meetings - so here is our remaining schedule for 2013: The month of March (already taken by Margaret Benmore), month of August, Month of October. I post monthly requests as I receive them and I have received no additional requests after March. The Month of May was available to us last year but at…

We hung our images at Country grocer Deli on the 2nd of January and will retrieve them at 7:00 PM on Thursday, Jajnuary 31. The next scheduled exhibit is in March and Margaret Benmore has asked to do a "one man" show and I will be there to help her hang it on Friday, February 28 at 7:00 PM.  

The Victoria Society for Photo Based Art invites photographers and artists to submit works for “Distinctly Digital 2013” a juried digital arts exhibit that will celebrate digital art.   Work selected by our expert international jurors as finalists will be showcased at Coast Collective Art Centre May 3 – May 12, 2013. We would appreciate it if you could help us promote this event by distributing our poster to your membership or listing the event on your website.  Deadline for submission…

SSI PHOTO CLUB

January 09, 2013  - Minutes

OPENING REMARKS: well we were Jambo Jambo’d again… ( jambo means – greetings, sit down and be quiet - the Prez is going to speak of important things)… Curt expressed delight with the Club Members Annual Winter Show at ArtSpring… there are a good number of participants including many people new to showing. The quality of the work is wonderful… The club and its members…

SSI PHOTO CLUB

December 12, 2012  - Minutes

OPENING REMARKS:  the meeting opened by Curt Firestone (El Prez) with a big Jambu !!!! Call and response…  (African greeting and shshhhhh the meeting is starting… yeah right with this group – good luck !)  Curt commented on all of the member’s activities over the time he was away --- very impressive indeed.  Our membership is growing but more importantly it is very…

Read this if you have any Ferry riders photos in your stock that you would like to give to islands Trust.  They need the photos by the end of next week.

As part of Islands Trust submission to the province about BC Ferries, we would like to share images of what ordinary ferry travellers look like. We are certainly not cruise ship…

Opening remarks:  Bob Rogers chaired the meeting ably in Curt's absence. He led a discussion on how members chose to approach Jonesie's challenge to try something out of their comfort zone. Quite a number expressed discomfort at shooting people. (I know Margaret would have interjected something here but I'm not going to.)

Old Business:  There is information now posted on site about the Miksang workshop running Jan. 12 and 13. All members interested in attending need to give a deposit…

I have tried to add this information under the "events" heading but it won't take, so here is our schedule for exhibiting at the Country Grocer Deli for 2013.

January

March

August

October

We hang six images and provide accompanying title tags with the image title, Photographers Name  and desired sale price. The images can be the work of six different photograpers or any other combination to total six. We have had "one-man" shows but in that event I would…

We will meet at the GVM Deli to take down our October exhibits on Wednesday, October 31, 2012. I will meet Magaret to assist her in any way to retrieve her photos.