The meeting was held at the Portlock meeting room and was again very well attended - about 25

Opening comments by Bob Davidson - representing Curt Firestone who has gone south on us -- well done Bob - those are big shoes to fill.

1. Welcome to new member Laura McMillan who has just moved to the island and found our club - hope you enjoy it here --- we certainly do. 

2.  Wendy Rosier let the club know that she is looking for photographs for 3…

Hi all I was wondering if someone would be able tutor me on the MAC/Photoshop9.  I need help getting the interface between MAC/PS seamless. I am presently using iPhoto, but would like to learn about Photoshop  I am a technophobe, though somewhat experienced.  I require someone with a sense of humour and a awful lot of patiences... Thanks for your help    Cheers... MCB   

Holiday Season Shows for the Fritz and Harbour House.

Any winter/festive Holiday/Solstice/Celebration images are needed ASAP

For the Fritz...any dimension in High-resolution and no smaller than 2 mega pixels. 

For the Harbour House - Horizontal only and High-Resolution (as you shot it)

Get your shots to me before November 25th

Email Wendy at:     wrosier at gmail dot com

he first time the lighting workshop was mentyioned I entered my name the very first day. I have never seen a listing since but I knew I was on the list. I am not on the list?

Well if the work shop is presented again I would hope to attend that and will try to put my name in again.

Cliff 

The meeting was held at the Portlock meeting room and was well attended by about 20 people.

Opening Comments by Curt Firestone our esteemed El Presidento... good job Curt.

1.  Welcome of new members --- 4 new members and Pat who has been a member for 3 years..

2.  The Country Grocer hanging opportunity has expanded from 3 months to 5 months (Jan, Mar, May, Aug and Oct..... this is a great opportunity to strut your stuff... Contact Rachel Page…

In January when we have our elections, I have proposed that we add the position of Vice President.  The current system which expects the past president to assume the president's functions when the president is unavailable is not functional.  If you have any thoughts about this change, please post them or contact me.  Nothing is iron clad at this early date.

I will be in Mexico on November 9 and December 14; missing our general membership meetings.  In my absence, Bob Davidson…

FYI

1. Country Grocer's Roaster cafe will host the Photo Club with five shows.

January, March, May, August and October.  Rachel Page will provide details and take names of those interested in the next month or so.

2.Eclectic Visions.  June 7 through June 18, 2012

Hi Everybody,



The Harbour House Monitor Project has been a big hit - thanks to everyone who contributed wonderful Spring images.   Harbour House really likes that they have "Local" images for their guests and they have asked us to continue with  new images.

So here is what we need:

1)   Your best, crisp/clear images of Salt Spring and the Gulf Islands. Any season. Any subject.                   Closeup or long shot as long as…

This is a reminder that Sandi Poystila, Club member, is publisher of the Islands Marketplace bi-weekly publication.  She loves to highlight our Photography Club.  She will publish your photo for all of her readers to see.  You get the photo credit.

Currently, she needs more photos from club members.

Send to:info@islandsmarketplace.com   Include any brief narrative.  Remember to re-size your image just like when sending them to Doug for the slide show.

A combination men's clothing store and gallery in Vancouver is seeking a Salt Spring Island photographer to represent.

The owner, Michael Burt, would like some non representational photos.  He is looking for photographers who use Photoshop and take reality to another place.

He currently represents Nicholas Halpin of Gabriola.  www.eyeswideopen.ca   His work is very realistic and Michael is looking for a balance in his…

On Saturday I went to Bruce Peak (where the antenna farms are located) and shot a 184° panorama of the vista, from Gabriola Island to the north to Sidney Island to the South, with Salt Spring Island in the foreground and the Coast Mountains and Vancouver in the background.

Play with the control buttons, zoom in and out. Use the Full-Screen button

Click HERE to see the panorama

Technical…

We have room for three more members to exhibit one framed piece at Country Roaster Cafe Art Wall at Country Grocer for the month of July.

The current three are:

Ramona Lam

Anna McColm

Curt Firestone 

Sign up here.

The meeting of the Eclectic Visions participants will take place at 5:30 PM on May 10 at the Church of Latter Days Saints.  This is the same night as our regular meeting.  Bring your own food and drink and enjoy "dinner" as we talk.  By having the meeting the same night, we are reducing our meeting evenings to one.  We will meet for an hour plus and then take a break between meetings.  The regular meeting will start at 7 PM.  Also by having a 5:30 PM meeting, those who do not drive at night…

This year the Salt Spring Photography Club’s premier photo show, Eclectic Visions, will be held at Art Spring 24 June through 7 July.

All members of the photography club are encouraged and welcome to participate.  Each member will receive a certain amount of space which will guide the member in determining how many small, medium or large framed images to show.  The actual hanging location of each image will be at the discretion of the non-member who hangs the…

April 2 Update.

We are just waiting on Harbour House to get the connections. Thanks to the many submissions I have been able to create two 25 minute discs.  I have New Short update links....  

Disc #1 

        http://www.screencast.com/t/96O4EcBM

Disc #2

       …

Some of our members asked me to let them know when the Scoter flock shows up. They are usually a March arrival - their mian objectiive is the Herring Spawn - and I don't know if that is happening but the Scoters arrived yesterday. I  got one shot this morning with 100  birds in the flock - and there are more.

There has been an unusual  amount of activity in the cove in the past few weeks with large numbers of both kinds of golden eyes, mergansers and a significant number…