The Photo Club's annual BIG show.  Here are the particulars

June 27 the show will be hung at Art Spring.

June 28 late afternoon - the opening reception with food & wine and the finest photos.....

July 7  The show comes down at day's end

Participation Fee: $75  This show is for Club members only.

To be in the show, register with either Curt…

Seth Berkowitz, an on island photographer who is a member of Photo Synthesis is offering four workshops.

Basic photo composition

Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

Documenting your Art (For artists)

Introduction to iPhoto (For Artists)

For more information go to:

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

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…

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

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…

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…

This seemed to be a nice adjunct to Jonesi's presentation last night.

http://digital-photography-school.com/7-steps-to-get-over-your-fear-of-street-photography

Kudos to Bill.  He did a wonderful job today of hosting the Cowichan Valley Camera Club on our behalf.

The whole day went smoothly.  Our guests were both pleased and thankful.

Fifteen SS club members are now looking forward to visiting Cowichan Valley in two weeks.

The Salt Spring Arts Council is currently accepting applications for Showcase Exhibitions 2013. Application deadline is 30 October 2012.   Applications are due at the end of October.

http://www.ssartscouncil.com/

Sam Lightman of the Club showed his work this way last year.

Check out the wonderful article about our own Ernie Westlund in this week's issue of the Driftwood.

An interesting article on waiting and then shooting.

http://digital-photography-school.com/first-wait-then-shoot

Margaret Benmore had a last minute family issue and was not at the meeting.  No real minutes this month.  I am leaving for 10 days early in the AM and am a shity secretary.

Kim Lavender-Kitchen spoke on birth photography.

Curt made a few announcements of club members shows currently on island.  Check out: Fernwood cafe, Embe Bakery and Country Grocer Cafe walls.

The Heat themed slide show was hot.

Next month:  Theme is…

Our library has put out the call for artists and that includes photographers to have their work purchased by and hung in the new library.  This is a competitive opportunity for Salt Springers.  Submissions must be made by September 14 and the final art piece must be ready by Oct. 29.

If you are interested, go to: http://saltspring.bclibrary.ca/  You will find guidelines and application forms.

I plan to let the Chief…

For those of you who are fans of Art Wolfe.

http://digital-photography-school.com/art-wolfe-on-the-photographic-treasure-hunt

The SS Photo Club has received an announcement of the Photo Workshop & camping outing near Kamloops.  End of August.  $395.  

If you are interested in more information; send me a note and I will forward the email to you.

Curt

Greetings all

My name is John and I am the manager of the Kerrisdale Cameras here in Victoria, and we have an event coming up that some of your members might be interested in attending on Saturday July 28th from 1-5pm that I would like for you to all share with your membership if you could please. 

We will be hosting a a demo day on most of the Pro-Sigma Lenses, and we will have a bunch of them along with the Sigma sales reps in to show you the lenses and tell you about them…