April 14, 2012 Meeting Minutes...

[Margaret C. Benmore]

SSI Photo Club

April 14, 2012  - Minutes

 

1.  Opening remarks:  

         Curt opened the meeting by commenting and congratualing everyone who is presently showing around town…. Boy have we got the town covered, very well covered.  Rachel is at the Credit Union, Brian and Karen are at Fernwood, Sam Lightman and Maureen Milbur are at ArtSpring and Avril is showing at Penny’s Pantry….   and all are wonderful shows -- get around and have a look. 

We now have a 80 members registered with the club….  The little Club that grew.

 

2.  Announcements/Opportunities: 

     Fernwood Cafe:  

         Jennifer is looking for people to fill her Photo wall with beautiful images for month long shows.  Each show will be of about10 images, will have a month of display time with an opening coffee klatch opening… great opportunity in a lovely location…

Contact Jennifer Shaw [e-mail]  or drop by the Fernwood Café – great coffee and cakes…

               

     Velo Village:   (Bikes)

         Anna McColmn   reports everything going well -

Venues will include:

             a)  TJ's Coffee House will be a hanging a bike themed selection of photos submitted by members of the club. Probably 5 or 6 photos - so get to Anna quickly if you want to show there.  

             b)  ArtSpring will be the centre of the Velo activity and we have been invited to show on the walls of the main galleries... the floor space will be used for other purposes, but the walls will be blank and available...  (June 19-26) great opportunities for us all... contact  Anna or Curt for information. 

              c) Jennifer (as above) is looking for Bikey type images for the Fernwood Café wall for the period of mid June to mid July

 

Roasters Café:  (Country Grocers)

         The next show is May and Cliff was looking for images; Curt, Doug and Avril have volunteered to fill the space….  Anyone interested in showing there should contact Cliff Kelly – it takes about 6 images and can be a solo or combined show….   It’s fun to see your work brightening the day of the local denizens hanging out in the coffee show and they do notice and comment on them..  

 

Eclectic Vision (the Club's annual show at ArtSpring):

         Will be from June 1-18 - this covers 3 weekends. Details will be forthcoming this week…. This is the Big One --- really time to strut your stuff and show the world your best, most interesting or favourite… come on and join us…

  

Lady Minto, Fritz, Harbour House Slideshows:

         Wendy Rosier  reports  our next  project, collecting Summer or whatever shots for a new slideshow/video to add to the Harbour House and Lady Minto monitors, we need horizontal (landscape) images with a Spring theme.  They should be 1920 px x 1080 px at least and saved in high quality (100%) Jpeg file format.  When you have something to send in, email Wendy  at [e-mail]

 

Harbour House Wall Space Opportunity: 

         Evidently if anyone one is interested in exhibiting their work on the walls of Harbour House (Lobby and Restaurant, I think) they should contact Nathan at Harbour House for details and information

 

3.  Invitation to all Club members to come for cookies and juice at Margaret Benmore’s  Image’narium (garden with a twist) – on Sunday April 22, 3-5’ish….. all welcome --- would love to share our Spring with you….  216 Fairway Crescent --- off Northend Road, up Fairway Drive towards Trincomali Heights.  At the top of the first hill, South Banks comes in from the left, just about 20 feet past that is a little dirt road – Fairway Crescent --- we are the house with the Elizabeth May sunflower house number(216)… third one on the left…

 

4. Suggestions for Educational Events: 

         Does anyone have any suggestions for future Educational events – so far we have had wonderful presentations and they are all very instructive and inspiring...  If you have any ideas contact any of the Exec. We will point it in the right direction….

 

5. Cowichan Photo Club --- Curt has been contacted by them and they would like to do a visit with us and see our island and have us visit them on a field trip… he will be in discussion with them to arrange a suitable time and event….  Sounds like fun. 

 

6.  Next Meeting: Wed. May 9, 2012 - 7:00 pm - Portock Portable...       The theme of the May meeting will be “SPRING”.  Forward your 2 images to Doug as soon as possible as this is going to take some creativity on his part to choreograph.

 

7.  May’s Educational Presentation: as yet there is nothing planned – any ideas or contacts welcome… however it nothing happens we will use the time to discuss Eclectic Visions show…

 

8. The Evening Educational Event: was a wonderful presentation by Nancy Angermyer of Saturna island --- Nancy supports her art by doing wedding and event photography… which by the way are beautiful and very much of the islands….  but her art is clearly her passion.  Her artwork is a collage effect combining photography with painting and she presented some very strong and haunting images.  The evening really opened our eyes to the potential for creativity and imagination in the construction of an image…  Her juxtaposition of dancers and models with beautiful historic images was very powerful and magical…. you can view her work on her website 

 

9.  Evening Members Show --- the theme was “Obsession”  and Wow did that open the floodgates… it was a wonderful show with beautiful images and lots of friendly chatter and laughter… people’s obsessions were everything from shooting amazing floral shots, to arty shots of lipsticks.  Some birds and dogs were the obsessions of others…. Well others obsessed over colour, light and night photography…. It was a real range and the quality of the images, the compositions and the interpretations were amazing… Well done everyone… it is so inspiring to see all of these different points of view….

          

If I have missed anything please feel free to add it on --- or make editorial comments...  and corrections… this is a participatory sort of minute’s… thanks.   

Cheers… MCB 

[Avril Kirby]

Well done, as usual, Margaret--always fun to read your version of what happened!

[Curt Firestone]

Was I at that meeting?

[Curt Firestone]

Margaret turns a boring meeting into a fun event