Minutes March 12, 2014

[Margaret C. Benmore]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    SaltSpring Photography Club Minutes

February 12, 2014

 

 

Opening Remarks:  Chris Dixon (VP) nobly opened the meeting  - his huge OWWEEE !!!!  is on the Mend and he is nobly carrying on… Thank you Chris…

We welcomed back Ken for his one meeting a year and hope he will be tempted to join us more often…  Others too – come out and share the fun with us and were learning stuff too…

 

Had Greetings from the Prez in the South – hiding out in Mexico I hear…

 

Greetings from Trudy Sloan in Courtney – she is having a wonderful time, but she misses us… and we miss her too… Come visit for a meeting Trudy… 

 

Club Business:

 

         Club Membership dues Due:  If you still have Outstanding dues… come on fork it over – it is little enough for all the fun you could have with us – if participate…. [e-mail]

  

         Webmaster: Wendy Rosier has taken on the post of WebMaster --- thus I think We have a WebMistress… she will be working with Bob Rogers and anyone else who would like to help develop the Club Web capability and presence… [e-mail]

 

          Education Co-ordintor Position still open:   Still awaiting some help in this area…. PLEASE Someone or someones ????

 

         Mentorship Program with GISS/Agricultural Alliance:  Don Romanchuk has taken on the coordination/liaison role for the Club in a cooperative project between the Club, GISS Gulf Islands Senior Secondary and the Agricultural Alliance Group… the aim is to have club members mentoring the students in photography while producing images of farms on the island for fundraising activities… Hearing from both the kids and the mentors already in place, it sounds like a great deal of fun is been had by all… There is promise of great things to come…  There will be group shoots throughout the spring, so it is a chance to explore farms at a wonderful time of year, lots of action, lots baby critters and Spring in the air… it just doesn’t get any better than that on SSI…. Don is still looking for a few more mentors – so if you are interested in some great photo-ops give him a call…    Thanks Don, he can be contacted at [e-mail]

 

 Upcoming Events:

        

         Country Grocer Café: Wendy Rosier and Chris Dixon are presently showing at the Café… lovely work you guys…   [e-mail]

 

         January Lobby Show at ArtSpring: is now down and maybe Bob could give us some Stats/feedback/comments on it at the next meeting…  I  personally heard from lots of people that the Club work is just getting better and better… well done all…

 

         Eclectic Visions 2014: June 26 – July 9^th, 2014 –

• It will be a 14 day run in the ArtSpring Gallery.   
• 30 members have so far expressed interest
• The cut off for registration (Club Blog) is the end of March - so don’t put it off too long…
• Fee payment $60 is due at the end of May – please send your money to Pat page…
• The show will be hanging on the June 26, we will need your images by the 25^th.   
• The Theme of Eclectic Visions 2014 as chosen by those who participated in the vote will be:  NO THEME  --- let’s see your best most creative stuff… have at it…

 

Avril Kirby is managing Eclectic Visions and would love to hear from you if you wish to participate… [e-mail]

 

Now Showing: 

         Roasting Company:  The Club Monthly Slideshows are again showing for the coffee crowd… I think they are playing old ones… there are some wonderful shots, and the names of friends keep flashing up there… well done all who are appearing

         Harbour House: Don’t forget that Harbour House has a wonderful space for displaying Photograph’s so if you are looking for a venue – you might want to talk to them….

 

         Embe’s Fresh Baked (Embe’s café) this is another collection of the work of Doug and Avril and as always they are worth a side trip for goodies and coffee…

 

         Pemberton Homes Real Estate… April 1 to June 30 will be showing Spring images by MCB and Sylvia Beech… This is a fun show and a wonderful opportunity to show some of your island images, if you are interested in participating please contact Avril or Margaret C. Benmore… we welcome the company….

 

         Fernwood Café: Avril Kirby is showing this time at the Fernwood Café…

 

If you know of other shows in town… add them on to this blog or better yet post it on the event section of our website… Let us all know what you have found and enjoyed…. 

 

Evening Educational session… the evening’s session was presented by Don Romanchuk , he was giving us a survey of some digital manipulation software --- Basically he was also assessing where we all were with photographic technology in the computer dark room…  I think he probably found that we ranged from Wizards to – not so much… Don did give us some things to think about when we are determining what we need/want in a software to work with photos…

It will be interesting to watch what develops as a program… Don is a very experienced instructor who obviously has a great deal of knowledge and experience to offer… and enthusiasm…   So come on out and learn stuff… it doesn’t hurt, it is kind’a fun… Sometimes you might even remember it…   Thanks Don and Curt for starting the ball rolling…

 

Evening Slide Show: The challenge for the Evening was to find Found Art, Primitive Art, Quirky Art… etc..  well we certainly rose to the challenge and produced a whimsical look at SSI and surrounds…  we found ART (Arthur Black), we found the Dentists gate, Mexican sink still life, Scarcrows, Fairy Doors, Buddha with mitts, Library art, Bubbles, a new Copper Pictograph.. and many many more wonderful photos… well done all…

 

It is always fun to see other people’s take on the world, what they find interesting and the angles they see it from…

 

Slideshow Challenge:  The challenge for April is really a challenge… an image that captures or expresses “          VACANT  “

Send you submissions to Doug ( Master of the Show) McMillan at [e-mail]

 

Next Months Meeting: Wednesday, April 9 , 2014 7:00 Portlock Portable...  see you there…  It’s going to be interesting and fun…

 

Editorial aside: If you have any comments, corrections or additions please feel free --- all help is welcome…

I would like to encourage all club members to take part in the conversations on the website --- they are interesting and endlessly informative…  Share your pictures with the club on the site – you know we all love to look at images and it would give us a chance to get to know a little bit about you …  let’s participate…

 

Cheers… MCB

 

 

 

 

[Curt Firestone]

Margaret,

Can't wait to get back for the April meeting.

There will be a presentation on Aperature (a mac software program)

[Margaret C. Benmore]

Doug I am soooooo sorry - I did this last time too... truly it isn't personal... I don't know where that address is coming from my contact list has the correct one... techno gremlins out to get me... .. sorry love... cheers... MCB    

[Avril Kirby]

Well done, Marg. Just one correction to make--Eclectic visions ends on July 7th so it's a 12 day run and we may not be taking in the submissions until Thursday the 26th of June.  Thanks!

[Avril Kirby]

Oh and my email is [e-mail].