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 venues: Harbour House, Lady Minto, and Fritz Theatre.... all great opportunities for you to strutt your stuff and for the community and visitors to enjoy images of the island.  Wendy is looking for images in two areas:  Firstly - anything festive (any festival of this season), holidayish, glitter and such  and Secondly,  she is looking for shots of SSI --- any season, any theme,     Thanks Wendy for these opportunities... 

 

3. Theme for the December meeting:  The Best of the Best --- Give us your Best shot of 2011 --- this will be an extended club member slide show giving a bit more time for each person to talk about their shot or not.  So you are asked to send your very best image from 2011 to Doug and he will put together the slide show as usual..... this should be really interesting and beautiful.  

 

4.  Simon Henson reminded us of the Lighting workshop Wed. Nov 16 at Portlock.  Due to the large number of eager participants, most of whom shoot using natural light -- he will be spending the majority of time on natural lighting  and maybe touch on some studio light - but that may be the topic of future workshop.  

 

5.  Simon Henson -- there as been a very enthusastic response to the idea of field trips and Simon is asking for suggestions for trips/venues and also some information about the times you are available... please e-mail him with your suggestions and times -- it will help him in organizing an event... Thanks Simon for picking up the ball on this -- it will be fun.  Oh by the way he also said the Salmon are running at Goldstream..

 

6.  Anna McColm was reporting in on the Velo Village (Biking) conference part of which will be held on SSi next summer (June 21-23)  Curt and Anna attended an organizing committee meeting and came away with a few ideas for the clubs participation --- we are thinking a bike themed March meeting to collect bike images for a slide presentation that will be shown in several venues around town.  The contact people for this project are Wendy Rosier, Anna McColm and Curt Firestone.....

 

7.  At the Luz Gallery in Victoria a representative from Blurb Publishing will be demonstrating and speaking from 1-4 Friday (oops that's past)  anyway Blurb sounds like it would be of interest to the club members  - they seem to specialize in doing web based publishing for individuals.  Bob Davidson has a very impressive book of photos & text from his Road Trip across Canada that Blurb published - nice images Bob.   Blurb is on the Net 

 

8. Uri Cogan did a brief but really interesting of HDR (?) --- wow it is magic and very powerful when you know what you are doing.... You can really mess with reality.    Thanks Uri - it is always a delight to learn from you...

 

9.  The Member Show was on the theme of Shadows  - it generated some lively discussion about what is a shadow, is a reflection of a shadow a shadow, is a silouette a shadow.... etc.  The members brought many interpretations of shadow and some wonderful images --- well done all   Doug has posted the show on this site and it is showing at RoCo -- 

 

If I have missed anything just add it on.... or if I got something wrong - please correct me. 

 

Cheers.... MCB (still temp secretary - though it seems to be slipping into full time by the looks of it...)  

 

P.S.  Speaking of which -- the Club is looking for some volunteers to help with the various executive positions and tasks.... please step up --- we don't want to burn the present exec out... and we want to keep the Club going --- it is doing so well.... and its fun...

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Comment by Avril Kirby on November 12, 2011 at 10:34am

Thank you, Marg--enjoyed your precis, as usual!

Comment by timothy gibbon on November 14, 2011 at 11:02pm

yes, thank you especially since I was unable to attend.

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