Our President, Dave Noordhoff, kicked off the Chatham Camera Club’s 78th year by welcoming a large contingent of familiar faces as well as eleven new ones. This Orientation Meeting was intended to explain some Club competition procedures as well as reviewing our Summer activities and upcoming events.
Bob Allen confirmed this year’s Christmas Breakfast at the Links Of Kent golf club on December 7th at 9 AM.
An explanation of some minor changes to our Constitution concerning the duties of the Treasurer and the Club’s fiscal year was presented by Executive Assistant Chad Berry. We will vote on those changes at our October 8th meeting.
Vice-President Vince Gagnier informed the Club that the Sarnia Photographic Club was hosting an event featuring nature photographer Chris Harris on Saturday, November 9th at the Sarnia Library from 9 to 5. The cost to attend is $50.
Dave Noordhoff passed on a note from the London Camera Club that award winning professional photographer Deborah Sandidge will be their featured speaker on Thursday, October 10th from 7:30 to 9:30 for a fee of just $5. Anyone interested can contact Dave for more details as several of our members are going to attend.
The Club was treated to an excellent slide show featuring photos taken during our Summer Walk-Abouts in Ridgetown, Bothwell Oil Museum / Oakdale gas station and Erieau. It brought back a lot of good memories of three great outings. Ya shoulda been there!
Chad Berry gave an excellent presentation aimed at introducing our new members to our CAPA and CCC photo competitions. We were all reminded that these competitions are aimed at improving our photo techniques and to provide us with some fresh inspiration to get out and shoot.
Patricia Kral was featured in our What I Shoot segment, where she showed us her wonderful shots from both the present and the past. Well done Patricia!
Our next meeting will be held on October 8th when Ted Kloske of Henry’s Photo in Windsor will present a seminar on Macro Photography. Our members are invited to bring a print of any size, any theme, for display.
They told me it’s the photographer, not the equipment,
that makes a good picture, so I sold my camera.