A turnout of 57, including one new member, was on hand for our April 8th meeting.

• President Dave Noordhoff announced that Kathy Davidson has agreed to fill the position of Auditor.
• Chris Jorgensen is still accepting nominations for the offices of Club President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Executive Assistants. If you or someone you know would like to run for office, kindly let Chris know ASAP at ChrisJ@mnsi.net
• There is still time to submit your Emulation Of A Famous Photographer projects to Keith Blackwell at KeithBlackwell@xplornet.ca. The exercise will be reviewed at our April 22nd meeting.

• Dave Noordhoff gave a valuable and long overdue tutorial entitled
Crop and Full Frame Sensors and Their Effect on Different Lenses, where he explained the different sensor sizes available in Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus and Pentax cameras. The YouTube video below summarizes Dave’s presentation.

• The Club was treated to an excellent slide show by Larry Kearns for our What I Shoot feature. Larry’s images included many beautiful photographs that used a wide variety of special effects, selective colouring and Black and White. Congratulations Larry on a job well done!

• Les McCracken reviewed the many fine prints that were put on display by Club members, handing out several well deserved compliments. Thanks to all who exhibited their work this season. You have influenced and inspired many others to achieve your level of excellence.

• Judging was held for our Novice group’s Shadows entries, with shots by Helen Heath, Chad Barry, Debbie Venne, Olivia Childs, Mike Moynihan, Barb Ferren and Sherrie Strain achieving top marks.

• The Intermediate / Advanced shooters were evaluated on their Weathered shots, with Mike Blazek, Martha Gillier, Tere Deslippe and Jean DeBruyn achieving the highest scores.

• Our final competition will be held at our next meeting on April 22nd, when the Novice challenge will be Weathered and the Intermediate / Advanced topic will be Open. See our Meeting Schedule page for more details.

• A special reminder: If you have any photo related equipment that you would like to buy, sell or trade, let us know at Jim@JamesPollock.com and we’ll add it to our Buy – Sell page.

You never get to a point where you know 100% of everything there is to know about photography and that’s what makes it such an exciting hobby. Those who let on they know it all are really just Fauxtographers.