48 members and 4 guests attended our March 24th meeting.

• President Vince Gagnier informed us that our own Herman Geithoorn will be presenting a show called Ontario Nature Photography at the Sarnia Library Theatre on Tuesday, April 7 at 7 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend.

• In a return visit to The CCC, our guest speaker, Stan Buell showed The Club his captivating pictures of Galapagos and Africa in a thoroughly entertaining slideshow. His amazing underwater shots of fish, plant life, turtles and birds were interspersed with video clips of encounters with different varieties of sharks. Stan’s African pictures featured images of fascinating and often dangerous wild life along with native people and beautiful sunsets. Following the program, Vince Gagnier presented Stan with a pair of CCC coffee mugs along with our sincere thanks for an outstanding presentation.

•  In this month’s CCC Competition, Intermediate / Advanced and Salon members showed their shots of Urban Decay.
Mike Blazek, Tere Deslippe, John St. Pierre, Jean DeBruyn and Carson Plant obtained the top scores.

The Novices showed their fine efforts to capture People Outdoors.
High marks were awarded to Margaret DeKlerk, Regan Smoulders, Steven Taylor, Wendy Beasley, Jana Smith, Glen Spooner and Bob Miller.

• The evening’s final segment featured Frank Vadovic’s slideshow from last Fall’s annual trip to Algonquin Park. Contributing to the pictures were Chad Barry, Carson Plant, Mike Blazek, Vince Gagnier, Clarke Warner, Keith Blackwell, Dennis Warwick.

• Our next meeting is April 14 when professional photographer and long-time friend of The Club, Don Martel will be our guest speaker.  Members are encouraged to bring in a print of any subject, any size, for display, however, because of time constraints, these photos will not be discussed, critiqued or otherwise dissected.

• Just a reminder that there is a good selection of used cameras, lenses and accessories for sale on our Buy / Sell page.

Learning how to take photos is easy. Learning how to take great photos is considerably more difficult.

Waiting is a much under-rated photographic skill. Be patient, watch what happens and be ready when it does.