• 54 people, including 1 new member attended our November 24th meeting.
• President Vince Gagnier reminded us that Dave Noordhoff would like the members to send him some pictures that would be shown on-screen during our breaks. The rest of us would love to see what you’ve been shooting lately. Just e-mail a half dozen or so to Dave at dnoordhoff@cogeco.ca
Remember: This is your club. It can’t function without your participation.
• Chad Barry presented his slideshow Travel To Olympic National Park which featured his beautiful images from a recent trip to Washington State.
Chad also shared his advice on How Not To Get Your Camera Gear Stolen, where he offered some tips on how to avoid his own unfortunate experience.
• The results from our latest photo competition were displayed, with the Novices showing us how they made interesting images out of Flowers. The top scores were Jana Smith (23), Glen Spooner (22), Barb Ferren (22), Mary Ellen Plouffe (22) and Bob Miller (22).
Sill Life / Table Top was the category for the Intermediate, Advanced and Salon members, with high marks going to Mike Blazek (23) and John St Pierre (21).
• Bob Miller was featured in our What I Shoot segment, where he showed The Club a collection of his scenic, nature, people and travel images. Well done Bob! We enjoyed your work.
• Our Twelve Photos In A Year Is A Great Crop feature continued with John St. Pierre displaying his excellent slideshow of Minimalist Photos. John showed us that concentrating on a few essential elements and casting unnecessary things aside can produce some outstanding images. Check out these other examples of Minimalist Photography.
• Our final meeting of this calendar year will be held December 8th when our guest speaker will be Michigan area nature photographer Dale Vronch
This will be a Toonie Tuesday where we ask those in attendance to contribute $2 to help offset our extra expense.
Once again, we invite all of our members to bring in a print of any size, any subject, to be viewed before the meeting begins and during the break. We recall the wise words of our own Les McCracken who is fond of saying, “It’s not a picture until it’s printed.” So take a minute and bring in a printed image. I’ll show ya mine if you show me yours.
If you want people to not like one of your photographs, show them two.
A good flashlight often helps focus on close-up objects in dim light. Some cameras have flash assist or focus assist, but these usually don’t help when focusing manually.