Our final meeting of the season was attended by 40 members.
• Tere Deslippe presented A Year In Review in which we looked back on another successful season at the Chatham Camera Club. The highlights were:
– Our What I Shoot segment featured Jean DeBruyn, Bill Henry, Kathy Burke, Clark Warner, Barb Ferren, Wendy McDonald, Ric Aarsen, Herman Geithorn, Mike Blazek and Keith Blackwell.
– Featured workshops were : Macro And Close-Up Event, An Introduction To Tripods, and How I Shot This Picture.
– Skills That We Touched on included: the Histogram, Bracketing, Focus Points, Exposure Compensation and Demystifying Flash. Thanks to Nelson Harrison, Dave Noordhoff, Paul Schmoldt and Mike Blazek for your time and efforts.
– Our Guests Speakers were:
Wayne Fisher – Architecture & Minimalism. Fine Art B&W
Antony Chodus – Camera Canada
O.P.P. Forensic Photographer – Mark Lancaster
Chad Barry – The Telephoto Landscape: A different Perspective
Neil Ever-Osborne – Conservation/Nature Photographer
– A special thanks goes out to Jana Smith and Helen Heath for their dedication and commitment in handling our monthly Photo Challenges.
– If you could spare some time, we can really use your help on the Scheduling Committee. We just need you attend a couple of meetings and make a few phone calls. Contact Mary @mmcraig39@Hotmail.com or Tere @ slipp@ciaccess.com
• Club President Jim Pollock presented a slide show that explained the importance of our monthly photo challenges as a learning tool. He also informed us that we should only lighten, darken, sharpen, straighten, adjust the saturation and remove distractions to all of our challenge entries. The exception to these rules is the Open category, in which any adjustment, including adding elements, is allowed.
• CCC Photo Challenge managers Helen Heath and Jana Smith announced this season’s award winners:
SALON
1) Keith Blackwell + 6 HM + 2nd runner up-Photo of the Year
2) Jim Pollock + 4 HM + 1st runner up-Photo of the Year
3) Dave Noordhoff + 2 HM
ADVANCED
1) Linda Pepper + 6 HM + Photo of the Year
2) Tere Deslippe + 2 HM
3) Mary Craig + 2 HM
INTERMEDIATE
1) Jana Smith
2) Reagan Smolders
3) Bill Henry + 1 HM
NOVICE
1) Wendy McDonald + 1 HM
2) Jeff McDonald + 2 HM
3) Kathy Burke + Most Improved + 1 HM
Al Little – Highest scoring new member 2019
Photo of the Year 2019 – Linda Pepper – Frog in Pond
Photo of the Year 1st runner up 2019 – Jim Pollock – Mennonite Farmers
Photo of the Year 2nd runner up 2019 – Keith Blackwell – Pink Gerber Daisy
Honourable Mentions (for scores of 23 or better)
1 HM 2019 Butch Dompierre
1 HM 2019 Debby Venne
1 HM 2019 Janet Fraser
1 HM 2019 Jean DeBruyn
1 HM 2019 Rochella Mulhern
1 HM 2019 Martha Gillier
Photos of Award Recipients are on our Club Photos page.
• Club officers for the 2019 – 2020 season were announced as:
– President: Jim Pollock
– Vice-Presidents: Ric Aarssen
– Treasurer: Julie Fass
– Secretary: Barb Ferren
– Executive Assistants: Tere Deslippe and Mary Craig
– Competition Managers: Helen Heath and Jana Smith
– Welcoming Manager: Catherine Dawson
– Facebook Page Co-ordinator: Kathryn Parent
– Website co-ordinator: Jim Pollock