September 23 2020 | Chatham Camera Club

Kicking off our 85^th year of existence, The Chatham Camera Club held their first ZOOM meeting of the season with 28 members logged in.

Club Secretary Julie Fass facilitated the meeting and gave us an outline of how the program works.

Club President Jim Pollock explained that although virtual meetings are not always comfortable for everyone, they are really the only viable option at this time. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Evangel Church is not allowing anyone to use their meeting room. Other clubs in Southwestern Ontario are also using ZOOM, but some have suspended their meetings altogether. The CCC executive has decided to carry on as best we can.

Julie Fass read Rick McArthur’s audit of The Club’s finances and reported that all was in order.

Photo Challenge Manager Jana Smith presented an excellent slide show of the photos we took at our outing at Petrolia Discovery a few weeks back. It was fascinating to see the different perspectives that our members came up with. Hopefully we can enjoy another event like that next Spring.

Jana also revealed the final Photo Challenge standings from the 2019/2020 season. They are as follows:

Novice
1^st Place – Debby Venne
2^nd Place – Erica Spotton
3^rd Place – Al Little

Intermediate
1^st Place – Julie Fass
2^nd Place – Wendy McDonald
3^rd Place – Butch Dompierre

Advanced
1^st Place – Linda Pepper
2^nd Place – Tere Deslippe
3^rd Place – Mary Craig

Salon
1^st Place – Jim Pollock
2^nd Place – Keith Blackwell
3^rd Place – Carson Plant

Picture Of The Year
Linda Pepper

Jana also reviewed the competition categories for the 2020/2021 season.

Theme	Description	Intermediate, Advanced Salon Due Date	Novice Due Date
Open Black And White	Anything goes, but image must be your own – Image must be black and white		18 October 2020
Looking Up	Change your perspective on your photography, and look up! – Capture interesting and thought-provoking images while looking up and challenging our perspective.	18 October 2020	15 November 2020
Perfect Timing / Frozen Motion	This competition is to test your skill in either capturing the perfect image, relative to the situation, or freezing motion, or both. – You can submit one for each topic above; – Or simply choose one and submit two images to one topic, the choice is yours.	15 November 2020	17 January 2021
Silhouette	Again, this competition theme is to help us play with light, but this time, the light is the critical part of the image, while the subject is nothing more than a silhouette. – Note the background that is illuminated may be the challenge.	17 January 2021	14 February 2021
Sunrays	This photography theme is designed to test your skill at capturing light (sunrays) while still keeping the rest of the image both in focus and with clarity, (you can see or determine what the image is). – Although I could not find any examples, the sunrays could be through a window into a room, etc.	14 February 2021	14 March 2021
Ice / Frozen Nature	This may be a challenge if we do not have a cold enough winter, but the challenge here is to capture images of ice or frozen nature. – May consider ice crystal formation, icicles, frozen rain-enhanced nature, etc.	14 March 2021	18 April 2021
Open	Anything goes, but the image must be your own	18 April 2021

Jim Pollock explained that The Club is still sponsoring on-line photo magazines that are available through the Chatham-Kent Public Library. Instructions on how to access them will be e-mailed to Club members.

Our next ZOOM meeting will be held on October 13th when guest speaker Harry Cartner will present “To See is a Continuing Gift”. Our members will be notified of the access code a few days before the meeting.

If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

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