• Meeting Co-ordinator Julie Faas introduced Keith Blackwell, who shared his thoughts on How To Take Better Black And White Photos.
For more on how to produce compelling black and white photographs, check out this YouTube video.

• Gavin Stuart was our featured photographer in this month’s segment of What I Shoot.

Gavin’s impressive collection of scenic, nature, and abstract photos should serve as inspiration to us all. Thanks Gavin. Your show was excellent!

The February Photo Challenge entries were reviewed with Cindy Taleski (23.5 and 22.5 pts), and Jeff Dease (23 pts), scoring top marks for the Novice Division’s Looking Through Windows category. The Intermediate, Senior and Salon groups’ Bridges photos provided high scores to Linda Pepper (24.5 pts), Mary Craig (24 and 22 pts), Jim Pollock (23 pts x 2), and Tere Deslippe, Carson Plant, Martha Gillier and Jana Smith, all with 22.5 pts. Congratulations to all who entered. Your images continue to impress. You can see the top scoring photos on our Club Photos page.

• Dave and Keith reviewed the digital prints that were sent in for display and discussion, and as always, we saw many excellent images taken by our members. The next digital print display will be held on March 22^nd and we would love to see a couple of your favorites, any size, any subject. Just e-mail them to Dave at dnoodhoff@cogeco.ca

• Our next meeting will be held on March 8^th when our guest speaker will be Kas Stone of KasStone.ca, whose topic will be “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”.

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” – Irving Penn