Our first summer Walkabout was a huge success with nearly half of the club’s membership gathering in Downtown Chatham. Breaking off into smaller groups, we roamed the area in search of “Cracks”, “Unusual Angles” and “Signs That Made A Statement”. We shared tips, techniques and our experience with each other before gathering at Coffee Culture to socialize. Thanks to Les McCracken and Dave Noordhoff for organizing and leading the event. Your efforts are much appreciated. To see a few shots from the evening – Continue reading →

Featured this month is Bob Allen, an enthusiastic member who is always willing to step up and help wherever needed. Bob is interested in all types of photography as is demonstrated by his work shown on our Photo In Focus page.

Elections for Club officers for next season were held. The new executive list can be found on our Members page.

Members were reminded that starting in September, we will hold our meetings at the Evangel Community Church, 76 Sandys St, Chatham.

Some members who contributed photos for the Chatham Newcomers Portal were presented with a token of appreciation from the Municipality Of Chatham-Kent.

The Club reviewed our submissions and scores from the Weather competition.

Adam Harpula gave the club a short demonstration of his new Olympus E-PL1 camera.

Awards for our 2009 / 2010 photo competitions were presented, with the following results:

Photo Of The Year

• Mike Blazek

Beginners Division

• First Place – Dave Ladore
• Second Place – Patricial Kral
• Third Place – Brian Montgomery

Intermediate Division

• First Place – Steve Hook
• Second Place – Martha Gillier
• Third Place – Ed Hofland
• Most Improved Award – Vince Gagnier

Advanced Division

• First Place – Carson Plant
• Second Place – Jim Pollock
• Third Place – Margaret Manson
• Third Place – Dave Noordhoff
• Third Place – Nelson Harrison

Honorable Mentions
For submissions getting 21 points or more

• Dave Ladore
• Brian Montgomery
• Patty Arsenault
• Paul Rice
• Ed Hofland
• Mike Blazek
• Margaret Manson (3)
• Carson Plant (4)
• Nelson Harrison (2)
• Paul Schmoldt (2)
• Harry Arneill (2)
• Jim Pollock

Congratulations to all!

Club members enjoyed a slideshow about Cuba, presented by Frank Vadovic and Kathy Davidson, which showed the spectacular tourist areas as well as scenes from everyday life.

Print manager Les McCracken critiqued several of our prints and explained a faux-HDR technique used by Paul Schmoldt to achieve a dynamic shot of the Disney castle.

Judging of our final competition category of the year, “Weather”, indicated that this was a very challenging category.

Carson Plant received a big round of applause for his slideshow that featured the beautiful scenery of Algonquin Park in autumn

Our featured member is Frank Vadovic, who is an avid nature photographer and also excells in landscape and scenic photography. You can see some of Frank’s wonderful work on our Photo In Focus page.

The Chatham Camera Club would like to thank Mike Blazek and his helpers Frank Vadovic, Sonya Blazek and Paul Nelson for their excellent workshop on Portrait Lighting. It was one of the most entertaining and informative meetings in recent memory and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Continue reading →