This month we are featuring the excellent work of Dave Summerfield. Dave’s keen eye and technical expertise are evident in his outstanding photos that can be seen on our Photo In Focus page.

Lifetime Honorary Memberships were presented by President Paul Schmoldt to Margaret Chrysler, Les McCracken and Jean McCracken for their many years of faithful service. Congratulations to all.

The Club welcomed Deanna Ross, and Cathy Ross, representatives from The Chatham-Kent Senior Games, who enjoyed a slide show of their 2009 event prepared by Paul Schmoldt and Dennis Skipper.

The Club’s submissions for CAPA’s “Altered Reality” and “Three Of A Kind” categories were reviewed and entries for CAPA’s “Nature” and “Open” categories were judged.

Entries were reviewed and judged for the Club’s “Something Abandoned” competition, which included some wonderful work by several members.

33 printed portraits were brought in by Club members for display and were favorably critiqued by Print Manager Les McCracken.

Our honored photographer this month is Patricia Kral. Patricia is one of the club’s social co-ordinators . Her sometimes unique approach brings interesting perspectives to her images. Three of her photos can be viewed in our Photo In Focus section.

The Chatham Camera Club wishes to thank Bill and Joyce DeMeester for presenting images from CAPA 2008 / 2009 season in front of a full house.

54 entries in the “Open” category were submitted and were judged. The six top scoring shots can be seen under Club Photos

3 “Altered Reality” images have also been included.

The Chatham Camera Club welcomed four members of The Kingsville Shooters Camera Club as well as two new members and five visitors. The large turnout saw judging for CAPA in the Altered Reality and Three Of A Kind categories, which was highlighted by several wonderful entries.

Paul and Dave demonstrated some image editing programs, including:

• ShiftN
• Opanda
• Faststone
• Faststone Capture
• Virtual Photographer

Most of these programs are available as Freeware or Shareware at
Download.com

Our featured photographer this month is Dave Noordhoff. Dave has brought a wealth of knowledge to the Chatham Camera Club and his teaching background is a valuable asset when he presents his excellent software tutorials at our workshops. A sample of Dave’s work can be seen in our Photo In Focus page.

Our final workshop of 2009 featured
How To Use Pro-Show Gold / Producer by Carson Plant,
Photographing Christmas Lights by Herman Giethoorn,
How To Read And Use EXIF Data by Dave Noordhoff and
Printing Techniques by Les McCracken. The Chatham Camera Club wishes to express its thanks to these members for preparing these tutorials and for sharing their knowledge. With suggestions from the membership, more workshops are scheduled for 2010.

This month we are featuring the photographic skills of Doug Woodman. Doug is a CCC Executive Assistant who is involved in helping to set up our display equipment for our monthly meetings. His dedication and helpful manner is much appreciated by our members. Take a look at some of Doug’s fine work in our Photo In Focus section.