Thanks go out to Harry Arneill, Jim Pollock and Sheri Nydam for their excellent presentations on Harry’s Flowers, Jim’s Collection and Sheri’s visit to Washington DC. Everybody attending the meeting enjoyed them. Also Thanks to Carson Plant for his tips on Composition.
 
After several workshops this season, we have decided to change the format focusing on a more ‘hands-on’ approach. We will attempt to have the Monthly Main Meetings the 4th Tuesday every month geared towards presentations on travelogues, competition and the like scenarios with a more entertainment concept. At the work shops, we are going to set up several areas serving a smaller group of members at the time for printing, table tops, portrait photography, software use and photography advice etc. Be sure to bring Camera, Tripod and some object you might want to practice on. Please note that there will be some changes in the timing of submitting images to CCC and CAPA Competitions. Please see the Meeting Schedule for more details.

We had 39 members and 8 guests attending our first meeting in 2009. We judged 24 entries for Canadian Association for Photographic Art in ‘Gates’ category and 60 entries for our internal competition with the
theme ‘Abstracts’. Congratulations to the 6 top entrants, Doug, Carson, Les, Jim, Steve and our newest member Lorie, whose images will be sent to CAPA for national competition. A small tutorial on lenses and how to resize in the Adobe ‘Elements’ and the ‘FastStone’ program was also on hand.