Our first meeting of the 2013 / 2014 season will be on September 17^th, 7 PM at Evangel Community Church, 76 Sandys St. Chatham. Enter the meeting room through the back door of the church, marked by our Chatham Camera Club sign. New members and guests are always welcome. We encourage all who are interested in photography to join a great group of like-minded folks in our continuing quest to make better photographs.

This Meetings Schedule:
• Payment of Membership Dues, Membership Information Forms
• Presentation ”Members’ Images from Summer Activities” presented by Paul Schmoldt
• Announcements, Orientation and Club Information, New Procedures
• What I Shoot by Patricia Kral

The best thing about a picture is it never changes,
even when the people in it do.

The Chatham Camera Club was saddened to learn of the passing of Ken Cucksey on July 25th 2013 at the age of 84. Ken was a former member of the Chatham Camera Club and an Award winning photographer including Photographic Society of America (PSA). Ken was also a guest speaker at the Camera Club as recent as 3 years ago. He will be remembered as a good friend, an excellent judge and superb in the art of photo critiqueing. Our Condolences goes out to all Ken’s Family.

Competition Themes 2013/2014 Season

OCTOBER 22, 2013

CAPA: 1 Open, 1 Nature per member

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Open – B/W or Monochrome
Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Night – Any photographed subject or situation
taken outdoors between Dusk and Dawn at available light (includes city lights as well as traffic etc.). Fill-in flash or Lightpainting is permissible provided it is not the only main feature of the image.

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Night – Any photographed subject or situation
taken outdoors between Dusk and Dawn at available light (includes city lights as well as traffic etc.). Fill-in flash or Lightpainting is permissible provided it is not the only main feature of the image.
Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Open – Open (you name it, anything goes)

JANUARY 14, 2014

CAPA: 1 Altered Reality per member

JANUARY 28, 2014

CAPA: 1 Theme: Humorous per member

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Open – Open (you name it, anything goes)
Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Food – Any human food ( meal – prepared/cooked, or foods commonly eaten raw – fruit, vegetable etc.). Not a live chicken crossing the road.

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

CAPA: 1 Open, 1 Nature per member

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Food – Any human food ( meal – prepared/cooked, or foods commonly eaten raw – fruit, vegetable etc.). Not a live chicken crossing the road.

Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Shadows – Any subject or situation where
shadows are the main focal point (natural or artificially created).

MARCH 25, 2014

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Shadows – Any subject or situation where shadows are the main
focal point (natural or artificially created).
Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Weathered – To Wear away or change the appearance or texture of (something) by long exposure to the atmosphere; of rock, wood, steel or other material to be worn away or altered by such processes. NOTE: Weathering on humans not allowed.

APRIL 22, 2014

CCC: 2 entries per member
Novice Theme: Weathered – To Wear away or change the appearance or texture of (something) by long exposure to the atmosphere; of rock, wood, steel or other material to be worn away or altered by such processes. NOTE: Weathering on humans not allowed.
Intermediate/Advanced Theme: Open – Not Monochrome (must be colour – you
name it, anything goes in colour)

PRINT SALON EXHIBITION AND COMMENTS:

All Workshops, Theme is Open (Printmakers choice, anything goes).

This time “Photo In Focus” features Jim Pollock. As a superb photographer, he enjoys bird photography as well as landscapes and taking portraits of his grandchildren and his lovely wife Jill. Winning 1st. place in the Club’s year long competition in the Advanced Division last season is among many of his accomplishments. Jim is also a CAPA trained judge (Canadian Association for Photographic Art) and as such, is quite often asked to evaluate entries in our competitions.

Jim is currently our Web Co-ordinator and has been Vice President of the Chatham Camera Club in the past. He enjoys going out shooting with “The Viewfinders” (as “Red” or “Captain Click”) and being an avid proponent of “Get Out Of The Green Box”, we can always count on Jim to advise other Camera Club members, be it on photo equipment or camera settings.

Jim is a very generous person and since retiring from a local utility company 3 years ago, he volunteers at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. He is also one of the most humble, modest persons I know, and time spent in Jim’s company is always a delight and never boring as he has also the gift of coming up with hilariously funny one-liners.

Please have a look at some of Jim’s images by clicking on this blue link “Photo In Focus” or the tab on the menu bar.

paul schmoldt, competition manager, CCC

Vice President Vince Gagnier welcomed over 50 members and guests to our first meeting in our 77th season. Margaret Chrysler presented a 2 part travel show on Vietnam, Cambodia-Angkor and Hong Kong with her usual thorough and interesting informative dialogue. Thanks Margaret.

Larry Kearns did a segment on “What’s In My Bag” concentrating on his lenses giving examples on where to use the various ones.

We had Judging and selections for an upcoming CAPA competition. The entries selected for “Nature” were submitted by Les McCracken, Jim Pollock, Vince Gagnier, Martha Gillier, Laird VanderEnde and Paul Schmoldt. In the “Open” category the top scoring images were entered by Jim Pollock, Martha Gillier, Gavin Stuart, Larry Kearns, Butch Dompierre and Paul Schmoldt. Congratulations all.

Everyone enjoyed the improved image quality thanks to the purchase of a new professional projector with increased resolution and a new 10 foot screen. Please see “Meeting Schedule” for our next meeting and future workshops and presentations.

MEMBERSHIP FEES OF $40,- FOR THE YEAR ARE DUE @ SEPTEMBER 18TH MEETING.
Due to ever rising operating costs, insurance and guest speakers mainly being the culprits, it has been necessary to increase our yearly dues. Keep in mind that it is still less than $2.25 per meeting and covers ALL meetings including Workshops.

Our Featured Photographer is Tere Deslippe.

In her two years in the Club, Tere has shown interest in a wide variety of photographic subjects.  Her brilliant imagination has helped her capture many unique images that would score well at any competition level. Currently she is in first place in her division. To see some of Tere’s images, see our Photo In Focus page.

Elections for Club Executive for next season were held. The new list can be found on our Members page.
 
Awards for our 2010 / 2011 photo competitions were presented (some 1st Place Photos can be viewed under Club Photos by clicking here), with the following results:
 
Beginners Division
• First Place – Laird Vanderende
• Second Place – Bob Allen
• Third Place – Patty Arsenault

Intermediate Division
• First Place – Frank Vadovic
• Second Place – Keith Blackwell
• Third Place – Larry Kearns
• Most Improved Award – Chris Jorgensen

Advanced Division
• First Place (tie) – Carson Plant
• First Place (tie) – Paul Schmoldt
• Third Place – Jim Pollock

Highest Score Image (4 way tie @ 23 points)
Carson Plant (2), Jim Pollock and Paul Schmoldt

Best Photo – Lorie Cooper.

Honorable Mentions @ 21 points or more:

Dave Paddick, Dennis Skipper, Diane Guay, Keith Blackwell, Herman Giethoorn, Jean DeBruyn, Kathryn Parent, Gavin Stuart, Mike Moynihan, Patricia Kral, Patty Arsenault, Tere DeSlippe, Adam Harpula (2), Bob Allen (2), Dave Noordhoff (2), Harry Arneill (2), Kathy Davidson (2), Laird Vanderende (2), Larry Kearns (3), Les McCracken (3), Nelson Harrison (3), Margaret Manson (3), Carson Plant (4), Frank Vadovic (4), Paul Schmoldt (4), Jim Pollock (5).
 
Congratulations to All!
 
An excellent show was also presented by Frank Vadovic, dedicated to the Club’s last meeting in it’s 75th Season. Thanks Frank.
 
See you at the Walk-A-Bouts