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.

This time we are featuring one of the long-time members, Dennis Skipper.
Dennis is a past president of the Chatham Camera Club and currently serves as Slide and Film manager. He is equally at home with both Digital and Film Media and likes to take nature photos as well as being an excellent event photographer. Please follow the link to ‘Photo In Focus’ for a few of his images.

Many thanks go out to Carson for his very informative show on his trip this past summer to Newfoundland. The photographs were ‘par excellence’. Very exciting to see pictures of whales that close and people almost touch them. I can see why he wants to go out East again.

Also thank you to our CAPA rep. Herman for his excellent tutorial on how to photograph outside Christmas Lights. Just in time for the season.

Margaret Chrysler gave us a very informative and enlightening presentation on Egypt. It made me want to catch the next flight there. Excellent presentation. I can’t wait for your next one. Thank you Margaret!
Les updated us on the progress on the printing workshops and our new monitor calibrator and Fred updated us on the budget as well.

We are now featuring the talents of Patty Arsenault. Patty started her membership in the club last season and is always willing to lend a helping hand when needed and is in charge of publicity. She is comfortable with either Digital or Film format. Patty likes to take candid and action shots of kids as well as landscape scenes. Congratulations Patty. To check out some of her images please go to ‘Photo In Focus’.

Paul gave us another update on CK Web Portal. Les talked to us about print making with the new Large Format Printer Epson 3800 Pro, can’t wait to see the results.
CCC, CAPA Competition and Workshop
Viewed and Judged the Pictorial and Nature shots for CAPA and the CCC CK Architecture competition shots, there were some really great pictures, well done to everyone who participated.
Photoshop/Elements/FastStone Tutorial:
Text, Titles and Shadows – Paul & Tom.
Paul gave us a short tutorial on how to add borders, shadows and text to our prints using Faststone Image Viewer and Photoshop Elements 6, great info Paul now lets all give it a try and see if we remember what we were taught.

Due to our greatly increased membership, our new meeting venue will from now on be at McNaughton Ave Elementary School Library. The facility is larger and is capable of being darkened for our projection requirements. We sincerely thank the nice people at Queen Elizabeth II School for having us the past years.