A big Thank You to Mike Blazek for putting together and presenting his show “Walk With Me, Asia” and give us a rare and candid look at the culture and people that Westerners very seldom get to see. His superb photography, married with the excellent editing thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Vadovic, was indeed a show ‘Tour de Force’. We are all looking forward to see more from them in the future.

In our ‘Hair’ competition, Jim Pollock got the top score with 23 points for his ‘Hair in the Soup’ rendering that gave everybody a good laugh. Images selected through voting for CAPA ‘Creative’ competition were submitted by Jim Pollock, Mike Blazek, Martha Gillier, Doug Woodman, Nelson Harrison and Carson Plant and CAPA ‘Nature’, Frank Vadovic, Paul Schmoldt, Patricia Kral, Nelson Harrison, Lorie Cooper and Margaret Manson.

Congratulations all.

The club enjoyed one of its most successful and informative meetings to date as our members traded their photographic knowledge and ideas on a wide variety of subjects. The evening featured tutorials lead by Dave Noordhoff (Photoshop), Carson Plant (Tabletops), Paul Schmoldt (Printing), Tom Townsend (Photo Tips), Les McCracken (Portraits) and Jim Pollock (Custom White Balance).

These workshops will be repeated next month plus new ones. Please see the Meeting Schedule for more details.

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’.