Our President, Dave Noordhoff, kicked off the Chatham Camera Club’s 78th year by welcoming a large contingent of familiar faces as well as eleven new ones. This Orientation Meeting was intended to explain some Club competition procedures as well as reviewing our Summer activities and upcoming events.

Bob Allen confirmed this year’s Christmas Breakfast at the Links Of Kent golf club on December 7th at 9 AM.

An explanation of some minor changes to our Constitution concerning the duties of the Treasurer and the Club’s fiscal year was presented by Executive Assistant Chad Berry. We will vote on those changes at our October 8th meeting.

Vice-President Vince Gagnier informed the Club that the Sarnia Photographic Club was hosting an event featuring nature photographer Chris Harris on Saturday, November 9th at the Sarnia Library from 9 to 5. The cost to attend is $50.

Dave Noordhoff passed on a note from the London Camera Club that award winning professional photographer Deborah Sandidge will be their featured speaker on Thursday, October 10th from 7:30 to 9:30 for a fee of just $5. Anyone interested can contact Dave for more details as several of our members are going to attend.

The Club was treated to an excellent slide show featuring photos taken during our Summer Walk-Abouts in Ridgetown, Bothwell Oil Museum / Oakdale gas station and Erieau. It brought back a lot of good memories of three great outings. Ya shoulda been there!

Chad Berry gave an excellent presentation aimed at introducing our new members to our CAPA and CCC photo competitions. We were all reminded that these competitions are aimed at improving our photo techniques and to provide us with some fresh inspiration to get out and shoot.

Patricia Kral was featured in our What I Shoot segment, where she showed us her wonderful shots from both the present and the past. Well done Patricia!

Our next meeting will be held on October 8th when Ted Kloske of Henry’s Photo in Windsor will present a seminar on Macro Photography. Our members are invited to bring a print of any size, any theme, for display.

They told me it’s the photographer, not the equipment,
that makes a good picture, so I sold my camera.

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.

This month’s featured shooter is Andy Stockdill.

Andy is an enthusiastic member of our club who is always willing to share his knowledge and experience. He participates in our photo competitions and walk-abouts and enjoys taking candid shots of other members. Andy also excels in nature and scenic photography, as shown by the examples on our Photo In Focus page.

Thanks to all of those who participated in our gathering on Friday, August 16, at Erieau. It proved to be our most popular outing of the summer. Photos from all of this year’s Walk-Abouts will be shown at an upcoming meeting.

Our featured photographer is Sherrie Johnson.

Sherrie is a former professional photographer who specialized in school photos, sports and weddings. Her main interest has been portraits, but she has recently become interested in Nature photography as well. A member of the Chatham Camera Club for the past two seasons, Sherrie has also started to participate in Club Competitions, achieving several high marks. You can see a brief sample of her work on our Photo In Focus page.

Always strive to be the kind of photographer you’d like to meet.

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.

OurJuly 21^st Walk-About at The Bothwell Oil Museum and Wayne Chapman’s restored gas station / garage was a huge success. Those who participated found a large number of interesting things to photograph.

Our next outing will be held in Erieau on Friday, August 16^th at 8 PM, when we will have multiple opportunities to take “Night Shots”. Members and guests are encouraged to join us. Details to follow.