Bread and Honey Food Company wants approximately ten (10) pieces with the theme “French Country” to show for six months at their business location

Please submit your image files to Levonne by Saturday, August 2nd.

The exhibit will start in January

There are day long festivities to celebrate the lunar new year in Cumberland.  This is the Year of the Sheep.  Starting at 10:00 there are displays at the Recreational Centre.  About 6:00, there is a ‘Parade of Light’ and that will be followed by the release of lanterns and a fireworks show.

If you plan on going, you might want to think about making carpool arrangements with other members, especially if you are staying after dark.

This is the reminder that the assignment deadline is the 20th for the current month. Upload your choices in the member database.

This is a reminder to vote for the current assignment. Voting usually starts on the 21st of the month and continues until the 28th of the month. Vote in the member database and check the dates for the specific assignment.

Our general meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. We normally conduct the club’s business, then review the slideshows from the previous month’s assignment, field trip and favourite shot of the month. The last half of the meeting is dedicated to having a speaker come and make a presentation or discuss some aspects of their photography

Our speaker for this month is Ernst Vegt.  Ernst has spent +40 years in the graphic arts field specializing in colour reproduction.  He has taught colour reproduction at VCC, BCIT, and Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His customers include printing companies, book publishers, art galleries, giclée printers, artists, photo-labs, advertising agencies and signage companies.

Following the business portion of the meeting we will have the slideshow from the Macro / Close Up assignment and the field trip to the Lantern Festival

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Brandt Festival (also known as the Nature Festival) at the Bayside starting Saturday, March 7.

Contact Levonne for details about the silent auction and submissions.

We generally meet at the venue at 10am and shoot until 12 then those who wish to do so gather at the chosen lunch venue.  Check the details for the field trip outing.

Meet with other members and try a range of different shots. Test some new post processing techniques. Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

North of LA,  South of the Bay

by Debra Kuzbik

There’s an expanse of California coastline that stretches from Los Angeles to San Francisco that is wild, beautiful, rugged, and mostly untouched.  My family and I have enjoyed a number of winters there, exploring the beaches, the little art communities and the inland rolling hills of wine country.

The pace of life is slow and it is easy to imagine that you have stepped back in time to the 60’s.   The ice cream parlors, surf shops, Volkswagen mini-vans, woodies with surf boards on top and the ever-present music of The Beach Boys, The Ventures, The Mamas and The Papas, and the Surfaris can easily transport you to younger days.

Quirky, eccentric, unique and occasionally bizarre—the Californians who call the Central Coast home live in cautious harmony with a sometimes dangerous land.  Earthquakes, wildfires, drought, and the occasional hurricane occasionally wreck havoc on their idyllic, laid-back, beach lifestyle—but the siren call of the surf promises a perfect ride!