Doug Gilbert

Our speaker for March is Doug Gilbert, a fine art photographer from Victoria.  Doug’s topic is:  “Seeing Through Ancient Eyes”  how we experience two dimensional art, and how that relates to our photography.

We will also see the results of the Machinery assignment and our field trip to Spunky’s.

Be certain to look at Dog’s website: www.douggilbert.com/

We will start the meeting with our regular business and slideshows from the outing to the Comox Air Museum and the Clocks assignment. We also have a big surprise!

Here is the link to the slideshow tips from Kelli (click here)

Our speaker for April is Kelli Etheridge. Kelli is an accomplished and talented professional portrait photographer who has recently started down a new path in her life involving nutrition and her own cooking school. Kelli is a former president of the Harbour City Photography Club and was heavily involved with bringing the CAPA Canadian Camera Conference to Nanaimo as well as the Joy of Photography Show.

Kelli has been producing wonderfully creative slideshows for many years and has been a featured photographer for Photodex, the slideshow software company. Kelli will be talking to our club about how to take your own multimedia slideshows to the next level.

Two of Kelli’s slideshows from  Youtube are below, please enjoy!

Annual General Meeting

Elections for our new management team will be held at this meeting.  Richard will offer his final message, announce our photographer of the year and turn the meeting over to Vivienne Bearder to conduct the elections.  Once the new team has been voted on, announced and introduced, we will have our slideshows from the Weather assignment, the field trip to Cowichan Bay and our favourite shots from April.

Our speaker for the month is Thomas Dawson, a travel and landscape photographer from Victoria. His main objective is to capture beautiful and inspirational moments in time at some of the most amazing places on Earth. His travels have taken him to a diversity of places such as China, Thailand, Colombia, the Canadian Rocky Mountains, several locations in the US, Cambodia plus many others.

He has been involved with art and playing musical instruments since being young, however, photography is his main passion. He loves to visit and capture grandiose scenes with vivid colours but his goal is to show the world far more than just iconic locations. On Vancouver Island, where he lives, Thomas has diligently searched for and found locations out in the forests and mountains that no other photographer has ventured to and these photos are part of his ‘My Secret Paradise’ series.

Many people comment how there’s a spiritual, relaxing appeal to many of his photos and this is reflective of his inner nature. He loves the outdoors, promotes a healthy lifestyle and hopes that people feel a sense of joy and peace when viewing his photos.

We are in for a special presentation from one of our members, Michael Van der Tol.  Michael will be speaking on “Using Textures in Your Photography”. The presentation will cover texture overlays as well as using textures with displacement maps. He’ll show some examples of each and if there is enough time walk through both type of examples using Photoshop.

First, we’ll go through the club business and then view the slideshows from our field trip to Elk Falls Provincial Park, our favourites for May and our Backyard assignment.

Be certain to visit Michael’s great website – click here !

At our July meeting, we will be getting excited about the upcoming Lions Gate Nature competition in the fall.  We will be showing the DVD production from 2015 that was sent out to us earlier in the year.  We’ll have an intro to the show and describe the activities we follow on picking our submissions.

After the business of the meeting, we’ll be showing the slideshows from our field trip to Bowen Park in Nanaimo, our favourite shots from June and our assignment

Our August meeting’s presenter will be our past president, Richard Peeke-Vout.  Richard has been organizing our field trip and annual favourite slideshows for over two years. He will present some of the ones he has most enjoyed and will tell us a few of his secrets for how he organizes the images and selects the great music he picks.

We will be looking at the slideshows from our trip to the July outing, the Bamfield outing and the Construction assignment.

We will have coffee, tea and water at the break, bring a loonie!!!

Our September meeting is a social event where we can spend some time with other members.  If there are any questions about our BIG slideshow evening in October, this is one time to get some information.

Once the business of the meeting is over, we will have the results of the Reflection assignment, the field trip to Mt. Washington and the favourite shots from August.

Slideshow Night – Our October meeting is going to be quite exciting with slideshows from many of our members.  Summer is over and our members have traveled and will be sharing their memories.  The list is not yet complete, however, we are expecting shows from Ken Meisner, Shelley Harynuk, Alan Smith, Wayne Buhr, Roy Watts, Inge McDonald, Ed Dunnett, Jack Harynuk and there’s more to come.

Before the show gets going, we’ll get the club business out of the way, then see the results of the Moving Water assignment, the field trip to Morningstar Farm and our favourite shots from September.

There will be coffee and tea at $1 but bring your own popcorn!

Our November meeting has moved to a different date for this month. We are very pleased to have Eiko Jones come and speak to us about his photography. The topic is Watershed Awareness – one photo at a time.

At times he is overwhelmed by the beauty of the world around us. He is passionate about sharing this Pacific Northwest environment with everyone. Through artistic and dramatic imagery, he endeavours to offer people a glance of that world, whether they live in a big city condo, or have no ability to experience the world below or out in nature. His work is all about drawing attention to the entire environment and watersheds, from the mountaintops all the way down, and into our vast, but fragile oceans.

Coffee service will be available so bring your loonie.

This month is our Christmas social evening. We are taking a different approach this year,  we are going to buy cookies/food items and will ensure that we have some Gluten free and peanut free items BUT we are instead asking something from you. 

You know that we are trying to be more connected to the community and with that in mind we are asking that you, if you are able, bring a food item or two for the Food Bank

Most needed food bank items
    Pasta (canned or dry) and pasta sauces.
    Canned meats and fish.
    Meat alternatives (peanut butter, soy, assorted nuts)
    Canned goods (beans, soups, and stews)
    Dairy (canned, and powdered milk)
    Canned vegetables and fruit.
    Whole grain cereals.
    Infant foods and baby formula

Coffee and tea will be available so bring your loonie!!

We do not have a speaker and will have a short business review followed by slideshows of the field trip to the Shelter Point Distillery, the Old Buildings assignment. We will also show the Best of 2016 images that our members have sent in.