What we have
Remember to upload your favourite photo for this month in the member database.
Our speaker this month is Cim McDonald who is coming up from Chemainus where she is the Curator of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society. She is a fine art photographer and artist who has won many awards. Her topic for our meeting is the relationship of line and colour to art. For more information about Cim visit her website cimmacdonald.ca here.
Following the business of the meeting, we will show our slideshows from the Deep Bay field trip, the July favourites and the Canada 150 assignment.
Remember to bring your loonie for coffee at the break.
loonie for coffee
If you would like to spend more time reviewing the images, go to the Galleries in the menu above.
This is a reminder to upload your assignment photos to the member database by the 20th.
Rosewall Creek Provincial Park is south of Fanny Bay consist of a river, and old growth trees covered in beautiful mosses which create many opportunities for great landscapes. The trails are easy to walk in a circular route around the parking lot. Parking and toilets are available on-site. Link to map of park . The park is exactly 27 km north of Parksville and 27 km south of Courtenay on Highway 19A (scenic coast road). If you are taking the upper highway then use the deep bay turn and then left onto the old island highway and it is less than 2km.
Lunch will be at the Fanny Bay Inn, a short drive up the coast towards Courtenay, at 12:00 noon.
Send a maximum of 5 photos to, Members Data Base, Assignments, Field Trips. Keep in mind the club’s size limitation for each image
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.
We are participating again this year and we’re taking a slightly different approach. You’ll be able to upload 3 images in any of the categories. Also, voting will be open until early November and you will be permitted to vote for your own image. Since only one image per member may be submitted, there will be some additional judging to choose the top 8 images.
As a club we did well in 2016 and placed third in mammals. We’ll try to do better this year.
The categories are:
- – Birds
- – Mammals
- – General (not 1 or 2)
Look through your shots and be certain there is no ‘hand of man’ in the image. Images have a maximum width of 1400 pixels and maximum height of 1050 pixels. Images have to be uploaded by October 21st.
Lions Gate Camera Club of Vancouver, British Columbia
When the current year rules are prepared, they will be added. Click on the image or here to see the rules
This is a unique opportunity for the photography produced by your members to be judged by some of the best nature photographers in Canada.
The Results are In
Click on Wayne’s image to see the Lions Gate Results
Remember to upload your favourite photo for this month in the member database.
September is much like the start of a new year and we’re preparing for our new year. Richard is leading a discussion for everyone
Discussion Points
1. We have no Director of Exhibits. Does this mean Society members do not see the value in exhibiting work in the community? If so how should we promote our work in the community?
2. Online presence for selling photographs. Explore club options. Smugmug etc.
3. Photography competitions – club and open competitions like Lions Gate.
4. Use of technology for exhibiting photography. Liaise with Shaw cable and Lefty’s etc. to show images through their facilities.
5. Should we have a Director of Communications / Public Relations? Is someone willing to step forward?
Lions Gate Nature Competition
Jack will take us through the new approach that we’re following for our participation in the club this year.
Interclub Photo Competition
Jack will introduce selected aspects of an invitational photo competition to be held early in the new year. The theme, categories and judging aspects are all open for discussion. Assistance with the planning activities is needed.
Following the coffee break, we will be showing the Lions Gate 2016 show.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
This is a reminder to upload your assignment photos to the member database by the 20th.
We will meet in the main park parking lot, take the Alberni highway to the Errington turn off, straight past the four way stop and continue on this same road to the park entrance. You will first see a turn for the campground DO NOT turn there but keep going into the main parking lot for the park.
Situated along the pristine Englishman River north of Nanaimo, Englishman River Falls Provincial Park features two stunning waterfalls cascading along the descending riverbed into a deep canyon. This picturesque destination, set amid a lush old-growth and second-growth forest of Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock and maple, is an ideal location from which to explore and appreciate the incredible of the area. With the shortage of rain you may see the falls in a way you have never seen before.
There are pathways for very easy and moderate walking. You can select your own favorite style.
Lunch will be at Trees Restaurant and Bakery at noon. The address is 1385 Alberni Highway Parksville (across from the Coop service station and Oceanside Community Church)
