Photo is from the Milner Garden website

Our next field trip is going to be a little different and will be in the evening.  We will be going to the family festival of lights and music in Milner Gardens on Sunday Dec 15th.  The time with Oceanside Photographers will be from 5pm til 6:30pm  but you are welcome to stay longer.  The grounds close at 8:30.  You can walk through the trails that have lots of lights on them.  If you want to go inside there is the Teddy Bear Cottage, the gift shop and the tea room each with their own specialty.  There is Santa’s den but I am not sure if that is inside or out.

The cost for this event is by donation but they suggest $5.00

Bring your tripods and enjoy some incredible Christmas lights.

This should be a fun time with some very beautiful lights

Our speaker this month is Vancouver Island photographer, Laura McGlone.

Laura’s biography can be found at ABOUT LAURA:

Her full website can be found at https://www.lauramcglone.com/

We will be showing our 2019 Lion’s Gate entries, our November and December field trips, assignments and favourites slideshows. We also plan to show the ‘Best of 2019’ favourites.

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

Many of you have asked to go to this local distillery and now here is your chance. It was established in 2011and is located on 380 acres in Oyster River (near Campbell River) We will be meeting with the staff for photographic tour of the facility and farm. They will be touring us through the farm in vehicles with lots of photographic stops. It is going to be a fabulous day. Because of distance I will have car pooling sheets available at the next meeting

It should be a lot of fun as we have the entire place to ourselves except for staff

Lunch location is the Driftwood Restaurant at noon- 1329 S Island Highway . It is only 2.8 km from the distillery.

Our speaker this month is Nanaimo photographer, Brad Powell who is long time member of this society.

He is going to share with us  – Exploring The Pep Ventosa Technique.

It is a unique and exciting technique and I am sure all of us will want to try it when we go home.  

Brad’s biography can be found at THE FOTOGRAFER

His full website can be found at http://www.bpfoto.ca/

We will be showing our previous months field trip, assignment and favourites slideshows.

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

Photo by Kathy Desjardins

Come and join with us at Englishmen River Falls. With all of the rain that has been falling the falls are running extremely fast and should make for some incredible photography opportunities.

We will be having lunch at Trees Restaurant – 1385 Alberni Highway – at noon.

Following the field trip don’t forget to enter 3 of your photos on the field trip page on the website.

French Creek Harbour

With the herring in the marina will be a bustle of action giving lots of opportunity for fantastic photos.  There are so many seagulls and other birds along the beach in Qualicum, it should make for some incredible photography opportunities.

Lunch will be at the French Creek Pub at noon.

Following the field trip don’t forget to enter 3 of your photos on the field trip page on the website.

Over the past few weeks are lives have been turned upside down and inside out.  We want to provide you with an opportunity to do what we all love to do – take photos so until the virus pandemic ends we will be having two field trips per month that can be in your own yard or on social distancing walks if you choose.  Enter your photos as always under field trips and we will produce a slide show at the end of the two weeks with the entries and send you a link.    Have fun and let’s use this time as one to enjoy and if only for a few minutes escaping the daily stresses

Field trip number 1 description

SPRING HAS SPRUNG – It really is spring even though I know that the weather hasn’t always seemed like it. Let’s go outside and see what signs of spring we can find. It could be new flowers, birds arriving – eg, I had 10 robins feeding in my yard one day last week, gardens getting readyor yes even your themometer showing the heat is coming. As in all field trips you can use your imagination however your want

Keeping Spring in mind –   Introduce us to your neighborhood

Take a walk around your neighborhood and see what interesting photos ops you can find. Birds nesting, flowers blooming, interesting trees, rocks, water – whatever you can find. You can enter up to 5 photos for field trips.  If you have entered for field trip number one or unsure of how to size the photos for uploading please send them to president.opc@gmail.com and I will make sure they are included.

Have fun with this and we are looking forward your photos

Location: Your refrigerator, cupboards, or where ever you keep your fruits and veggies
Topic: Still Life
Description: This topic is very loose so you can have lots of fun with it. You can do a very traditional and serious still life or if you wish have fun and dress them up in things like sunglasses and hats. You can use cut, partially eaten, skins, or shells. You can add other items with it as long as your fruit or veggie stays the main feature. You are allowed to post five photos for field trips

We

We will be hosting a field trip but doing it two different ways so everyone can take part and feel safe. For those who want to come and see others I will be there in the main parking lot Sunday July 12th at 10:30 am at Mount Washington with a focus on the boardwalk for Paradise Meadows.  We ask if you come to please respect social distancing. If you do not feel comfortable being in a group with social distancing then you can go on your own from now til June 28th

Topic and description: Photograph anything you would like there is no specific topic for this

Trail is rated as EASY

Entries: You are allowed to post five photos for field trips on the website

You are invited to join us for lunch but it is bring your own and your lawn chair so we can social distance

If you have any questions you can contact me at 250 937 8221 or president.opc@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing many of you there