Morningstar Farm, Parksville

It’s a great place to socialize and enjoy your friends and enjoy a coffee.

Morningstar Farm, Parksville

It’s a great place to socialize and enjoy your friends and enjoy a coffee.

Our speaker this month is Glen Halverson a member of the Comox photography club.

Inspiration, creativity for what’s in front of my lens is the discipline I use which brings happiness to the eye.
Exploration of photography daily.

You can see some of his photography on Facebook (Glen Halverson Photography) or Instagram (glen halverson photography).

We will be showing our slideshows from the summer months (assignments, the favourites and field trips).

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

The Monthly Management Meeting is normally held on the second Thursday of the month in the boardroom of Qualicum Foods. If any members are interested in attending, please contact the club president.

Morningstar Farm, Parksville

It’s a great place to socialize and enjoy your friends and enjoy a coffee.

Morningstar Farm, Parksville

It’s a great place to socialize and enjoy your friends and enjoy a coffee.

This month’s assignment is ‘still life’.  Take advantage of the turning weather and set up your indoor studio.  Channel your favourite inner renaissance painter.  Flowers, fruit, veg, pumpkins, Hallowe’en corpses, vampires in coffins, etc.

Our speaker this month will be Brian Argyle on the topic of ‘Christmas Portraits‘.

Brian is a Canadian freelance photographer based on Vancouver Island, in beautiful British Columbia.

You can find his bio and gallery at his website argylephoto.com.

We will be showing our slideshows from the previous month (assignment, the favourites and field trip).

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

This competition hosted by the Lions Gate Camera Club of Vancouver is fast approaching. We have to have images selected from your entries prior to this time and we will set the time when the entry category is added to the website. Although an individual may only have one of their images selected for submission, we are encouraging all members to enter one image in each of the four categories within our own club. The categories are listed below.
There are four categories in this competition:
 01 – Botanical – subjects such as wild-flowers, plants, trees, fungi and algae. Germinated and grown without human assistance.
 02 – Nature – animals, birds, insects, reptiles and marine subjects – under the control and feeding of humans if not obvious – such as zoos, game farms, animal preserves, aquarium, etc…
 03 – Landscape – subjects such as weather phenomena, geological formations, landscapes, seascapes and natural phenomena, planets, stars and astronomical events – no hand of man.
 04 – Wildlife – ONLY living and untamed mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and marine subjects – no hand of man.
Please check the criteria included in the last Contact Sheet as it is quite specific in what is required. .
You may enter your images in the usual manner on our website and voting will occur by our entire membership to chose the entries that will represent our club. As we will be voting on your submissions, do NOT put your name or any identifying marks on your image. We are looking forward to seeing your wonderful submissions Let’s get all four of your images into this contest….REMEMBER ONLY ONE OF YOUR IMAGES MAY GO ON TO THE FINAL COMPETITION AND THAT WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE TOP VOTE COUNT FROM YOUR FOUR ENTRIES…
We are allowed to enter 6 images as a club and we are looking for a broad choice in what our club will have to vote on and compete with in the Lions Gate Competition.

The Monthly Management Meeting is normally held on the second Thursday of the month in the boardroom of Qualicum Foods. If any members are interested in attending, please contact the club president.