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.

Quality Foods Parksville

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

We will head to the Big Qualicum Fish Hatchery to take in the annual salmon run.  Most of the hatchery will be accessible for a self guided tour, taking in the various facilities where young salmon are bred and released.  In addition, there are a number of walking paths around the river and spawning channels that should be spectacular in their fall colours.  Fishing is allowed on the river above the hatchery so there is also an opportunity to catch fishers catching fish. We will meet in the hatchery parking lot at 11:00 am and follow that up with a lunch at Micky J’s at the Arrowsmith Golf Club.

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.

You may vote for up to 6 images in each of the categories including your own image

The selection of the top 6 images has been explained by the President

Quality Foods Parksville

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

Our speaker this month will be Rick Leche on the topic of ‘MidJourney Digital AI and our photos‘.

An avid photographer living in Black Creek (on Beautiful Vancouver Island), British Columbia.

You can take a peek at his MidJourney Digital photographs on his Facebook or his 500px Galleries.

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

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.