We’ve been to DEMXX before and found a lot of really great items to shoot.  Lunch will be in Qualicum at Lefty’s.

Pick up to 6 of your favourite shots and enhance the images as much as you’d like.  When you have your fieldtrip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip@oceansidephotographers.ca

Please contact Sally to tell her if you are coming for lunc

We meeting on Saturday this month.  Our field trip outing is to return to Spunky’s and admire all the great equipment in their shop.  We’ll meet for around 10:00 and then meet up the road for lunch at Tree’s Restaurant and Bakery.

Contact Sally to let her know about attending lunch.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

This month we are heading up to the Comox Air Force Museum.  Lunch location will be determined by Sally.

Contact Sally to let her know about attending lunch.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to Richard at fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

If you wish to put your name on your image please feel free to do so.

Finally, the Snowbirds will be back in Comox in April for their practice sessions.  Check the museum site for updated times.

Cowichan Bay

This month our field trip is to Cowichan Bay. Plan a day outing into the area, there are wineries, harbours and other small places to visit. Along the way, there’s places like Crofton, Chemanius, Duncan and Genoa Bay.

Contact Sally about the meeting places for lunch.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to <a href=”mailto:fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com”>fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com</a>

Our field trip this month is to Elk Falls Provincial Park.  We’ll meet about 10:30 in the parking lot and wander about the trails, falls and check the suspension bridge.  There has been construction and trail rebuilding at the park recently and it may be finished by the time we visit.

The park is on Hwy 28 on the route to Gold River near Campbell River.  We will head back to Campbell River for lunch, the place will be determined.

Once you have finished with your photos, send up to 6 to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com, they will be included in the slideshow.

Maffeo Sutton Park is Nanaimo’s signature park overlooking our world famous harbour. The park is a central point along the Harbour Front Walkway. The park hosts countless community special events. It is a great year round destination for walking, playground playdates and picnics. View  and map

The Noon Canon will be fired from the Bastion at 12 o’clock precisely, preceded by all the pomp and ceremony Nanaimo can muster.

There’s plenty of parking free parking (up to 3 hours).  Main parking lot is off Comox Rd and Cliff Street Nanaimo.

Lunch will be at the Lighthouse Restaurant, 50 Anchor Way, Nanaimo, which next to the float plane departure lounge. NOTE: Lunch is at 12:15,  This is to allow you time to shoot the firing of the Noon Canon.  Please let Rick (email)know if you’ll be participating in lunch so he can inform the restaurant.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

Maffeo Sutton Park is Nanaimo’s signature park overlooking our world famous harbour. The park is a central point along the Harbour Front Walkway. The park hosts countless community special events. It is a great year round destination for walking, playground playdates and picnics. Veiw  and map

The Noon Canon will be fired from the Bastion at 12 o’clock precisely, preceded by all the pomp and ceremony Nanaimo can muster.

There’s plenty of parking free parking (up to 3 hours).  Main parking lot is off Comox Rd and Cliff Street Nanaimo.

Lunch will be at the Lighthouse Restaurant, 50 Anchor Way, Nanaimo, which next to the float plane departure lounge. NOTE: Lunch is at 12:15,  This is to allow you time to shoot the firing of the Noon Canon.  Please let Rick (email)know if you’ll be participating in lunch so he can inform the restaurant.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

Activities and facilites can be viewed at https://www.mountwashington.ca/downloads/brochure/summer2016/Default.html

Lunch will be on the mountain at Teds Restaurant 12:00.  Please let Rick (email)know if you’ll be participating in lunch so he can inform the restaurant.

Pick about 6 of the most interesting and size them to within 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. When you have your field trip photos ready, send them to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com

Direction: – Take Hwy #19 north to Exit #130 (Dove Creek Rd & Strathcona Parkway). Turn left at the lights (Exit #130) and follow Strathcona Parkway up the mountain for 18 km’s. Mount Washington Alpine Resort is located at the end of Strathcona Parkway.

NOTE: This field trip now has the Old Country Market’s management approval to photograph inside the market in addition to the open areas.  The question was raised during the general meeting 5 October.

October’s trip is to the Old Country Market in Coombs (Goats on the Roof).   Lunch to follow will be at The Cuckoo Restaurant which is on site.

To extend our educational program which John Critchley worked very hard to produce and deliver, apply some of those compositional techniques to the images created during the field trip.  This is not a contest but an opportunity to explore and expand our photographic skills. These included but not limited to:

• Composing with colour
• Composing with light
• Uses of horizontal or vertical planes
• Uses of horizontal or vertical lines
• Leading Lines
• Use of negative space
• Diagonal rules
• Rule of Thirds or breaking the rule
• Simplicity
• Filling the Frame
• Use of a different perspective

Demonstrate these techniques by applying a different and single technique to each of the 6 images you submit from your field trip photos.  Send a maximum of 6 photos to fieldtrip.opc@gmail.com.  Keep in mind the club’s size limitation for each image.

Have fun and see you Sunday 16 October.