Maffeo Sutton Park is a water front location with plenty of opportunities for great images and afford members social distancing.
February’s Field Trip, the club experience a great turnout with many members using the opportunity to catch up with old friends and socializing with other members which social distancing. We had a great time.
Please join us for our third presenter in the BC/Yukon Speaker’s Series. Laura Letinsky will present on Friday, March 26th, 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Registration is open at https://tinyurl.com/y2brpxh6, I have attached the PDF profile for Laura
This is new for the club, as most members are retired, we are meeting on a Wednesday at 10am in Parksville Community Park. Open spaces, no enclosed areas and lots of activity. At present Chesipeek Shores is filming and most of their equipment is being stored behind the curling rink with lots of filming crew activity. Or you may see the ball players or Tia Chi practitioners or skateboarders. Enjoy yourselves.
Remember the the health guidelines and safety protocols.
This is an interesting Field Trip that Gail and Lynn have organized for June. We are touring around Qualicum Beach village on a Sunday evening at 7 pm, meeting at TOSH. Local and familiar, doesn’t get any better. See you there.
Our speaker this month is Parksville photographer, Bob Christopher who is a member of the Oceanside Photography Society.
He is going to share with us some of his photographs with his unique style and the some of the stories behind his photographs.
Bob’s biography and his fantastic website can be found at Bob Christopher – Official Website (pixels.com)
We will be showing our previous months field trip, assignment and favourites slideshows.
Here is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the beach midweek. Hopefully not too congested. Wednesday 14 July at 10:00 meeting around the coffee hut on the Beach. There are many opportunities to to shoot a variety of subjects from the seascapes to portraits or street photography. People, cars motorcycles and boats in abundance, use your imagination.
Our general meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month in the West Hall of the Qualicum beach Civic Centre from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. We normally conduct the club’s business, then review the slideshows from the previous month’s assignment, field trip and favourite shot of the month. The last half of the meeting is dedicated to having a speaker come and make a presentation or discuss some aspects of their photography
Our general meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month in the West Hall of the Qualicum beach Civic Centre from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. We normally conduct the club’s business, then review the slideshows from the previous month’s assignment, field trip and favourite shot of the month. The last half of the meeting is dedicated to having a speaker come and make a presentation or discuss some aspects of their photography
The Lions Gate Nature Competition is on again this year and there are a number of changes. The rules have been clarified inline with CAPA and there is a image size limit of 1.8 MB.
There are four categories in this competition:
Link to the CAPA checklist for each category
Link to the Lions Gate specifications
Images have to be uploaded by October 25th followed by voting. You can vote for six images including your own image. The top six images will be forwarded to the Lions Gate club by November 1st.
Look through your best shots, be certain there is no ‘hand of man’ in the image, ensure it is less than 1.8mb and submit it. Images have a maximum width of 1400 pixels and maximum height of 1050 pixels.
This is a unique opportunity for the photography produced by your members to be judged by some of the best nature photographers in Canada.
Our general meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month in the West Hall of the Qualicum beach Civic Centre from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. We normally conduct the club’s business, then review the slideshows from the previous month’s assignment, field trip and favourite shot of the month. The last half of the meeting is dedicated to having a speaker come and make a presentation or discuss some aspects of their photography