Our speaker this month is Cim McDonald who is coming up from Chemainus where she is the Curator of the Chemainus Festival of Murals Society. She is a fine art photographer and artist who has won many awards. Her topic for our meeting is the relationship of line and colour to art. For more information about Cim visit her website cimmacdonald.ca here.

Following the business of the meeting, we will show our slideshows from the Deep Bay field trip, the July favourites and the Canada 150 assignment.

Remember to bring your loonie for coffee at the break.

loonie for coffee

If you would like to spend more time reviewing the images, go to the Galleries in the menu above.

Rosewall Creek Provincial Park is south of Fanny Bay consist of a river, and old growth trees covered in beautiful mosses which create many opportunities for great landscapes.  The trails are easy to walk in a circular route around the parking lot.  Parking and toilets are available on-site.  Link to map of park .  The park is exactly 27 km north of Parksville and 27 km south of Courtenay on Highway 19A (scenic coast road).  If you are taking the upper highway then use the deep bay turn and then left onto the old island highway and it is less than 2km.

Lunch will be at the Fanny Bay Inn, a short drive up the coast towards Courtenay, at 12:00 noon.

Send a maximum of 5 photos to, Members Data Base, Assignments, Field Trips. Keep in mind the club’s size limitation for each image

September is much like the start of a new year and we’re preparing for our new year. Richard is leading a discussion for everyone

Discussion Points

1. We have no Director of Exhibits. Does this mean Society members do not see the value in exhibiting work in the community? If so how should we promote our work in the community?

2. Online presence for selling photographs. Explore club options. Smugmug etc.

3. Photography competitions – club and open competitions like Lions Gate.

4. Use of technology for exhibiting photography. Liaise with Shaw cable and Lefty’s etc. to show images through their facilities.

5. Should we have a Director of Communications / Public Relations? Is someone willing to step forward?

Lions Gate Nature Competition

Jack will take us through the new approach that we’re following for our participation in the club this year.

Interclub Photo Competition

Jack will introduce selected aspects of an invitational photo competition to be held early in the new year.  The theme, categories and judging aspects are all open for discussion.  Assistance with the planning activities is needed.

Following the coffee break, we will be showing the Lions Gate 2016 show.

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

Our speaker this month is portrait photographer Lisa Graham.  Her interest in fashion and lifestyle photography on land slipped into the underwater realm where few photographers venture. She specializes in the niche market of underwater fine art portraits and she loves how water adds a surreal touch to everyday elements

Lisa is going to share her some images from her “Impossible Worlds” collection and talk about some of the aspects of an underwater photo shoot.

You can check Lisa’s website on this link

We will be showing our Favourites from September, our field trip outing and the Inspirational assignment

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

Our major exhibit of the year opens officially on November 1st with a reception at 2:00 pm. There are about 40 images on display from our members.

Ron Hadley, who is a regular with Tosh’s Sunday music, will be playing piano during the reception.

Encourage your friends and neighbours to come out and visit this very exciting exhibit for the club.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS ON NOVEMBER 8th!

Our speaker for November is Gordon Howe.  His presentation is “From Sea to Sky- A natural history journey from British Columbia to the high deserts of the American southwest.”

Gordon is a prize-winning photographer who has lived all over British Columbia. He currently resides near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

He attended the School of Modern Photography and has worked professionally as a Portrait and Wedding Photographer. Throughout his life Gordon has always had a camera in hand but his love of photography was shared with a love of horticulture and landscape design. Both of these disciplines share a need for a comprehensive understanding of light, colour and composition. Training in both fields has served to complement each other.

 
We will be showing our Favourites from October, our field trip outing to the Raptor Centre and the Fall Colours assignment

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

This month is our Christmas social evening. We are repeating last year’s approach and assisting the Food Bank. 

You know that we are trying to be more connected to the community and with that in mind we are asking that you, if you are able, bring a donation for the Food Bank.  The Food Bank prefers receiving money and they have excellent buyers.  Nick Bosma will have a collection box for cash and cheques.  Please make cheques to the Food Bank.

The club is providing coffee, tea and snacks.

We do not have a speaker and will have a short business review followed by slideshows of the field trip to the Bowser Antique Yard, the Emotion assignment. We will also show the Best of 2017 images that our members have sent in.

Slideshow Night – The new year meeting is going to be quite exciting with slideshows from many of our members.  This past year our members have traveled and will be sharing their memories.  The last slideshow night was a huge success.

If you are planning to add a slideshow, please contact Jack Harynuk – technical.opc@gmail.com

You can send your slideshow in using wetransfer.com

To submit a slideshow, you pick the + sign to locate the file, fill in the fields and click Transfer.  It can take up to 10 minutes to send the show, depending on its size and your upload speed to the Internet.

Before the show gets going, we’ll get the club business out of the way, then see the results of the assignment, the field trip and our favourite shots from December.

There will be coffee and tea at $1 but bring your own popcorn!

loonie for coffee

Our speaker this month is photographer Rick Leche. 

Rick has been an active photographer since the inception of digital photography from digital point & shoots to DSLR’s to mirrorless to iPhones. He is an advanced Photoshop and other digital darkroom tools user to develop photos and to satisfy his keen interest in producing digital/photographic art.

His membership and active participation in camera clubs has afforded Rick the opportunity to observe and learn from both good and not so good judges what distinguishes quality photographic images. He is always ready and excited to be able to provide constructive and learning feedback to photographers.  Click on the image or this link to view a sample of his images

Items of Note:

• A trained and qualified CAPA judge
• Past President of the Langley Camera Club
• A Member of the Comox Valley Photographic Society
• This year the Chair of the CVPS Imagefest 2018
• CAPA regional rep for Vancouver Island North including Powell River

We will be showing our Favourites from January, our field trip outing and the Every Day assignment

Bring your loonie for a coffee.

loonie for coffee

NOTE:  This month the field trip is on a Saturday and is the third week of February instead of the second

This field trip will have several opportunities for some great photography with many areas open to the public and with so many areas none of them are crowded which makes it nice for us.

Our event will be going from 10:30 – noon but for your information I have listed the days complete agenda below

Heritage Faire will be running from 10 am to 4 pm at the Cumberland Recreation Centre.

Cumberland’s Heritage Faire was originally launched by a group of community volunteers in 2003 and was modeled on the folk festival that ran from 1949 to 1958 celebrating the diverse heritage of Cumberlanders. Each year over 50 families, clubs and other organizations set up displays of antique tools, unique collections, photos and demonstrations of crafts and folklore from the early days of Cumberland and the Comox Valley.

Heritage Day at the Museum is open by donation if you would like to go in and take photos there

Lantern Festival and Parade
Indoor Labyrinth at the Cultural Centre from 10 am to 4 pm.
At 6pm join the Lantern Parade from Village Square at Third Street to Village Park
Entertainment and sky lanterns at Village Park after the parade, weather permitting.

Lunch  will be at 4 Quarters Restaurant  in Cumberland

2744 Dunsmuir Ave Cumberland

It is located on the main street. (across from the Cumberland Bakery)