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Our friends at the Comox Valley club are hosting Imagefest 2019 in February. It’s a two hour festival of images from club members and also a submission from students. The evening includes an exhibition of members’ prints in the lower gallery and door prizes donated by our local sponsors.
Make an evening of it an head up to the area for supper and then make it to the show. Buy your tickets in advance, follow this link
The Harbour City Photography Club is hosting Photo Salon again this year. Your image(s) need to be submitted by the end of the month.
There are four categories – Nature, Black & White, Digital Art and Open. The digital images submitted via email to be judged in each category. Prints for selected salon images are required in May. There is a $10 fee for each submission and a $10 hanging fee if your image is selected.
Full details for image sizes and print sizes, dates and timeline are on this link.
Our speaker for this month is TJ Watt , an award-winning nature and conservation photographer from Victoria, BC. He combines his passion for rainforest conservation with professional photography, TJ sheds light on BC’s endangered old-growth forests in an effort to help see them saved. A self-described ‘big-tree hunter’, he can often be found driving rough backroads and exploring remote regions of Vancouver Island in search of the last old-growth giants. TJ is also a co-founder, campaigner, and photographer with the Ancient Forest Alliance, a non-profit organization that works to protect BC’s old-growth forests and ensure a sustainable second-growth forest industry.
TJ will present an overview of the ecology and politics of BC’s endangered old-growth growth forests and the role conservation photography plays in the fight to protect them. He will include photographs from across Vancouver Island and BC, including the spectacular Great Bear Rainforest. Click here for TJ’s website. Click here for the Ancient Forest Alliance.
We will show the slideshows from our field trip in Nanaimo, the texture assignment and our March favuorites.
There will be coffee and tea at $1!
loonie for coffee
Our speaker this month is Nanaimo photographer, Judy Hancock-Holland. Judy has presented to the club previously and we received excellent feedback about her spiritual approach to her photography. Judy has a new presentation and we are looking forward to her visit. Visit Judy’s website here.
We will be showing our favourites, field trip outing and the monthly assignment.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
Club members Brad Powell and Inge Riis McDonald are principals of Island Photography Workshops and are bringing another talented international photographer to the Island for a seminar.
John Barclay is an award winning freelance photographer based in Bucks County PA. He is a passionate and enthusiastic workshop leader. His work has been published in a number of magazines and books and has been used by Nik Software, Topaz Labs and Lensbaby in their advertising campaigns. John is also an inspirational speaker sharing his program Dream – Believe – Create to audiences around the Country.
Look at the IPW site here for links to get ticket information and further information.
Our speaker this month is Vancouver Island photographer, Chris Istace.
Freelance writer & photographer as well as community leader who calls the Cowichan Valley home. Through written and visual storytelling he strives to inspire others to be mindful of themselves and to embrace ecological wisdom. His photography specializes primarily outdoor pursuits such as hiking, climbing and mountain biking and the beautiful landscapes those activities take place.
Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/stasher_bc/
Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/MindfulExplorer/
Website is www.ChrisIstace.com
We will be showing our favourites, field trip outing and the monthly assignment.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
Our speaker this month is Qualicum Beach photographer, Joan Larson.
Joan’s original passion for horses led to her interest in art
and she has never stopped to look back.
Joan has an extensive CV chronicling 25 years of
professional achievements which include international
shows, awards and documentaries. However it is the
present and future that hold her attention. Her recent
ground breaking series of artworks honouring the RCMP
Musical Ride has been used for exhibitions supporting
non-profit organizations. This was followed by a series
based on her trips to remote and restricted Sable Island to
paint it most famous denizens, the wild horses. Next on
her radar is a series of paintings based on “Life at the Race
Track.”
Joan is a Senior member of the Federation of Canadian
Artists (SFCA), a full member of the American Academy
of Equine Artists (AAEA) and holds the Premier Pastelist
designation with the Pastel Society of Canada (PPC).
Joan and her husband Paul Smith own and operate
Creekside Studio from their acreage in the rural area of
Coombs where they live with their family and assorted
animals, including horses . . . which Joan states “are simply
necessary.”
Website is www.joanlarson.com
We will be showing our favourites, field trip outing and the monthly assignment.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
Our speaker this month is Nanaimo photographer, Andrea Black of ‘Chasing Whimsy‘.
You can find Andrea’s bio at Chasing Whimsy
Her full website can be found at https://www.chasingwhimsyphoto.com/
We will be showing our favourites, field trip outing, and the monthly assignment.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
The Lions Gate Nature Competition is on again this year and there are a number of changes. There are new categories, 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:
- 01 – Botanical – subjects such as wild flowers, plants, trees, fungi and algae. Germinated and grown without human assistance.
- 02 – Nature – subjects such as 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.
Link to the CAPA rules for each category
Link to the Lions Gate specifications
Images have to be uploaded by October 20th followed by a week of voting. You can vote eight images including your own image. The top eight 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 speaker this month is Courtenay photographer, Boomer Jerritt. His presentation on his Antarctic travels is not to be missed.
Boomer’s biography can be found at Strathcona Photography
His full website can be found at https://strathconaphotography.com/
As usual we will display our favourites, field trip outing, and the monthly assignment.
Bring your loonie for a coffee.
loonie for coffee
