London Camera Club – Dec 2024 – Upcoming Presentation

The London Camera Club is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year

 

Dec 5 Andrew Collet: Learning to See Photographically 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EST
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/andrew-collett-learning-to-see-photographically-tickets-1009694221597?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

You can have more details by clicking here.

CAPA award presented:

Harry Cartner, President of the London Camera Club, is pleased to announce that Pia O’Leary won the CAPA Gold medal for “Best in the Show” at the 2024 Western Fair Photography Competition.

Toronto Camera Club – Nov 2024 – Upcoming Presentation

 

Tickets for non-Toronto Camera Club members are $15 and the links are all listed in the information below.

All the info can be found on the Toronto Camera Club website under Talking Photography 

11/14/2024 – Louie Palu – On Zoom only – 7:30pm.

Louie Palu is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has examined social political issues, such as human rights, conflict, and climate change for 30-years.

Louie’s projects have been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship, Arnold Newman Prize and World Press Photo Award. His work has examined topics such as the drug war in Mexico, conflicts in Afghanistan and Ukraine, Guantanamo Bay and changing geopolitics in the Arctic.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Figaro and El Pais. His work is held in numerous collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and National Gallery of Art. His films have screened at many festivals including at Hot Docs and the Munich Documentary Film Festival.

11/21/2024 – Valérie Jardin – On Zoom only – 7:30pm

Valérie Jardin is an award-winning French photographer who has developed a unique style that is both evocative and authentic. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of narrative, capturing candid moments that reveal the human experience in all its complexity and beauty. With a discerning eye for composition and a keen understanding of light and shadow, Valérie Jardin creates emotionally charged photographs of everyday moments.She has been shooting at 23mm with the Fujifilm X100 series for over 10 years. Currently using the X100VI.

Valérie’s work is also marked by her commitment to teaching and mentoring other photographers. Through international workshops, online courses, conferences, exhibits, podcasts and over a dozen books, she shares her knowledge and experience with others.

Mississauga Camera Club Nov 2024. Update

Online Presentation: The Garden at Night – Nov. 21, 2024 at 7:00pm

Presented by Linda Rutenberg (www.lindarutenberg.com)

You can register by mail: MeetingGuest@MississaugaCameraClub.ca

The fee is 10.00$

 

Online Presentation: Capturing Compelling Wildlife Images – Dec. 5, 2024 at 7:00pm

Presented by Matt Huras (www.matthuras.com)

You can register by mail: MeetingGuest@MississaugaCameraClub.ca

The fee is 10.00$

November 2024 Competition News

2024 Four Nations Competition 



2024 Pacific Zone Competition



2024 Nature Competition

 

2025 Ontario Zone Competition 

Both the club and individual categories of this competition are now open for uploading.

 

Special Note – Images will be judged individually, with CAPA awards going to the highest-scoring photographs. This is a photo-by-photo competition – we will not calculate overall scores for either camera clubs or individual photographers.

 

Judge’s Feedback:

  • Novice photographers can receive judges’ comments only if they select ‘comments requested‘ during submission
  • Advanced and Intermediate photographers will not receive judges’ comments
  • No comments will be provided if ‘comments requested‘ is not selected



2025 Fine Art Competition

 

Both the club and individual categories of this competition are now open for uploading.

2024 Four Nations Competition Results

This annual inter-photo society event brings together four prestigious photography societies: the Australian Photographic Society, the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA), the Photographic Society of New Zealand, and the Photographic Society of South Africa. Each society submits 80 top images for the competition.

This year, the Australian Photographic Society hosted this inter-society competition, and the panel of judges were:

  • Jean Luc Legrand EFIAP/d3 MPSA2
  • Jacky Panhuyqen EFIAP/g GMPSA/b
  • Shinta Djiwatampu.



Four Nations – Overall Standings 

Canadian Association for Photographic Art 1st Place

Australian Photographic Society 2nd Place

Photographic Society of South Africa 3rd Place

Photographic Society of New Zealand 4th Place

 

Monochrome Category

Australian Photographic Society 1st Place

Photographic Society of South Africa 2nd Place

Photographic Society of New Zealand 3rd Place

Canadian Association for Photographic Art 4th Place

 

Nature Category

Australian Photographic Society 1st Place

Photographic Society of South Africa 2nd Place

Canadian Association for Photographic Art 3rd Place

Photographic Society of New Zealand 4th Place

 

Open Colour Category

Photographic Society of South Africa 1st Place

Australian Photographic Society 2nd Place

Canadian Association for Photographic Art 3rd Place

Photographic Society of New Zealand 4th Place

 

Our Country Category 

Canadian Association for Photographic Art 1st Place

Australian Photographic Society 2nd Place

Photographic Society of South Africa 3rd Place

Photographic Society of New Zealand 4th Place

 

Members of CAPA Team Canada received the following awards in this competition:

 

Nature – Honour Award – “Kiss Da Face Off Dat” by Alicia Barrett

Our Country – Gold Medal – “Mountain Dreams Icefields Parkway” by Alexander Jones

Our Country  – Honour Award – “Radiant Morning” by Cheryl Lalonde (Prairie Zone)

Our Country – Honour Award – “Conflagration” by Bruce Kennedy (Ontario Zone)

Our Country – Honour Award – “Petit coin de paradis sur lIsle aux” by Francine Raymond (Quebec Zone)

 

What is most notable in that the four CAPA members noted above won all the awards in the Our Country category.

 

To access our CAPA version of the final report, please follow these steps:

Visit the CAPA website.


Log in to your account using your credentials.
Navigate to the Competitions dropdown menu.
Select the Competition Report option from the menu.

For more details about the annual inter-society competition, check out our webpage.



North Shore Challenge 40th Anniversary

Distinguishing features of the upcoming North Shore Challenge

The North Shore Photographic Society is delighted to be hosting its unique 40th North Shore Challenge on Zoom on Saturday, March 1st, 2025. Over the years, the North Shore Challenge has evolved into a premiere photographic competition in Western Canada.  Photographic competitions occur around the world. What makes ours unique? Three characteristics do, a combination of club and individual images, two rounds of scoring for individuals and judges’ comments.

The North Shore Challenge started as a club-only competition years ago but has evolved into a competition featuring the best images from clubs and individuals from around BC and the Yukon. This is the first distinguishing characteristic. Prizes are awarded for both individual and club submitted images with one image being chosen best in show. Each individual can put forward three images.  Each club can submit up to six images from six different photographers. The club with the highest scoring images will win the North Shore Challenge trophy. 

This brings us to the second distinguishing characteristic, two rounds of scoring for individuals. All individual images are scored by a panel of judges in round 1. Scores from round 1 are shared with the participants. Each individual’s highest-scoring Round 1 image will advance to the second and final round which will be scored by a different panel of judges. Judges meet online to discuss images that have tied scores to determine which one from each participant becomes part of the North Shore Challenge gala show on March 1st, 2025.

By far, the biggest difference from other photographic competitions is a recent addition to the North Shore Challenge, judges’ comments. Each of our judges will be commenting on three different images including all six of the winners. Apart from the six winners, judges get to choose which images they would like to comment on. Sometimes judges all want to comment on the same image but only one judge can.

This new feature of judges’ comments is an incredibly popular hallmark to the North Shore Challenge. Photographers and non-photographers alike truly relish hearing from our panel of distinguished judges about what strikes them about particular images and in some cases how they  can be improved.  Judges may provide their comments live on the actual night of the North Shore Challenge or in a recorded format. If the comments are pre-recorded, sometimes the actual image is brought into a processing software and the suggested changes highlighted that way. Regardless of the format of their delivery, judges’ comments are becoming the most popular portion of our evening.

Competition entries for the 2025 North Shore Challenge open on November 1st, 2024 and will close at midnight PST on January 12, 2025. British Columbia and Yukon individuals and photography clubs are encouraged to consider “taking the Challenge” and submitting images this year. The cost of participation includes free admission to the Zoom session on March 1st, 2025.  Non-competitors from around the world are welcome to attend, for a small fee, the gala show which will begin at 7 pm PST on March 1, 2025.  We invite you to witness for yourself why the North Shore Challenge is a celebration of excellence in photography.