Judging Courses 2023

Are you interested in learning how to evaluate and score photographic images or how to make a better image?

CAPA is pleased to provide our comprehensive and renowned course that teaches you how to look at and understand an image, comment on its strengths and opportunities, and correctly score it at Club and CAPA competitions. This full day course will make you a better photographer and includes a copy of the 100+ page CAPA Judges Manual.

You will quickly learn how to;

  • Identify The Strengths and weaknesses in a photograph
  • See the message the photographer intends
  • Spot the criteria that makes a photograph great
  • Understand the Techniques used to create the image
  • Set aside your own personal bias when evaluating
  • Apply a fair and impartial score to an image
  • Understand what judges look for in your photography
  • Discover new ways to evaluate photography
  • Know why it’s ok to break rules for great photography
  • First step to qualify to become a CAPA Certified Judge

Course Date: Sunday April 16, 2023 Full Day 9:00-5:30

Hosted by the Ottawa Camera Club
Location: Hintonburg Community Centre

(Limited to 30 people)

Course Date: Saturday Feb 4, 2023 Full Day 8:45-5:30

Hosted by the Camera 35 & CAPA Atlantic Zone
Location: Best Western Plus Airport Hotel, St. John’s

(Limited to 35 people)

CAPA Individual Members & Ottawa Camera Club Members $125.00
All Others $175.00

For more information on how to register for upcoming courses visit;
www.capacanada.ca/judging-courses

Oakville Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

On 02/06/2023, the Oakville Camera Club invites submissions for Capture Oakville Photography Competition – deadline Feb 6 at midnight. Open to all residents of Ontario.

For more info : http://www.captureoakville.com/

Or contact Jackie Gladman at info@oakvillecameraclub.com

Regina Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

On 01/31/2023, Saskatchewan Amateur Photography competition is a not-for-profit organized by the Regina Photo Club in an effort to promote amateur photography in Saskatchewan.

All entrants must be residents of Saskatchewan and have amateur photography status.

Get your best photos ready!

contact, David Bellerive at dbellerive@gmail.com ou see the website :

https://saskam.ca/

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Feb. 13 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series. There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

Making A/V Presentations for Competition and Fun – by George Hutchinson takes place on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:30 PM AST.

George “Hutch” Hutchison, QPSA, DFS4C has been recognized as a Gold and Silver Medal recipient in the PSA Projected Image Division (PID) Photo Essay Contest and also enjoys creating similar presentations for family, friends and memories. This presentation will include ideas for finding resources, organizing, sharing and building a slide show that will keep the audience engaged and wow competition judges.

To register for this presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/making-av-presentations-for-competition-and-fun-by-george-hutchinson-tickets-421536746757

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Jan. 22 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series. There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

“Creating AVs – From Concept to Creation and Presentation” by Lance Gitter takes place on Sunday, Jan 22, 2023 at 7:30 PM AST.

Lance Gitter, FCAPA is a well-known award-winning photographer in both still photography and in photo essay production from the Greater Toronto area. In the first of our audio-visual webinars, he will discuss the approach to Audio-Visual creation and presentation. Lance will include numerous award winning shows that he has created over the years to demonstrate and showcase the concepts and methods used to create them.

To register for Lance Gitter’s presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creating-avs-from-concept-to-creation-and-presentation-by-lance-gitter-tickets-399780443067

Foothills Camera Club Jan. 2023 News

In preparation for the CAPA artistic competition due on January 30th, the Prairie Zone team in Calgary created two workshops with the Kensington Art Supply & Instruction store on January 8th. The sessions were 3 hours and lead by the extremely crafty and creative store owner and long time Foothills Camera club member Annette Wichmann.

The team created several photo stations which included oil and water, lens ball photography, rolled construction paper, pencils, paints and other art supplies, still life and more. The lighting consisted of LED tubes, party lights and LED panels. The attendees moved from station to station and created numerous types of images.

The Prairie Zone is excited to create these opportunities and is hoping to work with clubs across the Zone to continue to bring interesting photographic events to the membership.

Follow us in the Facebook groups future CAPA events.

Richmond Photo Club Jan. 2023 News

Lions Gate Camera Club Celebration of Nature Photography Competition Results

The Richmond Photo Clubs placement was 8 out of 20 participating clubs. A top 10 showing! The clubs total score was 141 and the top overall score was 159.
Neil leNobel placed second in the Landscape category with a score of 26 and for his image ‘Through the Arch”, missing first place by .5 of a point.

Sue Olsen’s image in the Wildlife category scored 26.5 missing honorable mention by .6 of a point.

Congratulations to both Neil and Sue!

Thompson Community Centre

From December 1, 2022 through to December 31, 2022 the Richmond Photo Club had 12 images displayed at the Thompson Community Centre. This has been a successful way to promote our club and reveal our clubs artwork to the city.

On January 24th we will be having our first in person evaluation meeting since the pandemic began. This meeting will be a “Print Evaluation Night”. All members that choose to participate may submit up to three printed images, the theme is “Open”.

As each print is being evaluated by a judge during this meeting we will project a digital image. This way all members in the audience can view the image during the evaluation.
The winning images will have a printed version for possible inclusion in other external “Print” showings and there will be a digital version available for inclusion in on line competitions and events.

Lansdowne Photographic Show

Continuing to look forward, the largest upcoming event for the Richmond Photo Club will be the Lansdowne Photographic Show. This event will be held in Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC February 9 – 12, 2023. This public exhibit will showcase 96+ photos from Richmond Photo Club’s members. More on this event will follow as the date nears.

Jan. 2023 Competition Updates

January 2023 Competition Update

2022 Monochrome Competition

You can view the winning from this competition here:

The final competition report for this competition has been posted to the CAPA website. To view this report, you must first log into the CAPA website and select the Competition Reports from the Competitions dropdown menu.

If the Competition Reports are not visible on the Competitions dropdown menu, this indicates that you have not successfully logged into the CAPA website.

 

2023 Fall/Winter Competition

 

This competition is now open for the uploading of images. Closing date is March 1, 2023 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

You can view the details of this competition here – https://capacanada.ca/2023-fall-winter-dautomne-2023/

 

Other competitions also open for uploading of images are as follows:

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Jan. 09 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series. There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

“Photographing the Northern Lights” by Kah-Wai Lin takes place on Monday January 9, 2023 at 7:30 PM AST. A landscape photographer based in New Jersey, Kah-Wai will discuss everything you need to know about photographing the Northern Lights. From how to precisely predict the Northern lights to creative compositions in a winter landscape you will be prepared for your next photo adventure.

To register for Kah-Wai Lin’s presentation, please use the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/photographing-the-northern-lights-by-kah-wai-lin-tickets-397229814067

New Prairie Zone District Representatives

Dan Sigouin, Prairie Zone Director, is very pleased to announce that Andrea Belcher, Anne Kean, and Rae McLeod have joined the administrative team as District Representatives for the Prairie Zone. Andrea and Anne will be working in the Alberta, and Rae will work in Saskatchewan.

Dan has had the good fortune of spending time with all three of the new DRs in different capacities over the years. He has gotten to know Rae as member of the Saskatoon club and at the recent judging course, and Anne, while hiking in the Kananaskis, and at FCC meetings, and photographing with Andrea, who has been tremendously helpful in generating activity ideas and events around Calgary.

Dan is excited to work with them providing support to CAPA Clubs throughout the Prairies. CAPA joins Dan in welcoming them to the Team!

Richmond Photo Club December 2022 News

During the month of August the Community Arts Council of Richmond held the 11th annual “Midsummer Art’s Dream Juried Exhibition”. This event was located at Richmond’s Lansdowne Centre over the weekend of August 26 – 28th. 31 artists and 70 art pieces were submitted and displayed.

The event continues “virtually” until December 31, 2022. The link to this event is here:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/10617539/catalog

We are very pleased to announce that two of Richmond Photo Club Members have the honor of having their works displayed. They are:

Gerry Boretta – canvas print: “Smoke”

Gail Newell – photograph: “Fawn Lily After The Rain”

Gail is also a textile artist and has two of her quilts “Loon Rising” and “Fawn Lily displayed.

All the artist’s images are included with this article.

The Richmond Museum’s exhibit entitled “The Arts Live Here” continues to run from September 24, 2022 for 11 months. The event highlights how the arts speak to us, connect to us and give us unique ways to understand ourselves, our communities and our city.

Richmond Photo Club Members whose art is displayed in this event are:

Urs Fricker – Traditional Taiwanese Dancers / Polish Festival
Albert Tsai – Purple Orchid / Red Tulip / Flying Butterfly
Hendy Wu – Look Forward On Stage
Eva Sylvanna Wong – A Longing Gaze
Juliet Fricker – Thai Dancer

The exhibition hours are:

9am-9pm weekdays
10am-5pm weekends
Closed on statutory holidays

We have also included all artists’ images to this article.

CAPA Competition Results:
We have received results for the CAPA Pacific Zone Competition. We are pleased to announce the artists and their results below:


Title Artist Score
• Day’s End Neil leNobel 26.0
• Cannery Row Tool Bench Elmar Theissen 23.0
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea Susan Olsen 22.5
• Fiddlehead Brian G Phillips 22.0
• Salmon Eater Brian D Phillips 22.0
• Winter George Sandor 21.0

Well done everyone and thanks for putting your images forward!

The second CAPA event we received results on is the CAPA Nature Competition. We are pleased to announce the artists and their results below:

Title Artist Theme Score
• Through the Arch Neil LeNobel Landscape 24.5
• Great lunch Hendy Wu Wildlife 24.0
• Crow Blitz Paul Rennie Nature 22.5
• Voracious Pine Siskin Kyoko Kimura Nature 22.0
• Cleaned My Paw Alan Marchant Wildlife 21.5
• Always Keep Your Back To The Wind David England Nature 21.0

The third CAPA event we have news on is the Fall 2022 Monochrome competition. These results are:

Title Artist Theme Score

Bodyscape Sue Olsen Person 25.5
Through the Arch Neil leNobel Landscape 24.5
Sadhu The Holy Man Urs Fricker Person 23.5
Science World Minh To Architecture 23.5
Luminosity Cedric Tetzel Nature 22.0
Stave Falls Power Plant Pipes and Lines David England Architecture 22.0

Congratulations go out to Sue Olsen for achieving 2nd merit for her image “Bodyscape”!

Well done everyone and thank you for putting your images forward!

All images from the CAPA events noted above are attached.

Thompson Community Centre

Beginning December 1, 2022 the Richmond Photo Club will have 12 images displayed. These artworks will be available for viewing at the Thompson Community Centre until December 31, 2022.

Lansdowne Photographic Show

Continuing to gaze forward, the largest upcoming event for the Richmond Photo Club will be the Lansdowne Photographic Show. This event will be held in Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC February 9 – 12, 2023. This public exhibit will showcase 96+ photos from Richmond Photo Club’s members. More on this event will follow as the date nears.

Spring2023 issue of Canadian Camera magazine

The Spring issue of Canadian Camera Magazine will feature articles on garden artistry and alley art as well as CAPA competition results, club news and Meet the Volunteers.

All individual CAPA members are encouraged to submit their ideas and articles to editor-in-chief Ralph Bridgland for future editions of Canadian Camera. We are especially urging those with expertise in all genres of photography to share their knowledge with our readers. Such how-to articles need not be lengthy and can be accompanied by photos that help illustrate the procedures.

The content deadline for the 2023 Spring issue is Jan. 10.
For the 2023 Summer issue is April 10 and July 10 for the Fall edition.

CAPS Photo club December 2022 News

It has been a busy fall here in Central Alberta. Our club has restarted in person club meetings and at a new venue.

We are now meeting at the Canada Winter Games Centre at the Red Deer Polytechnic which is a huge upgrade for us.


We have had some great presenters in the first half of the CAPS season including CAPA’s Dan Sigouin, JP Stones from Mexico & Tony Wong with a workshop on light painting that was a ton of fun.


December marks our annual Winter Competition with an awards night slated for December 14th, where we select winners in 8 categories. Good luck to all our entrants, I have seen a sneak peak & there are some fantastic images!


Also in December, the club has some holiday themed events in store. Ten Central Alberta towns will be welcoming the CP Holiday train & CAPS will be there, there will also be a holiday lights event also somewhere in Central Alberta.

CAPS is also involved as a volunteer group for a local “Battle of the Bands” event on December 3 & the final being on New Years Eve.


Our second half of the season kicks off in January with a stellar line up of presenters including Nikon & McBain Camera.


Happy Holidays to all CAPA members from Central Alberta & the CAPS Photo Club

Ontario Zone seeks volunteers

Ontario Zone seeks volunteers:

District Representative, SW Ontario – Area 1 
District Representative, Greater Toronto
District Organizer, Oshawa-Coburg-Peterborough – Haliburton area
District Organizer, Greater Sudbury – North Bay – Sault Ste Marie area
District Organizer, Eastern Ontario, encompassing Cornwall, Brockville, Perth, Ottawa & Pembroke

Please contact Ontario Zone Director Glenn Bloodworth

Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club Photo Conference – 2023

Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club is pleased to advise that our 3 day in person Photo Conference will be on March 10, 11 & 12, 2023 at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

There will be several speakers, workshops and outings offered. CAPA will also be attending and offering a CAPA Judges Course at our event on March 10, 2023. The Sheraton on the Falls hotel is offering special room rates, either use the URL on the www.nfrccevents.org website or call in your reservation.

If calling make sure to advise you are with the Photo Conference. We would love to have you come out and support our event!

Burnaby Photographic Society’s Print Exhibition

The Burnaby Photographic Society’s 25th Annual Print Exhibition
at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C.

What’s the recipe for a great photograph?

Mix together a bundle of observations, a burst of insight, a pinch of preparation and equal parts right place and right time. Simmer, edit to taste and share generously.

The Burnaby Photographic Society invites you to savour a fresh selection of printed works from December 4, 2022 through January 28, 2023 in Shadbolt’s Centre Aisle Gallery and Encores Cafe. From landscape to wildlife to abstract, there’s something for every taste. Inspiring. Engaging. Energizing. Add art to your day and you’ll be hungry for more.

Since 1970 the Burnaby Photographic Society has been an active community of photo hobbyists, enthusiasts and pros. We meet regularly to learn from each other and to shape the future of photography in the region.

Info at www.bpsphoto.ca. Check venue hours at www.shadboltcentre.com.

CAPA Gold Medal Presented to LCC

Presented to the club president, Lorna Scott by CAPA District Representative, Carol Jackson. Congratulations to the Langley Camera Club and to the photographers whose images were contributed for this achievement, namely; Lorna Scott, Susan Kuyer, Janet Slater, Michele Broadfoot, Michelle Lark, & Colleen Walden.

 

Congratulations to all.

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Dec. 12 Presentation

 

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series.

There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

“DSLR & Mirrorless Technology differences” by Chris Ogonek – Nikon takes place on Monday December 12, 2022 at 7:30 PM AST. Chris Ogonek from Nikon will discuss the merits of making the jump to mirrorless from DSLR.

To register for Chris’s presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dslr-mirrorless-technology-differences-nikon-tickets-411333398267

Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS) Nov. 20 Presentation

Celebrating its 75th year as a club, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia is pleased to extend an invitation to join us for our Fred & Edie Greene Speaker series.

There is no charge to attend these webinars, but donations to support the speaker series are gratefully accepted.

“Photography and Creative Exploration” by Stephen Scott Patterson takes place on Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:30 PM AST. For Stephen, Photography is a visual exercise in uncovering the order within the chaos of the natural and manmade world. He will discuss how he is constantly analyzing and refining his approach using examples drawn from images he has captured in his pursuit of photography.

To register for Stephen Scott Patterson’s presentation, please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/photography-and-creative-exploration-by-stephen-patterson-tickets-399771877447