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.
On No. 14, at 7h, Oakville Camera Club presents : Storytelling for Photographers – A talk by JP Stones
On No. 28, at 7h, Oakville Camera Club member challenge – Show, Tell and Learn. An review of photos to better photographic skills.
https://www.oakvillecameraclub.com/program/388-nov-show-tell-and-learn
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
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:
Due to Covid restrictions on in-person meetings, presentations were made to the following members in October. Viki Gaul was presented the CAPA Excellence in Photography Medal for receiving the highest cumulative points in CAPA digital competitions throughout the 2021-2022 season.
Edie Greene was honoured with the CAPA Club Services medal for her many years of dedicated service to the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia (PGNS). A member of PGNS since 1976, Edie Greene has been a mainstay at the club. She has looked after Hospitality and Banquets for 17 years before retiring from the position, hosted countless Executive Meetings, as well as International Exhibition judging and often billeted speakers for club events.
As part of the celebrations for the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia’s 75th year as a club, on October 22, the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia had the pleasure of visiting the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS).
Shannon Parker, Laufer Curator of Collections arranged a research visit featuring a selection of prints from the Annie Leibovitz: Photographs from her Books collection held in trust at the AGNS.
It was an educational and inspiring experience for members to be able to view some of the images in the collection.
As a reminder, The Richmond Museum is currently hosting an exhibit entitled “The Arts Live Here”. The event runs 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.
We are honored to have had the Richmond Museum reach out to us to request permission from a number of our club members to use their images in this event. The Museum discovered these images by perusing our club’s website, proving how valuable online exposure is to the club. Those members who images were chosen 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
As an exciting addition we weren’t aware of last month, is that Juliet Fricker’s photo entitled “Thai Dancer” is featured on the main exhibition poster. Her image was also used for additional promotional literature. We’ve included all of Juliet’s images pertaining to this event.
We extend congratulations to Juliet for having her image selected for this event’s banner.
The exhibition hours are:
9am-9pm weekdays
10am-5pm weekends
Closed on statutory holidays
We have also included all artists’ images to this article.
During the month of October, a group of Richmond Club photo prints are on exhibit at the South Arm Community Centre in Richmond, BC. The emphasis is on scenes and events native and peculiar to the City of Richmond. This is an event that may be repeated several times throughout the coming year(s). This event provides an opportunity to display images from the Richmond Photo Club further promoting the art of photography at a local community level.
Looking 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.
The Calgary Camera club has started off the 2022 season with numerous activities. The event organizer Andrea Belcher created fun events that took members to the Saskatoon Berry Farm to see the interesting location and sample awesome treats. The club created images at the canoe club area at the Glenmore reservoir for sunrise. Club members also practiced night photography in two locations, one downtown Calgary, with light trails from the C-Train in long exposures. The other night outing was southeast of Calgary, where the group practiced light painting and playing with smoke bombs. The Calgary Camera Club had extended an invitation to the CAPA Prairie Zone Director, Dan Sigouin to attend a few of the outings, and he was even convinced to be a model in the smoke bomb session.
Lastly, a small group from the club attended a long lens portrait session in Fish Creek Park. This was a great opportunity to create images in natural light with an engaging model. The club has an energetic event organizer, and Andrea is doing a fine job supporting the club.
The Calgary Camera Club and Foothills Camera Club have scheduled a few outings together and are working to promote more CAPA activities in the zone.
NFRCC Photo Conference – March 10, 11 & 12, 2023
The 3 day conference will offer several Speakers providing presentation on multiple genres of photography.
There will also be workshops and outings available to those registered for the event.
Location: Sheraton on The Falls, 5875 Falls Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario
CAPA will also be holding a CAPA Judges Course at the conference on Friday, March 10, 2023
Website will be available after Nov 30th, 2022 : www.nfrccevents.org
2022 Pacific Zone Competition
Check out the winning images here:
2022 Nature/Wildlife Competition
Check out the winning images here:
2022 Ontario Zone Competition
This competition is now open for the uploading of images and closes on January 15, 2023.
Please review the competition details prior to uploading image into this competition.
2022 Artistic Competition
This competition is also now open for the uploading of images and closes on January 30, 2023.
If you have any questions about the scope of competition, please do not hesitate in emailing Sheldon Boles – Director of Competitions at competitions@capacanada.ca
A competition for individual photographers and clubs in BC and the Yukon
Hosted by the North Shore Photographic Society
Proudly presented by Beau Photo
Saturday March 4, 2023
Keynote: 4:30 pm, Show: 7:00 pm (Pacific Time)
For more details you can contact Denise Karkkainen by email : denise@bravurasolutions.ca or visit the website : www.nsps.ca
* Photographic credit: “Scrambling for Food”, Danny K Chan, Chung Ai Photographic Society, Club Silver 2022
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.
“Camino de Santiago: A Photo Walk in Spain by Peter Steeper takes place on Sunday, Oct 23, 2022 at 7:30 PM ADT. In May 2022, Peter walked 115 kilometers on the Camino de Santiago with his granddaughter.
This presentation features images from their pilgrimage as well as other parts of Europe. Peter will also provide tips for those planning to walk long distances with their camera gear.
To register for Peter Steeper’s presentation, please use the following link:
“The Photographer’s Guide to the Galapagos Islands ” by David DesRochers takes place on Monday November 14, 2022 at 7:30 PM AST.
A member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and an Associate Naturalist with the New Jersey Audubon Society, David has lectured at camera clubs throughout the northeast.
In this presentation he will discuss the unique challenges that present themselves when photographing in the Galapagos.
To register for David’s presentation, please use the following link:
The Toronto Camera Club Lecture Series begins October 20th and continues every Thursday until December 1st.
We have an exiting lineup, so mark your calendars.
Tickets are $10 and on sale now on our website.
All presentations are virtual, and the link will be shared once you register.
For more informations : https://torontocameraclub.com/talking-photography
The Toronto International Salon of Photography is in its 129th year.
The Salon is accepting entries until November 5th in the following categories:
* Pictorial Color
* Pictorial Mono
* Nature
* Photojournalism
* Still Life
* Pets and Domesticated Animals
You can see here for more informations : https://salon.torontocameraclub.com/
In September, the New Westminster Photography Club started its 2022/23 Program Season. It is a year of change with 70% of the leads for the Executive changing.
Our season opening meeting included an overview of planned activities and an introduction of the new Executive. The meeting also included Members Sharing of photography highlights from the summer.
The Club participated in the popular Fraser River Riverfest activities. Our club had a tent on the New Westminster Quay. Our tent included an exhibition as well as an assortment of photographs matted and under a sleeve. A success as photographs were shown to the public and some artists sold their photographs.
The club had created a new lead role for Exhibitions and our lead Anna Camporese took on the exhibition and sale as her first community event. Well done, Anna! There was a high level of interest from the community. We were exhibiting our work and in turn this initiated the public to show their photography on their cell phones. We are happy with all discussions of photography. As result of our involvement in the festival, our local newspaper ran an article on the Club.
The club also has increased its presence on social media channels. Two roles now lead our communications through Facebook (New Westminster Photography Club) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/new_west_photo_club/).
Our photography outings are popular and have included Vancouver’s False Creek Olympic Village and Granville Island. Not only is the outing fun for those who attend, the experience is expanded with members posting photographs to the Club’s Outings Gallery as well as our Social Media channels.
We have a full schedule of meetings that include those in a ZOOM format where we have out-of-area speakers and in-person meetings.
We would like to thank our outgoing president, Neil leNobel for his leadership. During his tenure Neil provided sincere photographic encouragement, direction, and knowledge. His wisdom was delivered with humour, humility and honesty. His chairmanship of the Competitions Committee for many years and his continued assistance with this committee was exemplary. We are extremely grateful for his governance and are honored that he will be staying on in an advisory role as his time permits.
We are very pleased to introduce our new President, Julian Rozental. Julian brings with him a wealth of photographic & management experience. His leadership capability is already evidenced by the number of events RPC is currently moving forward on. Examples of these are noted below.
In September, volunteer members of the Richmond Photo Club contributed pictorial content to the London Farm Family Day, providing a large number of expert family portraits in a suitably set-dressed old barn and smithy. They also documented a number of various vendors, a rabbit farm, a Lego club, and a host of activities. There were rabbit-petting, spoon and egg races, horse-back riding for children, and a hot jazz band, for the amusement and edification of adults and children alike. Finally, our members gifted the photographic results to the City of Richmond for archival and promotional use.
A subsequent similar event entitled Richmond Culture Days, part of the Canada-wide Culture Days, was also served by volunteer members of the club. Here, free family photos were taken and will be e-mailed to thirty-three participants. Again, an illustration of how the Richmond Photo Club is an active and appreciated participant in local community events.
Some very exciting news is that The Richmond Museum is currently hosting an exhibit entitled “The Arts Live Here”. The event runs 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.
We are honored to have had the Richmond Museum reach out to us to request permission from a number of our club members to use their images in this event. The Museum discovered these images by perusing our club’s website, proving how valuable online exposure is to the club. Those members who images were choses 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
The exhibition hours are:
9am-9pm weekdays
10am-5pm weekends
Closed on statutory holidays
We have also included the artist’s images to this article.
During the month of October, a group of Richmond Club photo prints are on exhibit at the South Arm Community Centre in Richmond, BC. The emphasis is on scenes and events native and peculiar to the City of Richmond. This is an event that may be repeated several times throughout the coming year(s). This event provides an opportunity to display images from the Richmond Photo Club further promoting the art of photography at a local community level.
Looking 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.
The Winter issue of Canadian Camera Magazine will feature articles on creating memorable images and interpreting images 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 Winter issue is Oct. 10, Jan. 10 for the 2023 Spring issue and April 10 for the Summer edition.
In April 2022, the CAPA Board approved the first increase in membership fees since 2013. The fees have been the same for almost ten years.
During that time, more benefits were added to CAPA membership, including the new Speaker Series, the monthly newsletter, enhanced and more accessible website, and social media pages for members to engage in the photographic community. CAPA continues to offer a wide variety of competitions exclusively for CAPA members and clubs, at no charge.
At the same time, costs have increased in all areas, but especially for printing and distributing the much-loved Canadian Camera Magazine. Even with all that is offered to members today, CAPA still remains entirely volunteer-run with no outside funding. Your volunteers work very hard to bring you the best membership experience CAPA can offer.
You are getting this notice now so that there is some time before the increase takes effect. Members who renew before January 1, 2023, even members who renew early, will have an additional full year of membership at the old rate. This is a one-time opportunity to get your membership renewed early at the old rate before the clock strikes midnight on December 31st.
Here are the new rates as of January 1, 2023:
The Sunshine Coast Camera Club in BC is excited to announce their new president, Evan Brynne for 2022-23. Although his interest in cinematography and lighting go back to his childhood running around the backstage of various theatres, he only translated that into a mild obsession with the practice of photography about eight years ago, when he was gifted an a6000 for Christmas. Initially most of his projects were motivated by requests to support friends in the performing arts before branching out to other collaborations, which has helped him develop a deep rooted passion for portraiture and for the collaborative process of working with other photographers and models.
For the past three years the Sunshine Coast Camera Club has provided Evan (and many others) with exceptional opportunities for developing and challenging his photography skills, a forum to showcase and critique his work, and a community where he found friends and collaborators. In taking on stewardship of the group, Evan hopes to continue to provide the same for the members, as well as the many folks on the coast who the club will be connecting with over the course of the year.
Cheers,
Evan
The CAPA competition schedule has been published to all clubs and individual members. Please take some time to review the schedule for the season and plan some outings to ensure you are creating new competition content. Also, please check the rules sections to ensure you are aware of the possible changes to the image editing criteria, especially the nature competition.
Have a great 2022-2023 season and I look forward to seeing images from across the association.
Thanks
