Each year NFRCC (Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Club) and the OCCC (Ontario Council of Camera Clubs) has a friendly competition. There will be 230 images in total in this competition 115 from NFRCC Clubs and 115 from OCCC Clubs. This is a great opportunity to see high quality images in competition, watch the live judging and get a feel for how images are judged.

Date: Nov 21, 2020 – 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. You can for this event for $10.00. Please visit  nfrcc.org/nfrcc-vs-occc-2020 for information and registration

NFRCC Speaker Series – 12 speakers of a 12 month period Sep 14, 2020 thru Aug 2021

Although 3 speakers have presented already if you sign up for the Speaker Series now you will receive access to the recording of those 3 speakers presentations, so that you do not miss out on any of the content. $45.00 CDN including HST. You can also choose to sign up for individual speakers at $10.00 CDN including HST

Please visit nfrcc.org/nfrcc-speaker-series for information and registration

Back in early March, our Board of Directors had growing concerns about this Covid-19 that was beginning to affect Toronto. Our club has a large senior membership and we decided to err on the side of caution for their sakes. We voted to shut down our weekly meetings for a 3 week period and assess the situation at the end of March. By the end of March everything was shut down everywhere. Our Board jumped onto Zoom and started planning out the remaining 6 weeks of the our season in a virtual platform. Our last two competitions were switched from live judging to online judging, our end of season AGM & Townhall meeting were done live on zoom as was our grand finale year end awards.

In order to provide some form of diversion for our many senior members who were self isolating, we began the Lockdown Challenge. A weekly photo challenge using a different subject each week that could easily be found in their own homes and gardens. Our subjects have ranged from, coffee cup, toys, lamp, light, water, blade, book, etc. We are currently still going strong with week 15 Reflections. We also meet every 2 weeks online in the Lockdown Challenge Cafe to discuss the past two weeks entries and connect with each other.

Throughout the summer, our Board which normally would be on hiatus has been meetings regularly to organize our next season. We reached the decision early to run the first half of our program totally virtual online. We have found presenters from across Canada who would work with us virtually. All our competition judging was shifted from live to online. Our program director and president have spoken to other clubs in Ontario and found that many will not be holding a season at all because of the challenges of hosting during this Covid-19 threat. So we decided to offer all our presentations on Eventbrite so that those people could still enjoy attending a photography talk.

Here is a link to our program calendar for this year and competitions calendar as well.

http://linux.etobicokecameraclub.org/wordpress/calendar-2/

We are hoping that by January 1st we will be able to safely meet in large numbers again at our location. Our plan is to continue to provide weekly meetings live or recorded, as well as our presentations to those who might still be too afraid or at high risk of contracting Covid 19.

It’s been a huge learning curve for our Board and committee members. But I have been so thoroughly proud of how hard all of them have worked to make this upcoming season a go.

Be safe,

Barb Marszalek, Etobicoke Camera Club VP & Program Team Member

The 39th William M Glennie International Club Nature Competition was held by the Merrimack Valley Camera Club in North Andover, Massachusetts, USA earlier in 2020. The competition attracted 46 Camera Clubs from the USA and 22 from clubs from Canada, South Africa, Australia and the UK. The Club competition winners are based on the aggregate score of 10 images submitted by each club with no more than 2 images by any one photographer.

It was a good competition for CAPA Clubs with two Ontario Clubs in the top six. The London Camera Club came in first with an aggregate score of 256, with The Toronto Digital Photography Club (TDPC) coming in 5th equal with a score of 250.  The other clubs in the top six were two from Australia, one from the USA and one from the UK.

Missy Mandel from TDPC was Best of Show with an image entitled “Silver Fox Vixen Feeding” that scored a perfect 30.  The London Camera Club had 1 Judges Award, 2 First in Category Awards and 1 Merit Award. Other members of TDPC had 3 Merit Awards. Two other CAPA Clubs gained Merit Awards (Richmond Hill CC, Ontario and Victoria Camera Club, BC).

Silver Fox Vixen Feeding by Missy Madel

Ontario Zone Dominates Canada’s Entries in 2020 Four Nations Competition

The selection of Canada’s images for submission in the 2020 Four Nations Competition has been completed – and congratulations to the Ontario Zone; images from individuals in this zone dominated.  The competition required 80 different photographs from 80 different photographers, and Canada’s submission consists of;  15 Nature, 15 Monochrome, 35 Open, 15 My Country.

Images from Ontario Zone members constituted 46% of Canada’s entries, with five members from the Jiahua Elite Photography Association, five from the Toronto Camera Club, four from the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto, four from the London Camera Club, three from the Richmond Hill Camera Club, two from the Grand River Imaging and Photographic Society, two from the Trillium Photographic Club, and one each from the St. Catherine’s club, the Hamilton Camera Club and the Toronto Digital Photography Club. As well there were three images from individuals in the zone who did not identify any club affiliation.

Congratulations to all those who entered, and particularly to those selected. The Four Nations international competition closes on June 24, 2020 and we should receive the results in late July or August.