Speakers Series – March 2025 – Dave Conlon

CAPA presents via YouTube Live : Dave Conlon

English presentation : March 19, 2025

Pacific 4:00 PM – Mountain 5:00 PM – Central 6:00 PM – Eastern 7:00 PM – Atlantic 8:00 PM (Canada)

Theme/topic of the presentation: Anyox, BC – Travelling to Canada’s Largest Ghost Town

Summary:

Anyox, British Columbia is a true ghost town with a rich, hidden history. Once a bustling mining hub in the early 1900s, Anyox was abandoned in 1935 after a devastating fire and the Great Depression which drove down the demand for copper. Today, Anyox is a relic of the past, with crumbling buildings and rusted machinery frozen in time. In May of 2024, Dave of Freaktography.com travelled across the country and visited Anyox with full, unlimited access to capture and photograph what is left of this forgotten piece of Canadian history.

Available to Individual CAPA members via the members only section of the website.

Please login, go to Members > Zoom & YouTube Live Invitation > Speakers Series, copy and save the YouTube link before the presentation.

Speaker's Bio


Freaktography is the pseudonym of Dave Conlon, a Canadian photographer who specializes in urban exploration, capturing the beauty of abandoned places and buildings.

He is known for his unique perspective and skill in capturing the essence of these forgotten structures through his lens.

Freaktography’s work is characterized by his ability to find beauty in decay. He is particularly drawn to abandoned buildings, factories, and other forgotten places, where he finds inspiration in the remnants of the past.

His images capture the decay and disrepair of these buildings, while also conveying a sense of the history and stories that these structures hold.

Enjoy a selection of his works below.

Speakers Series – Feb. 2025 – Ron Pitts

CAPA presents via Zoom : Ron Pitts

English presentation : February 19, 2025

Pacific 4:00 PM – Mountain 5:00 PM – Central 6:00 PM – Eastern 7:00 PM – Atlantic 8:00 PM (Canada)

Theme/topic of the presentation: My Fine Feathered and Furry Friends and More …

Summary:

An artist’s perspective on wildlife photography. Heavy on the creative. Light on the technical. The ongoing challenge of making the familiar, unique. Getting the most from an image while staying true to story. Enjoying the eurekas of simple discoveries. Favourite techniques; slow exposures, “panoranimals,” composites, motion blur, tripoding, titling, dumpster diving, soft focus (sharp overrated), and noise (bad name, nice effect), among others. Plus, brief segments on promotional graphics, some funnies, and framing tips, including the secret to the bestest, fastest, cheapest, and safest way to wrap and protect your frames.

Available to Individual CAPA members via the members only section of the website.

Please login, go to Members > Zoom & YouTube Live Invitation > Speakers Series, copy and save the Zoom link before the presentation.

Speaker's Bio

Ron Pitts’ professional background is in graphic design and computer animation.

He started as a motion graphics director in the 1980s at Bajus Jones Film in Minnesota.  In 1990, Ron and several colleagues founded Windlight Studios to produce long-format series animation. They sold the company in 1998 to Nelvana Studios, Toronto, and moved to Canada to help develop Nelvana’s CGI department.

Nelvana produces animated series for children’s television and was acquired by Corus Entertainment in 2000.  Ron worked on shows like Miss Spider, Care Bears, and Handy Manny, among others, and was one of the directors on the two-time Emmy Award winning Rolie Polie Olie series.

His wildlife photography began in 2004 after moving to a home in the country with an acre pond out back that attracted an inordinate number of animals and birds. He saw there was art to be had, bought a used (and still uses today) 600mm, and began shooting.  Ron ran a small gallery, soloed in venues, and participated in exhibitions around Ontario winning numerous awards, – quite often “People’s Choice Awards.”

In 2010, Corus asked Ron to set up three in-house galleries for the artists at their new headquarters on the Toronto waterfront, where he curated quarterly employee exhibitions – overseeing more than 200 feet of display.

Ron travelled Canada and the US for wildlife opportunities.  He came east for the fall sandpiper migration in the Bay of Fundy, loved the Maritimes, and when he retired from Nelvana in 2018, made Nova Scotia his new home.

He became a member of ViewPoint Gallery in 2021, exhibits monthly, and for the last two years has been doing its promotional graphics.

Enjoy a selection of his works below.

Speakers Series – Jan. 2025 – Stephen Orlando

CAPA presents via YouTube Live : Stephen Orlando

English presentation : January 15, 2025

Pacific 4:00 PM – Mountain 5:00 PM – Central 6:00 PM – Eastern 7:00 PM – Atlantic 8:00 PM (Canada)

Theme/topic of the presentation: Motion Exposure – Telling the Story of Movement Using Light Painting Photography

Summary: Stephen Orlando will present his ongoing light painting photography project called Motion Exposure. In addition to showing the photos he’s taken over the years, he’ll discuss the history of light painting, his photographic process and how you can take similar photos.

Available to Individual CAPA members via the members only section of the website. Please login, go to Members > Zoom & YouTube Live Invitation > Speakers Series, copy and save the YouTube link before the presentation.

Speaker's Bio

Stephen Orlando is a photographer and aerodynamicist based in Kitchener, Ontario. During his engineering studies at the University of Waterloo, he received a Master of Applied Science in aerodynamics.

He is a self-taught photographer and specializes in capturing movement with long exposure photography and LED lights. This has been an ongoing project since 2014 called Motion Exposure. Stephen’s photos showing paths of objects like canoe paddles and violin bows are inspired in part by the streamlines of fluid flow he sees in his day-to-day work. An avid canoeist and kayaker, many of his photo shoots take place in remote locations in the Canadian wilderness.

Stephen is also inspired by photography pioneers Harold Edgerton and Gjon Mili as well as artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

His work has been exhibited in the United States, Korea, Italy, Taiwan, and at home in Canada.

Enjoy a selection of his works below.