The Kanata Seniors’ Centre Camera Club (KSCCC) normally meets once a month at the Kanata Seniors’ Centre in Kanata, Ontario. To find out more about the club and how to join click on About Us.
May Monthly Meeting
Little Italy Public Art by Amy Lo
The next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, May 3rd starting at 9:15 a.m.
Your images must be emailed to contact@ksccc.ca by noon on Friday, April 26th to be included in the meeting. Indicate clearly in your email that your images are for the Monthly Challenge and which one you would like to submit for the Photo Review. You may send up to three images for the Monthly Challenge and nominate one image for the Monthly Photo Review.
The agenda for the meeting is:
- Opening Remarks
- Presentation on Composition and the WOW Factor by Manfred Mueller
- Coffee Break (Debbie and Jay-Dee will be available to answers questions)
- Slideshow of Member Images from the March Challenge on “Strange things or “What am I?“
- The next Meeting will be on June 7th. The theme for the Monthly Challenge will be “The 3 A’s: Aged/Antiquated/Abandoned“, photos to be sent by noon Friday May 31st
- Monthly Photo Review
- Member Slide Shows (if time permits)
- Fix My Pic (if time permits)
- Concluding Remarks
If you do not receive an email confirming that your images have been received, send a follow-up email to contact@ksccc.ca. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
See you at the meeting.
Artist Talks at SPAO
Club member Manfred Mueller will give two Artist Talks at the SPAO gallery. These talks are free and open to members of the public. There is plenty of street parking available in the area. Several other photographers will be there talking about their work as well.
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, he will be talking about the nine large prints in his series “Nebulous”. On Saturday, April 27, 2024, he will be talking about his two books entitled “Toolbugz”. One is a hand-made and custom-bound fine art book and the second is a mass-produced children’s book.
This event/outing is not part of the Kanata Seniors Centre Club operations and is not sanctioned by the City of Ottawa. Information is for interested parties.
Recent Graduate
Club member Manfred Mueller has just completed the 2-year, full-time diploma program at the School of Photographic Arts – Ottawa (SPAO). He and the other members of the graduating class will be showing their final year project work at the SPAO Gallery from Friday, April 19, 2024, through to Sunday, May 12, 2024. The gallery is open from noon until 5:00 PM Wednesday through Sunday. SPAO is located at 77 Pamila St (just north of Carling Ave, off Preston St), in Little Italy. Street parking is available.
Manfred will be showing 27 pieces of original photographic art; 9 large
prints will be shown on the studio wall and another 18 in a fine art
book. The attached exhibition poster features one of his works.
Please feel free to visit the SPAO Gallery.
This event/outing is not part of the Kanata Seniors Centre Club operations and is not sanctioned by the City of Ottawa. Information is for interested parties.
The Karsh Brothers, Canadian Legends of Photography
On Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 1:00 pm in the Main Branch Auditorium of the Ottawa Public Library, the Historical Society of Ottawa is hosting a free lecture by Paul Couvrette on the Karsh brothers.
More details here.
This event/outing is not part of the Kanata Seniors Centre Club operations and is not sanctioned by the City of Ottawa. Information is for interested parties.
Update on the 2023-24 Photo Project, Recreating a Famous Artwork
We decided today at the executive meeting that we will show the results from this project at the June meeting. Therefore we are extending the deadline for submission to Friday May 17th. Please send your entries to contact@ksccc.ca. Please include the original artwork as well as your interpretation. Someone today asked how many one person can submit, let’s limit it to three.
You can review the slides from the presentation on recreating a famous artwork by clicking here.
March Repetition Gallery Now Online
The gallery from our March Repetition challenge is now online here.
April Monthly Meeting
Triplets by Jane Phipps
The next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, April 5th starting at 9:15 a.m.
The agenda for the meeting is:
- Opening Remarks
- Presentation on The History of Photography by Irwin Reichstein
- Coffee Break (Debbie and Jay-Dee will be available to answers questions)
- Slideshow of Member Images from the March Challenge on “Repetition“
- The next Meeting will be on May 3rd. The theme for the Monthly Challenge will be “Strange things or “What am I?“
- Monthly Photo Review
- Member Slide Shows (if time permits)
- Fix My Pic (if time permits)
- Concluding Remarks
Your images must be emailed to contact@ksccc.ca by noon on Friday, March 29th to be included in the meeting. Indicate clearly in your email that your images are for the Monthly Challenge and which one you would like to submit for the Photo Review. You may send up to three images for the Monthly Challenge and nominate one image for the Monthly Photo Review.
If you do not receive an email confirming that your images have been received, send a follow-up email to contact@ksccc.ca. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
See you at the meeting.
History of Early Photography
On Friday, April 5th, 2024, Irwin Reichstein will give an overview of nineteenth-century photography including visual examples of photographic processes and photographers.
Irwin Reichstein was a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University before retiring in 2015. While at Carleton, his research interests included microcomputers and numerical applications. Irwin has written several articles on nineteenth-century photography in Montreal. He has given presentations on early photography at various venues.
New Pictures in the Seniors Centre
In early March, we changed the six KSCCC pictures in the
Seniors Centre. Please take a minute to have a look at them,
when you are next at the Centre. Thanks to the following
photographers for some great pictures: Jay-Dee Purdy, Amy Lo,
Jane Phipps, Ted Timmons, Bruce Turner, and Wendy Wood.
As a reminder, the KSCCC is looking for additional pictures to
hang in the Seniors Centre, and we encourage all club members
to contribute. We are now open for business for the June change.
If you have a picture you really like, then chances are people at
the centre would like to see it too. For more information on how to
participate, please check out this post or send your questions to
contact@ksccc.ca to the attention of Jan and Bruce Turner.
Jan & Bruce Turner
SPAO Photowalk
The School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) has created a public art project around its location near Preston Street. They call it the SPAO Photo Walk and describe it in detail here. Each image (like the example shown above) is mounted on the side of a building in a donated space with a QR code that links to a description of the piece and the artist.
The map below shows the location of the works as of March 2024. Click on a star to see the image at that location.
A special “Thank You” to Riek Van Den Berg and Doreen Barnes for their help with this map.
This event/outing is not part of the Kanata Seniors Centre Club operations and is not sanctioned by the City of Ottawa. Information is for interested parties.
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