Author: ksccc

Lunar Eclipse

Club member Ted Timmons shot the recent “blood moon” lunar eclipse and shared his experience and images.

Eclipsed “Blood” Moon

 It was a bit of an adventure to sort out how to go about getting the shots. The weather cooperated enough to let me make a few images of the moon. The image of just the moon is straight out of the camera with minimal post-processing.

Equipment:

  • For the moon: Sigma 50-500 with a 1.4 teleconverter
  • For the foreground in the composite images: Sigma 50-500
  • Tripod with a gimbal head
  • Cable release
  • Mosquito repellent!

This one is a composite image. Not possible with the location, my gear, and especially my skill level to get the epic image of a very large moon with the background. Had to mask, copy, resize the moon to composite in the other image.

Composite

Taken in the area just across the street from where I live – Carp River

This image shows the phases of the moon entering eclipse:

Phases Entering Eclipse

Great images! Thanks for sharing Ted.

Catherine Easton is a STAR!

Cathine Easton, who puts together our slideshows every month, is a STAR!

She recently emailed me to say:

I sent my Cardinal photo to CBC TV weather guy Ian Black because he has a “fun weather photo” file where he shows a couple of seasonal photos sent to him by viewers each night on his CBC TV Weather segment each night at 6pm & 10 pm.

RIVALS by Catherine Easton

Well, I got an email from Ian Black today & he said he was showing the photo this evening.  It was on the 6pm news & will be shown again on the 10 pm-11 pm TV News. 

I think I’m allowed to grin. 

Way to go Catherine!

Photography Books Now Available at Second Editions

Photography books from the library of John Taylor, Ottawa historian, and photographer will be featured from Wednesday, April 6 to  Saturday, April 16th.
After that additional photography books will be added to the display from Second Edition’s reserved storage of books.

JOHN H. TAYLOR
1939 – 2020
Professor Emeritus Carleton University 

The photography books displayed for sale were donated in memory of John Taylor. John was a skilled photographer, and he treasured the many photography books that were part of his extensive Library.

His book Ottawa: An Illustrated History was named the best local and regional history for 1988 by the Ontario Historical Society.

The book is available to borrow from the Ottawa Public Library.

The Second Editions Bookshop, operated by The Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association, is located beside the library at 101 Centrepointe Drive, Nepean ON K2G 0B5. It is open:

Wednesday: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Thursday: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Friday: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Volunteer Photographers

Manordale Woodvale Community Association (MWCA)  is planning a 60th Anniversary Celebration and is looking for volunteers.

On Saturday, May 28th, they will be holding a family event at Manordale Park (68 Knoxdale Road), from 2-11 pm, starting with a Shriner’s parade through the community followed by a family BBQ, with games and activities for kids, accompanied by live entertainment and a licensed bar.  

They are looking for volunteer photographers to capture the event. 

If you’re interested in helping out, please contact:

Charlene Hickman
613.297.7284
cshosein@hotmail.com

Symmetry/Balanced/Unbalanced Slideshow Now Online

Because we’re still meeting online in April, we are sharing the slideshow of images from our March Symmetry/Balanced/Unbalanced challenge online.

In order to view the slideshow full screen, please click on the Play icon (above) then on the word YouTube or click on this link.

Thanks to all members for sharing their images and to Catherine Easton for creating this slideshow.