Category: Inspiration

24/25 Annual Photography Challenge: Triptych

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1519) *Source: Wikipedia


Definition:
A triptych is an artwork made up of a series of three images. The three individual triptych images must be interrelated and can explore a particular subject, a specific style, a theme, or even one image that is “split” to create three separate images. In addition, a triptych can show a sequential progression, often suggesting a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

Purpose:
Ultimately, an effective triptych emphasizes the Gestalt concept of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Background:
Triptychs were very popular artworks in the 15th century and usually depicted religious themes. They often had a larger central image with two smaller hinged images on each side of the large image. The two smaller images could be folded over the larger image and therefore protected all three images. More recently, triptychs are created photographic images.

The KSCCC Annual Challenge 2024-2025:

Shoot a photographic series that works as a triptych, whether 3 separate images or one image “split” into three individual images.
The triptych can be submitted as three separate images or as one image showing an amalgamation of the three images (i.e. a type of collage).
During the 2024-2025 season, there will be several short tutorials during Friday meetings on various ways to collate the three images to present them as one unified triptych image.

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025
Presentation: June 6, 2025

PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIPTYCH SAMPLES:

Simon Gerniza (Source: Digital Photography School: Diptychs and Triptychs)
Toolbuz series by Manfred Meuller: Ant / Cricket / Praying Mantis
Car Show by Ross Laing

HELPFUL LINKS:

Websites

YouTube videos

Ross Laing

Northern Adventure Voyages September 6th

Dave and Lynn Haggarty

Dave Haggarty (Hon F CAPA) is no stranger to Canada’s camera clubs. He was a member of Ottawa’s RA Photo Club for 25 years (twice as chairman) and a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA) since 1998, serving on their Board for 7 years, two as chairman. Dave has attended some 15 CAPA national conferences and organized three here in Ottawa. He volunteered as a photographer for the Ottawa Folk and Jazz Festivals for 15 years.

Since moving to Kanata in 2015, Dave’s camera club focus has been on the KSCCC, and most of his photos have been captured during international and domestic travels, often on smaller cruise ships. In 2009 he and his wife Lynn took their second journey in the Canadian Eastern Arctic, aboard a 100-passenger ice-strengthened vessel. Dave will present three AV shows of their back-to-back adventure voyages in the Northwest Passage and High Arctic on September 6.

You can see maps of the two voyages here.

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.

SPAO Photowalk

RUMMAGE by Steven Severn

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.

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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.

March Presentation: Street Art in Portugal

Ted Timmons will give a presentation on Street Art in Portugal on Friday, March 1st, 2024.

 Santa Maria, Old Town Lagos, Algarve, Portugal

About the Presentation:

A southwest European nation sharing its eastern border with Spain and its western coastline with the Atlantic Ocean, Portugal may be well known for Port wine, cork and Cristiano Ronaldo. But there is a hidden gem of the fleeting, irreverent and unexpected street art surprises on the streets, on billboards, on façades and large walls in many cities and towns. These are true open-air galleries, where artists from around the world try to give life and colour to hidden-away places, with various techniques and messages by giving each place its own story. The presentation will explore some of the unique art available for all to see at no cost and provide some background into its origin and story.

About Ted:

Ted has been an active photographer for many years with a particular interest in the underwater world. His travel gear bag usually had a fisheye and macro lens. Unfortunately, for the past eighteen months or so his diving activities have been restricted. Travels took a different route and offered more time for local exploration on land. He developed an appreciation and interest in the street art that has left an indelible mark on urban landscapes worldwide. Not just the work itself but the mystery and intrigue of who did it, why put it there, and is there any hidden meaning. Street art takes the normal and makes it at leas a thousand time more interesting. It is easy to find examples and work by street artists on platforms like Instagram, but much for fun and interesting to do the exploring to find the actual works.