This is a reminder that the Ottawa Orchid Society annual show is coming up on April 27th and 28th. They allow the use of tripods Sunday morning from 9:00-11:00.
This is a great opportunity to shoot some amazing flowers.
For more details, check out their website.
The featured speaker at our meeting on April 5th will be Danielle Barabé-Bussières
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Danielle Barabé-Bussières learns photography every day by watching tutorials, researching photography projects and gets some of her inspiration from great photographers. Danielle likes to explore nature, flowers, wildlife and is very passionate about macro photography.
In the recent years, her images have earned several awards in Provincial and National competitions with the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC). Recently, Danielle has participated in the National Image competition and is a “finalist” for the prestigious title of Photographic artist of the year with the PPOC. She is very devoted to photography and she worked hard to achieve a professional level. She is also very involved with artists’ associations and takes every opportunity offered to her to display her art in the Ottawa area and surroundings.
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To learn more about Danielle and to see more of her beautiful images, visit her website. To see the slides she showed describing her equipment, settings, software, tips, and contact information, click here.
Last fall some members of our Executive were provided an early tour of the Beaverbrook Library’s new Digitization Lab and were most impressed . The Kanata Library has the first such capability in the city of Ottawa.
The facility is now open for business and the library will be scheduling a special group tour for camera club members in the near future.
You may sign up for one of their monthly tours, by registering here.
In the meantime, you are welcome to start using the equipment in the lab by booking on their website.
Until March 17, the West Carleton Arts Society has taken over the Kanata Civic Art Gallery for their Spring Fling group exhibition and sale. The gallery is just down the hall from where we hold our camera club meetings and the show is well worth seeing.
When you check out the show, be sure not to miss the three beautiful photographs by Danielle Barabé-Bussières who will be the featured speaker at our April meeting.
Gordon Robertson is presenting on the Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club – Area Trails and Wildlife. Gordon is a retired professor from the University of Ottawa and now primarily does nature photography and wildlife tours. He chairs the Education and Publicity Committee of the Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club and volunteers at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden (FWG). Gordon is also treasurer of the Ottawa Duck Club, which allows one access to the Shirley’s Bay Crown Game Preserve – an excellent and relatively undisturbed wildlife area. He frequently gives tours of the FWG and several other areas such as Petrie Island and Mer Bleue; so he is familiar with the many “wild” areas around Ottawa.
Gordon’s interests in wildlife vary considerably from butterflies and birds to wildflowers and ferns. He is also quite handy with analog and digital photography and digital photo editing. Many of his photos are used in textbooks and in Wikipedia (>1200) where he is a “Master Editor”.
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You can review Gordon’s excellent presentation here.
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on Friday, March 1st at 9:15 a.m.
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, February 22nd to be included in the slideshow. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
The next assignment is Negative Space and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the April 5th meeting.
Don’t forget the Winter 2019 Photo Challenge which has deadlines of March 15th and 29th to submit pictures.
See you at the meeting.
Your Camera Club Executive
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on Friday, February 1st at 9:15 a.m.
Our meeting will include:
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, January 25th to be included in the slideshow. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
The next assignment is Monochrome and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the March 1st meeting.
Don’t forget the Winter 2019 Photo Challenge which has deadlines of February 1st and 15th to submit pictures.
See you at the meeting.
Your Camera Club Executive
The Kanata Seniors’ Centre Camera Club is run completely by volunteers and needs your help.
We are looking for a couple more members to sit on the executive committee, as well as, members that can assist with other club activities. Many different types of skills and abilities are required, however, for some activities (e.g. backup the webmaster) computer skills are required. It is not necessary that you be an expert in photography and training can be provided.
Without volunteers the Kanata Seniors’ Centre Camera Club would not exist. Please consider volunteering and, depending on the activity, the time commitment can be less than a few hours a month.
If you are interested, or want additional information, please send an email to contact@ksccc.ca, or speak to one of the executive members at the next camera club meeting on February 1st.
Thank you
The Kanata Seniors’ Centre Camera Club Executive
Robert Allan, a new club member sent along this link about photographing the upcoming total lunar eclipse on Sunday evening January 20th. He also provided a link to this page which shows the local start, maximum and end times.
To plan your photography, remember that The Photographers Ephemeris – available for web, Android, and iOS – will show you moonrise and set azimuths for your location.
If you get any images of the eclipse that you want to share with the club, email them to us here and we’ll put them on the website.
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Ko Fung sent a link to this Global news item on the eclipse which includes a time lapse video of a lunar eclipse and explains why this is a super blood wolf moon.
The feature speaker at our meeting on January 4th will be Denis Rule who will speak on composition.
Denis’ Biography
For more than 40 years Denis Rule has had a passion for photography. He started his professional career as an underwater technical photographer in 1980 and now operates a successful commercial studio in the nation capital. Specializing in advertising, fashion, dance and portraits.
For the past 10 years Denis, a training partner for Olympus America, has divided his time between photographic assignments and conducting workshops for amateurs and professional photographers alike.
For more on Denis including examples of his photography, take a look at his website.
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The slideshow Dennis presented is here.
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