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Frank Knor was written a really interesting piece on what he calls “Fluke Photography”. It’s full of trips for getting travel photographs one might otherwise miss. Here’s his introduction:

Fluke can mean many things, however in this context and in accordance with the Webster dictionary
it should be taken to mean “something produced by a stroke of luck, an unexpected benefit or advantage
resulting from an uncertain course of events.” When applied to photography then a great fluke photograph is
one taken quickly in difficult situation which turns out to be a success. For a travel photographer when it
comes to fluke photography one can do a number of things to improve the odds of you having that stroke of
luck on occasion. Many of history’s great photographs are really flukes, not carefully planned photos.

Click here to see Frank’s whole article including his example photographs.

Thanks to Frank for contributing this article.

 

 

Fraser found this web site full of fun animal hybrids. Some folks have such great Photoshop skills!

At today’s steering committee meeting, the following three events were tentatively planned:

• a hands-on workshop designed to make the members more familiar with their camera functions tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 13 January, from 1-4 pm.
• a workshop to help members create slide shows using various software platforms (e.g. Pro Show Gold, Pictures to EXE, etc). tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 14 April, from 1-4 pm.
• if members would be willing to prepare and share short slide shows (3 to 4 minutes) to show at the May meeting. This will be after many members will have taken winter holidays and may be willing to share their experiences and after the club’s slide show preparation seminar.

Please let us know what you think of these ideas.

Here’s an article that Fraser Campbell found with some great tips for photographing the holidays. Each tip includes several  links to other related tips. It’s from the always useful Digital Photography School site and should be really helpful with the December assignment: Traditions.

Here’s a beautiful video that Fraser Campbell found. After Jim Cumming’s brilliant presentation of his wildlife photos, this will provide more incentive for you to get out and shoot some nature images.

While you were changing all your clocks (the ones that don’t automatically update themselves) did you remember to change the clock in your camera?

Two new galleries have been uploaded to the Galleries page:

• Pinhey’s Point Shootout
• October Reflections

Great work everybody!

The November issue of the ShutterBUG is now available.

Fraser Campbell pointed out this great one page summary of what can be legally photographed in Ontario. For more details see the following:

• Me and My Property
• What Can I Photograph?
• What Can I Sell?
• What Can I Publish?

All of these articles are from the Ambient Light web site.

I wonder if this cartoon meets Marg’s high standards for humour?