On Friday, April 5th, 2024, Irwin Reichstein will give an overview of nineteenth-century photography including visual examples of photographic processes and photographers.
Credit: Photo by Bob Lansdale
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.
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.
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.
At the Club meeting on Friday, March 1st, we asked members for their input on topics for the next calendar year. We got a couple of good suggestions from the floor and mentioned that we would also accept suggestions via email to contact@ksccc.ca.
Please make your submissions by March 15th so we can prepare them for The Executive to make the final choices for the next year.
To download the list for the last three years click here or to see the details of all challenges since 2017, click here.
The next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, March 1st starting at 9:15 a.m.
The agenda for the meeting is:
Opening Remarks
Update on Library and Senior Center Photo Display
Presentation on Street Photography in Portugal by Ted Timmons
Coffee Break (Debbie and Jay-Dee will be available to answers questions)
Slideshow of Member Images from the February Challenge on “People in Landscapes”
The next Meeting will be on April 5th. The theme for the Monthly Challenge will be “Repetition“
Monthly Photo Review
Monthly Challenge Proposals by Club Members
Information on Exec Discussion/Decisions of the 15 Member Suggested Items during the October Meeting to help make club more “Member driven”
Member Slide Shows (if time permits)
Concluding Remarks
Your images must be emailed to contact@ksccc.ca by noon on Friday, February 23rd 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.
When: Thursday, March 7th 1 pm – 2:30 pm Where: Kanata Seniors’ Centre, 2500 Campeau Drive, Kanata Cost: FREE!
Did you know that there is a wonderful, vibrant art gallery right next door to us in the John Mlacak Centre? There are approximately 40 juried members showing their work at the gallery. Many types of media are represented from original paintings and photography to sculpture.
Artists will speak to us and representative pieces of their work will be on display around the event room. You are welcome to interact with the artists after the talk.
Reservations can be made on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30-1 pm at the Travel Table in the Front Lobby of the Kanata Seniors’ Center or the Front Desk any other time.
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.
Kanata Seniors' Centre Camera Club 