Your New IT Department

It’s been fun and a great learning experience being your IT department since October 2015, but as we’ve told you in recent meetings, I’m retiring in June. Thank you to all the club members, and presenters for your support and understanding.

Several club members have stepped up and agreed to take over the tasks I’ve been handling.

Club email

All of the club email should be addressed to contact@ksccc.ca. This includes image and video submissions and general inquiries. For the past couple of months, Paul Grant:

has been doing an excellent job of this.

Meeting Production

Setting up and tearing down the AV equipment for our monthly meetings and getting member slideshows and speaker presentations onto the screen will be handled by Gord Heath:

and Ed Luinstra:

Website

In addition to creating all the monthly slideshows of member-submitted images, Debbie Pinard has been a big help with monthly posts to our club website.

Starting soon, Manfred Mueller:

has agreed to take on maintaining our website and Flickr storage.

Thank you to the above club members for volunteering.

Bill Robertson

Debbie Pinard to Present in May

Debbie Pinard, one of our Camera Club Members, will give a presentation on Florence, Tuscany & Venice on Friday May 2, 2025.

Debbie has been taking photographs for over 40 years, first starting out with film, and then switching to digital with a Canon Powershot and then a Canon Rebel.  She currently uses a Canon R7 mirrorless, and a Canon t2i converted to infrared.  

In November 2024, Debbie went on a photography trip to Italy.  She spent an afternoon and a morning in Florence, then met up with her private tour guide Leonardo Papera, a professional landscape photographer (https://tuscanyphotographytours.com/).  From Florence they drove to Pienza which was their home base for the next 5 days.  They were blessed to have fog every single morning (which helped make up for the 5am wakeups!). From there they drove to Venice where they spent 3 days. This was the first trip that she brought a tripod, and made good use of it.

This will be a jam-packed presentation of photos from all 3 places and includes 6 videos.  It will be available online after the presentation (including the videos).

 You can see some of her images at https://deborahpinard.com/ or on her Facebook page.

May Monthly Meeting

Release by Judy Courteau

The next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, May 2nd starting at 9:15 a.m.

Your images must be emailed to contact@ksccc.ca by noon on Friday, April 25th 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.

NOTE: 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.

The agenda for the meeting is:

  • Opening Remarks
  • Review of Triptych Challenge, the submission deadline is Friday May 30th before noon. Submit up to 3 photographs to be presented at the June meeting
  • Brief presentation on captioned photos for June challenge
  • Presentation “Florence, Tuscany & Venice” by Debbie Pinard
  • Coffee Break (Debbie and Jay-Dee will be available to answers questions)
  • Slideshow of Member Images from the April Challenge on “Gardens – All Seasons”
  • The next Meeting will be on June 6th. The theme for the Monthly Challenge will be “Captioned Photos”, photos to be sent by noon Friday May 30th
  • Monthly Photo Review
  • Fix My Pic submissions
  • If time permits, member slideshows
  • Concluding Remarks

See you at the meeting.

Happy World Backup Day!

March 31st is World Backup Day!

Computer storage fails. Devices are stolen. Natural and man-made disasters occur. Malware encrypts data.

We all need backup routines in place to protect our valuable image files — routines that follow the 3-2-1 backup rule:

  • 3 copies of everything
  • 2 different media
  • 1 copy stored off-site

In case you need help with improving your backup routine, talk to the folks at our help table at the back of the room during the next mid-meeting break.

If you need more detailed help, book a session with the Kanata Seniors Council tech tutors who can help with Windows, Apple, & Android backup solutions.