April 2009 Update

Here is your monthly list of things happening at the Langley Camera Club. April is a month with a fifth Wednesday so this is a bonus month.

1. Calendar

Wednesday, April 8 – Evaluation Night

Our theme this month is Street Photography. You have until Monday night, April 6 to submit your image. Please remember to indicate if you are level 1 or 2. Also, please let us know if you do not want or need the judges to comment. You do this as follows:

To indicate your experience with photography:

$theme$My Dog$Jane Doe$1$                      Add a 1 or 2 at the end, followed by a $.

To indicate if you don’t want the judge’s comment:

$Theme$My Dog$ Jane Doe$N$                   Simply add N at the end, followed by a $.

Remember, if you are bringing in prints for judging, they must arrive by 7:15 pm on Wednesday night to be accepted.

Wednesday, April 15 – Special Presentation

Breaking the Mould by Horst Siegler

A description of the evening by Horst follows:

“I have expanded and edited the presentation from the one I did at APAC.  It now includes digitally projected images to illustrate the points I'm trying to make.

The presentation will consist of two halves.  In the first half I will make a case that camera clubs on the whole produce photographs that are fairly homogeneous and do not value or reward originality.   I will outline why this situation exists and how the nature of clubs and CAPA, and how the things they do, tend to contribute to this.

The second half of the presentation will suggest more than a dozen things you can do in your imagination, in your camera and in post production to overcome this.  Most of these are practical suggestions, i.e., you can go from the meeting and incorporate them directly into your photography.  Most of my suggestions will be accompanied by example images.”

Wednesday, April 22 – Members Showcase

Part of the evening will be a seminar by Steve Poschner on how to calibrate your computer monitor so there is consistency in color between your computer and what you see from the club’s projector as well as from printers.

Wednesday, March 29 – Program Night

Our guest this month is Graham Osborne, a professional landscape photographer who lives in White Rock. Graham visited us last year to discuss one of his recent books, Vancouver Wild and is back to share images from his latest book about Hawaii. After the break, he will talk to us about how photographers can get their images published. Graham has a long list of magazines and books where his work has been published as well as a long list of awards. He has been described as one of British Columbia’s and Canada’s best photographers by CBC and BCTV. This is an evening not to miss!

2. Your Images Needed

We have several events coming up soon and your images are needed for these. Please respond – we depend on our members to enter their best photos for these.

a. Pacific Zone Print Challenge. Color or b/w prints accepted, theme is open. Prints may be any size but mounted on 16 x 20 black or white matte. Prints must be in no later than Wednesday, April 8. Questions? Email Joy at ljgerow@shaw.ca.

b. Crescent Beach B&W Print Challenge is May 7. The theme is open. Prints must be mounted on 16 x 20 white matte. Members are invited to attend. Please wear black and white. We need your prints for this by April 22. Questions? Email Joy at ljgerow@shaw.ca.

c. Our very own Fraser Valley Invitational is coming soon, Saturday, May 9.

• Digital images on the theme of Beautiful British Columbia, must be submitted to comps@langleycameraclub.com by Friday, April 17, 2009. Each member may submit up to five images, in the usual format, for the selection committee to choose from.  Questions? Contact Jim at jim@jdhorn.com .
  
  
• There will be a print display at the FVI. Attendees will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite image. This is really an opportunity to exhibit our best work. We want yours! Please bring your prints to Lionel at the club no later than Wednesday, April 29. Any size and mounting is acceptable.

Thank You!       

The Langley Camera Club hosted a CAPA national print competition that closed in March. The judging took place on Saturday, April 4. There was a tremendous amount of work involved in collecting all the images that arrived from coast to coast, preparing to view 123 images, recording the scores of the three external judges, repackaging all the print boxes, sending them back and summarizing and reporting all the results. Huge thanks goes to Joy Gerow, our interim print coordinator for her tireless efforts to make this happen. Thanks also to Steve Poschner and Colin Scotter, who worked with us all Friday night and all day Saturday to prepare and execute a very successful judging event. The results of the competition will be made public soon.

Welcome

We’ve had three new members join our club within the last month. Please welcome

Sandi Stephens, June Young and Doug Delipper. And congratulations to Doug, who is our 100^th member of the year! I’m not a historian but I’m pretty sure this is a new milestone for the club – the first time we have had 100 members. Glad to have you join us!

Coming Soon

Mark you calendar for Saturday, June 13. This will be our annual photo hunt followed by a barbecue. This is a fun day to hang out with other club members and then enjoy a relaxed dinner together. Thanks to our planning team of Bill Kellett and Andy Kroontje. The BBQ will be at the home of Joy Gerow.

Inspiration

Two things to inspire you this month. First, the Fawn Lilies are up (just barely)! The flowers are showing through and my guess is that Easter weekend will be the beginning of prime time to photograph them. For those of you who don’t know, fawn lilies are very rare and beautiful little flowers that grow in High Knoll Park on the Surrey/Langley border. To find them, drive along 50th Ave between 200 St and 192 St. Park in the High Knoll parking lot. Cross the road and take the steps up the hill. You are there. Don’t step on them!
	Secondly, Chris Harris is a well-known landscape photographer who visited our club last year. He sends out a newsletter that you can subscribe to for free by going to chrisharris.com.  This month, he describes how he took this photo, which is notable for the sky that is darker than the land.

Photographically yours,

Dennis