Sunday’s meeting
was another well attended event that featured participation by 29 of
our members in submitting images, attending outings or making
presentations. We decided to skip our usual Quick Topic item as we
had such a stellar line-up of expert presenters.
The evening started
with a slideshow of three recent club outings- first our visit to the
Picton Yacht Club on a lovely August evening, followed
by a nostalgic Cruise Night session at the Belleville
A&W and culminating in the majestic Tall Ship Festival
in Brockville. As usual, the tone was upbeat with a little humour
sprinkled throughout.
Our first presenter
of the night was Malcolm Park whose talk entitled – Landscapes
to Nightscapes – provided valuable information on how
astro-photography images are taken and processed. However, his two
slideshows – the first a sequence of superb timelapses of
everything from clouds and ice on ponds, all the way to nighttime
cityscapes and the second show from his recent trip to San Pedro de
Atacama, Chile – had the audience in wonder at the sheer beauty of
his imagery.
The second half of
the meeting started with an
introduction from Ian Dickinson of his long time passion for nature,
especially the avian sort. His slideshow, Things
with Wings,
depicted a large number of different species of birds with a few
insects thrown in for good measure, in their natural setting. Each
slide was well labelled to
identify the species. Fortunately there was no test at the end to see
how many we could recognize!
Next on the agenda
was a mini workshop on Printing, put on by a very energetic
Mike Gaudaur. It was mini only in terms of time as Mike covered the
whole gamut of key considerations around printing including Colour
Management, Cropping, Resolution and Paper. Everyone there now knows
how to properly calibrate their monitors and how and why to use
appropriate colour profiles for the specific printer/paper/ink
combinations.
The final slideshow
of the evening was our September theme challenge – HorsePower.
Twenty-one members submitted images ranging from over-powered car
engines to white horses on the beach. All of the member slideshows
from the October meeting have been posted to our public Facebook
page for your viewing pleasure.
The themes for the
next 60 days were handed down – Transitions
for October and Abstract for November. The club outing
for October will be held on Saturday Oct 15th (note changed date due to projected rain-out) at the O’Hara
Mills Conservation Area. It is a gorgeous location in the forest with an
old mill, water wheel, dam, waterfalls, covered bridge, lots pioneer
buildings and artifacts and many trails through the woods. Hopefully
there will still be some colour left on the trees.
Thanks to all who
showed up at the meeting and participate in our
various club activities.
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