We had another great
turnout on a warm summer night in the bustling little village of Wellington!
We decided to devote the majority of our first half to a visual Safari in Africa. Mike Gaudaur, who has spent 15 years working, teaching and living in Central Africa (Kenya), gave us both an educational and artistic portrayal of the haunting countryside and its many impressive wildlife inhabitants. Mike’s ability to get up close & personal with his subjects, along with shooting from a low height, resulted in magnificent portraits of African wildlife – lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes, monkeys, cheetahs, ... Mike also employs some unique processing techniques to produce highly creative and effective portraits of his subjects.
Prior to Mike's extended Safari discussion, we aired a slideshow of the Tall Ship event held in Bath earlier in July. Sixteen members submitted images of those majestic sea vessels, including some that employed antique processing, to allow us to re-kindle that historic era.
The meeting's second half opened up with a slideshow from Larry Tayler documenting a recent trip to Australia. Larry has a unique eye to capture the sights and very fabric of the Australian community at large. His slideshow was upbeat, with a few twists and humorous elements for us all to enjoy.
The next agenda
item
was a presentation by Dave Tugwood's recap of our Light
Up The Night
workshop. held on the Belleville waterfront, last month. Dave discussed
many of the learnings from the night – especially the need to know
how to operate and how to manually focus your camera. Both of these
activities are much more difficult under
the darkness of night! He showed images of the many light painting
activities
we employed that
night, as well as our attempts at capturing the
evening’s
elusive sunset. Dave
followed up with a short slideshow of images submitted from 15 workshop participants. For
those of you who want to try light painting, see Dave’s
presentation which has been posted to the club’s Youtube
site.
Our theme challenge
slideshow My Canada
featured
submissions from 24
of our members.
An impressive array of images from shore to shore, celebrated
all that is great about our homeland – especially on its
150th anniversary. These images have been uploaded to our
public Facebook page for your viewing pleasure (as have the Tall Ship
outing images).Our upcoming theme challenge for August is Summer Fun, while September’s theme is entitled Play Fair at the Market. In addition, our club outing this month will occur Saturday, August 19th to Jones Falls on the Rideau Canal system.
