Guest Speaker: Peter Hill
2021-10-18 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE
Black and White Photography

Direct from Katoomba, Australia, via Zoom, our guest speaker will be Peter Hill, an award winning black and white photographer. Although many of his awards are in landscape and nature, he shoots in a wide range of genres including abstracts, street, architecture, portraits, etc.

Peter’s presentation will focus on aspects of black and white photography that are different from colour photography whilst you are shooting, i.e. getting it right in-camera. He will demonstrate his thoughts on shooting in B&W with examples by various photographers, including Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, and Max Dupain, and, of course, some of his own work.

If time permits he will also give a brief explanation of his processing techniques.

Peter’s Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51321042@N02/

Guests are welcome for this talk, please complete the Guest Registration Form . We will be in contact and will invite you to a virtual meeting. The guest fee is $10.

CAPA Open Competition 2021: Images due
2021-10-20 | Ontario
This year we will be participating in four CAPA (Canadian Association of Photographic Art) Competitions as a club. For the fall, the Board has selected the Open Theme competition. The club will select six images, which must be from different photographers, to represent the club.
Submit one digital image for consideration in the CAPA Open Competition.
See the description of the CAPA Competitions under the Competitions menu tab for the image themes, image standards, and file naming conventions.
Submit images using this online form. You must have an account to access the form.
SUBMIT HERE

McLean's Auto Wreckers
2021-10-23 13:00 - 17:00 | Mclean’s Auto Wreckers, 12584 Fourth Line Nassagaweya,, Rockwood, Ontario, Canada
Weather permitting, we will be out photographing cars. Details will be sent via email.
Event was originally scheduled for Oct 16th.

CAPA Open 2021 - Image Selection
2021-10-29 | Ontario
We have to select 6 images from the 8 images submitted by our members.
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Theme: Curves & Lines
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-30 | Ontario
November’s theme is Curves and Lines as a prelude to the CAPA’s Lines & Curves Competition.
For competition purposes, your image must fit into one of the following sub-themes:

Monochrome/Infrared
Colour – Curves
Colour – Lines

Member Image Share & Critique Night
2021-11-01 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Influential Photographer Spotlight: NASA – Hubble Telescope
“… Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope’s newest images. If it’s wonder that you’re looking for, and mystery, don’t just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A ‘collision’ of galaxies seems unimaginably large – and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined… The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.” – Mark Bowden
Photo Critique:
Members submit up to 2 images for critique. There will be a panel of members and/or guest to review images and provide constructive critique.
Image share:
Show up to 2 Monochrome theme images or photographer’s choice images.
Submission of images:
Our regular image standards apply.

Submit up to two images you would like critiqued.

Submit up to two images you would like to share.

Email all images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Sunday Oct 31st to give the moderators time to organize the images but no later than 9am Monday Nov 1st.
Please indicate which images are for the critique vs the share.

If you are submitting images from a phone, we have directions on how to resize your image for an iOS phone [pdf]. For those using an Android phone, directions would be similar; you could use the 3rd party app Photo & Picture Resizer.

Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB) 2021 - Images due
2021-11-02 | Ontario
The Woodstock Camera Club is hosting this year’s GVIB. Again, as meetings have been held virtually in the recent past, the GVIB will be digital and online (no prints). This format will allow club members to participate safely and look forward to the time when we can all participate together again.

Submit up to three digital images for the Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB).
See the description of the Grand Valley Image Battle under Competitions for the image standards, i.e. how to name your work and the correct size for images.
Images will be submitted online. SUBMIT HERE

Grand Valley Image Battle: Image Selection
2021-11-10 | Ontario
We need to select 18 images from the 30 images submitted for consideration. Every photographer who submitted images will have at least one image selected for the GVIB and some photographers will have two images selected.
** You must be logged in to participate in the selection process. **
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Guest Speaker: Lola Reid Allin
2021-11-15 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Trek to the Snows of Kilimanjaro & Beyond
Enjoy a personally-narrated presentation, Trek to the Snows of Kilimanjaro & Beyond, with pilot, photographer, and adventurer Lola Reid Allin.
After a successful summit of Kilimanjaro in more snow than the tallest freestanding mountain has received in 20 years, Lola & her party travel to the Serengeti by Cessna 208 Caravan—which she gets to fly—and on to the exotic Spice Island of Zanzibar.
Check out her website https://www.lolareidallin.com/

Theme: Family
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31 | Ontario
December’s theme is family.

Getting Rid of Spots, Winter Photography, and Image Share
2021-12-06 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Influential Photographer Spotlight: Vivian Maier
“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to the end and so on.” – Vivian Maier
How to Night:
Bea Binka will be talking about

How to get rid of gunk. Sensor cleaning and spot healing in Lightroom or Photoshop.
Shooting in the winter.

Image share:
Share up to 2 of your Curves & Lines theme images or photographer’s choice images. Submit images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Sunday Dec 5th to give the moderators time to organize the images but by 9am Dec 6th at latest.

Grand Valley Image Battle 2021
2021-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE
The Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB) competition is held once a year as an inter-club competition with other clubs in South-Western Ontario. This year’s GVIB is hosted by Woodstock as an online event.
Thursday, December 16th at 7 pm will be the Zoom call meeting to show judging results.
The meeting will be recorded for later viewing.

'Tis the season to be jolly
2021-12-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Wonders of Winter, Waterloo Park, Canada
We’re heading out tonight to capture the lights in Waterloo Park. The Festival of Lights has been running in the park since 1993.
Meet at the Wonders of Winter Arch located by the parking lot on Seagram’s Drive. This is right by the Laurier-Waterloo Park ION station.
Please socially distance when visiting the park, and when that is not possible, wear a mask.
There has been some interest expressed in potentially going for coffee or hot chocolate afterwards.

CAPA Lines and Curves Competition 2022: Images due
2021-12-22 | Ontario
This year we will be participating in four CAPA (Canadian Association of Photographic Art) Competitions as a club. For the first competition in the winter, the Board has selected the Lines and Curves competition. The club will select six images, which must be from different photographers, to represent the club.
Submit one digital image for consideration in the CAPA Lines and Curves Competition.
See the description of the CAPA Competitions under the Competitions menu tab for the image themes, image standards, and file naming conventions.
Submit images online at SUBMIT HERE.

Theme: Low Angle/High Angle
2022-01-01 - 2022-01-31 | Ontario
January’s theme is Low Angle / High Angle.
A low angle shot is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up. A high angle shot looks down on the subject.

Guest Speaker: Juraj Dolanjski
2022-01-03 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Designing a Photograph
Successful photographs are not accidents. There is a creative process that is used in a design of such a photograph, in camera. The philosophical, emotional and physical processes work together to imagine, create and “take” the great photograph. Learn a few simple techniques and improve your photography.
You can see some more of Juraj’s work on his website http://fotojuraj.com/index.htm and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JurajDolanjskiPhotography/
In 2020 he was invited and became a member of prestigious French Art Society, Mondial Art Academie.
https://www.mondialartacademia.com/index.php/fr/photographie/10-photographie/890-dolanjski-juraj-on-canada

Dan Gillespie AV Show Night - shows due
2022-01-12 | Ontario
A reminder to submit one AV show (in an .mp4 format) that is a maximum of 5 minutes long for our next meeting. Since it takes some time to upload the shows, please do not leave this to the last minute.
To submit an AV show, use one of the following procedures:

If you have your own file sharing system (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc), you can send the download link to submissions@highlandglen.ca and the moderator can collect the file.
If you want to send in a show, send an email to submissions@highlandglen.ca and the moderator will send you a file request through Dropbox. The file request will provide a link for uploading the file.
If you want to run the show on your own computer, you could share your screen. Please email submissions@highlandglen.ca and let them know you will be doing this.
Since slide shows take a bit more work to make, you can share a collection of images that would be shown as a slide show by the moderator. Use procedures 1 or 2 to get the images to the moderator.

NOTE: Unless you will be presenting your show from your own computer (procedure 3), please submit your AV show or images a few days in advance.

Dan Gillespie AV Show Night
2022-01-17 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
An evening in honour of Dan Gillespie.
Dan loved how AV shows brought members together. Help us continue this tradition and remember Dan by submitting an AV show to share.
Submit one AV show (in an .mp4 format) that is a maximum of 5 minutes long.
To submit an AV show, use one of the following procedures:

If you have your own file sharing system (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc), you can send the download link to submissions@highlandglen.ca and the moderator can collect the file.
If you want to send in a show, send an email to submissions@highlandglen.ca and the moderator will send you a file request through Dropbox. The file request will provide a link for uploading the file.
If you want to run the show on your own computer, you could share your screen. Please email submissions@highlandglen.ca and let them know you will be doing this.
Since slide shows take a bit more work to make, you can share a collection of images that would be shown as a slide show by the moderator. Use procedures 1 or 2 to get the images to the moderator.

NOTE: Unless you will be presenting your show from your own computer (procedure 3), please submit your AV show or images a few days in advance.

Fergus and Highland Glen Interclub Competition 2022 - Images due
2022-01-19 | Ontario
In 2019, we started a friendly inter-club competition with the Fergus & District Camera Club as an annual spring event with Highland Glen and Fergus camera clubs alternating hosting duties for the competition. Each club enters 30 digital images. This is an open category competition, so any subject, processing technique, etc. is accepted.
The competition is intended to be a showcase of the achievements of the club as a whole and not just a few members. HGCC members can submit up to three images for consideration. The club decides on the images to be submitted and strives to have at least one image from every submitter.

Details of the competition and image standard are posted here.

Submit images online at SUBMIT HERE.

Fergus and Highland Glen Inter-club Competition 2022 - image selection
2022-01-27 | Ontario
Please help us select the 30 images that will represent our club in the Highland Glen & Fergus Inter-club Competition 2022.
You need to be logged into the club website to participate.
Select your favourites HERE.

Fergus and Highland Glen Inter-club Competition - Image selection (tie breaker)
2022-01-31 | Ontario
During the first phase of the selection process, there were 5 images with the same score and we need to select 3 of them. Please select your favourite three images.
* You must be logged in to make selections. *
Select images HERE.

Theme: Canada My Country
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28 | Ontario
February’s theme is Canada: My Country as a prelude to CAPA’s Canada: My Country Competition.
For competition purposes, the sub-themes are the provinces and territories of Canada.

Member Image Share & Critique Night
2022-02-07 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Influential Photographer Spotlight: Annie Leibovitz
“I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don’t know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I’m really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you…” – Annie Leibovitz
Photo Critique:
Members submit up to 2 images for critique. There will be a panel of members and/or guest to review images and provide constructive critique.
Image share:
Show up to 4 images from your Family theme images, Low Angle/High Angle theme images or photographer’s choice images.
Submission of images:
Our regular image standards apply.

Submit up to 2 images you would like critiqued.

Submit up to 4 images you would like to share.

Email all images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Sunday Feb 6th but no later than 9am Monday Feb 7th.
Please indicate which images are for the critique vs the share.

If you are submitting images from a phone, we have directions on how to resize your image for an iOS phone [pdf]. For those using an Android phone, directions would be similar; you could use the 3rd party app Photo & Picture Resizer.

CAPA Monochrome Competition 2022: Images due
2022-02-16 | Ontario
This year we will be participating in four CAPA (Canadian Association of Photographic Art) Competitions as a club. For the second competition in the winter, the Board has selected the Monochrome competition. The club will select six images, which must be from different photographers, to represent the club.
Submit one digital image for consideration in the CAPA Monochrome Competition.
See the description of the CAPA Competitions under the Competitions menu tab for the image themes, image standards, and file naming conventions.
Submit images online at SUBMIT HERE.

Family Day (no meeting)
2022-02-21 | Ontario

CAPA Monochrome 2022 - Image Selection
2022-02-22 | Ontario
Please help us select the 6 images that will represent our club in the CAPA Monochrome Competition 2022.

You need to be logged into the club website to participate.
Select the images you think would best represent our club HERE.

Theme: Window(s)
2022-03-01 - 2022-03-31 | Ontario
March’s theme is Window(s).

Guest Speakers: Trent Weber and Ricky Martin
2022-03-07 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
Waterloo Then and Now
In this presentation, we plan to tell the story of how we recreated fine historic photos from Uptown Waterloo. We’ll cover why we decided to take on this project and talk about our process in completing it. We’ll discuss a few other topics such as where inspiration can come from and what we learned from this experience.
You can see other work from Trent and Ricky, respectively, at:
www.trentweber.ca
www.rickydmartin.com/projects/uptown-waterloo-then-and-now/

Fergus and Highland Glen Inter-club Competition
2022-03-14 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE
In 2019, we started a friendly inter-club competition with the Fergus & District Camera Club. This is an annual spring event with Highland Glen and Fergus camera clubs alternating hosting duties for the competition. Fergus is hosting this year and it will be an online event.
The Zoom meeting will be “open” as of about 7pm for members to join, and for open/general discussion.
The presentation of results will get started at 7:30pm.

What is an NFT and why should photographers care? and Image Share
2022-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 | ONLINE
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Influential Photographer Spotlight: Faye Schulman
“Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.” – Faye Schulman
How to Night:
What is an NFT and why should photographers care? presented by Andrew Stewart.
Image share:
Share up to 2 of your Canada: My Country theme images or photographer’s choice images. Submit images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Sunday March 20th to give the moderators time to organize the images but by 9am March 21st at latest.
