Theme: Urban Life
2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
March’s theme is urban life.

Image Share and Hands-On: creative paper, black glass, and light box photography.
2023-03-06 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Influential Photographer: Man Ray
“My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.” – Man Ray
Image Share and Feedback:

Bring or submit up to 2 digital images or prints to tonight’s image share and/or feedback session. Be prepared to tell us a little bit about your image. If you would like feedback on your image, please let us know.
For digital images, please use the image standards that we use for digital competitions as these work best with our projector.
You can bring your images on a USB stick. Come early to load the images on the club’s computer for presentation. Alternatively, email all images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Saturday March 4th but no later than dinner time on Sunday March 5th. If you would like feedback on your images, please include that information in your email.
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.
Hands-On: creative paper, black glass, and light box photography.

Outing: Tundra Swans in Aylmer Ontario
2023-03-08
On Wednesday March 8th OR Wednesday March 15th we will be heading to Aylmer, Ontario to see the Tundra Swans. Donations accepted to provide feed for the birds.
Thousands of tundra swans use the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area to refuel on their migration to the high Arctic Region between Alaska and Baffin Island. Each year it’s expected that 10-60 thousand birds will stopover in Aylmer during March.
Details will be available closer to the outing date.

Guest Speaker: Trina Koster
2023-03-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Focus on Lighting for Portraits
Hundreds of clients from artists to entrepreneurs have trusted Trina to make the photo that will represent them to the world. As a professional portrait and headshot photographer, Trina will share some of her lighting and posing techniques to bring out the best features and convey the right look and attitude in your portrait subjects. During our evening together Trina will do a live lighting presentation and invite you to bring some of your portrait work to share and receive constructive feedback on.
You can see her work at the following websites: trinakoster.com and tkpheadshots.com
Guests are welcome for this talk, please complete the Guest Registration Form . We will be in contact. The guest fee is $10.

Fergus and Highland Glen Interclub Competition 2023 – Images due
2023-03-21
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 Inter-Club Competition 2023: Image selection
2023-03-28
Please help us select the 30 images that will represent our club in the Fergus and Highland Glen Inter-Club Competition 2023. Select the 30 images out of the 39 submitted images that you think will represent the club the best. When using the software, please save your selections every so often. Note that you can go back and review your choices and change your mind up until the submission date.
The club showcases images from all participants so every photographer will have at least two of their submitted images selected. Members who have not submitted images are invited to participate in the selection process.
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Theme: Tasty Morsels
2023-04-01 - 2023-04-29
April’s theme is tasty morsels.

Member Night: Image Share
2023-04-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Image Share
Rather than just presenting a couple of images per member, we would like to dig a little deeper. We still want you to bring in some images BUT
– if you are currently working on a project, can you tell us a little bit about your project and show some sample work
– if you prefer a particular photographic style, e.g. nature, street photography, birds, etc, can you tell us why this grabs your interest and show some sample work
– if you have been focusing on improving your photographic skills, can you tell and show us what you are working on
– if you are focusing on improving your editing skills, can you show us some examples, e.g. before and after, and tell us what your are using
– if you are a beginning member and the above seems overwhelming (we’ve all been there), share some images and tell us how you would like to improve
– or just show us some images and tell us a little about them
Bring your images on a USB stick or email them to submissions. If you are doing print work, feel free to bring your prints.
We are not limiting to a specific number of images but we would like members to limit their talk to roughly 5 minutes.

Highland Glen and Fergus Inter-Club Competition 2023
2023-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
The Highland Glen and Fergus Inter-Club Competition is a friendly competition with the Fergus & District Camera Club. This year we are hosting.
Posted time is tentative.

Outing: St. Jacobs
2023-04-23 09:00 - 11:30 | Stone Crock, 1396 King St N, St. Jacobs, Ontario, N0B 2N0, Canada
Our April outing will be to St. Jacobs on Sunday, April 23rd. @ 9:00am.

We will meet up in front of the Stone Crock Restaurant.

Theme: Reflection
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-31
May’s theme is reflection.

Guest Speaker: Peter Baumgarten
2023-05-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Shoot for the Stars –Techniques to Improve your Astro-landscape Photography
Photographing at night has challenges and opportunities that just don’t exist for the regular landscape photographer. Join Peter Baumgarten for this how-to seminar that will help you create impressive night sky images. Starting with a look at the basics of shooting at night, you will also discover low level lighting techniques, live composite star trails, the value of time lapse sequences, photo stacking to reduce noise, and the creation of surreal time-blend images.
Peter is a professional photographer and educator living on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario and he will be joining us via Zoom. He regularly leads photography courses and workshops for novice and enthusiast photographers and travels across North America as an Olympus Visionary providing lectures and seminars on landscape, wildlife, and astrophotography. His work has been published in a number of magazines in both Canada and the U.S. and has been recognized for excellence on a number of photography websites. Peter is an avid outdoor enthusiast with a passion for wilderness camping, canoeing and kayaking.
Website: www.creativeislandphoto.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/creativeislandphoto/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/creativeislandphoto
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Made from 9 light frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.8.0. Algorithm: Min Horizon Noise
Made from 7 light frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.8.0. Algorithm: Min Horizon Noise
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

AGM and How to prepare photos for printing
2023-05-15 19:30 - 21:30
How to: Preparing photos for printing
Abdula from BJ Photos will talk to us about printing photos.
Influential Photographer: Nathalie Daoust
“Since my very first experiments in photography I have been fascinated by human behaviour and its various realities, by the ever-present human desire of living in a dream world. The aesthetic of my new project continues this visual exploration at the border between dream and reality, yet this time it embraces escapism of a country and the act of loosing oneself within it.” – Nathalie Daoust
Annual General Meeting
This meeting is to conduct the business of the K-W Highland Glen Camera Club. Includes (but not exclusive to) election of officers and directors, and approval of the annual financial report. This meeting is open to the membership of the K-W Highland Glen Camera Club. Agenda to be circulated closer to meeting.

Outing: Rockwood Conservation Area
2023-05-27 08:00 - 10:30 | Rockwood Conservation Area, 161 Fall St S, Township Of Guelph/Eramosa, Ontario, N0B 2K0, Canada
Our May outing will be Saturday, May 27th at 8am in the Rockwood Conservation Area located at 161 Falls Street, Rockwood, Ontario N0B 2K0.
This outing is a little further away so some people may wish to car-pool. We will meet-up at 8:00am at a location where we can leave our vehicles, before heading out. The location will be announced closer to the event.
This location has so much to offer the photographer
Day use admission fees
Admission type Fee
Preschool (3 and under) Free
Child (4-13) $3.10
Adult (14-64) $7.08
Seniors (65+)/ People with disabilities $5.75

Year End Banquet
2023-06-05 18:30 - 20:00 | To be determined
Bring a guest and come celebrate another year of successful photography.
Dinner at WildCraft.

Theme: Nature / Wildlife
2023-09-01 - 2023-09-30
September’s Theme is Nature/Wildlife as a prelude to CAPA’s Nature/Wildlife Competition .

For competition purposes, your image must fit into one of the following themes:

Botanical – wild plants photographed in their natural environment
Insects, Reptiles & Amphibians – such as: alligators, ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, crickets, crocodiles, dragonflies, frogs, gecko, hornets, iguana, lizard, mantis, mosquitoes, snakes, turtles, wasps, etc…
Landscape – subjects such as weather phenomena, geological formations, landscapes, seascapes and natural phenomena, planets, stars and astronomical events.
Nature – subjects such as living animals, birds and marine subjects – under the control and feeding of humans if not obvious – such as zoos, game farms, animal preserves, aquarium, etc…
Wildlife – only living and untamed wildlife mammals, birds and marine subjects.

NOTE: This competition has restricted subject and editing conditions. Typically, hand-of-man is not allowed or restricted. Read the detailed rules on the CAPA site!

Welcome Back and Image Share
2023-09-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Welcome back to a new year of photography challenges! Yes, we are meeting in person!
Before the meeting:

Existing and new members should fill in the online membership form to allow us to update member data. We need your current contact information to set up the online program delivery.
If you are a potential new member interested in trying out a meeting and not yet ready to commit, fill in the Guest Registration Form. We will be in contact.
Members may participate in person or via Zoom; your choice. All members will be emailed the Zoom link for the meeting to simplify the web administrator’s job.

Welcome back:

Welcome and introduction of new members.
Review of what is in store for this season.
Review of Mighty Networks.

Open Topic Discussion:

O3C Open Challenge

Image Share:
Bring or submit up to 4 digital images or prints to share in tonight’s share session. Be prepared to tell us about your image.
For digital images, please use the image standards that we use for digital competitions as these work best with our projector.
You can bring your images on a USB stick. Come early to load it on the club’s computer for presentation. Alternatively, email all images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Saturday September 16th but no later than dinner time on Sunday September 17th.
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.

Outing: Monarch Woods
2023-09-23 09:00 - 12:00 | Monarch Woods, Kitchener, Ontario, CFP7+WW, Canada
Monarch Woods is a Kitchener Park with a 1.6-km loop trail. The fall colours and stream are quite photogenic.
Meetup point to be determined. Date subject to weather conditions.

Recommended Activity: Interactive Kayak Light Installation
2023-09-23 18:00 - 22:30 | Waterloo Park, 100 Father David Bauer Dr, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y4, Canada
Stephen Orlando of www.motionexposure.com, did a light painting workshop for Highland Glen a few years ago. He is creating a light art installation for Waterloo’s Lumen Festival on Saturday September 23rd from 6-11pm and would like to invite Highland Glen to take photos. There will be 20 kayaks (10 kayaks at one time) on Silver Lake in Waterloo Park with LED light paddles where the LED colours will be controlled wirelessly from onshore by the public. He won’t be personally taking photos at the event, but he thought it would be a great opportunity for Highland Glen to get some very unique long exposure shots.

Theme: Black & White
2023-10-01 - 2023-10-31
October’s theme is Black & White as a prelude to CAPA’s Black and White Competition .
For competition purposes, your image must fit into one of the following themes:

Architecture – a human-made structure (mobile, free-standing, or outdoor). Image can be taken from inside or outside the structure. Includes urban and rural settings.
Dilapidated – abandoned aircraft, boats, buildings, ships, structures, trains and vehicles.
Landscape – weather phenomena, geological formations, landscapes, seascapes and natural phenomena such as planets, stars and astronomical events.
Person(s) – traditional or casual portraits, and could incorporate the workspace and/or environment.

Guest Speaker: Philip Maher - Emergency Traveler: Photography for a broken world
2023-10-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Through his own images, Mr. Maher will share his experiences and photography advice, having worked in some of the harshest environments. Above all, he wants his images to help those forced to struggle on the margins of society. Surprisingly he notes that his strongest gift is not as a photographer but as a person with a passion for making a difference.
Philip Maher has worked as a photojournalist and communications/media specialist for a variety of aid organizations in more than 85 countries. He has documented virtually kind of crisis: humanitarian suffering in refugee camps, and people suffering because of tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones, Chernobyl meltdown, civil strife and famine in North Korea. He lives in Guelph and writes a monthly column for GuelphToday.com under Mercy Traveler .
Guests are welcome for this talk, please complete the Guest Registration Form . We will be in contact. The guest fee is $10.
Waiting for Food – Philip Maher
Sudan – Philip Maher

CAPA Nature Competition 2023: Images Due
2023-10-10
This year we will be participating in five CAPA (Canadian Association of Photographic Art) Competitions as a club. For the first competition this fall, the Board has selected the Nature 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 Nature Competition.
See CAPA Competitions under the Competitions menu tab for a brief description of the image themes, image standards, and file naming conventions.
Submit images using this online form. You must have an account on this website to access the form.
SUBMIT HERE

CAPA Judging and Image Share
2023-10-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
What CAPA Judges Look For in Your Photography
Jane van Pelt will be discussing what competition judges look for when evaluating images.
Image Share:
Bring or submit up to 4 digital images or prints to share in tonight’s share session. Be prepared to tell us about your image.
For digital images, please use the image standards that we use for digital competitions as these work best with our projector.
You can bring your images on a USB stick. Come early to load it on the club’s computer for presentation. Alternatively, email all images to submissions@highlandglen.ca preferably by dinner time on Saturday September 14th but no later than dinner time on Sunday September 15th.
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.

Outing: Canadian Raptor Conservancy
2023-10-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Canadian Raptor Conservancy, 2848 Front Rd, Vittoria, Ontario, N0E 1Y0, Canada
The Canadian Raptor Conservancy offers a two hour photography session with 10 different birds of prey. 6 flying birds and 4 static birds. Birds change according to season. There is a minimum and maximum group size.
There will be a cost of $53.00 for this event. You will be required to sign up and pay in advance.

Theme: A Sense of Mystery
2023-11-01 - 2023-11-30
November’s theme is A Sense of Mystery.

CAPA Black & White Competition Fall 2023: Images due
2023-11-02 | ONLINE
This year we will be participating in five CAPA (Canadian Association of Photographic Art) Competitions as a club. For the second competition this fall, the Board has selected the Black & White 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 Black & White Competition.
See CAPA Competitions under the Competitions menu tab for a brief description of the image themes, image standards, and file naming conventions.
Submit images online at SUBMIT HERE.

Guest Speaker: JP Stones - Storytelling for Photographers
2023-11-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Coldwell Banker – Peter Benninger Realty, 508 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2K 3S2, Canada
Great storytelling can help your audience connect emotionally with your images. But understanding how to weave a narrative into your photography can be confusing. How can one photo tell a whole story, with a beginning, middle, and end?
JP Stones has spent the last 5 years photographing the same group of Mexica, or Aztec, dancers. In that time he learned how connected the Mexica are to their mythology. To stories passed down across generations. That’s when he decided that, as these stories were so vital to Mexica culture, they needed to play a bigger role in his portraits.
This is a talk is about what happened next. About how a desire to tell stories visually, ended up changing his entire creative process, and the way people react to his photos. Using examples from his cultural photography work in Mexico, JP Stones explores different ways to improve that emotional connection. Including how myths and character archetypes can be harnessed for better storytelling.
Guests are welcome for this talk, please complete the Guest Registration Form . We will be in contact. The guest fee is $10.

JP Stones on site. He will be joining us live on Zoom from Mexico.

Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB) 2023 – Images due
2023-11-07
The Grand River Imaging and Photographic Society (GRIPS) is hosting this year’s Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB). This year the GVIB will be digital and, tentatively, in person.

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. You must have created a login for the website.
SUBMIT HERE

Grand Valley Image Battle 2023 - Image Selection
2023-11-10
Please help us select the 20 images that will represent our club in the Grand Valley Image Battle 2023 competition.
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CAPA Black & White 2023 - Image Selection
2023-11-13
There was a tie for the 6th image that will represent our club in the CAPA Black & White 2023 competition. Please select one of the two following images.
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