Minutes from AGM – May 14, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

DATE:  May 14, 2013                                   MTG START TIME: 7:00 pm

 

NOTES:

Tonight shows:

Slideshows -  March and April field trips

32 members were in attendance.

 

Minutes for last years Annual General Meeting can be found on the club’s website.

 

PRESENTER / WORKSHOP EVENING TOPIC:

Sara Hartley / Photographs at the level of Honours and above

 

Background:

 

There will be 8 categories for competitions in the coming year.  Competition and number of entries are: 1) Nature – 3 Digital and 1 print; 2) Floral – 3 Digital and 1 print; 3) Portrait – 1 Digital and 1 print; 4) Urban – 1 Digital and 1 print; 5) Travel – 1 Digital and 1 print;   6) Human interest/photojournalism – 1 Digital and 1 print; 7) Humour – 2 digital;             8) Creative – 2 digital.

 

Reports submitted:

 

President’s Report – after giving a small token to the head of each of the committees (rose for the ladies and card for the gentlemen) Derek thanked the contributers for their hard work and and determination. He also noted the 30% growth in the size of the club and commetned that the challenge is to keep a varied and interesting program that keeps the club inviting and warm.  There is a need for the club to advance and in the support of that thought the competition and judging formats will be modified. His parting thought was “The best photo is the next photo.”  I am sure I speak for the entire club in saying that it has been a distinct pleasure to have him as our president.

 

Peter Stuempel move to accept the report seconded by Debbie Black. (passed)

 

Treasurer’s Report – presented by Marg Campbell.  Teresa Alexander-Arab moved to accept the report seconded by Reg Archibald. (passed)

 

Score-keeper’s report – presented by James Campbell.  Trevor Awalt moved to accept the report seconded by Susan MacDermidt. (passed)

 

Elections –        Call for Nominations was completed and the successful participants are:

 

Executive 2013-2014

President   Sara Harley

Vice President Teresa Alexander-Arab

Past President  Derek Johnston

Program Director  Nancy Johnston

Treasurer  Marg Campbell

Secretary  Doris Eagles

 

Committees& Volunteers

 

Program Committee – Nancy Johnston

Doris Eagles

John Croft

John Burnett

 

Field Trip Committee – Julia Naas

Teresa Alexander Arab

John Croft

 

Scorekeeping – James Campbell

Reg Archibald

Joan McCullough

Mary Ann Massey

Doris Eagles

 

Projectionist – John Burnett

Trevor Awalt (back up)

Teresa Alexander-Arab (back up)

 

Webmaster – Trevor Awalt

 

Publicity – Elizabeth Klaas and Elizabeth Nash

 

Refreshments – Karen Parnell Herrick

Rose Himmelman (back up)

Paulette Hudson (back up)

 

Host – Brenda Fitzgerald

 

Yearbook – Sara Harley

                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

New Business:

 

Motions -

Proposal to obtain a new club laptop computer moved by Sara Hartley and seconded by Teresa Alexander-Arab. (Passed)  Discussion occurred on the potential cost of the laptop.

Proposal to spend up to $800 plus tax moved by Bill Jones and seconded by James Campbell. (passed with one nay).

Proposal to obtain a replacement projector moved by Sara Hartley and seconded by James Campbell.  This is motion is required so that if we have a problem with the old projector a new one can be purchased ASAP.  (Passed)

 

By-laws -

Proposal to eliminate reference to “Preparing slides for Competition “ moved by Sara Hartley and seconded by Elizabeth Nash.  This will help modernize the by-laws as slides are no longer used.  (passed).

 

The need to have a committee fully review the By-laws was discussed.  Moved by Elizabeth Nash and seconded by Susam MacDermidt.

 

Other -

The caretaker Carl was presented with a gift for all the extra work he does for the club.

 

There will be a Member’s Choice field trip to the Aylesford Zoo at 10:00 am. Those wishing to travel together can meet at the Bridgewater Tim Horton’s at 8:30.

 

Derek presented the incoming President Sara Hartley with a homemade wooden gavel.

 

 

 

Refreshments by Karen and Debbie complements of the Club.

Meeting ended at 9:40.      Next meeting on May 28, 2013 will be the Closing Dinner.

 

 

 

 

Minutes – April 23, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
MINUTES OF MEETINGS

DATE:  April 23, 2013                MTG START TIME: 7:00 pm

NOTES:
Tonight shows:
Presenters choice photo sharing and competition for year book cover. Members to do the judging after the presentation.
Next field trip is 10:00 am April 27, 2013 at Peggy’s Cove.
29 members were in attendance.

PRESENTER / WORKSHOP EVENING TOPIC:
Nancy Ross / The Secret Life of Squirrels

Background:  Nancy has been into photography for 7 years. She started taking pictures of squirrels raiding her bird feeder and later used peanuts to attract them. Nancy expanded to staging sets with her own handmade props and enjoys watching how the squirrels react to them. She had to put a wider board on her deck rail so she could set the props up better. She displayed some of her props and explained how she set them up and attracts the squirrels. Some of the same squirrels keep coming back to see what will be next.

Although she took many of her pictures from her garden door, due to her love of wild life she always has a camera with her.  She wants to be ready whenever a subject come in sight. Nancy’s slide show was just wonderful with lots of squirrels, a black cat and two raccoons.

Always looking for ideas of what to do with her squirrel pictures she puts her pictures on Flickr.com because of the feed back she receives.  She also uses “Vista” to have squirrel calendars made.

This Friday night and all day Saturday the Bedford Photo Club have a show set up at the Sackville Library. Anyone interested could go and enjoy the show after the field trip.

Refreshments by Darlene Corkum and Trevor Awalt.
Meeting ended at 9:20.      Next meeting on May 14, 2013 will be the Annual General Meeting and all members are asked to be in attendance..

Notice of Annual General Meeting

On May 14th, 2013 the Bridgewater Photographic Society will be holding their Annual General Meeting. It is requested that all members attend.

Derek Johnston, President

Minutes – April 9, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

DATE:  April 9, 2013                                    MTG START TIME: 7:05 pm

NOTES:

Tonight shows: New Member’s 6 Digital prints. Photo sharing – Chester Field Trip.

Next field trip is April 27, 2013 at Peggy’s Cove.

29 members were in attendance with 1 guest. 2 guest speakers

President Derek Johnson was welcomed back from vacation.

PRESENTER / WORKSHOP EVENING TOPIC:

Tuma Young/Nick Honing;  presentation  “Bird Photography Nick and Tuma”.

Background:  Nick arrived in Canada from Holland at the age of 20. His got his first camera in Halifax 1959 working with Russell Hefter.  Joined the Landscapes Guild in 1978 and then joined Longora College in 1997.  One of his first photo shoots there was Eagles at Squamish, B.C.

Tuma – is a native Micmac in 1980 got a Yashica camera.  Switched to Minolta’s Maximum 7000 & 7×1.  Met Nick as part of the Longora Vancouver school board. Pictures of Bird feeders, Pine Siskens, Towel Flicker Hummingbird in Arizona.

They went on to show us some of their pictures: lovely wood ducks; wonderful Eagle pictures (flying, walking and landing); Cedar waxen (bird on a stick);  Hummingbird sitting on a twig;  RIng neck duck; and gulls. Best light is early morning or early night and remember you can get great pictures at the feeder in your back yard. Remember birds are everywhere.

Both Nick and Tuma were so interesting explaining the workings of the inside of the camera;  and discussing sharpness, full point focusing and how to take pictures when the birds are moving. They discussed the importance of angles, lines, triangles, head angles, eyes and trying different things. They recommend always shooting in RAW and do not over process if you want to keep it natural.  Make sure to delete all pictures that are not sharp and clear.

Equipment that they use for taking pictures of birds.  Professional DSLR (Canon Mark IDIV’s);  L-series lens; Gitzo Carbon Fibre Tripods;  Wimberly Heads;  and battery pods extenders. Suggest using cracked corn or black sunflower seeds to attract the birds.

Nick showed a sight and sound essay on birds.  Suggested we pick up some books on birds. Start with “Birds of Atlantic Canada” or “A Guide to Hawks in North America”.

Refreshments by Elizabeth Nash.

Meeting ended at 9:45.      Next meeting will be April 23, 2013.

Minutes – March 26, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

 

DATE:  March 26, 2013

MTG START TIME: 7.10 pm

 

NOTES:

Competition for tonight “Sight and Sound Essay”.

24 members were in attendance with 1 guest.

Due to the busy schedule the Show and Tell pictures from the Chester field trip will be shown at a later date.

With president Derek Johnson away the meeting was chaired by Sara Harley.

 

PRESENTER / WORKSHOP EVENING TOPIC:

Special guest Peter Barss;  presentation  “A Portrait of Lunenburg County”.

 

Background:  Peter grew up in Massachusetts, USA but had relatives in Nova Scotia.  In the early 1950’s his parents purchased half of Covey Island along with a house, barn, wharf and other buildings for $700.00.  As a young man he fished with the local fishermen. Peter’s newest book “A Portrait of Lunenburg County:Images and Stories From a Vanished Way of Life” (available for $20.00) started out as a Book of Photos with very short stories. He interviewed all the fishermen in his book and most only went as far as grade 3 in school and went to work at age 12-13.  Peter showed great pictures of years ago when life was so different and fishermen worked a long full day. A typical fishing trip included a schooner dropping anchor and the small doreys would row out and fish and return to the schooner and unload and row out to fish again.  The schooners would come in with flag at half mast if a fisherman was lost at sea.

 

A small selection of the pictures in the book include:

• A small Boy and two cod fish double his size (times have certainly changed).
• Sam Whynott (aged 92) went to sea at the age of 11 and was interviewed about his life at sea.
• Great pictures of Blue Rocks back in the 1940’s and 50s.

 

Peter also brought in an old deep sea lead log. You would put suet in the deep sea log, let it drop to the bottom then haul it up and see what was stuck on the log to see what kind of bottom they were over.

 

A great book of history and pictures of our history. Pictures can be seen at http://aportraitoflunenburgcounty.ca

 

Refreshments by Marcel Robitaille and John Burnett.

Meeting ended at 9:45.      Next meeting will be April 9, 2013.

Minutes – March 12, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

DATE:  March 12, 2013                                MTG START TIME: 7.00 pm

NOTES:

Competition for tonight “Silent Essay”.

Number of members in attendance was 27.

As our president Derek Johnston was away Sara Harley chaired the meeting.

PRESENTER / WORKSHOP EVENING TOPIC:

Special guest Wally Hayes;  presentation “Photography Then and Now”

Background: He has traveled extensively around the world for 50 years as a photographer and audio-visual creator.  As a news photographer, first locally and then nationally his assignments included politicians and sports and entertainment figures around the world. During almost 25 years with Nova Scotia Tourism, until his retirement in 2011, he produced more than a half million images, both on slide film and digital. These images provided the visual raw material for Nova Scotia Tourism publications and literature from 1986 to 2011 and many appeared in major national and international magazines.

Presentation: Mr. Hayes’ “Sight and Sound Essay of Nova Scotia” was extremely interesting. His main suggestion for the group was to keep on learning and doing new things. He was self-taught and related stories of his early days.  One of his first cameras while working for the Chronicle Herald in the early 1950s was the “Yashica” Twin lens quick take which held only 5-6 pictures and weighed 12-15 pounds.  He covered years of sporting events including Grey Cup games but also historical events such as the Springhill mine disaster (1958) and the British Columbia Hope Mountain slide in 1965.

After a 15 minute break with refreshments by Paulette and Rose the Silent Essays were presented.  12 essays were entered.

Meeting ended at 9:45.

Next meeting will be March 26, 2013.

Minutes – February 26, 2013

BRIDGEWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY MINUTES

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The Bridgewater Photographic Society met on February 26, 2013 with 28 members present.

It was evaluation night. Teresa Alexander Arab gave a presentation on Critiquing Photos. Her presentation included the topics:

• Technical Aspects:  e.g. Is it in focus? If not is it intentional?
• Composition: e.g. Use of framing, Are there elements to frame the subject or are they distracting?
• Emotion/Story:e.g. Do you like it? Why or why not?
• What Is Good Feedback? e.g. If you want 3 different opinions on your photo, ask 3 different photographers.
• What to say? e.g. Don’t be afraid. Silence is NOT helpful.
• Receiving Feedback e.g. Ask a specific question. Don’t take it personally.

Evaluation night: one or two prints each.

Competition: Urban and Photojournalism 1 print and 2 digital images.

Chris King, valuable long time member and former president is moving to Cape Breton and will be sorely missed.

Refreshments were provided by Doris Eagles and Charles Brown.

The next meeting, March 12, will feature the Silent Essay Competition and a presentation by guest speaker Wally Hayes.