Timely updates on new postings made throughout the Victoria Camera Club's website. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:40:18 -0800 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:21 -0800 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.3.1) http://www.feedforall.com Each year the VCC participates in the annual Celebration of Nature Photography Competition hosted by the Lions Gate Camera Club. in Vancouver, BC. In the recently announced results for 2011, VCC placed sixth out of 24 clubs. See our entries and results here: External Competition Galleries - 2011-12. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 018A193F-6A88-450D-9BA2-36FFE499FC2E Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:21 -0800 The full results of the club's January, 2012, competition have now been posted to the website. They provide a great opportunity to read through all the judges scores and critiques at your leisure. The login to the page is found here: http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/results/club-competitions-results-2011-12.html. If you have misplaced the password or require it for the first time please contact me via webmaster@victoriacameraclub.org. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 69EF4678-735B-41EB-927B-B6D9E07CEDFD Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:01:17 -0800 See the winning images from the VCC January competition on our Club Competition Galleries page. Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to those whose images are featured there! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 1F6C0A0C-0342-43DF-A4DF-916AA7410888 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:10:33 -0800 The February, 2912, issue of Close-Up is now available via our Newsletter page. Note that there are highlighted hot links to various e-mail addresses and url's, including those of our advertisers. Also, continuing this month, there is a printable version of Close-Up. The format will enable printing, folding and stapling into a booklet. Feedback on the utility of this feature would be appreciated by e-mail to editor@victoriacameraclub.org. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 926C1260-F588-490D-ABE2-B040CBA31E9B Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:44:04 -0800 The full results of the club's November, 2011 competition have now been posted to the website. They provide a great opportunity to read through all the judges scores and critiques at your leisure. The login to the page is found here: http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/results/club-competitions-results-2011-12.html. If you have misplaced the password or require it for the first time please contact me via webmaster@victoriacameraclub.org. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 574C023E-3DAC-4C2F-87AD-9FF292B9762B Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:40:28 -0800 The Victoria Camera Club has recently become a member of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria. Links to the CAC's website have been added to this website's About > Our Club and our Links pages. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 2DFAD6C9-900E-4BAE-A867-77470A61D058 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:15:29 -0800 The Royal BC Museum is currently hosting the only North American exhibition of the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition run annually by London's Natural History Museum and the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Our Close-Up editor, Richard James, was able to preview the show and has brought us this most informative supplement, complete with a sampling of the exquisite images that fill the exhibition hall. See the supplement here. A must see show! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 65B47C29-8675-4B22-A3CA-5DD39652A59D Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:51:37 -0800 Throughout the years VCC members have enjoyed the fine triplet of punches prepared by Carole and Ian for the annual Christmas Social. This year was no exception - but there is more. Carole and Ian have offered up their recipes and those are now posted to our Social Galleries page. A big thank you to Carole and Ian! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html CC936BCD-5831-4B13-9DD9-0F8E020D3842 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:52:08 -0800 The video presentation produced by the first group to win the President's Challenge is now available for your viewing pleasure on the newly established Victoria Camera Club YouTube account. You can follow the links on the About Us > About > Awards page or go directly to YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2ugrsjdmw. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html EABF00B1-F52F-48CD-8F17-49F498BCDA4A Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:41:37 -0800 The results of our VCC entry to the CAPA Nature Club Competition for Fall, 2011, have now feen added to those for the Open competition on our Galleries > External Comps page. Follow the link to the new 2011-12 section. VCC came out in a tie for 8th place among the clubs which entered. Kudos to the members whose images went forward and, especially, to Mike Wooding for his top ranked "Band-Tailed Pigeon" image! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html D20BF34A-2094-494F-8D39-2379BF802FF3 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:02 -0800 On the second Tuesday and the following Monday of each month, January to May, 2011, our Field Trip schedule features a two part "Shoot and Show" outing. On the shoot, participants pursue a theme put forth by Jack Copland, our Field Trip Coordinator. On the show, participants have the opportunity to present their favourite images and to enter into a lively, friendly exchange Club members are invited to check out the Calendar for the details on upcoming "Shoot and Show" events and to come out and share in the fun. The most recent "Shoot and Show" followed a "Grab Bag" theme. Items were exchanged in a random draw. Those objects became the subjects in the shots of the day. Following the show, a gallery was established to which participants are invited to post their images. First postings are now up in our Club Galleries at http://www.pbase.com/vcc/field_trip_grab_bag. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 4FEEEE63-CD92-4ECB-B987-B43659DE6FA2 Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:57:17 -0800 The results of our VCC entry to the CAPA Open Club Competition for Fall, 2011,are now available via our Galleries > External Comps page. Follow the link to the new 2011-12 section. In this, our first CAPA competition of the new club year, the VCC placed fourth out of 36 clubs and garnered an Honourable Award Certificate. Thanks to Ian Faris for facilitating our entry. Congratulations to all who contributed to this successful venture! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 579D53EF-68A3-43BC-AC10-6789DC5B6741 Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:59:36 -0800 Former VCC member and Competitions Chair, Michael Lambie, is the 2011 winner of the Nature's Best Photography competition in the Endangered Species category. Follow this link to the image, Proboscis Monkey, or visit the Nature's Best website. Regarding the image, Michael's comment, from the Nature's Best website follows: "I was able to watch several troops of monkeys at the Labuk Bay Sanctuary. This was an unusual scene; it seemed the two juveniles were being brought to heel after incurring the wrath of an adult male." Congratulations to Michael! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html B45A94E3-559D-401E-8246-CA2F199610F1 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:44:21 -0800 A new page, linked to from the website's About Us > About > Awards page has been created to present the background to the VCC's most prestigious Frank Turner Award and to further honour the 2010-11 recipients, Carole Valkenier and Ian Pope. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 42306551-3BDC-46CF-9587-7621D146215B Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:31:50 -0800 The December issue of Close-Up is now available via our Newsletter page. Note that there are highlighted hot links to various e-mail addresses and url's, including those of our advertisers. Also, continuing this month, there is an experimental printable version of Close-Up. The format will enable printing, folding and stapling into a booklet. Feedback on the utility of this feature would be appreciated by e-mail to editor@victoriacameraclub.org. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 9325BABE-FE6F-426A-A0FC-415C1B06CFC4 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:43:43 -0800 The annual VCC Scavenger Hunt took place in downtown Victoria on October 2nd. The organizers introduced several innovations in the format. Twenty-three participants enjoied the camaraderie of the pursuit. Photographic results of the hunt are now available via a pointer on the Social Galleries page. Well done by all who took part! http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 4D6A7E24-BED3-47B5-B22B-CC6C59FB8217 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:36:35 -0800 The newly established President's Challenge, with it's Team Challenge Award, has now been added to our website's About > Awards page. See all the details there. The first VCC team to take home the pink-slipper trophy included Wayne Swanson, Blair Ross, Gordon Simpson, Penny Codding and Doug Ambridge. Congratulations to each of them and a special thank-you to VCC President, Ed Moniz, for bringing this initiative to fruition. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 0D72ABF8-7533-4269-B0B8-49C3D5F52AA7 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:10:08 -0800 The gallery of winning images from the Club's October, 2011, competition has now been posted to our website. Follow this link to the new Club Competitions Galleries for 2011-12 page for the pointer to the gallery. Kudos to all who participated and congratulations to all those members whose images caught the judges' eyes! Full results, including scores and judges comments, are available to VCC members on the password protected page Club Competition Results - 2011-12. If you have misplaced the e-mail recently distributed you can obtain the password from webmaster@victoriacameraclub.org. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html 70C44DD9-E69B-4DB4-B19D-C0C9F4E6F08A Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:20:28 -0800 Each year the Victoria Camera Club enters nation-wide Photographic Competitions held by the Canadian Association for Photographic Arts (CAPA) for camera clubs across Canada. Historically the VCC has ranked very well in these friendly competitions against the other clubs. Results are posted on the CAPA website and in CAPA’s magazine Canadian Camera, and will of course, be announced at an upcoming VCC meeting as well. This year 2011-12 there are two “rounds” of Open and Nature Competitions to be held in October 2011 and March 2012. There will also be an Altered Reality Competition to be held in January 2012 and a Theme Competition to be held in February 2012. The first Open and Nature Competition closes on October 30th, 2011. The VCC Competition Committee invites the membership to participate and is now in the process of “gathering” images to represent the VCC as a club. If you have a digital image you would like to have considered as part of the Club’s entry, in either the Open or the Nature Competition please submit your image(s) to Ian Faris at iandlfaris@shaw.ca by Thursday October 20. Refer to Ian's email on October 6 for further details. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html BD7829D7-7FE8-4FA5-B03E-DDB1A13045E1 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:16:26 -0700 The Victoria Camera Club recently placed third in this year's Photographic Society of America website and newsletter competitions. The awards were announced at the September 2011 PSA conference in Colorado Springs, CO. The club website placed third among 41 entries from organizations with 75 or more members. The judging criteria included design and layout, navigation and ease of use, and content. Through the effort of Garry Schaefer, our club webmaster, and his assistants Lois Burton and Nick Watkins, the website is kept current and informative. The club newsletter won third place out of 19 entries in the large club category. The May/June 2011 issue of Close-Up was submitted as our selected issue. The production team included Close-Up Editor Richard James, with the assistance of John Coenraads, Anne So, Ragnar Eeg, and Mike Hofmann. Recognition also goes to the authors of the articles in that issue and the makers of the competition and other images. The club is a member of the PSA, a non-profit society based in the US, which was founded to promote the arts and sciences of photography. You can check out the other award-winning websites: Large Clubs 1st place - Loveland Photographic Society, NE Colorado 2nd place - Fotoferia Club, Poland Small Clubs 1st place - Photochrome Camera Club, Yerba Buena Chapter, California 2nd place - Dundalk Photographic Society, Ireland 3rd place - Greater Bridgeport Camera Club, Connecticut The winning newsletters were produced by Images Alberta Camera Club (Edmonton) in a tie for first place with the Lancaster (CA) Photography Society. http://www.victoriacameraclub.org/pages/news.html B32C1859-DFD6-4918-A261-1D2C035F92A4 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:14:58 -0700