Hi everyone,

I just want to wish everyone a wonderful and joyous holiday season and all the best in the new year.

I also want to remind everyone that the next camera club meeting will be on January 3 between 7 and 9 PM in the Magna room of the Aurora public library.

Which brings me to the agenda of the next meeting. We've got a number of things planned for January 3rd, including just spending a bit of time socializing. Given the fact that we're going to have two meetings in January (January 3, and 31) we're going to hold off doing the Monthly Challenge for January until the second meeting.

Just a reminder that the Monthly Challenge for January 31 is "Black & White" photography.  Your goal is to take an image and convert it to a black and white photograph using your tool of choice.  For this Monthly Challenge please upload the colour image as well as the black and white image that you created so that we can compare the two during the critique.

Also, if you don't mind please send a quick message to reelstories@rogers.com to let me know if you plan on coming to the January 3rd meeting.  Given the busyness of this time of year I just want to get a sense of how many people will be there.

On behalf of myself and the members of the steering committee be well and have a wonderful holiday.  We're looking forward to seeing you all in the new year.

Ronen & APL Camera Club Steering Committee

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick reminder that the next meeting of the APL Camera Club will take place on November 29, 2018 between 7-9pm in the Magna Room of the Aurora Public Library.

ON THE AGENDA

• Presentation -- Creative ways to convert your images to Black & White.  (Stephen Morley)
• Presentation -- Using Lynda.com to enhance your photography.  (Doug Underwood)
• Monthly Challenge Critique -- My Pet or Something Noticed.  (Rhodri Ford & David Eaton)
• Round Table Discussion -- Bring your questions.

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Please upload your Monthly Challenge image at your earliest convenience.  There are two things for you to choose from -- My Pet or Something Noticed.  For the My Pet option your goal is to capture either a humorous image of your pet or do a portrait of your pet.  Or, if you have another way that you want to represent your pet you can do that as well.  The only absolute requirement here is that your pet is somewhere in the image.  If you don't have a pet or an animal to photograph you can go with the Something Noticed option.  For this, your goal is to photograph something that you would typically ignore or not give much attention to and try to do so in as interesting and creative way as possible.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  For this month's challenge I made it possible to only upload one image.  I did this to avoid spending time deciding which image we will discuss and thereby giving more time to the one image that has been uploaded.

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a great summer.

The first meeting of the APL Camera Club is scheduled for Thursday October 25 between 7-9 pm in the Magna Room of the Aurora Public Library.

The following items are on the agenda:

1. Monthly Challenge -- Best photo of the summer or what I did in the summer.  (Rhodri Ford and David Eaton)
2. Inspirational Photographer (Ronen Grunberg)
3. The most important filters to have and how to use them (Stephen Morley)
4. Round table Discussion

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Please upload your monthly challenge image to the APLCC website.  If you're not sure how to do this, here's a video that will take you through the process.  If, after watching the video you're still having difficulties, just email me at reelstories@rogers.com and I'll walk you through the process.  Alternatively, you can email me your image (as well as your password for the APL Camera Club site) and I will put the image up for you.

ONE BOOK ONE AURORA PHOTO CONTEST

There is a photo contest sponsored by the The Auroran based on the One Book One Aurora novel Strangers with the Same Dream.  Here's a bit of information on the contest:

Hi Everyone,

The last APL Camera Club meeting of the season will be held on Thursday May 31 between 7-9pm in the Magna Room of the Aurora Public Library.  The following is on the agenda:

• Rhodri Ford will do a presentation on photographing birds.  (about 45-50 minutes)  GO TO RHODRI'S WEBSITE TO SEE EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK!
• We will do the critique for the monthly challenge which we’ve ignored for a couple of sessions.  I promise we will get through it this time! 
• Whatever time is left over will be used to socialize and chat informally about whatever people want to talk about.

Given that this is the last meeting of the season it would be great to see you all there.

Take care,

Ronen & the APLCC Steering Committee

Hi Everyone,

This is a reminder that the next APL Camera Club meeting will be held on April 26 between 7- 9 pm in the Magna Room of the Aurora Public Library.

The following items are on the agenda:

• Rafael Payan -- Will do a presentation on a Photoshop-like application that you can get for free.
• Doug Underwood -- How to buy and sell used camera equipment.
• Ronen Grunberg -- Presentation on Contemplative Photography.
• Monthly Challenge Critique -- Winter Photograph/Light Spirograph

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Given the fact that we didn't have time to do the Monthly Challenge Critique last month, I think it would be best if we put off the Monthly Challenge given out at the last meeting until our meeting in May.  This gives you all another month to submit your images.  So the Monthly Challenge for the May meeting will be one of the following three options:   Long Exposure, Double Exposure, or Dollar Store Challenge.  I will explain these in a bit more detail during the meeting on Thursday.

Anyway, be well and I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

Ronen and the APLCC Steering Committee