Opening Night Presentations
2023-2024
Program Chair's Perspective for 2023-2024
Will that be online, in person, and/or streamed? Actually, all of the above, and only some of the time.
For MCC’s 131st year, you can look forward to 35 meetings spread over 34 weeks: 15 meetings in the fall and 20 in the winter. There are 34 meetings on Wednesday nights and one on a Saturday morning.
At press time,18 meetings are online, while 17 are both in person (finally back at Westmount Park United Church!) as well as streamed on Webex. Here’s hoping power outages, snowstorms or a COVID resurgence won’t oblige us to change the how/where/when we meet.
In a nutshell, here’s the plan:
In case you’re wondering, guest speaker events continue online because we can invite speakers from almost anywhere—this year they’re from Canada, the USA and England—and it’s certainly budget-friendly.
Two of the presentations address techniques: intentional camera movement (ICM), and multiple exposure (ME). Four deal with genres: abstract, B&W landscape, documentary & stock, and street. And for variety there are evenings on an artwork to spark your creativity, the Japanese aesthetic of the imperfect, ethics and post-processing, and judging and the judging process.
You’ll notice the Japanese theme is also present in two member talks (photo haiga, cherry blossom season), while travel photography (the Falkland islands, Japan, and Tuscany) is the subject of four member talks, and miniature photography with vintage lenses in another.
From September 2023 to April 2024, the lineup for the speakers’ program:
And for a fourth year, you’ll have access to twice as many speakers because once again the MCC and the Lakeshore Camera Club (LCC) are offering each other's members the opportunity to attend online meetings. Note that LCC meetings are on Mondays.
My thanks to Lorraine Deslauriers for suggesting Phil Norton, Lyne Brissette for Huibo Hou and introducing me to NECCC, as well as Elaine Bacal and Sylvia Rourke for their speaker suggestions.
I hope that you’ll enjoy the 2023-24 speakers, that you’ll be intrigued and inspired, that you’ll deepen your photographic practice.
After four years of fun and learning as I have crafted programs that attempt to offer something for everyone and to break new ground, I’m hanging up my hat and saying sayonara. Next year there’ll be someone else sitting in this chair.
Happy image-making as you reflect on documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange’s statement, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Diana Bruno
[email protected]
Will that be online, in person, and/or streamed? Actually, all of the above, and only some of the time.
For MCC’s 131st year, you can look forward to 35 meetings spread over 34 weeks: 15 meetings in the fall and 20 in the winter. There are 34 meetings on Wednesday nights and one on a Saturday morning.
At press time,18 meetings are online, while 17 are both in person (finally back at Westmount Park United Church!) as well as streamed on Webex. Here’s hoping power outages, snowstorms or a COVID resurgence won’t oblige us to change the how/where/when we meet.
In a nutshell, here’s the plan:
- Online: all guest-speaker and member-speaker meetings, and the Slideshow competition
- In person & streamed: competitions (except for the Slideshow); challenges (except for Abstract Photography); opening meeting, holiday potluck, closing meeting. Streaming is available for out-of-province MCC members, snowbirds, and LCC members
In case you’re wondering, guest speaker events continue online because we can invite speakers from almost anywhere—this year they’re from Canada, the USA and England—and it’s certainly budget-friendly.
Two of the presentations address techniques: intentional camera movement (ICM), and multiple exposure (ME). Four deal with genres: abstract, B&W landscape, documentary & stock, and street. And for variety there are evenings on an artwork to spark your creativity, the Japanese aesthetic of the imperfect, ethics and post-processing, and judging and the judging process.
You’ll notice the Japanese theme is also present in two member talks (photo haiga, cherry blossom season), while travel photography (the Falkland islands, Japan, and Tuscany) is the subject of four member talks, and miniature photography with vintage lenses in another.
From September 2023 to April 2024, the lineup for the speakers’ program:
- Phil Norton: Regional Documentary & Stock Photography
- Stephanie Johnson: The Art and Beauty of Intentional Camera Movement [ICM] Photography
- Ilana Block: My Photographic Journey to the Falkland Islands
- Monique Campbell: Building Confidence to Shoot Street Images
- Michelle Macleod: Explore your Creativity with Destress + Shoot
- Maxianne Berger & Jean-Louis Côté: Spotlight on Members 1
- Dennis Ducklow: Multiply your Creativity with Multiple Exposure
- Richard Cavalleri: Embracing the Crowds: Photographing Japan in Cherry Blossom Season
- Guy Mercier & Diana Bruno: Spotlight on Members 2
- Huibo Hou: The Power of Simplicity in Black and White Landscape Photography
- Tony North: Abstract Photography
- Kas Stone: Reality vs Artistry vs Deception in Photography
- Lisa Cuchara: Wabi Sabi—the Beauty of the Imperfect
- PANEL DISCUSSION on Club Competition Judging
And for a fourth year, you’ll have access to twice as many speakers because once again the MCC and the Lakeshore Camera Club (LCC) are offering each other's members the opportunity to attend online meetings. Note that LCC meetings are on Mondays.
My thanks to Lorraine Deslauriers for suggesting Phil Norton, Lyne Brissette for Huibo Hou and introducing me to NECCC, as well as Elaine Bacal and Sylvia Rourke for their speaker suggestions.
I hope that you’ll enjoy the 2023-24 speakers, that you’ll be intrigued and inspired, that you’ll deepen your photographic practice.
After four years of fun and learning as I have crafted programs that attempt to offer something for everyone and to break new ground, I’m hanging up my hat and saying sayonara. Next year there’ll be someone else sitting in this chair.
Happy image-making as you reflect on documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange’s statement, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Diana Bruno
[email protected]
2022-2023 |
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Process of Making Slideshows, by Margaret White
