





CALENDAR 2021-2022
*** Please note that the Calendar is still a work in progress. We guarantee that there will be changes to this calendar but we will work as hard as possible to try to finalize the schedule before the first meeting.
Meeting Location : 6:30 PM-9:00 PM - Université de Moncton - Rémi Rossignol Building - 60 Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur Street, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker : David Champagne Art Project
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 7:45 AGM
7:45 - 8:30 Competitions & Awards winners
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Open contest photos & results
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Brian Townsend Award (10 min)
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Ken Dunphy Award (10 min)
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Freeman Patterson Award (1 0 min)
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Focus Camera Club Award (30 min
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Thursday, June 10th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:15 Guest Speaker : Dan MacDonald - Digital Asset Management for Photographers
The presentation will be an introduction to photo back-up strategies, which is one of the most important parts of Digital Asset Management. It will demonstrate how to properly archive and future-proof your photo library. It will also discuss some of the available software tools that can help to make the process simpler and more efficient. If time permits, there will also be a discussion of creating logical and consistent folder structures to organize your images and help to make them easier to find.
Saturday August 7th, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Barrel Racing, Pole Bending & Reining - See Events 2021-2022
Saturday August 14th, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Johnson's Mills - Sandpipers - See Events 2021-2022
Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Flower Photograph - See Events 2021-2022
Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Flower Photograph - Online Learning
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 AGA
7:15 - 8:15 Awards Presentations
Sunday, July 11th, 2021
Club Outing
Shamper's Bluff, Freeman Patterson property
More details on the Events page
Event leader Stella d'Entremont
Sunday, July 25th, 2021 (changed, was supposed to be on the 18th)
Club Outing
Flower photography at Mona Savoie garden
More details on the Events page
Event leader Jacinthe LeBlanc
Monday, July 19th, 2021
Club Outing
Shamper's Bluff, Freeman Patterson property
More details on the Events page
Event leader Stella d'Entremont
Saturday September 4th, 2021 - CANCELLED
Focus Camera Club Outing
Elsipogtog Pow Wow - See Events 2022
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Sunset at the Beach - See Events 2021-2022
Thursday, September 9th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30
Sunday September 12th, 2021
Focus Camera Club Outing
Photography The Game - Part 1-2 Challenges See Events 2022
Robinson court - 1 pm
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker: Mark Hemmings - Cell Phone Photography See Guests Speakers
Thursday, September 30th, 2021
OFF WEEK EDUCATION
Photography Fundamentals
Time: 7:00
Location: Zoom
Friday, October 1st, 2021
NEW DEADLINE SUNSET CONTEST
October 1st at midnight
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
CLUB OUTING
Photography The Game - Part 3-4 Challenges See Events 2022
Centennial Park - 1 pm
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker: Arielle DeMarchand - Remote-Camera Trap See Guests Speakers
8:30 to 8:45 Composition series review - Jocelyne Gagnon
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
OFF WEEK EDUCATION
Exposure Fundamentals
Get away form auto and learn to shoot manual. We'll cover shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Participants will get a copy of the presentation notes for future reference. Note: have you camera with you to experiment as we go through the different techniques. All off-week sessions ends with an open Q&A to answers any questions you may have.
Time 7:00
Location : Zoom
Friday, October 15th, 2021
Deadline Photo for view
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 7:45 Miniature Photography - Jacinthe LeBlanc
7:45 - 8:15 Post processing Demo with Adobe Lightroom - André LeBlanc
8:15 - 8:20 Photo for view
8:20 - 8:30. Sunset Contest photos & Results
Sunday, October 31st, 2021
Deadline Contest: Lines & Curves
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:15 Guest Speaker : Serge V. Richard See Guests Speakers
8:15 - 8:30 Competition Photos and Results - Sunset
Sunday, November 7th, 2021
New date
CLUB FIELD TRIP
Beginner Photography field trip with Mathieu & Jacinthe See Events 2022
Time: 1:00-3:00 PM
Cost: free
Location: Meet at the Moncton City Hall
You need to be Covid-19double vaccinated and will need to bring proof of it and an ID.
Friday, November 10th, 2021
Deadline Photo for view
Canceled - Thursday, November 11th, 2021
OFF WEEK LEARNING SESSION
To be determined
Time: 7 pm
Location: Zoom
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 7:20. Photo for view
7:20 - 8:20 Members night:
- Andrea Milburn: Wildlife Photography
- Tracy Munson: Composition
8:20 - 8:30 Know this series:
- Jocelyne Gagnon: Book
8:30 - 8:40 Contest results Line and Curves
Thursday, November 25th, 2021
OFF WEEK LEARNING SESSION
Post-Processing Fundamentals - Mathieu Chiasson
Learn the basic techniques and tools of post-processing. What to look for and improve in your images when post-processing. (Will be using Lightroom to demonstrate but all techniques shown are also applicable in other post-processing softwares)
Open Q&A after the session.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Zoom
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
DEADLINE CONTEST: Creative Composition
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker: Danica Sherry - Fine Art Photography
POSTPONED NEW DATE Saturday, December 4th, 2021
CLUB OUTINING
XMAS Scavenger Hunt with a twist
Details on Events page
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
OFF WEEK LEARNING SESSION
Flash Photography 101 - Mathieu Chiasson
How to use a camera flash. How flashes affect your images. Basic flash techniques.
Q&A.
Friday, December 10th, 2021
Deadline Photo for view
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
XMAS VIRTUAL PARTY/FÊTE DE NOËL VIRTUELLE See Events 2022
Location: Zoom
7:00
Cancelled due to COVID-19
CLUB OUTING
Christmas light at the Zoo
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:15 Photo for view
7:15 - 7:35 Members night :
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Lawrence Nicoll: Creating a moon composite image
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Jan van't Veld: Macro Photography
Jocelyne Gagnon - Historical photographer
Competition Photos and Results
Know this series
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Andréa: book
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:15 Photo for view
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker : Kelly Lawson
8:30 - 8:45 Competition Photos and Result - Creative Composition
Friday, January 7th, 2022
DEADLINE CONTEST: Sweet Tooth
Thursday, January 13th, 2021
OFF WEEK LEARNING SESSION
Post-Processing Techniques - Mathieu Chiasson
A deeper dive into the various tools and techniques to adjust your images. Curves, Levels, color correction, local adjustments and more. Open Q&A after the session. (Will be using Lightroom to demonstrate but all techniques shown are also applicable in other post-processing softwares)
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
DEADLINE Photo for view
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:05 Welcome message from Club President
7:05 - 7:10 Photo for View
7:10 - 7:15 Isabelle Levesque
7:15 - 7:45 Ceci Snow - Sports Photography
7:45 - 8:15 Joel Culligan - Buy lens on a budget
8:15 - 8:30 Jocelyne Gagnon - History photographer
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
Off Week Training
Preparing photos for Prints, Contests and Social Media - Mathieu Chiasson
In this session, we'll go over what you need to know to prepare your images for print, contests and social media. From images size, quality and format to other useful considerations when preparing images for print, contests and social media.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
DEADLINE CONTEST: Anything Blue
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:20 Competition Photos and Result - Sweet Tooth
7:20 - 8:30 Guest Speaker : Corkum Photographics See Guests Speakers
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
DEADLINE Photo for view
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
Off Week Training
Initiation to Photoshop for photographers - Mathieu Chiasson
Photoshop is powerful and can accomplish almost anything you wish with photos but all that makes it really intimidating and hard to understand. In this short off-week session, I will go through some of the most important and common features photographers need to know in order to make the most out of Photoshop to improve their images.
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:05 Welcome message
7:05 - 7:15 Know this series:
- Renée Turquotte : Book Equestrian Photography Creating Beautiful Image of Horses and Their Humans, by Barbara Bower
- Renée Turquotte: Photographer Robert Vavra's
7:15 - 8:15 Members night : Ira Crummey - Street Photography
8:15 - 8:45 Mark Hemmings
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
**No Off Week Training**
Monday, February 28th, 2022
DEADLINE CONTEST: My Country
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 7:30 Competition Photos and Result - Anything Blue
7:30 - 8:45 Guest Speaker : Dave Skyrie
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Off Week Training - CANCELLED
Monday, March 14th, 2022
DEADLINE Photo for view
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
DEADLINE My Dozen Photo Project
Similar to last year’s MY 10 project, create a new dozen (12) photos as a project.
Do not share pictures beforehand anywhere. Photos should have a common theme or subject.
Your group of photos can relay a feeling, tell a story or relay a photography technique, etc.
The presentations will be at the March 31 club meeting.
To register or more information, send an email to: tony.holland@rogers.com
***For those who wants somebody else to share your photos on Zoom please DOWNLOAD YOUR PHOTOS HERE***
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:20 Photo for view
7:20 - 7:30 Jocelyne Gagnon - History photographer
7:30 - 8:30. Drone photography with Norm Thebeau, Andrea Milburn, Venessa Levesque, Gary Capson, Daniel Beaudry and Jacinthe LeBlanc
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
OFF WEEK EDUCATION
Establishing your Workflow
One of the most important things to make photography an enjoyable hobby is to have a solid workflow that is easy and fast for your own needs. In this session I’ll go over my personal workflow from packing my camera bag to finished photos and share different alternatives to help you develop your own workflow.
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:15 Members night : My Dozen Photo Project
8:15 - 8:30 Competition Photos and Result - My Country
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
DEADLINE CONTEST: Monochrome
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
OFF WEEK EDUCATION
Other photo editing software
There’s many other tools other than Lightroom and Photoshop to process images. In this session I will share some of my favorite programs to edit my images. Capture One, Affinity Photo, Photo Scape, Photo Bulk, On1 Photo Raw and maybe others…
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker : Richard Martin Abstract
Friday, April 15th, 2022
DEADLINE Freeman Patterson Fine Art Photography Award
Friday, April 15th, 2022
DEADLINE Ken Dunphy Landscape Photography Award
Friday, April 15th, 2022
DEADLINE Brian Townsends Award
Monday, April 25th, 2022
DEADLINE Photo for view
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:40 Members night : Stella d'Entremont - Donner une voix aux femmes acadiennes de la génération silencieuse
7:40 - 8:10. Mark Hemmings Iphone lens
8:10 - 8:20 Jocelyne Gagnon - History photographer
8:20 - 8:30 Photo for view
8:30 - 8:40 CAPA contest photos & results
Saturday, April 30h, 2022
DEADLINE CAPA CONTEST: Nature
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome message from Club President
7:15 - 8:30 Guest Speaker : Stephanie Johnson ICM photography
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
CLUB OUTING
Spring is in the Air (Baker's Dozen) Photo Outing and Challenge
Location: Irishtown Nature Park
Max participant: 20
Time: 10:00-noon
Contact: Jacinthe LeBlanc
More details on the Events page
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
CLUB MEETING
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome message from Club President
7:10 - 7:20 CAPA Nature Contest photos & Results
7:20 - 7:30 Jocelyne Gagnon - History photographer
7:35 - 8:15 Members night : Guy Brun
8:15 Joel Culligan
Tuesday, May 31st, 2022
DEADLINE CONTEST: Open
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
CLUB OUTING
Twirl My World - Long exposure outing at the local fair
Time:8:30 pm -10:00 pm
Location: Moncton Coliseum Parking Lot
More detail on the Event Page
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Event leader: Joel Culligan
Dates: June 8th, 11th and 13th
Contact for the event: Jacinthe LeBlanc
More details on the Event page