Presented by Marion McCristall Marion is an award-winning photographer who has recently spent three years living in Europe and currently lives in Fort Langley. She has travelled to more than 40 countries on five continents with her camera in hand and will offer tips on how to take your travel photography to the next level. Marion recently retired from Pictours Portugal, a photography tour and workshop company that she created in 2015 in Portugal with her colleague, Fernando Picarra.  Marion will talk about how she prepares for travel photography and describe how she “sees” and “feels” the natural and man-made environment and sets up the compositions for her images. She will also talk briefly about easy ways to enhance images in post-processing. All levels of photographers will go home inspired and ready to get creative and explore at home and abroad with their camera. https://marionmccristallstudio.com/

Meeting in Bastion Square canceled due to weather. You are encouraged to shoot in your own area/home and post your images in the Gallery. Theme: "Needs to be cleaned up" Whether the meaning is making neat, removing dirt, stopping bad behaviour or removing crime; show us what needs to be cleaned up. As always, please share your photos on our Gallery and/or the VCC Flickr groups. Please register to receive follow-up information on any changes and to receive notification if a weather-related cancellation is required.

Presented by Mitch Stringer The process of creating an image for display starts before you bring the viewfinder  to your eye and depressing the shutter button. Join Mitch as he discusses options to consider from capture to display that will help you to convey your vision to the viewer. My passion and knowledge of photography has successfully driven over 30 years of  teaching experience.  My faculty positions have included both the Digital Imaging and Applied communications programs and a diversity of Continuing Education classes at Camosun College.  As faculty instructor at the Western Academy of Photography, I instructed both the Professional photography and Journalism/Photojournalism programs. I continue to follow the light, striving to capture the elusive perfection of 3-dimensional imagery on the 2-dimensional plane.  Mitch Stringer has asked that his honorarium be donated to the Victoria Camera Club Scholarship Fund.

Impressionistic Photography: How to Use Your Camera (or Smartphone) as a Paintbrush Join Charles Needle and learn how to unlock your creative potential and craft Impressionistic-looking photographs using nothing more than your digital camera or smart phone. Charles will describe the process of using long-exposure and multiple-exposure techniques to transform everyday scenes into unimaginable visual masterpieces. His program will begin with a short inspirational slide show, followed by a nuts-and-bolts approach to learning techniques such as, Long-Exposure Pan/Tilt, "Multiple-Exposure Monet"(a technique Charles invented), Multiple-Exposure Rotate & Zoom, Soft-Glow Montage and Composite Montage. He will also explain how to use a free script in Photoshop to accomplish this same look, if your camera does not have built-in multiple-exposure capability.  Charles Needle is an award-winning, Colorado-based fine art photographer, author, speaker and workshop leader with a unique eye for design and artistic interpretation. Charles earned honorable mentions in the Macro and Visual FX categories of the Annual International Mobile Photography Awards, was a semi-finalist in the Nature’s Best Photography: Windland Smith Rice International Awards, selected as a finalist for the International Garden Photographer of the Year (sponsored by The Royal Botanic Gardens, London, England). He has presented at conferences and camera clubs for more than two decades and authored three cutting-edge instructional books: Tiny Worlds: Creative Macro Photography Skills (Amherst Media, January 2015), Impressionistic Photography: A Field Guide to Using Your Camera as a Paintbrush (March 2014), and Creative Macro Photography: Professional Tips & Techniques (2011). Charles presents workshops in Monet's Garden (Giverny, France), Keukenhof Gardens (Holland) and Butchart Gardens (Canada). He is a FujiFilm USA Talent Team member and North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) Showcase Award